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Apple Trees
Does anyone have them? It sounds ridiculious, but I have wanted an Mcintosh apple tree forever and plan on getting one this spring...I have been looking for companies that ship or local places(I want to get one that is almost full grown, so it will produce some apples next fall).....Will I need 2 for cross pollination??? I keep googling, but get different answers...
Re: Apple Trees
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I don't know if Mcintosh apples are self-pollinating, but there are alternatives to having two trees, if you don't have the space. I think that even self-pollinating varieties perform better with another variety around.
You can buy a grafted tree with several varieties grafted on. We have one with five varieties, and it produced all five kinds of apples this year. They sell grafted varieties in big box stores and at nurseries around here. Lots of people in my garden club also do their own grafting; I've been to some of their demonstrations and it doesn't seem too hard. If you can find a cutting from a compatible variety, you might be able to do it yourself.
An easier solution could be to rely on your neighbors' apple or crabapple trees, if they have them. There's one crabapple down the street from us that is probably helping our tree out.
ETA: We bought our grafted tree at a nursery here and paid around $25. It was probably 4.5 feet tall. We planted it three years ago and we are already getting a lot of apples off of it. We got a few last year, way too many for the two of us this year. It didn't take too much patience.
I have an apple tree. Just one, and it bears fruit. So it must be self-pollinating. I did not buy the tree, it was well-established when I moved to my house. I believe it is a golden delicious, however. If you are set on having only one tree, you can still get fruit. You might just need to compromise on the apple variety.
As far as a great place to order from, that ships trees, check Spring Hill Nurseries. (www.springhillnursey.com). They sell very quality plants, and they guarentee them for life. If you ever have a problem with the tree, they will replace it for free!
I can't imagine that there would be great variety in the answers. Apple trees are not self-pollinating, but they will cross-pollinate readily with almost anything sharing the genus and blooming at the same time (including crabapples).
If you want a full grown (or nearly full grown) tree, be prepared to part with some money. It will be a few hundred for the tree, another hundred or so to ship, and a few hundred more to plant (you pay for the crew and the crane).
If you're in SE WI and willing to transport it, I have one you can have for free. No, seriously.
I don't know if it's a Mcintosh. It's a grafted one with 3 varieties, so it'll produce fruit on its "own".
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I have a dwarf McIntosh and it did not bear fruit until I planted a golden delicious nearby. Even relatively young trees can bear fruit, but only a couple. My golden delicious is dwarf and only about 5 feet tall, but it had so many apples that it ended up breaking one of the branches from the weight. My golden delicious came from Hollybrook Orchards. They have distributors through out the Mid-Atlantic. I got mine from Southern States fro around $30, a local nursery had the same tree for $125.
I would try to go local for a tree to reduce shipping costs.