Granny Smith

Oak Valley opted for the relatively unknown G.778 when establishing a 1.2-hectare Granny Smith orchard on an old pear site in 2021. “It’s not the best soil, so we decided to try G.778,” says Neville van Buuren, General Manager: Fruit Division at Oak Valley. The Grannies and a double-leader Bigbucks orchard also planted in 2021, were Oak Valley’s first on G.778.