Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Elstar Apple Bareroot

History: Elstar apples were developed in the Netherlands in the 1950s and are a cross between Golden Delicious and Ingrid Marie. This excellent combination has created what is considered one of the best Golden Delicious offspring. Fittingly, it has since become quite popular in continental Europe. Despite being introduced to the US in 1972, it has not attained the same level of popularity in North America.

Why We Grow It: Elstar is a flavourful variety, fine for fresh eating or sauce with its crisp, juicy flesh; very little acidity. The skin is distinctive, sporting a orangey-red marbled appearance.

          $56.50

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          19 in stock

          Fruit Traits:

          Recommended Use: Fresh eating, cooking

          Fruit Size: Medium-large

          Storage: Keeps until December when stored in cool, humid conditions, tart flavour is enhanced after 4-6 weeks in storage

          Harvest: October - Early

          Cider Class (if applicable):

          Tree Traits:

          Canadian Hardiness Zone: 5

          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: Very vigorous but precocious, tends to crop biennially but crops well. Susceptible to mildew, fireblight, and scab. Preforms reasonably well in our test orchard.

          Overall Disease Resistance Rating*: Medium

          *this rating is combined with our experience growing in our test orchards combined with already available information on the cultivar.

          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.

          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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