Franklin Cider Apple ?
- Thread starter CuivreDog
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rocksnstumps
5 year old buck +
From previous Appleman posting. See this thread
http://habitat-talk.com/index.php?t...s-yet-to-be-discovered-in-your-backyard.7019/
Was it quite a ways removed from your 'apple plot' planting Bill? What I mean is do they think the FCA is a self fertile type, a diploid, triploid, etc...
The "Franklin Cider" is a diploid which means that it can contribute viable pollen to pollenate other trees and can in turn be pollenated by other trees. The "Franklin Cider" is consider an excellent pollinator for varieties like Honeycrisp. I photographed and recorded the bud phenology stage from dormant to petal fall showing these stages to be almost time identical when compared side by side to Honeycrisp. (This was conducted over a 3 year period.
http://habitat-talk.com/index.php?t...s-yet-to-be-discovered-in-your-backyard.7019/
Was it quite a ways removed from your 'apple plot' planting Bill? What I mean is do they think the FCA is a self fertile type, a diploid, triploid, etc...
The "Franklin Cider" is a diploid which means that it can contribute viable pollen to pollenate other trees and can in turn be pollenated by other trees. The "Franklin Cider" is consider an excellent pollinator for varieties like Honeycrisp. I photographed and recorded the bud phenology stage from dormant to petal fall showing these stages to be almost time identical when compared side by side to Honeycrisp. (This was conducted over a 3 year period.
