Wolf River apple trees
- Gardening skill: Suitable for beginners
- Picking season: Late
- Keeping (of fruit): 3 months or more
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Pollination group: 3
- Uses: Cooking
- Uses: Traditional cooker
- Uses: Juice
If you are looking for a completely reliable disease-resistant cooking apple, which will thrive in the north country, this is it.
Wolf River is a very large culinary apple, with a good tart flavor, dating back to the 19th century. It is best used in the kitchen, and slices will keep their shape when cooked. Wolf River applesauce often has an attractive pale pink color.
This is a fool-proof variety which will keep you supplied with heavyweight apples with little effort on your part.
Wolf River apple trees for sale
1-year Wolf River apple trees bare-root
G.11
rootstock
Small (6ft-9ft) mature height
$29.00
1-year Wolf River apple trees bare-root
G.890
rootstock
Medium (8ft-12ft) mature height
$29.00
Out of stock
1-year Wolf River apple trees bare-root
B.118
rootstock
Large (10ft-16ft) mature height
$29.00
Out of stock
1-year Wolf River apple trees bare-root
Full-size (16ft-24ft) mature height
$29.00
Out of stock
*Find out more about the apple rootstocks we use to control the mature height.
How to grow
Wolf River pre-dates the development of modern disease-resistant apples, but has a high resistance to scab, mildew, and fireblight.
The tree is also exceptionally winter-hardy, long-lived and productive.
Advice on fruit tree pollination.
Historical details
Found in Wolf River, Wisconsin, around 1875. Thought to be a seedling of a Russian variety called Alexander.
Wolf River characteristics
Using
- Picking season:
Late
- Uses:
Cooking Juice Traditional cooker
- Cropping:
Heavy
- Keeping (of fruit):
3 months or more
- Flavor style (apples):
Sweeter
- Cooking result:
Keeps shape
- Fruit persistence:
Normal ripening
Growing
- Gardening skill:
Suitable for beginners
- Self-fertility:
Not self-fertile
- Pollination group:
3
- Pollinating others:
Average
- Ploidy:
Diploid
- Vigour:
Vigorous
- Precocity:
Slow to start bearing
- Bearing regularity:
Regular
- Fruit bearing:
Spur-bearer
- Organic culture:
Suitable
Disease resistance
- General resistance:
Good
- Canker:
Some resistance
- Cedar apple rust:
Some resistance
- Fireblight:
Some susceptibility
- Mildew:
Very resistant
- Scab:
Very resistant
Climate
- Cold hardiness (USDA):
(4) -30F / -34C
- Summer average maximum temperatures:
Cool ( 20C - 24C / 68F - 75F) Warm (25C - 30C / 76F - 85F)
Identification
- Country of origin:
United States
- Period of origin:
1850 - 1899
Similar varieties
Malus domestica x Malus niedzwetzkyanaRedfieldAn unusual apple / crab-apple cross, with distinctive red-flesh.
