Whitney Crabapple
- *this tree will not attract deer during hunting season, it is a preseason attraction
- bears late August/early September in PA
- extremely vigorous (T3)
- heavy bearing, but tends to be biennial
- zone 3 hardy
- extremely disease resistant
- precocious
- this is a grafted tree onto full standard seedling rootstock
1.5-2" fruit considers it a crab apple, but definitely flavored well to eat fresh. The tree pictured is on my property in Maine (zone 5a). The vigor on this variety has no equal that I have found. I have never seen an apple variety with cleaner disease free leaves or fruit. It definitely shows CAR resistance and scab resistance as opposed to just tolerance. This is not a tree that will attract deer during hunting season, it also tends to be biennial, however, it grows so well and so disease free I think everyone should have at least one on their property. I am using this tree in my breeding program in hopes I can retain all of her positive traits and tweak the drop time to early November. Supposedly there are two strains of Whitney out there, I am not sure which this is but it is definitely not the variety that grows compact/small.
*This is a grafted tree on full standard seedling apple rootstock, chosen specifically to grow the tree as fast and large as possible. If there was a more vigorous rootstock out there, I would use it.
