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Puget Spice Apple Scionwood (Spring 2024)


A bittersharp crabapple for cider, landscaping, and pollenizing. Also known as WSU A x P Crabapple.

Puget Spice is a scab immune, mildew resistant crabapple recently developed at WSU. It has an attractive, upright habit and in spring it is covered with abundant and fragrant white flowers. Its reliable and extended early to mid season bloom makes it a great pollenizer.

Despite its standard apple parents (Prima x Alkmene), Puget Spice is considered a crab due to its fruit size. It produces a juice that has a similar profile to that of Kingston Black, and it has much to offer cider makers. In 2019 Eve's Cidery wrote, "This was the most disease-resistant variety in our orchard this year. Heavy yields of sugary, tannic, high acid fruit which easily shook off the trees. (No picking!)" This crab, in fact, shows promise for a single-variety cider.

Volume Pricing

Premiums are included in the following prices if applicable. These prices are for regular scion. Add $1 for clean scion.

Quantity Puget Spice Apple Scion
1 $12.00
2-5 $7.00
6-10 $6.00
11-99 $5.00
100+ $4.00

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$13.00 ea.

This is the full retail price for orders of 1 scion. You can get these scion for as low as $4.00 each – see Volume Pricing above. More about Pricing & Grading.

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Clean vs. Regular

Our clean scion is harvested from trees grown on G.16, which is extremely sensitive to viruses. These trees would not have survived if the scion contained viruses. Our clean wood has not been lab tested. Regular = may contain one of the common latent viruses; this is not usually a problem and can be used with most rootstocks.

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Puget Spice is a scab immune, mildew resistant crabapple recently developed at WSU. It has an attractive, upright habit and in spring it is covered with abundant and fragrant white flowers. Its reliable and extended early to mid season bloom makes it a great pollenizer.

Despite its standard apple parents (Prima x Alkmene), Puget Spice is considered a crab due to its fruit size. It produces a juice that has a similar profile to that of Kingston Black, and it has much to offer cider makers. In 2019 Eve's Cidery wrote, "This was the most disease-resistant variety in our orchard this year. Heavy yields of sugary, tannic, high acid fruit which easily shook off the trees. (No picking!)" This crab, in fact, shows promise for a single-variety cider.


The Fruit

Fruit Type

Category: Apple
Subcategory: Crabapple, Cider, Cold-Hardy, Hot-Climate

Fruit Uses & Storage

Uses: cider, jelly
Cider classification: bittersharp
Storage duration: less than one month (approximate, depending on storage conditions)

Fruit Appearance

Skin color: red
Flesh color: white

Fruit Origins

Parentage: Prima x Alkmene
Origin: WSU Mount Vernon NWREC
Introduced in: 2012
Introduced by: Washington State University

The Environment

Calendar & Geography

USDA zones: 4 - 8
Chill hours: 800
Ripening date: Oct 13 (approximate, in New York State) + 28 days after McIntosh

Diseases & Pests

Apple Scab: Immune
Powdery Mildew: Very Resistant

Pollination

Pollination Factors

Bloom group: 3
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y
Ploidy: Diploid

Pollination Partners

This table shows the first few results from a full search for pollenizers of Puget Spice Apple. Please see our Pollenizer Search to run other queries and read how the application uses various factors. Also read more about fruit tree pollination.

Tree Ships Currently in Stock
Virginia Crab Apple 2024 0
Florina Apple 2024 0
Porter's Perfection Apple 2024 0
Elstar Apple 2024 0
Rubinette Apple 2024 0
St. Edmund's Russet Apple 2024 0
Spitzenburg Esopus Apple 2024 0
Liberty Apple 2024 0
Mother Apple 2024 0
Binet Rouge Apple 2024 0
Freyberg Apple 2024 0

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