Apples

Door Creek Orchard currently has 91 bearing varieties of apples, modern and heirloom, which ripen from July through November. We have even more varieties on young trees not yet of bearing age. In years where we have significant limb/tree die-back (usually due to age), we will also have apple wood available for smoking/grilling.

We know that the methods we use to grow food impact the environment of our entire community. Thus, we are committed to raising healthful, fine-tasting fruit with a minimum amount of input. To read more about our growing practices, please see our page here.

The list below is our comprehensive list, ordered alphabetically. Our apples ripen at very different times. For a list organized by approximate ripening order, please click here. For what is available now, please see our What's Ripe page.

Door Creek Orchard Apple Varieties

1.    Almata

2.    Ashmead’s Kernel

4.    Belle de Boskoop

5.   Black Gilliflower (Sheepnose)*

6. Black Oxford

7.   Blue Pearmain

8.   Blushing Golden

9.    Braeburn

10.  Calville Blanc D’Hiver

11.  Chenango Strawberry*

12.  Chestnut Crab

13. Claygate Pearmain

14.  Connell Red

15.  Cortland

16.  Cox’s Orange Pippin

17.  Crimson Crisp

18.  Criterion

19.  Daybreak Fuji

20.  Duchess of Odenburg

21.  Earliblaze

22.  Elstar

23. Empire

24.  Esopus Spitzenburg

25.  Firecracker Crab

26.  Fortune

27.  Foxwhelp (Fauxwhelp)

28.  Gala

29.  Ginger Gold

30.  Golden Delicious

31.  Golden Russet

32.  Goldrush

33.  Granny Smith

 

34.  Gravenstein*

35.  Grimes Golden

36.  Haralson

37.  Hidden Rose (Aerlies Redflesh)

38.  Holstein

39.  Honeycrisp

40.  Hudson’s Golden Gem *

41.  Idared

42. Jeffris

43.  Jonafree

44.  Jonagold

45.  Jonamac

46.  Kandil Sinap

47. Karmijn de Sonnaville

48.  King David

49. Kingston Black

50.  Knobbed Russet

51. Lady

52.  Lamb Abbey Pearmain

53.  Liberty

54.  Lodi

55.  Lubsk Queen

56.  Macoun

57.  Margil

58. McIntosh

59.  Melrose

60.  Mother

61.  Mutsu (Crispin)

62.  Northern Spy

63.  Northwestern Greening

64.  Opalescent

65.  Paula Red

66.  Pink Pearl

67.  Pitmaston Pineapple

68.  Pixie Crunch

69. Pound Sweet

70.  Prairie Spy

71.  Pristine

72.  Red Astrachan

73.  Red Delicious

74.  Ribston Pippin

75.  Roxbury Russet

76.  Rubinette

77.  Sansa

78.  Sinta

79.  Snow (Fameuse)

80.  Sops of Wine

81.  Spartan

82.  Spigold

83.  Tolman Sweet*

84.  Tompkins County King

85.  Twenty Ounce

86.  Viking

87.  Virgil

88.  Wealthy

89.  Westfield Seek-No-Further

90.  Whitney Crab

91.  WineCrisp

92.  Winesap

93.  Winter Banana

94.  Wolf River

95.  Yellow Newton Pippin

96.  Zabargau Reinette

97. Zestar!

*varieties in italics are traditionally available but are currently in renewal and are not producing for 2023

 

Comprehensive list of our apple varieties by month when ripe (approximate order on a "standard" year):

 

July/August:

  • Lodi

  • Sops of Wine

  • Red Astrachan

  • Pristine

  • Duchess of Oldenburg

  • Lubsk Queen

  • Whitney Crab

  • Almata

  • Paula Red

  • Viking

  • Sansa

  • Zestar

  • Earliblaze

  • Virgil

  • Ginger Gold

  • Jeffris

  • Wealthy

  • Pink Pearl

  • Ribston Pippin

  • Firecracker Crab

September:

  • Kandil Sinap

  • Jonamac

  • Gala

  • Pixie Crunch

  • Cox's Orange Pippin

  • Holstein

  • Mother

  • McIntosh

  • Honeycrisp

  • Wolf River

  • Pound Sweet

  • Cortland

  • Jonafree

  • Northwestern Greening

  • Blue Pearmain

  • Opalescent

  • Spigold

  • Liberty

  • Macoun

  • Snow

  • Spartan

  • Opalescent

  • Winter Banana

  • Daybreak Fuji

  • Crimson Crisp

October:

  • Tompkins County King

  • Sinta

  • Red Delicious

  • Empire

  • Jonagold

  • Tolman Sweet

  • Fortune

  • Westfield Seek-No-Further

  • Twenty Ounce

  • Prairie Spy

  • Ashmead's Kernel

  • Connell Red

  • Grimes Golden

  • Ida Red

  • Haralson

  • Roxbury Russet

  • Golden Russet

  • Melrose

  • King David

  • Criterion

  • Golden Delicious

  • Esopus Spitzenburg

  • Northern Spy

  • Lady

  • Foxwhelp

  • Hidden Rose

  • Baldwin

  • Granny Smith

  • Belle De Boskoop

  • Black Gilliflower

  • Blushing Golden

  • Winter Banana

  • Calville Blanc d'Hiver

  • WineCrisp

  • Winesap

  • Yellow Newton Pippin

  • Mutsu

  • Braeburn

  • Black Oxford

  • Goldrush