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Tregonna King
type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert
synonyms: Bacon Apple, Lady Bacon
summary: Large and blushed reddish, crisp on juicy, this British apple lends itself well to eating out of hand, to baking and also for making cider.
identification: Medium to large, round and somewhat conic. The base colour is green maturing to golden yellow, flushed orange and marked with deep pink stripes. Russet lenticels. The calyx is wide and shallow, open with pointed leaf.
characteristics: Sharp when first picked but becoming sweet after six weeks in storage.
uses: When first harvested, it tends to be sharp and is used primarily as a cooking apple, but turns sweet after several weeks in storage.
origins: Developed by Stephan Hammet during the 1940s at Tregonna Nursery in the area of Rezare which is near Launceston in Cornwall (U.K.). Possibly a seedling or mutation of King of the Pippins which it closely resembles. The Cox’s Orange Pippin and the Charles Ross have also been suggested as possible contributors to the parentage.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright when young, but tends to become droopy with age. Biennial with heavy crops. Tolerates somewhat moist soils.
cold storage: Up to four months
vulnerabilities: Prone to canker.
harvest: In the first half of the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 5
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