Fuji Red Apple Tree

Fuji Red Apple Tree produces large, beautifully blushed apples with the intense sweetness and dense crunch that made Fuji an international favorite. Reddish-orange skin surrounds firm, fine-textured flesh packed with juice and honeyed flavor. The fruit is exceptionally satisfying fresh, where its clean sweetness and snap can be appreciated, but it also holds up in salads, baking, sauce, dehydrating, juice, and cider. Fuji’s dense texture and high sugar contribute to excellent cold-storage life, allowing a fall crop to remain crisp for months. Fragrant blossoms add spring beauty before the fruit begins its long maturation. For home orchardists who want a reliable sweet apple with premium eating quality, storage potential, and broad kitchen usefulness, Fuji Red offers the pleasure of harvesting a familiar favorite at a level of freshness commercial fruit rarely matches.

Fuji Red needs fewer than 500 chill hours and grows in USDA zones 4–9. This semi-dwarf tree on M-111 rootstock generally ripens from mid-September into early October.

Fuji is self-fruitful and can bear alone, but another compatible apple may improve pollinator activity and support fruit set.

Fuji Red Apple Tree Details

• Fruit: Large reddish-orange apple with firm pale flesh
• Flavor and texture: Very crisp, juicy, honey sweet, and fine textured
• Best uses: Fresh eating, salads, baking, sauce, dehydrating, juice, cider, and storage
• Harvest: Mid-September to early October
• USDA zones: 4–9
• Chill hours: Fewer than 500 hours
• Tree size: Semi-dwarf on M-111 rootstock
• Pollination: Self-fruitful; another compatible apple may improve fruit set.
• Recommended pollinizers: Pair with Gala Apple or Golden Delicious Apple.
• Special care: Thin clusters and give the fruit a long sunny season to develop color and sugar.
• Something Special: Fuji was created at Japan’s Tohoku research station from Ralls Janet and Red Delicious and named for the nearby town of Fujisaki.

Orchard Planning Resources

• Bare Root Tree Selection Guide
• How to Plant Bare Root Trees
• Fruit & Nut Tree Characteristics
• Tree Rootstock Characteristics Chart