Apple, Honeycrisp
Malus domestica 'Honeycrisp'
Family: Rosaceae
1/2+" stem diameter at sale, bare root
~4 ft tall at sale
Sourced from New York
Crisp & Sweet. Red & Yellow. Mid-season bloom.
General Information
Recommended Spacing (ft) 10 - 20 Mature Width (ft) 8 - 15 Mature Height (ft) 8 - 15 Pollination Needs Requires cross-pollination Bloom Time April Ripens/Harvest September Soil pH 6.0 - 7.0 Soil Type Loam Soil Moisture Well-drained Sun Preference Full Sun Taste Sweet Texture Crisp Description
Honeycrisp is a modern apple variety, developed in the 1960s by the University of Minnesota in search of more cold-hardy varieties. The fruit is medium-to-large, with a light green/yellow background largely covered with red-orange flush with a strong hint of pink if grown in good sunlight. The flesh is white, perhaps not quite as bright as a McIntosh-style apple, but similarly crisp and not too dense. The flavor is sweet with very little trace of acidity and little depth or complexity. It is a genuinely crisp apple but not hard, and it bruises easily. It has an amazing storage life of seven months, reaching peak flavor after it’s been removed from cold storage for 7-10 days. Honeycrisp tends to be a smaller, less-vigorous tree but has good resistance to apple scab. (Description adapted from Orange Pippin and Minnesota Hardy.)
Fertilizer:
- Years 1-4: do not apply fertilizer until you see fruit. If the growth rate is less than 6” per year, apply fertilizer the following spring.
- Fruit set onward: Follow the Label.
- Fertilizer: 10-10-10 applied once in spring before flowering, once in May after flowering, and once more a month later in June. Do not apply in or after July. Follow fertilizer directions. Do not apply more than the annual rate in any year. You can divide your annual rate into thirds for three applications.
Disease: Susceptible to firelight
Pruning: Late Winter
Notes: Apple Trees are grafted on separate rootstocks at the Nursery. Rootstock may either be EMLA 7 or EMLA 111. EMLA 7 is more resistant to fire blight and cold weather and produces a dwarf-sized tree. EMLA 111 is a commonly used vigorous rootstock that produces a semi-dwarf tree.