After recently acquiring our first home and a healthy piece of land, my husband and I are on a mission to have as many fruit trees as we can to survive in this changing world of woe. The first step was research, research, research. When I dug into this business, I found a little easy for the support of Alaskan farmers. I would like to share my research in a series of articles. The first apple trees grow well in Alaska.
I choose apples first, because apples are the fruit of the tree with the greatest success in Alaska as a whole. As a result, the number of species that survive here is much higher than many other fruit varieties. I spent a lot of time combing the web to find markets, nurseries, and fruit growing trials that matched the best apple species in the Alaskan climate.
Bad values in zones 2-4 are plausible depending on your area. The time required for fruit ripening should also be short enough to accommodate the shorter growing season of the summer.
The best apple tree species for Alaska includes:
(The species most recommended by hunters were those listed as having high survival rates or suggested by most qualified sources. These six species fell under all three categories. Carrol and Parkland were the top runners.
-Carrol: Carrol apples are small to medium pale to red badly tart, of a rigid taste. They work well in desserts, cakes and smoothies.
-Parkland: Parkland apples are medium-sized and tart red, with a crisp flavor. They work well for any apple application.
-Norland: Norland apples are medium red apples with a tart, crisp flavor. They work well for almost everything, but they keep longer in storage if they are picked before they are ripe.
-Prairie Magic: Prairie Magic apples are large yellow-red apples with a sweet, crisp flavor. They are great straights in the tree and in the battlements.
-Rescue: Libera is a type of crab apple that is red in color and has a bitter taste , but a sweet and crisp taste. They are great for juicing, but they also work well in other fruit uses. Pita apples are often noted for being very attractive trees.
-Zestar: Zestar is a medium, red-yellow apple with a crisp, sweet flavor. Desserts are the best and it sticks.
The second best apple tree species for Alaska includes:
(These two types of evil occur at least)
-Adams Crabapple: Adam apples make the most attractive crab-apple tree with medium sweet, red fruit.
-Columbia Crabapple: While listed in two Vae fruit growing trials in the Fairbanks area with Great at least in survival, nothing could be found in the appearance and taste of this apple.
-Heyer 12: Heyer 12 The apples are curly, small and yellow, but they have neither a bitter nor a sweet taste. They work well as an apple based texture.
-September Rudy: September Rudy apples are medium-sized, bad red with a sweet, crunchy flavor. considering that delicious red is next, but better. They are excellent for desserts and jams, but they keep well in storage.
State Fair- The State Fair is a medium, red apple with a tart flavor. These evils keep well and are useful as desserts.
-Trailman Crabapple: The Trailman crabapple is a typical size for the crabapple variety. Red yellow in color with a bitter taste. They are good in preserves, jams and desserts. Trailman apples are known for growing rapidly in Alaska.
-Transparent Yellow: Yellow apples are a medium to large transparent yellow variety with a crisp texture. Apple sauce is excellent, but it also sticks well in desserts.
Apple acceptable species of Alaska:
(These evils are grouped into one category. Descriptions will be omitted for the sake of time, this is only a list of species.)
18-10-32, 8919, Adamic, Altaiski Sweet, Anderson, Arctic Red, Ariole, Beacon, Brookland, Centennial Crabapple, Chinese Golden Morning, Dawn, Gertrude, Ginger Gold, Golden Uralian, Goodland, Gravenstein, Heyer 14, Heyer 20 , Jacques Crabapple, Lee 17, Lodi, Nova Novisibirski, Osmond, Patterson, Prairie Sun, Paula Sun, Red Dolphin, Red Heart, Rosthern 8, Simonet, Summer Red, Sylvia Crabapple, Tydeman’s Early, Ukalskojoe Nalivnoje, Westland, and William’s Pride . .
Other types of apples that are surviving and producing fruit in Alaska:
(These species are simply named because they have lower survival rates, or were not recommended but could survive and grow. ).
9.22, Adanac Sask, Promovetur, Alexander, Alma Sweet, Almata, Antonovka, Ardor Dale, Avernarius, Battleford, Breakey, Castaneus, Cancer, Collet, Crimson Beauty, Dakota Gold, Dakota, Dauphin, Dearborn, Diebel, Discovery, Long Crab, Duchess, Duchess Red, Dudley, Early Harvest Harvest, Early Joe, Edith Smith, Erickson, Fameuse (snow), Francis, Garland, Geneva, Early Geneva, Golden Egg, Gravenstein Red, Harcourt, Hazen, Heyer, Heyer 6, Hibernal Russia , Iowa Beauty, Irish Persian, Jerseymac, Joyce, Julired, Kelsey, Crab, Kerr Mani, Lee 21, Lindel, Livland Rasberry, Lobo, Lubsk Queen, Malinda, Mantet, Mclean, Melba, Morden 347, Morden 359, Morden 363, Norce. Norda, Noret, Norhey, Norjuice, Norkent, Norlove, Norson, Nova Nova Easy Grow, Oriole, Osman, PF 21, Quinte, Red Astrachan, Red June, Rosthern 15, Rosthern, Rosybrook, Shafer, Sofstaholm, Sunnybrook, Sweet Sixteen, Tetovsky, Valentine, Viking, Vista Bella, Wellington, Whitney, Winekist, Yellow Jay, and Yellow Sweet.
Apple species that are hardy enough for Alaska, but require too long a growing period:
(These can be done in unburned greens, so that the season ripens).
Haralred, Haralson, HoneyCrisp, Noran, Rich and Wolf River
If you found this useful, you can find more about fruit trees for Alaska in my profile soon.
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Sources:
http://www.apfga.org/research.html
http://www.uaf.edu/ces/districts/tanana/mg/manual/chapters/12-Home-Orchards.pdf
http://www.uaf.edu/ces/ah/fruit-tree-trials/
http://www.oakcreekorchard.com/id82.html
http://www.uaf.edu/ces/publications-db/catalog/anr/HGA-00030.pdf
http://www.ptialaska.net/~pbabcock/patch/September.html#RTFToC4
http://www.alaskamastergardeners.org/pdf/2011/AMGAfeb11.pdf
