Native Hunter Apples 2023

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This is a tree called Freedom that is highly touted as a disease resistant apple. My tree is young and just started bearing fruit last year. So far my experience had not been great, but sometimes it takes a few years for a tree to hit its stride. This year I started out with about a dozen apples but most have fallen prematurely. Fruit is very large. I think this cultivar will be good given time. Ask me in a couple of years.
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Since I got some good pics of Yates yesterday, I will go ahead and post those. You guys hear me talk about this tree a lot. It is perhaps the best deer apple where I live. It is highly DR, and is generally loaded with small to medium sized, sweet fruit that drops into mid November or later. Very reliable.

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Is Yates good for human consumption? I bench grafted one that’s looking good, going in the ground this fall and I’m trying to decide where to put it.


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[Native Hunter]

Is Yates good for human consumption? I bench grafted one that’s looking good, going in the ground this fall and I’m trying to decide where to put it.


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Yes, the taste is really good.. But it’s a small apple so you might not like that aspect for eating.

 

[Native Hunter]

For a long time my Golden Hornets seemed to hang all winter and not drop, but today I noticed a few on this more mature tree are falling. I hope that this continues. I have 3 of these and they are loaded every year.

 

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[TonySoprano]

For a long time my Golden Hornets seemed to hang all winter and not drop, but today I noticed a few on this more mature tree are falling. I hope that this continues. I have 3 of these and they are loaded every year.

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Any issue with Cedar Apple Rust ? . I wanted to plant one , but read they are susceptible.

 

[Native Hunter]

Any issue with Cedar Apple Rust ? . I wanted to plant one , but read they are susceptible.

I would say very light but not enough to concern me. If these start falling slowly through the season, I can be happy with this cultivar. Mine came from Waffler on MM111 a few years ago.

 

[TonySoprano]

I would say very light but not enough to concern me. If these start falling slowly through the season, I can be happy with this cultivar. Mine came from Waffler on MM111 a few years ago.

I wish I would have asked you sooner before I placed a order for trees this week.

I ordered a 2 -3 foot New for 2025 Feather up Crab from Whitetail Crabs. I'm debating on calling up and having him switch it for a Golden Hornet. Just because The Golden Hornets fruits a little bigger at 1 to 1.5-inch vs 3/4 of a inch. The Feather up is already sold out in the 2-3 foot size.

Feather-Up™ Siberian Crabapple​

from $16.95


Feather-Up™ crabapple was selected from our Siberian crab trials for exhibiting very uniform, almost 90°, very close limb feathering from the ground up in both the nursery and field trials. This allows for more of a trim-free wildlife planting. It produces a tall, mid-sized upright tree with very dense cropping of 3/4" diameter crabs. Its crabs have shown to drop from late October through January. The tree has very good disease resistance, including complete Fireblight resistance.