Viking Apple Bareroot

Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Viking Apple Bareroot

History: Viking was the first apple selected by the the collaborative PRI disease-resistant breeding program run by Purdue University, Rutgers University, and the University of Illinois but was found to unfortunately still be susceptible to scab. Although the variety set to be discarded, a few growers found that the apple's taste outweighed its lack of disease resistance and in 1969 it was unofficially released from the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station.

Why We Grow It: It is easy to see why growers were so eager to overlook Viking's scab susceptibility, its flavour providing a sweet-tart taste with notes of rose and lychee. It is an excellent all-purpose apple that can be used for cooking, baking, sauce, and cider. Its great flavour and utility is matched by its attractive appearance, the large fruit featuring dark red skin bordering on maroon. However, it does bruise easily and brown quickly and only stores for about a month at most.

$56.50

Rootstock: B118 Semi-Dwarf Bareroot

Size 1m+ grade 50-80cm grade

15 in stock

Quantity

Fruit Traits:

Recommended Use: Fresh eating, cooking, baking, sauce, preserving, cider

Fruit Size: Medium

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

Harvest: September - Mid

Cider Class (if applicable):

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: Unknown, possibly 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: Highly vigorous and precocious, semi-spur bearing. Susceptible to scab.

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.

Viking Apple Bareroot

$56.50

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