Redfree
Medium bright red, sweet-crisp
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- -28°F
- Ripening
- Early-season
- Vigor
- Productive
- Disease tolerance
- Moderate
- Drainage need
- Moderately Well
- Soil pH
- 5.8–7
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Available
Considerations
Wood hardy to about -28°F.
Early-season harvest.
Moderate overall resistance across the pome pathogens.
Canopy moderately resistant to fire blight, the dominant pome disease.
productive
Prefers a pH band of 5.8–7.
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Grows alike
similar to growDayton
shares its disease and spray profile · blooms in the same window
Pristine
shares its disease and spray profile · ripens in the same window
Priscilla
shares its disease and spray profile · blooms in the same window
McIntosh
blooms in the same window · ripens in the same window
Wickson
blooms in the same window · shares its disease and spray profile
SweeTango
ripens in the same window · shares its disease and spray profile
Climate-adapted alternatives
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similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Williams Pride
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Pristine
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Freedom
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Dayton
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Honeycrisp
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
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