Apple Recommendations please

Finally got a new stick! A maiden apple, Fiesta, around 1m tall. Just heeled in now while I plan where to put it

 

Apple tree today :( bark is almost ringed and trunk a bit floppy. I wonder if it's worth cutting down and going for multi-stemmed attempt

 

I think I'm more concerned about the floppy trunk. It must have been bent over or chewed but it definitely 'loose'

 

If you do stake it then remember that it shouldn't be staked for more than a year or two. It dissuades the tree from strengthening up on its own.

 

It's the creation of a weak point. The bark I could probably sort but with such a young tree is it worth it? I think probably not. It might be worth cutting, there's about 8" above the graft but in honesty it's a pretty rough looking graft!
Think I'll chop it and ask permission from the committee to buy another

 

If you are after an eating apple I can recommend two very good ones. Both were originally bred from the Cox's Orange Pippin.

Sunset:- I don't know what apple it is crossed with. It is one of the few fully self-fertile and an earlier ripening tasty one, generally on the smallish size but as it produces lots of smaller apples you can thin them out and you will get larger ones. Disease resistant and ours produces a heavy crop every year and has done so every year for the last 50 years. It also cooks well.

Charles Ross:- (crossed with Peasgood Nonsuch to produce a larger apple - we also have Peasgood). Semi self-fertile but does extremely well if there are pollinators around which I imagine your garden has. A later season very tasty eater which is also good for cooking. That has produced a heavy crop every year for the last 50 years as well).

They're our two best eaters.

If you want cookers:-

Warner's King:- (heavy cropper but needs pollinators) and is earlier than Bramley.

Edward VII:- also needs pollinators but is a late producing tree so is excellent as a frost resistant because the flowers start late.

Bramley:- a good cooker, of course, but usually needs two pollinators (a triploid).

 

Thanks @shiney I'm OK with the Fiesta selection, but still nice to have options

 

Think it was no.1 son or a fox. They were rutting the other night and may have bitten it instead of a pillow