Honeycrisp Apple tree
Owner: David
Location: Two Rivers, WI, United States
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Age: | Planted in about 2010 |
Age of this tree: | 17 years |
Soil: | sandy with a little clay |
Climate at this location: | Zone 5b - cool, within 1 mile of Lake Michigan |
Pruning: | carefully trained to keep height down, 25% removed every March and July |
Tree form: | Bush (wider at top than bottom) |
Height: | Between 6ft / 2m and 15ft / 4m |
Cropping: | Biennial cropping (alternate years) |
Growth: | This tree grows easily here |
Herbicides: | Manual treatment (hoeing and weeding) |
Pesticides: | Chemical treatments |
Local pests: | rose chafers, apple maggots, squirrels |
Owner's comments
Transplanted as a 3rd-year seedling in April 2010. Doing quite well in spite of my dog tearing several branches off its first year. Unsuccessfully attempted to graft two branches to Ashmead's Kernel and one branch to Esopus Spitzenberg in April 2012. Again grafted one branch Spitzenberg, two branches Kingston Black, and one unknown variety in May 2013. Sadly none of the grafts took again. After zero success grafting, and zero blossoms on this old tree, in 2014, I was beginning to question whether this tree is a seedling that still won't bear for another year or two. Update 2015 - Finally, there are a few blossoms this year -- got 5 wonderfully delicious Honeycrisps! Update 2017 - Enormously heavy crop this year -- finally! Tree is extremely healthy. 2017 thru 2019 - Rose chafers and apple maggots decimated crops. Heavy sprays in 2020 and 2022 with acetamiprid (Assail) resulted in huge crop with zero maggots!Season records for this tree
2023
Spring blossom: 27 May
Harvest: 1st week October 55kg / 121lbs
Size: 3.0m / 10.0ft high 4.0m / 13.3ft wide
Woolly aphid: Mild attack
Heavy pruning of fruit buds and flowers must be paying off; covered in blossom in successive years! Huge crop, 3 bushels, irregular in size and color, many green. Maybe leaving 2 flowers per cluster was too many.2022
Spring blossom: 30 May
Harvest: 2nd week October 40kg / 88lbs
Size: 3.5m / 11.7ft high 4.0m / 13.3ft wide
Heavy bloom, thinned to 2 flowers per cluster. Pruned out a third of all spurs in March to help balance fruit vs vegetation. Sprayed before and after June vacation (evil rose chafers). Great harvest year.2021
Spring blossom: 23 May
Harvest: 4th week September 1kg / 2lbs
Size: 3.0m / 10.0ft high 3.5m / 11.7ft wide
Only 2 spurs in bloom this year. Pruned out half of all spurs in March to help balance fruit vs vegetation. Ended up with 3 large apples, yay.2020
Spring blossom: 29 May
Harvest: 1st week October 35kg / 77lbs
Size: 3.0m / 10.0ft high 3.5m / 11.7ft wide
Great year, very heavy bloom. Thinned to 2 flowers per cluster. Heavy crop weighing 2 branches to ground, 1.75 bushels / 75 lb.2019
Spring blossom: 3 June
Harvest: 1st week October 0kg / 0lbs
Size: 3.0m / 10.0ft high 3.0m / 10.0ft wide
Very light bloom, thinned to 2 per cluster, only about 30-40 early season, most fell after attacks by rose chafers and apple maggots.2018
Spring blossom: 27 May
Size: 3.0m / 10.0ft high 3.0m / 10.0ft wide
Only 4 or 5 apples, all infected with apple maggots. First year rose chafers showed up like crazy, consuming some foliage.2017
Spring blossom: 28 May
Harvest: 1st week October 40kg / 88lbs
Size: 3.0m / 10.0ft high 2.5m / 8.3ft wide
This is the year!! Major bloom and VERY heavy fruit load. Severely affected by worms though -- perfect fruit a rarity.2016
Spring blossom: 27 May
Harvest: 1st week October 1kg / 2lbs
Size: 3.0m / 10.0ft high 2.5m / 8.3ft wide
Light bloom but more than last year. Should have gotten ~12 apples, dog stole all but 4, including 2 tiny underdeveloped ones.2015
Spring blossom: 31 May
Harvest: 1st week October 1kg / 2lbs
Size: 2.5m / 8.3ft high 2.0m / 6.7ft wide
Canker: Not present
Scab: Not present
Mildew: Not present
Fireblight: Not present
Cedar-apple rust: Not present
Woolly aphid: Not present
First few blossoms ever on this old tree! 5 large fruits.