Description
Size (HxW): 10-12’ x 10-12’
Fruit Size: 2.5” (Medium)
Planting Location: Sheltered
Zone 3a
- Dwarf version of Red Sparkle Apple
- Sweet and crisp fruit with slight almond flavour
- Dark red over green is cross between a Trail and McIntosh
- Excellent dessert apple
- Apple blossom flowers bloom in mid May – early June
- Leaves turn a pleasant yellow colour in fall
- Fruit ripens in late September; stores for 2-3 months in refrigerator
- Fruit will remain on tree in perfect condition until -6/-7°C (mid-late October)
- Starts bearing fruit approximately 3 years after planting
- Needs cross pollination to produce fruit. Could be either DIFFERENT apple variety or flowering crabapple.
- Plant pollinators within 200’ or less, closer is better
- Medium Growth Rate: 10-14”/year
