Antonovka apple trees
- 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
1-year Antonovka apple trees bare-root
G.41
rootstock
Small (6ft-9ft) mature height
$29.00
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1-year Antonovka apple trees bare-root
Full-size (16ft-24ft) mature height
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How to grow
Antonovka is a reliable, productive, and generally disease-free apple, and an ideal choice for colder zones.
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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
Duchess of OldenburgAn old culinary variety from Russia, popular in North America, and noted for its winter hardiness.
