Bartlett
Classic buttery dessert + canning standard
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy to about -20°F
- Ripening
- Mid-season
- Vigor
- Moderate-High
- Disease tolerance
- Low
- Drainage need
- Moderately Well
- Soil pH
- 5.8–7
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Widely Available
Considerations
Wood hardy to about -20°F.
Mid-season harvest.
Low overall resistance across the pome pathogens.
Canopy VERY susceptible to fire blight, the dominant pome disease.
moderate-high
Prefers a pH band of 5.8–7.
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