Hardiness: Zone 3
Size: Standard Tree up to 20 ft.
Planting: Full Sun, good soil.
Fruit: Combination trees will have 3-4 different grafted varieties.
Pollination: Self-pollinating.
Use: Excellent for fresh eating or cooking.
Pot: 5 gal
Ripening: Varied
This tree has be grafted to have 3-4 different types of hardy apples. This makes the tree able to cross pollinate itself if you only want 1 tree. Due to the extra care involved in this grafting these trees do carry a premium.
Potted tree varieties;
2022 Trees
The main trunk is Harcourt, the bottom bud (blue) is Honeycrisp, the middle bud (purple) is Gemini and the top bud (red) is Zestar. If it is a 4 Variety then it is all of these. If it is a 3 variety then it depends on which 2 of these 3 buds took.
2023 Tree
Main trunk Harcourt or Gloria
Bottom-Pink- Goodland
Middle Blue- Gemini
Top-Orange- Odyssey
2024 Tree
Main trunk Harcourt.
- Blue / Bottom Bud: Goodland
- Red / Middles bud: Odyssey
- Pink / Top bud: Gloria
The bare root trees have at least 4 of the following varieties; Goodland, Parkland, Battleford, Norland and September Ruby.