What do you have for apple trees?

Big_Red · March 8, 2007

Last year I set out one each:
Dolgo Crab
Honey Crisp
Arkansas Black
Liberty
Winesap
Gala

All are doing well so far.

redbrick · March 8, 2007

Okay, here's my list: I have one tree each of Gala, Jonathon, Stayman, Giant Winesap, Smokehouse, Paradise, and Cherry Cox. Also grafted onto them are Ashmead's Kernel, Westfield-Seek-No-Further, Summer Sweet, Calville Blanc d'Hiver, and Sops-Of-Wine. I have a flowering crab (I don't remember the variety) and a crab wilder that I started from seed, just to see what I'd get.

Douglas14 · May 18, 2007

The following apple tree's have bloomed this spring:
Fireside
Honeygold
Chestnut Crab
Ashmead's Kernel
Black Oxford
Liberty
Baldwin
and I think Ribston Pippin..lost the tag(first yr. to bloom here).

Hilde · June 16, 2007

I have three dwarf Gala apple trees. It looks like we will get apples from two of them this year, they are still quite young.

michael johnson · June 16, 2007

once had an allotment site I was working, that was previously worked for thirty years by a well know gardner- and on this allotment was a lone apple tree,

In all the time I had the allotment I never realy took any notice of the tree, it flowered and fruited and they all dropped to the ground, so I used to gather them up in bagfulls and give them away, without ever trying one myself as they were a sort of patchy red and green colour and didnt look very sweet.

To cut a long story short- I eventually gave up the allotment, and about a year later I was talking to another old allotment holder- who asked me about the apple tree- he said do you know what you had there- so I said no, and he said it was one of the rarest apple trees in existance-it was called Reverent Wilkes, after an old clergyman in the 1800 era and as far as he knew there were only two in exsistance it was almost extinct= I was kicking myself afterwards

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amideutch · July 15, 2007

I have Braeburn and a variety I got from a German handler calles simply (The Vitamin Apple). Ami

rxkeith · July 17, 2007

good question. the farm we bought a few years ago, has 6 or 7 trees that are pretty old. one might be a yellow transparent. its a nice sweet eating apple. it gets soft if you wait too long to pick it. there are also quite a few wild trees around the property that were planted by deer. taste varies from spit out quick to very good. size varies from large crab apple to soft ball. i found one small tree in the back of the property last year with about a dozen apples on it that was very good. its fun sampling them. they may be no name apples, but most are good eating.

keith in calumet

johno · July 18, 2007

Did everyone know Redbrick just published an article on preserving antique apple cultivars?

I don't have any yet, but plan to start a small grove of apple trees, hopefully this fall...

March 8, 2007	#1
Big_Red Tomatovillian™ Honoree Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bethelridge, KY Posts: 57	What do you have for apple trees? Last year I set out one each: Dolgo Crab Honey Crisp Arkansas Black Liberty Winesap Gala All are doing well so far.

March 8, 2007	#2
redbrick Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Lebanon PA, zone 6 Posts: 45	Okay, here's my list: I have one tree each of Gala, Jonathon, Stayman, Giant Winesap, Smokehouse, Paradise, and Cherry Cox. Also grafted onto them are Ashmead's Kernel, Westfield-Seek-No-Further, Summer Sweet, Calville Blanc d'Hiver, and Sops-Of-Wine. I have a flowering crab (I don't remember the variety) and a crab wilder that I started from seed, just to see what I'd get. __________________ "Any man may count the seeds in an apple, yet who can know the apples in a seed?" --Chinese Proverb (paraphrased)

July 15, 2007	#6
amideutch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E Posts: 5,041	I have Braeburn and a variety I got from a German handler calles simply (The Vitamin Apple). Ami __________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘...Holy Crap .....What a ride!'

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May 18, 2007	#3
Douglas14 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 602	The following apple tree's have bloomed this spring: Fireside Honeygold Chestnut Crab Ashmead's Kernel Black Oxford Liberty Baldwin and I think Ribston Pippin..lost the tag(first yr. to bloom here).

June 16, 2007	#4
Hilde Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Pendleton, NY Posts: 256	I have three dwarf Gala apple trees. It looks like we will get apples from two of them this year, they are still quite young.

June 16, 2007	#5
michael johnson Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK. Posts: 960	once had an allotment site I was working, that was previously worked for thirty years by a well know gardner- and on this allotment was a lone apple tree, In all the time I had the allotment I never realy took any notice of the tree, it flowered and fruited and they all dropped to the ground, so I used to gather them up in bagfulls and give them away, without ever trying one myself as they were a sort of patchy red and green colour and didnt look very sweet. To cut a long story short- I eventually gave up the allotment, and about a year later I was talking to another old allotment holder- who asked me about the apple tree- he said do you know what you had there- so I said no, and he said it was one of the rarest apple trees in existance-it was called Reverent Wilkes, after an old clergyman in the 1800 era and as far as he knew there were only two in exsistance it was almost extinct= I was kicking myself afterwards .

July 17, 2007	#7
rxkeith Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Back in da U.P. Posts: 1,839	good question. the farm we bought a few years ago, has 6 or 7 trees that are pretty old. one might be a yellow transparent. its a nice sweet eating apple. it gets soft if you wait too long to pick it. there are also quite a few wild trees around the property that were planted by deer. taste varies from spit out quick to very good. size varies from large crab apple to soft ball. i found one small tree in the back of the property last year with about a dozen apples on it that was very good. its fun sampling them. they may be no name apples, but most are good eating. keith in calumet

July 18, 2007	#8
johno Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Arkansas zone 6b Posts: 441	Did everyone know Redbrick just published an article on preserving antique apple cultivars? I don't have any yet, but plan to start a small grove of apple trees, hopefully this fall...