Medium-sized oblate fruit with rough dull green skin streaked with red and covered with numerous dots. Coarse hard flesh is juicy and tart. Not known as one of the most flavorful apples, but valued for its long storage capability and for use as an acidic component in cider blends. Some sources list Grindstone as a sharp cider apple, which you might infer from the name.
We got scionwood from the Tower Hill Botanical Garden’s collection and topworked a tree in our no-spray trial orchard, where Grindstone is showing disease resistance. The graft grew vigorously and began to produce an annual clean crop of fruit just a few years later. Blooms midseason. Z4.
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