Apple, Cortland
All-around variety, enjoy fresh or baked into apple pies and other desserts. Apples have a yellow peel color covered with a blush of crimson red. Inside is bright white and slow to turn brown. The texture is fine-grained and very juicy. This is a soft variety without much crunch. One of the best uses is to make applesauce.
We suggest that all APPLE varieties be cross pollinated with another variety. Golden Delicious and flowering crab apples are the most commonly used pollinators in commercial plantings.
Rootstock: Bud 9- (Budagovsky 9) A cross between M 8 and Red Standard, a hardy rootstock of Russian origin. A full dwarf rootstock producing a tree with the same vigor as M 9. Requires staking or other support to keep anchored. Extremely cold hardy and resistant to collar rot. Mildly resistant to powdery mildew and scab.