An attractive, highly disease-resistant apple, ideal for organic growers.
Hawaii Apple on G.935 (Spring 2024)
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 are Golden Delicious and Gravenstein, and it has the appearance of a Golden Delicious but the aromatic sweetness of the Gravenstein. The flesh is crisp and, according to Tom Burford (Apples of North America), a distinct pineapple flavor develops when the tree is grown in California and other western states.
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
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 Gravenstein
Origin: California
Introduced in: 1963
Introduced by: William Silva
The Environment
Calendar & Geography
USDA zones: 5 - 8
Chill hours: Not yet determined
Ripening date: Oct 06 (approximate, in New York State) + 21 days after McIntosh
Tree Height & Spacing
glossary
Rootstock: G.935 Rootstock
Rootstock size class: Semi-Dwarf (40% of Standard)
Tree spacing (natural spread of tree): 12'
Good for wildlife planting? N
Diseases & Pests
glossary
Apple Scab: Susceptible
Cedar-Apple Rust: Resistant
Pollination
Pollination Factors
glossary
Bloom group: 3
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y
Ploidy: Diploid
Rootstock size class:
Semi-Dwarf (40% of Standard)
Pollination Partners
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