Ruby Mac Apple Tree

It has a crisp juicy flesh that makes an excellent sauce.

Ruby mac apple tree.

No amount of frost can kill it. Keeps up to 6 months in proper storage. Tree has a vigorous growth habit with a pleasant spreading canopy. The tree is hardy to at least usda hardiness zone 4a or 34 c 29 f.

Many fruit tree varieties are not self fertile. The tree is a vigorous grower and is grafted on standard rootstock. View the apple pollination chart. The jonathan is an excellent apple eaten fresh and stores very well.

September ruby will benefit from thinning by giving you bigger fruit 3 inches instead of smaller apples. The apple has good texture which makes it ideal for making jams. It also sells well in eastern europe. Tree habit is similar to that of other mcintosh strains.

You can use them in pies too but is best to mix with another apple since ruby mac break down easily when cooked. Also known as the jackson johnson apple the ruby jon is a sport variety of the jonathan apple. In our experience the planting caring for and harvesting of apple trees offers a host of benefits something that those who have never done it can only imagine. Moderately resistant to fire blight it s annually productive and a vigorous grower with high yields.

September ruby is the ultimate hardy apple tree holding its own in zone 1. The fall red apple tree is hardy to zone 2 and is resistant to fire blight. The mcintosh or mcintosh red nicknamed the mac is the most popular apple cultivar in eastern canada and the northeastern united states. The jonathan apple also known as the philip rick apple originated in new york in 1862.

Harvest time occurs in mid to late september. They have a tart sweet flavor and are a beautiful red apple all shined up. Ruby mac are a great eating apple and for applesauce. Flesh is a cream color with a tinge of green.

Sweet aromatic fruit develops a solid red blush with minimal striping. Bud 9 g 16 bud 9 emla 111 emla 7 emla 111 bud 118 g 935 g 11 g 41 m 9nakb337. The mac part of. In order to have successful pollination it may be necessary to have two different varieties of tree.

Note that the green tinted flesh suggests my samples may be a bit early. A true mcintosh that colors early and hangs well on the tree. The apple keeps well storing up to 5 months. Discovered in comstock park michigan in 1999.

The seller describes ruby mac as a mcintosh x rubinstar cross. A spreading tree that is moderately vigorous the mcintosh bears annually or in alternate years.