Priscilla
Red dessert
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- -28°F
- Ripening
- Mid-season
- Vigor
- Productive
- 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.
productive
Prefers a pH band of 5.8–7.
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