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Pristine Apple tree

Owner: Gil

Location:  Snohomish, WASHINGTON, United States

Age:Planted in about 2009
Age of this tree:16 years
Soil:clay-loam 
Climate at this location:wet winter/ spring, dry summers
Pruning:None yet
Tree form:Espalier
Height:Between 6ft / 2m and 15ft / 4m
Cropping:Heavy crops
Growth:This tree grows easily here
Herbicides:Manual treatment (hoeing and weeding)
Pesticides:Un-treated
Local pests:AM

Owner's comments

Nice, early, crisp, drops readily. I always make a hay bed of weeds a few weeks before they begin to drop. It's an Apple Maggot Magnet (AMM): You must pick up every apple and run any compostable through the pigs, chickens or hot compost.

Season records for this tree

  • 2014

    Spring blossom: 18 August
    Harvest: 2nd week August  55kg / 121lbs
    Size: 3.0m / 10.0ft high   2.5m / 8.3ft wide
    Canker: Not present
    Scab: Not present
    Mildew: Not present
    Fireblight: Not present
    Cedar-apple rust: Not present
    Woolly aphid: Not present
    Codling moth: Not present
    Plum fruit moth: Not present
    Silverleaf: Not present
    Readily drops