{"id":134,"date":"2010-01-06T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/01\/06\/disease-free-apple-varieties-judge-for-yourself\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T02:33:00","slug":"disease-free-apple-varieties-judge-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/01\/06\/disease-free-apple-varieties-judge-for-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Disease-free Apple Varieties&#8211;Judge for Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S1m5QJKEXPI\/AAAAAAAAAHI\/6rmwaZ3PTNo\/s1600-h\/Apples+2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429574512759037170\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S1m5QJKEXPI\/AAAAAAAAAHI\/6rmwaZ3PTNo\/s320\/Apples+2.jpg\" \/><\/a> Weekly spraying of home apple orchards for the dreaded apple scab is a total downer. Over the past half century have come the first scab-free immune apple varieties: Prima, Priscilla, and Sir Prize. However, Prima and Priscilla will never win any taste awards.<\/p>\n<p>All 3 varieties are very susceptible to other apple disease maladies as cedar-apple rust, powdery mildew and fire blight. All are rated as dessert quality, possessing a short shelf life after picking.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Penn State Extension website lists Freedom, Enterprise, Liberty, Novomac, Pristine, Redfree and Sundance with good resistance to 3 of the 4 major diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Select 2 -3 varieties as apple trees require cross-pollination. Purchase them on a dwarf or semi-dwarf rootstock, properly prune them annually, and you&#8217;ll be harvesting fruit from trees in 3 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly spraying of home apple orchards for the dreaded apple scab is a total downer. Over the past half century have come the first scab-free immune apple varieties: Prima, Priscilla, and Sir Prize. However, Prima and Priscilla will never win any taste awards. All 3 varieties are very susceptible to other apple disease maladies as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}