Freedom
Large red, sweet-mild
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- -28°F
- Ripening
- Mid-season
- Vigor
- Vigorous, Upright-Spreading
- Disease tolerance
- High
- Drainage need
- Moderately Well
- Soil pH
- 5.8–7
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Available
Considerations
Wood hardy to about -28°F.
Mid-season harvest.
High overall resistance across the pome pathogens.
Canopy resistant to fire blight, the dominant pome disease.
vigorous, upright-spreading
Prefers a pH band of 5.8–7.
These are intrinsic to the apple or pear. On a real property, Folia scores each against your site; here they're shown on their own.
Grows alike
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Dayton
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Jonagold
ripens in the same window · blooms in the same window
Redfree
ripens in the same window · shares its disease and spray profile
Priscilla
shares its disease and spray profile · blooms in the same window
Climate-adapted alternatives
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similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Williams Pride
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Pristine
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Redfree
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Dayton
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Honeycrisp
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