Apple Scionwood
Welcome to our collection of apple scionwood. We grow over 130 varieties of apples and offer scions for grafting from most of them.
For filtered search - we have apples organized by categories and tags. Use the filter below to select as many categories and tags as you want to narrow down your search. For the most specific results, select just one category and multiple desired tags. Full functionality is coming soon - we are continuing to update each variety with all the correct categories and tags. Feel free to reach out with questions about specific varieties.
Categories:
Cider apples (good for hard ciders)
Dessert apples (also known as snacking apples, good for fresh eating)
Baking/saucing apples (also known as culinary apples, good for canning, preserving, baking, and cooking)
Red Flesh (red or pink flesh on the inside)
Tags:
Cold hardy (good for extreme cold or Northern climates)
Disease-resistant (has moderate to strong resistance to one or more common apple diseases)
Harvest period early, mid, or late
Heat or low-chill tolerant (good for extreme warmer or Southern climates)
Heavy producer
Pollination Groups A through E
Ordering is now open for this season. Order now for shipping between January and April 2025. Questions? Please contact Christina Fordyce at 503-930-8280 or fordycefarminc@gmail.com.
Scion wood is sold by the piece, except for some varieties that are available in bulk quantities of a 20-pack. We always seek to provide sticks that are close to 12” and pencil thickness at the base but every variety grows differently and so thickness varies.
We ship only within the United States. We do not ship internationally. Rootstock does not ship to California.
Return/Refund Policy: We do not offer returns or exchanges on scionwood or rootstock. We have a 30-day return policy on our clippers (must be unused and returned in original packaging. Return label must be requested). If we have made an error on the scionwood variety you have ordered, we will refund or replace the incorrect item. Claims for errors in your order must be presented within 30 days of receipt of your order. Claims must include a picture of the error and sent to us by email at fordycefarminc@gmail.com. Failure to assert claims within 30 days after order receipt renders this warranty null and void.
This late August apple is disease resistant, productive and vigorous. A 1930s German apple has Cox Orange Pippin and the Duchess of Oldenburg as its parents. It’s an apple with a margarita trapped inside. It’s so juicy it drips down your chin and yet it’s still firm. It’s so refreshing with its limeade flavor.
Categories: cider apple, dessert apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Heat/low-chill tolerant, Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group B
Red-fleshed, dark red skin these apples are in high demand from both chefs and canners. These have the flavors of raspberries and blackberries in them and are relatively tart. These ripen in mid-August and have the best disease resistance of our red-fleshed apples. We have had relatively good success grafting these but not 100% success. Scion pieces tend to be slightly skinnier than a pencil.
Categories: Red Flesh, dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Harvest period early, Pollination Group D
READ FULL DESCRIPTION. These apples with nearly black skin are from Bentonville, Arkansas and the 1870s. We think the ones from our orchard have a distinctly spicy flavor. These are coveted by cider makers for their complexity and intensity. These are very late season apples. These trees are slower growing and we have a small number of them so scion wood is limited and tends to be smaller than average.
NOTE ABOUT ORDERING: Some pieces we have in stock on this variety are only about 4” long. We usually try to cut a foot long piece, but these are slow growing and we usually sell out of the long pieces. The small pieces are still big enough to graft, but we are offering them at a discounted price because of the smaller-than-standard sizing.
Categories: cider apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Harvest period late, Pollination Group D, Disease-resistant
From Gloucester, England and the 1700s. Rowan Jacobson describes the flavor of these as “like a tart homemade lemonade.” He suggests you wait until December to eat these but that depends entirely on how much you like tartness in an apple. These highly russetted apples are reasonably disease resistant. The trees are both productive and vigorous. The scion from them tend to be thicker than a pencil.
Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Harvest period late, Pollination Group D
This is an old American variety from the 1750s and Massachusetts. It’s a flavorful apple that is also fairly disease resistant and reasonably productive. It was a very popular apple in New England until a terrible freeze in the 1930s wiped out many of the trees. We’ve found this apple to be very resilient in the Pacific Northwest. The scion wood is average and we’ve had great success grafting this apple.
