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Cortland Apple Tree

Cortland Apple Tree

Cortland is an excellent apple variety for dessert, cooking, drying, making cider and eating fresh. Has a crisp, tender, sweet tart and strawberry like flavor. Medium to large in size. Yellow base color covered in red wash with white flesh. After picking can keep well in cold storage for four months. Cortland apple trees are susceptible to fireblight, mildew, and aphids, but resistant to scab, collar rot, and canker.

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General Tree Height/Caliper: Most of our fruit trees (apple, peach, apricot, plum, pear, nectarine, quince, and cherry) are grafted/budded and are 4-6' tall with a caliper/diameter of about 1/4-3/4". Most have more than 5' height and 1/2" diameter. The other trees are seedlings, such as pawpaw, mulberry, persimmon, shade, berry, and flowering trees which range from 18-36" tall.

A rootstock primarily controls a tree's size and how early it bears fruit. Learn more about our specific rootstocks.

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Cortland Apple Tree Overview

The Cortland apple tree is excellent not only for eating fresh and cooking, but also for making cider due to its juicy, sweet-tart flavor. In fact, it has a slightly strawberry like flavor and you can taste a hint of white wine in its flavor! Moreover, you can also dry the apple to make apple ringlets as well as use in salads or cooking. Cortland is medium to large in size and has yellow base color covered in red with white flesh. It is a cross between McIntosh and Ben Davis.

Just like any other apple tree, the Cortland apple tree grows best when it’s planted in full sun in well-drained soil. The tree can grow well in hardiness zones 4 to 8. The tree is moderately vigorous upright tree and produces good crop each year. After picking can keep well in cold storage for four months, but it is best eaten fresh picked from the tree. Unfortunately, Cortland apple trees are susceptible to fireblight, mildew, and aphids, and scab. It’s self-sterile and needs a good pollinator.

Growing Characteristics

  • Uses: eating fresh, dessert, cooking, drying, making cider
  • Taste: Crisp, tender, sweet tart, Strawberry like flavor
  • Size: Medium to Large
  • Color: Yellow base color covered in red wash and stripes. Flesh is white.
  • Hardiness Zones: 4 – 8
  • Disease Resistance
    • Scab – highly susceptible
    • Fireblight – highly susceptible
    • Mildew – susceptible
    • Aphids – susceptible
  • Harvest period: 4
  • Flowering Group: 3
  • Cross Pollinates with: Akane, Alkmene, Binet Rouge, Chieftain, Crimson Crisp, Gala, Ginger Gold, Dolgo,and Granny Smith to name a few!
  • Cultivation: This apple tree is moderately vigorous. Upright tree. Precocious. Produces crop each year. Can bear fruit on tips or spurs. Fruit hangs on tree when ripe. Can tolerate cold winter temperatures down to -30C.
  • Storage: Keeps well in cold storage for four months.
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  • If your tree doesn’t grow by July 1st or dies in the fall of the first year, please email us with a photo, order number, and description of the issue.
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