Apple Pollinizers
Plantings which do not use varieties providing
adequate cross pollination should use one of the following varieties
for secondary pollen source. Pollinizers should be placed every
fifty feet and staggered in adjacent rows. Contact your
ACN representative for recommendations for your specific needs.
Chestnut
An excellent pollinizer for early to mid-season bloom cultivars. Trees are medium in vigor and slightly upright, with large, white blossoms. The large size fruit is marketable for use in preserves or decorations.
Bloom: Early Season Available Rootstock(s) EMLA 26 EMLA 7 EMLA 111
Pollination Information Chestnut crab is an early blooming variety and can pollinate all other early blooming apple varieties as well as varieties with mid-season bloom times.
Indian Summer
A flowering crab apple pollinizer for the early season bloom. Indian Summer produces abundant pink flowers with viable pollen over an extended period.
Bloom: Late Season Available Rootstock(s) EMLA 7
Pollination Information Indian Summer blooms early in the season and will pollinate all other early blooming varieties.
Snowdrift
A mid-season to late blooming variety, often used to pollinize Red Delicious. Bloom is white, flowers small. Fruits are salmon egg sized, yellow with orange cheek. Snowdrift is used to pollinate mid-season apple varieties.
Bloom: Mid Season Available Rootstock(s) EMLA 26
Hyslop
A mid-season blooming crab apple that provides large red fruit 1 to 1-1/2 inch in diameter. Often used for jams and jellies because of its large size, and sometimes added to cider where tanin content is desired. Care must be taken to avoid biennial bearing, which reduces effectiveness as a pollen source. Tree is medium in vigor, precocious, with moderate resistance to fire blight.
Bloom: Mid Season Available Rootstock(s) BUD 9 EMLA 26 EMLA 7
Pollination Information Hysolp blooms in mid-season and will pollinate early blooming apple varieties and varieties blooming in the middle of the season.
Manchurian
Early to mid-season bloom corresponding with Red Delicious. Flowers white and large. Tree is very vigorous and upright.
Bloom: Mid Season Available Rootstock(s) BUD 9
Pollination Information Manchurian crab blooms in early season and will pollinate early blooming apple varieties and varieties blooming in the middle of the season.
Spur Winter Banana
Excellent pollinizer for Red Delicious. Spur-type growth makes tree compact with little maintenance required. Tree begins bearing at an early age. Annual defruiting of tree will optimize return bloom.
Bloom: Mid Season
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