sherwindu wrote:

Hi Kate,
My references show Gravenstein growable in zones 2 to 9. Northern Texas is in
zone 7, central zone 8, and southern zone 9. Seems like you should be able to grow this apple,
unless you are at the very southern most tip of Texas which is in
zone 10. I think it is worth a try.

Sherwin D.


There's more to it than the hardiness zones. Hardiness zones go mostly
by the coldest single day you have all winter. (they use some other
factors to determine the zones)
Hardiness zones are excellent for figuring out which plants will survive
the winter and which may not. Hardiness zones are not good for
figuring out chill hours. For example, zone 9b is what? 25 to 30
degrees? A location that reaches that temperature dozens of times would
accumulate quite a few chill hours. Another location might only go that
low once all year and be much warmer on the other days. It would still
be zone 9b. The farther away from a large body of water the more likely
there will be an occasional night much colder that normal to put you
into a colder hardiness zone.

Steve