A highly flavored, late-season dessert apple, perfect for organic production.
Hawaii Apple on G.11 (Spring 2026)
A pineapple-flavored gourmet dessert apple.
This is a medium sized, vigorous, upright-spreading tree with wide crotch angles that will need diligent pruning to maintain annual bearing. It is susceptible to scab and bitter pit, but resistant to cedar-apple rust.
A medium-to-large apple, Hawaii has a waxy yellow skin that is often overlaid with a pretty pinkish flush. Its parents were thought to be Golden Delicious and Gravenstein.a. DNA testing has indentified Golden Delicious and Delicious as Hawaii's parents, and certainly it has the appearance of a Golden Delicious. The flesh is breaking and very sweet. Tom Burford (Apples of North America) writes that a distinct pineapple flavor develops when the tree is grown in California and other western states. Here in NY, we too found distinct tropical notes.
This cross of Golden Delicious and Gravenstein was made in 1945 by William Silva of Sebastopol, California. Hawaii was released commercially in 1963.
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The Fruit
Fruit Type
Category: Apple
Subcategory:
Hot-Climate, Dessert
Fruit Uses & Storage
Uses: fresh eating, baking
Storage duration: one to three months (approximate, depending on storage conditions)
Fruit Appearance
Skin color: yellow
Flesh color: yellow
Fruit Origins
Parentage: Golden Delicious x Delicious
Origin: California
Introduced in: 1963
Introduced by: William Silva
The Environment
Calendar & Geography
USDA zones: 5 - 8
Chill hours: Not yet determined
Ripening date: Sep 22 (approximate, in New York State) + 7 days after McIntosh
Tree Height & Spacing
glossary
Rootstock: G.11 Rootstock
Rootstock size class: Dwarf (25% of Standard)
Tree spacing (natural spread of tree): 8'
Good for wildlife planting? N
Diseases & Pests
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Apple Scab: Susceptible
Cedar-Apple Rust: Resistant
Pollination
Pollination Factors
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Bloom group: 3
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y
Ploidy: Diploid
Rootstock size class:
Dwarf (25% of Standard)
Pollination Partners
This table shows the first few results from a full search for pollenizers of Hawaii Apple on G.11. 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 | Currently in Stock |
|---|---|
| GoldRush Apple on G.214 | 413 |
| Pixie Crunch™ Apple on G.11 | 200 |
| Honeycrisp Apple on G.11 | 184 |
| Sansa Apple on G.11 | 159 |
| SnowSweet® Apple on G.11 | 124 |
| Frequin Rouge Apple on G.214 | 116 |
| Empire Apple on G.214 | 108 |
| Robert's Crab Apple on G.11 | 98 |
| Kingston Black Apple on G.41 | 94 |
| Franklin Apple on G.214 | 90 |
| Northern Spy Apple on G.41 | 88 |
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