Smokehouse Apple Trees
- Very juicy
- Reliable, productive cropper
- Hardy to zone 3
Smokehouse fruit is exceedingly juicy. Flesh is yellowish, crisp and firm with a pleasing spicy flavor. It is an excellent keeper. Besides its excellent eating qualities, Smokehouse is a fine cooking and baking apple. Lively flavor makes for excellent cider and juice.
The apple has greenish-yellow skin covered with shades and stripes of red.
Smokehouse is a seedling of the ancient American variety, Vandevere. Smokehouse originated in Lampeter Township, PA about 1800’s adjacent to William Gibbons’ smokehouse.
Reliable and productive. Precocious tree produces a regular abundance of apples. Ripens September or later depending on the locale.
Using
- Picking season: Late
- Uses: Cider, juice, baking, eating
- Cropping: Heavy
- Keeping (of fruit): 3+ months
- Fruit persistence: Persistent
Growing
- Self-fertility: Not Self-Fertile
- Pollination Group: 5
- Pollinating others: Good
- Ploidy: Diploid
- Cold Hardiness: Zone 3
Disease Resistance
- Good general resistance
| Height of tree when mature: | Small / Dwarf (6′-10′), Medium / Semi-Dwarf (8′-12′), Large / Semi-Standard (10′-16′) |
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