Jonagold
Large, rich sweet-tart (Golden honey + Jonathan tartness)
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- -10°F
- Ripening
- Mid-season
- Vigor
- Vigorous; Sunburn-Prone In Hot Summers
- Disease tolerance
- Low
- Drainage need
- Moderately Well
- Soil pH
- 5.8–7
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Available
Considerations
Wood hardy to about -10°F.
Mid-season harvest.
Low overall resistance across the pome pathogens.
Canopy susceptible to fire blight, the dominant pome disease.
vigorous; sunburn-prone in hot summers
Prefers a pH band of 5.8–7.
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