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Dayton Apple Scionwood (Spring 2024)


An excellent disease-resistant, backyard apple. Also known as Co-op 21.

Developed for disease resistance, Dayton is very grower friendly and suitable for organic cultivation. It is resistant to fireblight and mildew, field immune to scab, and only slightly susceptible to cedar-apple rust. The tree is upright, vigorous, productive, and a reliable cropper.

Ripening early in the season, the attractive, glossy red fruit hangs well on the tree, but should be eaten soon after harvest as it does not store for more than a month. Crisp to the bite, Dayton is a delicious sweet-tart apple in the style of Honeycrisp.

This tree is named after Daniel F. Dayton, who led the disease-resistant apple breeding program for many years at the University of Illinois. Its parents are breeding selections whose ancestry includes Rome Beauty, Melba, Wealthy, and Jonathan.

Volume Pricing

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

Quantity Dayton 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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Developed for disease resistance, Dayton is very grower friendly and suitable for organic cultivation. It is resistant to fireblight and mildew, field immune to scab, and only slightly susceptible to cedar-apple rust. The tree is upright, vigorous, productive, and a reliable cropper.

Ripening early in the season, the attractive, glossy red fruit hangs well on the tree, but should be eaten soon after harvest as it does not store for more than a month. Crisp to the bite, Dayton is a delicious sweet-tart apple in the style of Honeycrisp.

This tree is named after Daniel F. Dayton, who led the disease-resistant apple breeding program for many years at the University of Illinois. Its parents are breeding selections whose ancestry includes Rome Beauty, Melba, Wealthy, and Jonathan.


The Fruit

Fruit Type

Category: Apple
Subcategory: Disease-Resistant, Hot-Climate

Fruit Uses & Storage

Uses: fresh eating, baking
Storage duration: less than one month (approximate, depending on storage conditions)

Fruit Appearance

Skin color: red
Flesh color: yellow

Fruit Origins

Parentage: NJ 123249 x PRI 1235-100
Origin: Indiana
Introduced in: 1988
Introduced by: Purdue, Rutgers, Illinois Universities

The Environment

Calendar & Geography

USDA zones: 5 - 8
Chill hours: Not yet determined
Ripening date: Aug 18 (approximate, in New York State) 28 days before McIntosh

Diseases & Pests

glossary

Apple Scab: Immune
Cedar-Apple Rust: Susceptible
Fireblight: Resistant
Powdery Mildew: Resistant

Pollination

Pollination Factors

glossary

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 Dayton 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.

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Kingston Black Apple 2024 0

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