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Enterprise Apple tree

Owner: Gil

Location:  Snohomish, WA, United States

Age:Planted in about 2008
Age of this tree:17 years
Soil:clay loam 
Climate at this location:Mediteranean Dry Summers, Wet winters, 1800GDD base 50, avg high 75 avg low 41
Pruning:none
Tree form:Half-standard
Height:Between 6ft / 2m and 15ft / 4m
Cropping:Heavy crops
Growth:This tree grows easily here
Herbicides:Organic treatments
Pesticides:Un-treated
Local pests:curculio

Owner's comments

Excellent storage apple. Bomb-proof. Really No pests! oh, sure, <3%CM, total 15% blemishes, but quite acceptable.

Season records for this tree

  • 2018

    Spring blossom: 25 April
    Harvest: 3rd week October  150kg / 330lbs
    Size: 3.5m / 11.7ft high   3.5m / 11.7ft wide
    Canker: Not present
    Scab: Not present
    Mildew: Not present
    Fireblight: Not present
    Cedar-apple rust: Not present
    Woolly aphid: Not present
    Codling moth: Mild attack
    Silverleaf: Not present
    consistently awesome in clean apples. tough and welcome in march.

  • 2017

    Spring blossom: 10 May
    Harvest: 4th week October  150kg / 330lbs
    Size: 3.5m / 11.7ft high   3.5m / 11.7ft wide
    Canker: Not present
    Scab: Not present
    Mildew: Not present
    Fireblight: Not present
    Cedar-apple rust: Not present
    Woolly aphid: Not present
    Codling moth: Mild attack
    Plum fruit moth: Not present
    Silverleaf: Not present
    no apple maggot!, ate apples from fridge in May - excellent, they were juicy and still slightly tangy.

  • 2016

  • 2015

  • 2014

  • 2013

    Spring blossom: 20 April
    Harvest: 3rd week October  50kg / 110lbs
    Size: 4.0m / 13.3ft 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
    1 Codling moth attack on ~250 fruits, no maggot. tough skin I think resists these fellows

  • 2012

    Spring blossom: 25 April
    Harvest: 4th week October  30kg / 66lbs
    Size: 3.5m / 11.7ft high   2.5m / 8.3ft wide
    nice tough ,storage apple

  • 2011

  • 2010

  • 2009

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