Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Chinook Apple Bareroot

History: Chinook was developed at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in Summerland, BC as a cross between Splendour and Gala. It was released in 2000 but despite its many great features, the smaller size of the fruit has likely held it back from commercial success.

Why We Grow It: The saying 'big things come in small packages' holds true for Chinook. Although the fruit is on the smaller side, it boasts a lovely red skin, excellent sweet-tart flavour, a nice aroma, and crisp and juicy flesh. Fans of this variety will be happy to hear that the fruit can be enjoyed well through the winter, it is an excellent keeper and can last 6-7 months in storage. On top of that the tree grows fairly vigorously, starts bearing fruit at a young age, and produces heavy crops (although thinning will be required).

$56.50

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Fruit Traits:

Recommended Use: Fresh eating

Fruit Size: Medium-small

Storage: Keeps six to seven months when stored in refrigerated conditions

Harvest: October - Mid

Cider Class (if applicable):

Tree Traits:

Canadian Hardiness Zone: 4

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:

Bloom Colour:

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 with a spreading growth habit, spurry, precocious, produces heavy crops that should be thinned. Susceptible to black rot.

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.

We have simplified our crop inventory for grafted fruit trees into two sizes:

1m+ Grade: this often has some feathering, and is measured including the rootstock.

50-80cm Grade: this is like a 'b-grade' tree, sometimes with minor scaring or bent, these trees are priced accordingly.

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