A very beautiful heirloom apple that stores well.
Jonagold Apple Scionwood (Spring 2025)
A high-quality dessert apple, great for the back yard. Also known as NY 43013-1.
Jonagold is a handsome, sturdy, and vigorous tree that has an attractive, spreading habit. It is cold hardy, precocious, and a very heavy cropper. In fact, the main challenge with Jonagold is managing crop loads to avoid biennialism. Jonagold must be thinned early–soon after petal fall–and sufficiently. This tree is a triploid, and two diploid pollenizers will be needed for full fertility; Golden Delicious, one of its parents, should be avoided, as these two trees are incompatible. Jonagold is susceptible to fireblight, powdery mildew, canker, and scab, but resistant to cedar-apple rust and alternaria. It is also susceptible to blister spot, but this is a cosmetic issue that will be of concern only to commercial growers.
The mid-late season fruit is large, striped red over gold, with firm, breaking, sweet-tart flesh. Jonagold is a cross of Jonathan and Golden Delicious, and as Jacobsen writes in Apples of Uncommon Character, it "takes Golden's honey-scented sweetness and spices it up with Jonathan's flowery tartness." It is of the finest quality for fresh eating, and it is also a great baking apple. This tree works well in the small home-orchard as it has a long harvest season that requires several pickings. The fruit will store for about two months in regular refrigeration. Eve's Cidery says that Jonagold is "hard to beat" for adding aromatics to dessert ciders.
Jonagold is one of the finest products of the Cornell breeding program in Geneva, New York. It was selected in 1943 and introduced in 1968, and it has become broadly popular in Europe. In 1993, Jonagold won the Award of Garden Merit from the UK's Royal Horticultural Society.
Volume Pricing
Quantity | Jonagold Apple Scion |
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1 | $12.00 |
2-5 | $8.00 |
6-10 | $7.00 |
11-99 | $6.00 |
100+ | $5.00 |
The Fruit
Fruit Type
Category: Apple
Subcategory:
Cider, Cold-Hardy, Hot-Climate
Fruit Uses & Storage
Uses: fresh eating, cider, baking
Cider classification: sweet
Storage duration: one to three months (approximate, depending on storage conditions)
Fruit Appearance
Skin color: red
Flesh color: cream
Fruit Origins
Parentage: Golden Delicious x Jonathan
Origin: Geneva, New York
Introduced in: 1968
Introduced by: Cornell University
The Environment
Calendar & Geography
USDA zones: 5 - 8
Chill hours: 800
Ripening date: Sep 29 (approximate, in New York State) + 14 days after McIntosh
Diseases & Pests
glossary
Alternaria Leaf Blotch: Resistant
Apple Blister Spot: Susceptible
Apple Scab: Susceptible
Cedar-Apple Rust: Resistant
Fireblight: Susceptible
Perennial Canker: Susceptible
Powdery Mildew: Susceptible
Pollination
Pollination Factors
glossary
Bloom group: 4
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? N
Ploidy: Triploid
Pollination Partners
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Tree | Currently in Stock |
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Cripps Pink Apple | 0 |
Golden Russet Apple | 0 |
Granny Smith Apple | 0 |
Honeycrisp Apple | 0 |
Macoun Apple | 0 |
St. Edmund's Russet Apple | 0 |
Empire Apple | 0 |
Enterprise Apple | 0 |
Bramtot Apple | 0 |
Newtown Pippin Apple | 0 |
Elstar Apple | 0 |
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