Apples · 2027 season
Red Fuji Apple Tree
Malus domestica
Needs a partnerVery sweet, dense and juicy. Keeps well after picking.
- #7 container
- About 1.25" caliper
Pick up in Pittsgrove, NJ, typically in March. Pay cash, check, Venmo or PayPal at pickup.
Fuji is a Japanese variety that's one of the sweetest apples you can grow, with dense, crisp, juicy flesh.
It needs a long, warm season to ripen fully, which South Jersey has. The apples keep for a long time in cold storage.
Fuji and Gala are a popular pair: they pollinate each other and give you an early and a late apple.
Fuji was bred in Japan from Ralls Janet and Red Delicious. It tends to bear heavily one year and lightly the next, so thin the fruit early.
How it tastes
Very sweet and honeyed with low acidity. The flesh is dense, crisp and juicy, and it stays that way for months in the fridge.
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 5–8 (Salem County is 7)
- Blooms
- Mid season
- Ripens
- Early to late October
- 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
- Medium-large, red blush over yellow-green, dense and crisp
- Flavor
- Very sweet, low acid
- Best for
- Fresh, Salads
- Keeps
- Several months in cold storage
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: Very susceptible to fire blight; also scab, and cedar-apple rust in some years. Resistant to powdery mildew
- 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.
