Apples · 2027 season
Honeycrisp Apple Tree
Malus domestica
Needs a partnerExceptionally crisp and juicy. The apple everyone asks for.
- #7 container
- About 1.25" caliper
Pick up in Pittsgrove, NJ, typically in March. Pay cash, check, Venmo or PayPal at pickup.
Honeycrisp is famous for its texture: it's exceptionally crisp and juicy, almost explosive when you bite into it, with a sweet, slightly tart flavor.
It was bred in Minnesota and is very cold-hardy. In our summer heat the apples can color less evenly and soften sooner, so pick them promptly and keep them cold.
Honeycrisp can bear heavily one year and lightly the next. Thinning the fruit every year helps even that out.
Honeycrisp was released by the University of Minnesota in 1991. Rutgers' maturity reports show it ready around the first week of September in Salem County. Yellow blotches on the leaves are a normal Honeycrisp trait, not a disease.
How it tastes
Sweet with a gentle tartness, and famous for its texture: the flesh is extremely crisp and almost bursts with juice when you bite in.
At a glance
- You get
- #7 container, about 1.25" caliper (trunk thickness 6 inches above the soil; each tree varies a little)
- Hardiness zones
- USDA 3–8 (Salem County is 7)
- Blooms
- Mid to late season
- Ripens
- Late August to early September
- Starts bearing
- Usually 2–4 years after planting
- Mature size
- Depends on rootstock; ask us
- Pollination
- Needs a partner
- Botanical name
- Malus domestica
- Price
- $88 each, paid at pickup
- Pickup
- Pittsgrove, NJ, typically in March
The fruit
- Looks
- Large, red mottled over yellow, very crisp
- Flavor
- Sweet with mild tartness
- Best for
- Fresh, Salads
- Keeps
- Months in the fridge
Pollination
Needs a different apple (or a flowering crabapple) blooming nearby. Any of the partners below will do it.
Good partners from our list
Growing tips
Watch for: Susceptible to cedar-apple rust and powdery mildew; fairly resistant to scab and fire blight. Bitter pit (brown spots in the fruit, linked to calcium)
- Full sun (at least 6–8 hours) and soil that drains well. Avoid low spots where water sits in spring.
- Mature size depends on the rootstock the tree is grafted onto. Ask us if space is tight.
- Water deeply once a week through the first summer, more often in heat waves.
- Pick off all fruit for the first two years. After that, thin the young fruit to one apple per cluster in early summer for bigger apples and a crop every year.
- Prune in late winter while the tree is dormant to open up the center to light and air.
Spray schedule: Apple Pest Control Schedule for New Jersey Home Orchards (Rutgers Cooperative Extension, fact sheet FS112)
New to planting fruit trees? Read our step-by-step planting guide: square hole, graft above the soil, native soil, and no fruit for the first two years.
Photos show the variety, not the exact plant you’ll get. Reservations are for the 2027 season, picked up at our farm in Pittsgrove, NJ, typically in March, and aren’t guaranteed until we confirm them. Questions? Ask us or call or text (856) 345‑4538.
