Florina: A Pillar in Your Deer Attraction Strategy The rut can be feast or famine, so why not just skip it? Shoot your buck in October bow season under a Florina apple tree. This apple variety brings a combination of dependability and productivity to your property, making it an essential tool for tagging out in bow season. Florina is grafted onto full standard seedling rootstock which gives you a mature tree you'll be counting yield in bushels not apples. Florina Apple Tree Overview Fruit Bearing: Early October to November Growth Habit: Vigorous with a spreading canopy Yield: Consistently productive and heavy-bearing Cold Hardiness: Performs well in USDA zones 4-7 Rootstock: Grafted onto full standard seedling rootstock What Makes Florina Special? Wildlife Appeal: Produces attractive red-blushed apples that hang on the tree, slow rolling an October drop. Flavor Worth Stealing: Sweet, crisp apples with a juicy texture, perfect for fresh eating if you can beat the deer to them. Built-In Resilience: Resistant to fireblight, powdery mildew, and apple scab, with some minor susceptibility to cedar-apple rust, which doesn’t impact performance. The Florina Apple Tree is more than a source of fruit—it’s a pillar in your strategy of enhancing your deer habitat. Add this vigorous and disease-resistant apple tree to your hunting property and see the difference it makes. *This is a grafted tree on full standard seedling apple rootstock, chosen specifically to grow the tree as fast and large as possible. If there was a more vigorous rootstock out there, I would use it.