Our Grafted apple trees go on sale in the summer of 2025. They ship the following spring on a date you select at checkout.
Here at Blue Hill Wildlife Nursery, you will find a wide selection of bare-root apple trees for sale. We consider it an apple when a tree produces a fruit greater than 2” in size. More than 7,500 varieties of apple cultivars are propagated today. Buying an apple tree to plant for wildlife makes many choices because no two apple cultivars are the same. Some are susceptible to common diseases that will not be productive or are just not productive cultivars. The varieties for sale listed below will all do well. The apple trees for sale are some of the best apple trees to plant for deer and all wildlife.
Planting the wrong apples will be overwhelming because of its effort to have a productive orchard. The trees for sale at Blue Hill Wildlife Nursery are on the other side of that spectrum! These will take a lot less effort than your typical apple tree because they are resistant to many common apple tree diseases. I have also chosen to propagate these varieties because they are productive and have excellent drop times. This makes these varieties some of the best apple trees for deer. I also suggest you look at the Crabapple and apple crab trees available when looking for an excellent food source for the white-tailed deer.
The bare-root apple trees for sale are all grafted to the standard rootstock. Using such roots will produce a vigorous and fast-growing apple tree that will reach a mature height of 20’+.
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This grafted apple will give you a tree with excellent disease resistance and an abundance of apples at a very young age. In a no-spray situation, Arkansas black apple has shown extreme resistance to apple scab, cedar apple rust, and fireblight. I have seen some powdery mildew in a situation where moisture is excessive, like in a tree tube. I have never had an issue when growing a tree in a fence. It's an early-producing standard-sized apple with a great taste. This tree will begin dropping in late October and continue through November, with a few lingering into December. The main drop here in Pennsylvania occurs in the first three weeks of November. These apples are great for fresh eating out of hand during this time. The apple is crisp, has a great juicy flavor, and is one of my favorites. Arkansas Black is a very productive apple tree, producing a great apple annually. This tree will reach a mature height of 20'+. Plant Hardiness zones 5-8.
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Big Lou™ Crab is easily one of the most unusual and unique trees I have ever encountered. This grafted tree is a heavy annual producer of a 2" apple crab that holds and drops a portion of its fruit during November, December, and January here in Pennsylvania. Big Lou™ Crab drops the most fruit during December and January but will retain enough fruit to continue to drop a few well into February if the wildlife doesn't have it cleaned off. For a video from January 17th, 2020, CLICK HERE.
Big Lou™ Crab has a very unusual taste. It takes on a nutty yet pear-like flavor in the middle of winter. The pictures and video of this tree make it easy to see that Big Lou is a Whitetail's favorite treat in late fall and winter. Unlike most other fruits, the fruit holds its integrity, even after being frozen and thawed many times. In the pictures of Big Lou's fruit, you can see that the flesh of this fruit is still firm and intact in the middle of January. Fruit integrity like this is necessary if you like to hunt in Pennsylvania's late hunting season in January or many other states throughout the Northeast or the Midwest. For a video of Big Lou™ on March 1st, 2021, CLICK HERE
The original tree resides in North Western Pennsylvania in plant hardiness zone 5a. Big Lou exhibits no sign of Apple Scab, Powdery Mildew, or Fireblight but only has moderate resistance to CAR in the north. The original tree has seen a sub-zero temperature of -24 that would place its resilience well into plant hardiness zone 4. Plant Hardiness zones 4b - 7. Mature height of 20'+
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This grafted apple tree produces a sweet and very edible three-inch apple. As you can see in the pictures of the original Big Ten™, this tree is immaculate in a no-spray situation, with all major apple tree diseases heavily present within the immediate area. The fruit ripens and falls free from the tree from late October through the month of November here in the north. The vigor is good, and the tree seems pretty precocious, as seen in the picture of a freshly planted one setting a good amount of fruit. Big Ten is upright and has weeping limbs from carrying massive fruit loads through the years. The original tree stands in Plant hardiness zone 4b, but this tree has seen -35 in its lifetime, making it suitable for plant hardiness zones 4-7. Mature height will be 20'+ Plant Hardiness zones map 4-7.
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Candy Crab™ is a 2" apple crab or an apple with a complex flavor and finishes with a delightful sweetness. Once you eat one, you will want more of these delicious fruits because of their crisp and exciting flavor. I would describe it as a celebration inside your mouth. I have tasted loads of wild apples and domesticated apples in my travels but never one such as this. The fruit belongs in a grocery store not being planted for deer. It is the best apple I have ever had the pleasure to eat. In my pictures, this crab is heavily loaded every year, yet it still has a nice size to it.
This apple crab is also a product of natural selection by nature that has never been sprayed and is growing wild in North Western Pennsylvania in plant hardiness zone 5a. This tree fully ripens and is a heavy producer. It begins to drop about October 1st and continues to do so well into late November with a constant steady pace here in Pennsylvania.
Candy Crab™ is among a few 1,000 wild crabs growing within the same vicinity, yet is exhibiting no signs of C.A.R, Scab, or Fireblight here in the Northeast, present in this area. During the polar vortex of 1994, Candy Crab would have experienced temperatures typically seen in plant hardiness zone 4a. Yet, it is still standing here today, making this crab very suitable for zone 4b and maybe even below.
The name Candy Crab™ fits this new cultivar perfectly, and I see it being sold well beyond the use for wildlife. If you like to eat apples, you would be crazy not to have a Candy Crab™ planted behind the house or on the way to your stand. Mature height will be 20+. Plant Hardiness zones 4b -7.
