Antonovka apple trees

Antonovka
  • Gardening skill: Suitable for beginners
  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Pollination group: 3
  • Uses: Eating fresh
  • Uses: Cooking
  • Uses: Dual purpose (eat + cook)

Antonovka is a popular medium-sized green/yellow cooking apple, ripening in the early-mid season. It originated in 19th century Russia, and was soon being grown in the northern USA on account of its excellent cold-hardiness.

There are several different forms of this variety. Antonovka Kamenichka is a red-flushed form of this variety, discovered in the Ukraine in the 1890s. Polutorafuntovaya is a green-skinned form, often with particularly large fruit size.

Antonovka apple trees for sale

Item
Mature height*
Price
Quantity
1-year Antonovka apple trees bare-root
B.118 rootstock
Large (10ft-16ft) mature height
$29.00
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How to grow

Antonovka is a reliable, productive, and generally disease-free apple, and an ideal choice for colder zones.

Advice on fruit tree pollination.

Historical details

Russian apple varieties such as Antonovka and Duchess of Oldenburg were quickly adopted by settlers in the northern USA on account of their reliability in cold climates. Antonovka also has a long history of being used as a cold-hardy rootstock for other apple varieties.

Antonovka characteristics

Using

  • Picking season: Early
  • Uses: Eating fresh Cooking Dual purpose (eat + cook)
  • Cropping: Good
  • Flavor style (apples): Sharper

Growing

  • Gardening skill: Suitable for beginners
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Pollination group: 3
  • Pollinating others: Average
  • Ploidy: Diploid
  • Vigour: Vigorous
  • Bearing regularity: Regular
  • Fruit bearing: Spur-bearer
  • Organic culture: Suitable

Disease resistance

  • General resistance: Good
  • Fireblight: Some resistance
  • Scab: Some resistance

Climate

  • Cold hardiness (USDA): (3) -40F / -40C (4) -30F / -34C (5) -20F / -29C (6) -10F / -23C (7) 0F / -18C (8) 10F / -12C
  • Summer average maximum temperatures: Cool ( 20C - 24C / 68F - 75F) Warm (25C - 30C / 76F - 85F) Cold (< 20C / 67F)

Identification

  • Country of origin: Russia
  • Period of origin: 1850 - 1899
  • Fruit color: Green - light

Similar varieties

  • See also Duchess of Oldenburg
    Duchess of Oldenburg
    An old culinary variety from Russia, popular in North America, and noted for its winter hardiness.