McIntosh 1st Generation Apple Scionwood

Available for pre-order Dec-Feb - Ships in the spring (Mar-May)

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Grown by: Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Scionwood is not a tree, yet!

Scionwood, or scions (pronounced 'sigh-ons'), are the young, one-year shoots you graft with in order to propagate a variety. If you want to propagate a Gala apple tree, for example, you would graft with Gala scionwood!

We collect these scions from trees in our test orchards and are happy to be able to offer rare/heritage varieties!

For more information on scionwood and grafting, click HERE!

Why We Grow It: For fans of Canadian heritage apples in particular, this one is hard to beat. To the best of our knowledge, this is the original strain of McIntosh. Aside from its storied past, McIntosh apples boast soft, slightly tart flesh with high Vitamin C content. It is excellent for fresh eating and making applesauce.

Recommended Use: Fresh eating, cooking, cider

Fruit Size: Medium

Storage: Keeps until June when stored in cold storage

Harvest: September - Mid

Cider or Perry Class (if applicable):

Class: Sharp
Sugar: Medium to very high
Acidity: Medium to very high
Tannins: Low
Juice Yield: Low to medium
Taste: Rich and complex
Recommendations: Can be used to make a single-variety cider or in blends
Notes: Normally these apples have medium sugar and acidity but when heavily infected with scab they create an extremely rich and sweet juice gre

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. Drought tolerant.

Flowering Time: Early

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 precocious with heavy crops, spur bearing. Susceptible to scab and canker but resistant to cedar rust and quince rust and very resistant to mildew and fireblight.

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.

Each scion will have at least 2-4 grafts' worth of material and ideally will be approximately 12-18" or 30cm+ long. Since we specialize in so many varieties/species, there will be natural differences in growth habit and vigour so some varieties may be shorter or thinner. We will provide the best quality we can, within natural restraints.

If a scion is less than 6" or 15cm, it will be discounted accordingly.

Shipping: Scionwood can be shipped anytime in the spring, although we generally recommend that customers receive their scionwood by mid-April at the latest to ensure it arrives dormant. We can hold it longer if customers accept the risk that the scionwood may start breaking dormancy after this time.

Pickup: We will notify you as soon as your scionwood is ready. We recommend picking it up as soon as you are able and storing it at home.

Click HERE for tips on storing scionwood!

CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

$10.00

Propagation Material: Scionwood

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