Speedster,
I didn’t know if anyone else was going to order a semi dwarf golden delicious or not. Since you like yellow apples I should have mentioned if you buy two of the gd there is an additional savings.they are great pollinators! Zestar seems like a great choice for $5 so I planted some of those like you did. It is way to late to be spring planting so I’m considering this early fall planting lol! I don’t here a lot of talk on here outside of goldrush on yellow apples.
Bill,
I suspect pristine or any of these other apples won’t grow over 15’. Starks confirmed these are 12-15’ trees. I figured they are 3-4’ of the way there so they will be bearing in 2-5 years depending on the type of scion. I will do my best to keep them alive because that will gain us one year. I think if we fast forward 3 years we will realize these $5 trees were a real steal! The first 3lb bag of apples we get is our break even point. My 4 honeycrisp semi dwarfs I planted years ago produce a couple of hundred pounds of apples each! I paid $35 each for those and let’s face it honeycrisp are $1 per apple half the time at the store. I can’t grow honeycrisp as good as they can but they are close enough!
Anne,
I don’t think you will regret planting that tree it’s supposed to be a fantastic choice. You can prune it to whatever height you want it. We have clay soil so my honeycrisp have never gotten over 12’ and they are semi dwarfs.
I think some of us missed this thread but it tells you the rootstocks by tree Sneak peak at Stark Brothers rootstocks thanks @Chris_in_GA . Chris gave us this link http://www.starkbros.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-03-18_CommercialAvailabilityCaliperGrade.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016-03-23%20WH-%20End-of-Season%20Sale&utm_content=2016-03-23%20WH-%20End-of-Season%20Sale+CID_6117179f59752bf2b89916f550577a84&utm_source=campaign%20monitor&utm_term=Download%20the%20Latest%20Inventory%20List in his post so I used it to look them up and found there are none of the rootstocks they use I cant live with. The muscadines, rasberries etc. are on sale as well if you missed it http://www.starkbros.com/tags/end-of-season-sale. I just focused on apples myself http://www.starkbros.com/products/fruit-trees/apple-trees.