Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Jonagold is an excellent multipurpose variety producing large, juicy apples with a rich balance of sweetness and acidity and a honeyed flavour. It is suitable for fresh eating, juice and baking. The productive tree requires thinning to maintain fruit size and reduce biennial bearing. As a triploid and poor pollinator, it needs two compatible apple varieties nearby.

Jonagold

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavour.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 4322 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Jonagold is a popular American apple variety with an excellent rich aromatic flavor which appeals to European tastes – and is widely-grown in Europe.

Jonagold stores well, a quality it inherits from one of its parents, Golden Delicious. However it gets its excellent flavour from its other parent, the very well-respected old New York apple variety Jonathan. It has the combination of good sweetness and good sharpness that often denotes a high quality apple.

Jonagold is a very versatile apple. As well as being excellent for eating fresh, it is a popular for all kinds of culinary uses, and great for juice and cider. The apples can be picked over several weeks – pick earlier if you want to store them.