Haralson Apple Bareroot

Why We Grow It: The skin of this variety is striped red with russet dots and the flesh is white, juicy, and of pleasant flavour. Haralson boasts excellent cold hardiness and general disease resistance.

Recommended Use: Fresh eating, cooking, cider

Fruit Size: Medium to Medium-small

Storage: Keeps until January when stored in cool, humid conditions

Harvest: October - Mid

Cider or Perry Class (if applicable):

Class: Sharp
Sugar: Low, SG 1.042
Acidity: Medium, TA 6.9 g/L
Tannins: Low, 1 g/L
Taste: Light to medium body and decently high acidity
Recommendations: Use in a blend to add some acidity
*Information based on Brix Cider

Canadian Hardiness Zone: 2b

Soil Preferance: Sandy loam, loam, clay loam. Prefers average to moist conditions, avoid planting anywhere that floods for more than two weeks in the spring. Generally quite adaptable to different soil conditions.

Flowering Time: Middle

Bloom Colour: White

Pollination Requirements: Requires a pollinator of a different apple variety that blooms around the same time

Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

General Growth Habit: Weak vigor and precocious but very hardy, tends to have good crops every other year. Resistant to cedar rust, mildew and fireblight. Spur bearing.

Overall Grower Ease Rating: High

This rating is a combination of our experience growing in our test orchards and current available information on the cultivar.

Haralson apples were developed at the University of Minnesota in 1922 and named after Charles Haralson who was superintendent of the university's fruit breeding farm. It is one of almost 30 apple varieties the university has developed in its breeding program since it began in 1888.

Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of plants across Canada. We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them, and send them out via courier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc.

When Will My Order Be Ready?

Bareroot apple and pear trees are available for both fall and spring planting! If you also order plants that are only available for spring, we will default to having your entire order ready for spring.

Fall: Fall orders are generally ready to be picked up or shipped out around mid-November. We only accept a small number of fall orders each year so if there is no fall option at checkout, your order will be available in the spring.

Spring: Spring orders are generally ready to be picked up or shipped out anywhere from late March to late May! We will be in touch in the spring once your order is ready to go. Orders placed in the spring might not be ready for 1-2 weeks as this is a very busy time of year for us.

Our grafted fruit trees are graded into two categories, and the size includes the rootstock:

50-80cm grade: Smaller trees that may have some minor branching, this grade is like a "b-grade" size tree according to industry standards. This size may include trees that are over 1m but have some scarring or mild crookedness.
1m+ grade: Trees that are over 1m tall, some may have no branches and others may have light feathering or a few established branches

Please keep in mind, bareroot trees appear small if you are unfamiliar with them. Size can vary year to year due to weather conditions and every single variety has a unique amount of vigour (some varieties naturally are smaller and some bigger, much like humans -and when you propagate hundreds of varieties, there certainly is variation). While we remain competitive in our plant size, it's also worth noting we don't use synthetic chemicals to push vegetative growth. Therefore you may find some conventional nursery stock larger in comparison.

Why plant small? It's best to transplant a tree when it's young so it can establish its roots before it has a lot of vegetative growth. This is much less stressful on it and after a few years bareroot trees tend to catch up and even surpass larger potted trees planted at the same time.

Orders that are cancelled last minute due to size (being "too small"), will still incur the applicable cancellation fees if the trees are true to our grading standards as per the agreement of sale when the order was placed.

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