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Hudson’s Golden Gem Heirloom Semi-Dwarf Apple Tree

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Fresh Eating, Baking, Cider, Storage Mid-Season Fruit Harvest Hardy to Zone 3 Requires Staking Needs another Apple variety nearby

Fruit & Nut Tree pre-ordering is now closed, Friends!
If you’ve placed your pre-order, pick-up weekend will be April 27 & 28, 2024 (from 10-2pm)!

A serendipitous chance seedling discovered in an Oregon fencerow, Hudson’s Golden Gem has been blowing people’s minds since 1931. The large and tapered-conical fruit with full yellow-brown russet skin reveals a crisp apple flavored and textured like Bosc pear. Confusion is the most common first-take: is this a pear, or an apple….or both??? These are questions that can only be answered by many more bites! Overall good resistance to Apple Scab, Mildew and Fireblight.

Our Hudson’s Golden Gem Heirloom Semi-Dwarf Apple Trees are 2-year old, non-organic, bare-root nursery stock.

Several Fruition tree varieties & rootstocks are patented, including the rootstock this variety is grafted onto — to learn more, hop in here.

And Friends! This variety needs another Apple variety nearby for pollination.

Please purchase trees & tree kits separately from non-tree items. Also on orders of 25+ trees, enjoy a 10% discount automatically applied to your cart!

✦ New for all Fruit & Nut orders: Pre-order online & pick up your trees on April 27 & 28, 2024 from 10-2 pm. It’s true, while we won’t be shipping any tree orders this year, please join us for tree order pick up during Fruition’s fun-filled Fruit & Nut Tree Weekend at the farm in Naples, NY!

Final day to order Fruit & Nut Trees is April 14th

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Fruit & Nut Growing Resources from Fruition & Beyond

General Fruit & Nut Tree Growing:
Fruition’s current online tree growing resources are focused on Apple Trees however Pears, Plums, Peaches, Apricots and Cherries require much the same site choice, planting, and basic care considerations.

Fruition’s (Apple) Tree Growing Guide
Fruition’s Free Organic Orcharding Course
Fruition’s pre-recorded Fruit Q & Qs Webinar Library
New England Tree Fruit Management Guide
Cornell’s Guide to Growing Fruit at Home
Cornell’s Tree Fruit Resources
all books by the late Michael Phillips

Apples:
All resources above and…
The Holistic Orchard and The Apple Grower are fabulous books by Michael Phillips.
A Grower’s Guide to Organic Apples from Cornell

Elderberry: University of Vermont
Figs: Penn State Extension
Grapes: Cornell Cooperative Extension
Mulberry: Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association
Pawpaws: Cornell Cooperative Extension
Chinese Chestnut: Arnold Arboretum
Hazelnut: CornellForestConnect
Northern Hardy Pecan: Society of Ontario Nut Growers