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Jonagold apple trees

Pick: Late-season    Flowering group: 5       Uses: Eat fresh | Cookery | Juicing | Cider 
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Jonagold is a popular American apple variety with an excellent rich aromatic flavor which appeals to European tastes - and is widely-grown in Europe.

Jonagold stores well, a quality it inherits from one of its parents, Golden Delicious. However it gets its excellent flavour from its other parent, the very well-respected old New York apple variety Jonathan. It has the combination of good sweetness and good sharpness that often denotes a high quality apple.

Jonagold is a very versatile apple. As well as being excellent for eating fresh, it is a popular for all kinds of culinary uses, and good for juice and cider. The apples can be picked over several weeks - pick earlier if you want to store them.

Jonagold Redprince® (also known as Jonaprince) is a sport of Jonagold with a much deeper red colouring but the same flavour.

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Jonagold apple trees for sale

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Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)2-year bush-trained - Bare-root - M9 rootstock £33.00
Large (3m - 4m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock
Jonagored		£30.00

**All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.

*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime - see our Tree Height Calculator.

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Summary features of Jonagold

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: United States
  • Period of origin: 1900 - 1949
  • Fruit colour: Orange flush
  • Blossom colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Popular variety

Climate



Pollination guide for Jonagold

Jonagold is in flowering group 5. Jonagold is a triploid variety and cannot pollinate other varieties. It needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby. You can either plant a self-fertile variety (which will pollinate itself and the Jonagold) or you can plant two pollination partners which must each be of different varieties and able to cross-pollinate each other as well as the Jonagold. If you need further advice on this just get in touch.



How to grow Jonagold apple trees

The main horticultural issue is that Jonagold is a triploid apple variety and therefore needs two separate pollination partners nearby (or one self-fertile one). If you have apple trees in neighbouring gardens, they may be suitable. Golden Delicious is a reliable pollinator of many apple varieties but Jonagold is an exception and cannot be pollinated by Golden Delicious.

Like most triploid apple varieties, Jonagold produces a fairly large tree and the apples are also fairly large. Cropping is generally good and there is no need to thin the fruit.

Jonagold is susceptible to a number of apple diseases, but its vigorous triploid nature seems to help it keep going.

Jonagold likes a warmer climate but can be grown across quite a wide climate range - including the cooler climates of northern Europe where it is grown commercially on a small scale.



Varieties with similar picking times to Jonagold

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Chivers Delight
Christmas Pippin
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Empire
Fameuse
Golden Delicious
Golden Noble
Golden Pippin
Golden Russet
Howgate Wonder
Jonathan
Jupiter
Karmijn de Sonnaville
King of the Pippins
Lady (Api)
Laxton's Superb
Pixie
Rajka
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Saturn
Scotch Bridget

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Barnack Beauty
Calville Blanc
Claygate Pearmain
Cornish Aromatic
Cornish Gilliflower
Court Pendu Plat
Edward VII
Elstar
Fiesta
Freyberg
Herefordshire Russet
Idared
Kidd's Orange Red
Lane's Prince Albert
Lemon Pippin
Newton Wonder
Orleans Reinette
Red Falstaff
Tydeman's Late Orange
Zabergau Reinette

Ashmead's Kernel
Keepsake
Mutsu (Crispin)
Spartan
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Historical details

Jonagold is a cross between two classic American apple varieties, Golden Delicious and Jonathan. Developed by the famous Geneva research station in New York State in 1943.



Botanical name

Malus domestica Jonagold




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