Apple Trees - When are they ready to eat?

vicwatson

When are my apples, Cox and Pippin, ready to be eaten? They look large enough but is there a certain time that I need to leave them for?

Subcomandante Marcos

When they're ripe. It will depends from year to year and variety to variety. Try one now, if it's not sweet enough leave it a week, if you want to be 100% sure just wait until they start dropping themselves.

Littlehorny

I think i heard that if you have to yank them to get them off, they are not ready. But if you grab an apple, give it a twist and it comes off in your hand, then they are ripe. Or you could just taste one every week!

looksee

That's a bit like testing home brew to see is it ready...on the last bottle - ah, that's nice!

vicwatson

Littlehorny wrote: »

if you have to yank them to get them off, they are not ready. But if you grab an apple, give it a twist and it comes off in your hand, then they are ripe. Or you could just taste one every week!

Ok thanks littlehorny !!:P

Supercell

Second this, i've already have a few James Grieve apples off mine, something special about picking them right off the tree and eating