Categories: dessert apple, cider apple
Tags: Disease resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period late, Pollination Group D
From the Netherlands of the 1850s. We’re super fans of these apples. They start out tart but age into a true nutty but intensely apple flavor. These also make a fantastic single varietal hard cider. The trees are productive and highly disease resistant. They are vigorous growers and graft easily. The apples are fantastic eaten fresh, baked or fermented. We think these should be on every homestead and in every commercial orchard.
Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Cold hardy, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group C
A pretty apple with cream yellow background and a nice rosy blush. We love this southern apple for its natural resistance to the fungal diseases that injure apples easily in the Willamette Valley. These sweet fruity apples are a favorite on the farm and with the specialty grocers in Portland. These apples are one of our favorites for combining beauty and flavor. These are early apples and usually ripen here in mid-August. We’ve had good success grafting these apples. The blossoms are resistant to a late frost.
Categories: dessert apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Southern US roots, Harvest period early, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Pollination Group C
From 1740 England. We love their intense flavor, nuttiness and bit of spice. In England these are popular for apple charlotte. It is one of the parents of the legendary Cox Orange Pippin. These produce every other year but their apples are almost always perfect. They resist all the fungal diseases here. We’ve had success grafting them. They are a very late apples, among the last to ripen in our orchard.
Categories: dessert apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period late, Pollination Group D
Bramley’s Seedling: this is a classic English cooking apple. They are great for growers as they’re productive, vigorous trees. The apples are very resistant to disease and often grow quite large. They really are among the best apples anywhere for sauce and pies. The scion wood is hardy and fairly thick. We have bulk quantities of the scionwood. Contact us for pricing on orders over 60 pieces.
Categories: baking/saucing apple, cider apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group D
Since other Centennial Crab apples are not sweet and ours are very sweet we have considered renaming these Sweet Centennial Crabs. These seem slightly larger and yellower than the ones elsewhere as well. These are little plum shaped fruits with rose blush over pale yellow. These are slow growing trees that seem to stay small even on larger growing rootstock. They are challenging to graft and their growth patterns are unique among the apples in our orchard. However, we’ve found them to be well worth the trouble. They are lovely, delicious, disease resistant and consistent producers.
Categories: dessert apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Harvest period early, Pollination Group A
These originated in the 1930s from a seedling of a Golden Delicious raised by Lloyd Lonburg of Oakville, WA - so these are a PNW native! They bruise easily, so handle them with care! Great for fresh eating and pies. Lasts about 2 months in cold storage.
Note: this apple scionwood is harvested from Fordyce Farm inc. that we operate in Salem, OR. Fordyce Farm inc. is not certified organic.
Categories: dessert apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period early, Pollination Group D
From Geneva, New York 1898. It was bred by S.A. Bach, the author of the famous “Apples of New York.” It may be unfamiliar but it’s actually the 15th most commonly sold apple in the U.S. While these grow well in the eastern part of the country we find them to be slow growers, modest producers and not exceptional in any way. The scion is minimal and not likely to be very long or thick.
Categories: dessert apple
Tags: Pollination Group C, Disease-resistant, Harvest period mid, Cold hardy
Bitter, disease resistant cider apple. A highly favored bitter cider apple. These are flavorful and disease resistant. The trees are slow growing and biannual bearing. The produce very few pieces of scion wood each year.
Categories: cider apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period late, Pollination Group D
Devonshire Crimson Queen is extremely rare in the U.S. We adore these apples as they are delicious, early, disease resistant and seem unmolested by insects. These apples start out fairly sharp and get sweeter as they sit. Late in their season, or after a month or storage, they have a distinct berry flavor. On the tree they will look as though they range in color from solid red to totally green. Their season stretches over several weeks and so we start out picking only the solid red and come back every few days to pick just those. Only in the last pickings should those less red apples be harvested. When these are deepest red, especially in cooler seasons when they can ripen slowly, they will have lovely dark pink blush inside the flesh that starts near the skin and can continue all the way to the core. Their strawberry flavors get stronger later in their season and after storage. These apples have been fabulous every single season regardless of new insects, hail, heat waves, massive rain and any other weather anomaly we’ve experienced.
Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, Red Flesh
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period early, Pollination Group B
These small apples are rather oval-shaped and the size of a golf ball or smaller. They are a nice deep red and have a bloom. These are sweet-sharp and a little bitter and is best used for jellies, as a sweet-sharp in ciders, or as an ornamental. (We will often use it in holiday centerpieces!) It originated in St. Petersburg, Russia in the 1890s. Its heavy pollen and long bloom period makes it an excellent pollinator for either home orchards or large scale operations.
Categories: cider apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period mid, Cold hardy
These are intensely flavored late season apples. They are entirely russet covered. The trees are disease and pest resistant and are biannual bearers. The apples taste like an amazing, complex, cider and are quite tart. They also ferment into the most complex, single varietal cider we’ve made. It’s a classic English apple from the Victorian era. As a dessert apple they are quite tart, but I would eat them with a caramel sauce or served with a soft cheese and nuts to balance and mellow the strong flavor.
Categories: cider apple, dessert apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Cold hardy, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Harvest period late, Pollination Group C
A sweet apple with juicy white flesh and a crisp texture. We find these to be delicious to eat and nice for the base of a hard cider but their susceptibility to fungal diseases makes them a challenge in our warm wet springs. They are, however, resistant to blight and rust. Early to bloom but late to ripen.
Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period late, Pollination Group C
This is a modern apple that has many wonderful qualities. Great disease resistance, good flavor and firmness. Known for their ability to keep for months in a modern fridge. Late October ripening. Our trees of these are fairly young but we’ve found them to be fast growers that produced quite young. Our top grafted trees produced more than 50lbs each on their third year.
Categories: dessert apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period late, Pollination Group D
This variety is from 1920s Germany and we’re big fans of these apples. They’re crunchy, tasty, aromatic and almost always as near to perfection as can be expected in an organic orchard. Child of the Duchess of Oldenburg. These have resistance to anthracnose. The tree is biannual but highly productive and nearly free of both scab and insect damage. It is a small, fairly late season, apple.
Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period late, Pollination Group B
These highly disease resistant, very productive, late season apples are favorites on the farm. Our trees have been vigorous growers that produce piles of nearly perfect apples with little attention from us. Yellow, tart, late season and good storing fruit. We hadn’t offered these before because we were keeping all the scion for our own grafting.
Categories: cider apples, dessert apples, baking/saucing apples
Tags: disease-resistant, heavy producer, heat/low-chill tolerant, Harvest period late, Pollination Group E
Discovered in 1790 and so loved that there is a monument to the first Golden Grimes tree at its home in West Virginia. A delicious apple that also was a favorite among cider makers and moonshiners. Still fairly common in the south. Green apples that a turn a lovely yellow. They are a mixed bag in terms of disease resistance.
Categories: cider apple, dessert apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Southern US Roots, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group D
The original strain of the worlds most widely grown apple. These were “improved” to create the famous Red Delicious but we, and many others, believe that the original is a better tasting apple. It’s striped instead of solid red but it has that distinctive delicious shape. From 1870s Iowa. This is another one of the apples that handled the blazing heat of 2021, temps reaching 115, well without any protection.
Categories: dessert apple
Tags: Pollination Group D, Disease-resistant, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Harvest period mid
Our favorite very late season apples because these produce lovely, tasty apples even when weather wrecks most of the others. It’s never too hot for them, it never rains enough to split them. From the hills above Santa Cruz in the 1890s. These are on the Slow Food Ark of Taste. These have good disease resistance, handle heat and rain. They are highly productive every year. We’ve had good success grafting them.
Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: disease-resistant, heavy producer, harvest period late, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Pollination Group F
An apple from 1918. One of our favorites and another “trifecta apple” great for eating, baking and cider. Fans of the Holstein recommend keeping them cool until the color changes from green to yellow. These apples have a distinctive russet on the bottom that often cracks, that cracking is their only “flaw”.
Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: disease-resistant, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group C
Honeycrisp: I refer to these as an heirloom of the future. It’s not only because they’re tasty it’s because they are fairly easy to grow in organic systems. Disease resistance is good. They can be prone to bitter pit due to calcium deficiencies, so supplementing with calcium in the orchard is helpful. Developed in Minnesota in 1960 it would already meet the 50 year mark some count for calling a plant an “heirloom”. We have bulk quantities of these.
Categories: dessert apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Harvest period mid, Heavy producer, Pollination Group C
Airlie Red Flesh
Akane
Alexander (Aporte)
Alkmene
Almata, (red flesh)
Ambrosia
Amere de Berthecourt
Anna
Arkansas Black
Ashmead's Kernel
Baldwin
Belle de Boskoop
Berner Rosen
Blairmont
Blenheim Orange
Blue Pearmain
Braeburn
Bramley Seedling
Calville Blanc d'Hiver
Cameo
Centennial
Chehalis
Coles Quince
Corail (Pinova & Pinata)
Cornish Gillflower
Cortland
Cox's Orange Pippin
Dabinett
Devonshire Crimson Queen
Discovery
Dolgo
Duchess of Oldenberg
Dumelow's Seedling
Empire
Enterprise
Egremont Russet
Erwin Bauer
Esopus Spitzenberg
Fiesta
Foxwhelp/Fauxwhelp
Fuji - jubilee
Fuji - yataka
Gala
Giant Russian Crab
Gingergold
Glockenapfel
Gold Rush
Golden Delicious
Golden Noble
Granny Smith
Gravenstein
Grimes Golden
Hauer Pippin
Hawkeye
Herefordshire Redstreak
Hidden Rose, (red flesh)
Holstein
Honeycrisp
Hubbardston Nonsuch
Jonagold
Jonathan
Karmijn de Sonnaville
Kerr Crab
King of Tompkins
Kingston Black
Knobbed Russet
Lady
Lady Williams
Laxton Superb
Liberty
Lodi
Lubsk Queen
Lyman's Large Summer
Major Apple
McIntosh
Melrose
Mollie’s Delicious
Monark
Mother
Muscadet de Dieppe
Mutsu
Newtown Pippin
Niedzwetzkyana (red flesh)
Northern Spy
Opalescent
Oriole
Orleans Reinette
Parentene
Peasgood Nonsuch
Pierce Pasture
Pink Pearl
Porter’s Perfection
Queen Bee
Queen Cox
Queener Donut
Red Gravenstein
Red Spy
Redfree
Reverend W. Wilkes
Ribston Pippin
Rubinette
Rusty Coat
Sansa
Scarlet Surprise
Sekai Ichi
Senshu
St. Edmunds Pippin
Starr
Summer Rambo
Sundance
Suncrisp
Surprise
Sweet Delicious
Tremblett's Bitter
Washed Russet
Whitney crab
Wickson
Williams Pride
Winter Red Flesh
Wynoochee Early
Yarlington Mill
Yellow Bellflower
York
Zabergau Reinette
20 oz.
This apple was developed in Japan in the mid-1900s - also known as Tohoku 3. These red apples are on the smaller side but packed with flavor when harvested just right. They hang well on the tree so it’s best to harvest as late as possible for enhanced flavor. They don’t keep as long in cold storage so are best for eating right away. Great for fresh eating, this apple is also fantastic in sauces, pies, and dried. Late harvest period.
Note: this apple scionwood is harvested from Fordyce Farm inc. that we operate in Salem, OR. Fordyce Farm inc. is not certified organic.
Categories: dessert apple, baking/saucing apple
Tags: Disease-resistant, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group D