Anyone growing "Vine Apple"

General Fruit Growing
#1

Have it on my next year list:

Vine (Vine Apple)

Two Red Apples and Watercolor Print

Description: Fruit medium or above, round to oblong, conical, distinctly lobed; skin rough, yellow, sometimes with a blush on one side; heavily dotted with large, irregular, russet dots and cracks, which are often areole. Flesh yellowish, fine-grained, juicy, crisp, subacid. Ripe October and keeps rather well.

History: Sold from 1895 to 1910 by the J. Van Lindley Nursery of Greensboro, North Carolina. It originated in Patrick County, Virginia, and was grown mostly in the Piedmont along the Virginia-North Carolina line. Its name comes from its thin, wiry, new growth.

Uses: Fresh Eating, Cooking, Drying

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#2

No, but that’s geographically really close to me. I’m interested now too.

#3

Thin wiry growth. I wonder if it is very easy to over prune. And become wild and woolly.

#4

Thin wiry new growth… scions of that could be quite difficult to graft.

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#5

I must be overconfident after seeing my tiny Circassian scions finally taking.

Almost like perfectly placing decals on an expensive model…lol

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