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Just a FYI... if memory serves me correctly... Honey Crips is a group 4 bloomer (late) all my group 2 and 3 bloomers are in full bloom and honey crisp doesn't look like it's even thinking about blooming yet. Honey crisp on standard rootstock will require many seasons of growth before you'll see its first blooms.Yesterday I went to my local Menard's and they had fruit trees on sale. After rebates they were less than $25. I picked up a Honeycrisp, Fuji, and Gala apple. A Bartlett and Kiefer pear trees. They are all standard size, and will pollinate each other. That was my mistake when I planted my last orchard. I didn't have the correct pollinators and I got little or no fruit. The were also dwarf varieties and I must have planted them too deep because I was always digging up suckers from the root stock. So I pulled them up last year and put in raised beds for Strawberries and Blueberries. I am hoping these trees do good for us in a couple years, and they are so much cheaper that buying much younger bare root trees online. I believe I paid about $50 each from Stark Bros for the ones I dug up. Multiply that by 12 and it gets real expensive to throw that in the burn pile.
Have a look here for honey crisp details

Honeycrisp apple trees for sale
Honeycrisp is a cold-hardy disease-resistant apple - it shows just how good modern apples have become.

And here for pollinators, you want to select a group 4 pollinator to ensure pollination. There may not be a good overlap with group 3 to ensure good pollination. Resulting in poor fruit set.
List of pollination partners for Honeycrisp apple
Find compatible pollenizers for Honeycrisp apple trees, based on flowering group, parentage, self-fertility and other attributes.

Personally I would stick a pristine apple in for cross pollination. it's group 4, early harvest and disease-resistant. So way less spraying required.

Pristine apple trees for sale
A very early disease-resistant golden-green apple with a tart flavor.

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