apple 'Bramley's Seedling'

Best suited to growing as a bush or spindlebush on dwarfing or semi dwarfing rootstock. A triploid so not an effective pollinator; should be grown with 2 other cultivars. Keep a clear area around the trunk of at least 60cm radius. Thin fruit as required. Visit our Grow Your Own guide to apples

Regular pruning required; partially tip bearing apple pruning

Propagate by chip budding or grafting onto a clonal rootstock. The rootstock used will largely determine the size of the tree

Aphids, woolly aphid, rosy apple aphid, fruit tree red spider mite, mussel scale, codling moth and caterpillars are the main pests on edible apples

Susceptible to apple scab; may be affected by apple canker and honey fungus. Susceptible to the disorder bitter pit