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Ripe around late September.
Apples are too sharp for eating straight from the tree but have good flavour and make a nice cooking apple which will sweeten somewhat in storage to make a sharp eater.
Skin is quite tough, is greasy and scented (the scent may be what attracts bugs to have a nibble).
Fruits go brown quickly.
Fruit and leaves suffer from some scab.
The leaves and blossoms are also susceptible to mildew.
When used as a rootstock it is quite susceptible to crown and root rots.
Has resistance to attacks on the root system by woolly aphids but only slightly improves the woolly aphid resistance of varieties grafted onto it.
Fruit tends to be quite small - whether grafted with a recognised variety or whether ungrafted - partly because this rootstock struggles to cope with light soils and low rainfall.
Parents:
Northern Spy x M1
MM106 trees have burrknots (knobbly lumps on the branches) and these will root fairly easily, so the rootstock can be propagated from cuttings, or easily propagated by stooling or layering.
It is often possible, when grafting, to use the unwanted stems* (which are replaced by grafts) which will often root if pushed into a pot of compost and placed in a cool, damp (but not wet) mostly shaded until mid-summer, left outdoors and left alone for one season to grow new roots.
2-3yr old stems are best as they tend to have more burrknots which make it easier for the shoot to root before it dries out in summer.
Pictures below:
Apples are too sharp for eating straight from the tree but have good flavour and make a nice cooking apple which will sweeten somewhat in storage to make a sharp eater.
Skin is quite tough, is greasy and scented (the scent may be what attracts bugs to have a nibble).
Fruits go brown quickly.
Fruit and leaves suffer from some scab.
The leaves and blossoms are also susceptible to mildew.
When used as a rootstock it is quite susceptible to crown and root rots.
Has resistance to attacks on the root system by woolly aphids but only slightly improves the woolly aphid resistance of varieties grafted onto it.
Fruit tends to be quite small - whether grafted with a recognised variety or whether ungrafted - partly because this rootstock struggles to cope with light soils and low rainfall.
Parents:
Northern Spy x M1
MM106 trees have burrknots (knobbly lumps on the branches) and these will root fairly easily, so the rootstock can be propagated from cuttings, or easily propagated by stooling or layering.
It is often possible, when grafting, to use the unwanted stems* (which are replaced by grafts) which will often root if pushed into a pot of compost and placed in a cool, damp (but not wet) mostly shaded until mid-summer, left outdoors and left alone for one season to grow new roots.
2-3yr old stems are best as they tend to have more burrknots which make it easier for the shoot to root before it dries out in summer.
Pictures below:
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