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Tolman Sweet Apple Bareroot

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Tolman Sweet Apples are Mouse's favourite this year! In their opinion Tolman Sweet apples are “a lovely green apple with a very unique sweetness! A must-try for anyone interested in exploring the full range of apple flavours!”

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History: Little is known about the origin of this heritage apple, but Tolman Sweet has been highly valued since its discovery. It is uncertain whether it came from Massachusetts or New York in the 18th or 19th century but it was first recorded in 1822. This hardy tree was used as a source of rootstock at one time.

Why We Grow It: Tolman Sweet is a great all-purpose apple. The fruit are medium-sized with yellow skin, and have a distinctly sweet, dry flesh. They are nice for fresh eating but can also be used in baking, drying, and pickling. Their unusually low acid content helps to reduce acidity in both sweet and hard cider.

      $56.50 $45.20
      Rootstock
      Size

      35 in stock

      Fruit Traits:

      Recommended Use: Fresh eating, cooking, cider

      Fruit Size: Medium-small

      Storage: Keeps a few months when stored in cold storage.

      Harvest: October - Late

      Cider Class (if applicable):

      • Sweet

      Class: Sweet
      Sugar: High, SG 1.061
      Acidity: Low, TA 1.4 g/L
      Tannins: Low, 0.1 g/L
      Juice Yield: Low, 90 mL/lb
      Taste: Sweet
      Recommendations: Good in blends where it adds sweetness and balances out more acidic varieties
      *Information based on Michigan State University's "Great Lakes Cider Apple Collection"

      Tree Traits:

      Canadian Hardiness Zone: 3

      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: Moderately vigorous and very hardy, precocious, spreading growth pattern, tends to bear fruit every other year, spur bearing. Susceptible to fireblight.

      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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