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CenterField is a 2'' apple crab with a great taste originating out of one of the coldest places east of the Mississippi in the Tug Hill area of NewYork. The vigor of this tree is exceptional, and its annual fruit production makes it an ideal choice for colder climates. The apples are dropping freely from this tree in late October and through November in this climate, whereas it is a typical October-early November tree in my location in central Pennsylvania. They say timing is everything, and that's what this tree does; it hits me at the perfect time when I'm spending most of my time in a tree. The Centerfield apple crab is free of all debilitating diseases in both areas, here in the Northeast. Plenty of apple cedar rust and Frieblight surround the original tree, and it remains clean. The taste is good, which is probably why most deer hit this tree first. CenterField apple crab has experienced ambient temperatures as low as -40 degrees many times, making it suitable for plant hardiness zones 3a-7. This crab will reach a mature height of 25+.
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This apple is one of the best and most widely planted apple trees for wildlife. This grafted apple tree is vigorous and very productive, as it produces annually. In a no-spray situation, the enterprise apple tree is immune to apple scab and highly resistant to cedar-apple rust, Fireblight, and powdery mildew. This tree ripens at a perfect time during October and continues dropping apples into November in the Northeast. Here in central Pennsylvania, the peak of fruit dropping occurs in Mid to late October. I like the crisp, juicy apple flavor myself to eat out of hand, and the deer do too. Enterprise apple is a fast-growing tree with excellent disease resistance, making this a great apple tree to plant for deer. I would describe the Enterprise apple as a tree you don't plant one of you plant ten, but I like to hunt those first few weeks of November. This tree will have a mature height of 20'+ Plant Hardiness zones 4b-8.
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This grafted apple is a very productive tree that produces apples a year sooner than some of the other very popular disease-resistant apple varieties. Freedom is resistant to apple scab, cedar apple rust, powdery mildew, and fireblight. The tree you see in the picture is the same tree I use for my grafted trees. Freedom apple tree is annually productive, with an abundance of large apples ripening in mid-September and beginning to drop. The tree will cast fruit into October, with a few lingering into November and beyond. This apple is better suited for the north and a great replacement if you want abundant fruit that is very close in taste to a Honey crisp but way more manageable and much more productive in my region without spraying it every Sunday. Freedom has an exceptional taste, with a great crunch and excellent apple flavor. This tree will reach a mature height of 20'+. Plant Hardiness zones 4-7.
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This grafted tree is one of the latest ripening apples. GoldRush apple ripens in late October through mid-November, yet hang well and won’t be dropping much until you receive a hard freeze. The start of dropping typically occurs in late November through the first weeks of December. This tree has average disease resistance, is scab immune, and is susceptible to cedar apple rust. GoldRush produces abundant crops of quality, excellent tasting apples. This tree will reach a mature height of 20'+. Plant Hardiness zones 5-8.
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Grafted apple, apple crab, and crabapple trees at a discounted price. Sometimes we may lose tags or have a mix-up, and this is your opportunity to plant something grafted at a better price. They are from here and grafted so that they will be solid trees, just a mix of them. I can tell you they will be productive, vigorous, hardy, and suitable for plant hardiness zones 4b- 8 with a mature height of 25'
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This grafted tree produces a standard size apple. Keener Seedling also know as (Rusty Coat) , originated in Lincoln County, NC. around 1880. Keener Seedling has proven to be an exceptional apple for the North, growing well into Zone 4b. The apple is medium in size, sweet and firm. This grafted tree is productive, vigorous and very disease resistant. In a no spray situation I have seen good resistance to apple scab, cedar apple rust, powdering mildew and fireblight. It ripens extremely late and can hold on to the tree into December. Keener Seedling has an early bloom with a late ripening period typically hold and drops in late October/December. The great Disease resistance this tree has makes for an excellent tree when planting for wildlife. Keener Seedling will reach a mature height of 20'+. Plant Hardiness zones 4b-7.
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The Liberty apple tree is a fast-growing grafted apple tree that is probably the most widely planted standard-size apple tree for deer. This tree has excellent disease resistance and produces heavy crops of apples and does so annually. The Liberty apple tree is a vigorous, fast-growing apple tree immune to most common diseases, including apple scab and cedar apple rust—the fruit from Liberty Apple drops from September through October in the NorthEast. The fruit texture is mealy with a good apple flavor, making it one that the deer go after when you only have teeth on the bottom in the front of your mouth. Liberty apple is a fruit they pick up and gobble down fast, preferred during their dropping period. This tree will reach a mature height of 20'+. Plant Hardiness Zone 4-8
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Lockdown Crab™ is an apple crab and is a new cultivar to the Wildlife Management World. Actually, a new apple to the World and is a product of natural selection. This grafted apple produces heavy crops of 2”+ fruit and drops most of its fruit during November and a few continuing into December. When planted in an area where it blooms from early to mid-May in the north, Lockdown Crab™ will ripen and begin to drop in late October, with the main drop during that important mid-November period. If you are planting below the 40th parallel north, I'm sure you will see this drop time shift and become a few weeks earlier as you go south of this location.
Lockdown produces fruit annually and does its job well. I've known this tree for three fruiting seasons, and it has not failed to fruit in those three years. This sweet apple is heavy bearing and an annual producer. It also shows resistance to C.A.R., Apple Scab, Powdery Mildew, and Fireblight in the Northeast. Lockdown Crab™ has readily tolerated temperatures of -35 degrees, making it well suited for Northern Climates. With all of its great qualities, Lockdown Crab ™ would be a beneficial component when looking for an enticing food source for wildlife north of the 40th latitude at a time during that critical lockdown period. Lockdown Crab ™ will have a mature height of 20’+. Plant Hardiness Zone 4-7.
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