Magness
Highly FB-resistant
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- -15°F
- Ripening
- Mid-season
- Vigor
- Moderate (Inferred Default)
- Disease tolerance
- High
- Drainage need
- Moderately Well
- Soil pH
- 5.8–7
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Available
Considerations
Wood hardy to about -15°F.
Mid-season harvest.
High overall resistance across the pome pathogens.
Canopy highly resistant to fire blight, the dominant pome disease.
moderate (inferred default)
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
similar to growHarovin Sundown
blooms in the same window · ripens in the same window
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Climate-adapted alternatives
more resilient picksD'Anjou
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Comice
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Harrow Sweet
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Harovin Sundown
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Warren
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Shinko
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
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