SweeTango
Honeycrisp x Zestar (UMN)
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- -15°F
- Ripening
- Mid-season
- Vigor
- Moderate (Inferred Default)
- Disease tolerance
- Moderate
- 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.
Moderate overall resistance across the pome pathogens.
Canopy moderate 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 growZestar
shares its disease and spray profile · blooms in the same window
Rave
shares its disease and spray profile · blooms in the same window
Honeycrisp
blooms in the same window · ripens in the same window
Pristine
blooms in the same window · ripens in the same window
Empire
shares its disease and spray profile · blooms in the same window
Ginger Gold
shares its disease and spray profile · blooms in the same window
Climate-adapted alternatives
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similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Rave
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Jonagold
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Ginger Gold
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Jonafree
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
Cox's Orange Pippin
similar winter hardiness · similar heat tolerance
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