Upside down shot.
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Lovely apple. Shape reminds me of the darker Stayman.
KOR has been slow to bear for me, too. Maybe next year.
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Slow and not productive. The graft is in partial shade. So do Pink Parfait and RedLove Calypso next to KOR.
However, Pink Parfait and RL Calypso set a good amount of fruit. KOR set one!!!
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Every harvest season there has to be a last apple to be picked. This year’s last apple was a Westfield Seek No Further. I picked others from this tree in October, but this apple kept telling me “Not yet, not yet, not yet.” On a rainy Veterans Day, it was finally time.
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The coloring of yours is quite different from the pic from Pomiferous
This one looked different than our usual Westfields, including others on that tree this year. They looked more like the picture you posted. I think it was the runt of the litter.
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I have a Red Westfield Seek-No-Further from Geneva I believe. I assume it’s a red sport of WSNF. It hasn’t bloomed yet. Interesting that Pomiferous lists Red Seek No-Farther as a synonym for WSNF. That’s a beautiful mutation you have there John!
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How did these apples taste? I have a Red Winter Pearmain tree planted. It has not fruited yet. I have found so many different AKA names for the Red Winter Pearmain apple. One of which AKA is the Westfield Seek-No- Further. I have not had a chance to even try one of these apples in my area. None of the orchards around me grow these. I took a chance at the description of it and planted one.
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I like Westfield Seek No Further a lot. It is rich and complex, very well balanced between sweet and tart that blend together instead of fighting each other explosively. But not mild. Scott described it as being vaguely in the McIntosh school in taste, and I get that, but it is crisper and more distinctive. The towns of Westfield and Hubbardston are not too far apart in Massachusetts, and I think their apples have some closeness, as well. After we had planted our tree, I became worried, because the co-owner of a local heirloom orchard said they top grafted over all of their WSNFs because of their astringency, calling them Westfield Eat No Further, but my taste buds don’t pick that up. My wife calls the tartness citrusy and detects a nuttiness, as well.
We got our first tree from Fedco, with no mention of it being a red strain. It took a long time to first produce fruit and is very shy bearing. I took scionwood from it and grafted it onto G16. That tree was precocious and has out produced the first one.
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Great info. Nice description of the apple and its taste. It does sound like a very good apple to have in an orchard.
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Victoria Limbertwig. Mine are small to medium apples.
Picked in late Oct/early Nov. Have not real storage space so they are kept inna bucket in the unheated basement (low 40’s)This is the end of Feb.
The texture was still fairly firm. I tasted sweetness, little to no acid. However, skin was a bit bitter. It tasted better when I peeled it.
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Muscat de Venus, a small apple that looks like a miniature Gala. Picked in mid Oct. it tasted fine off the tree.
It is not a storage apple. Ate some today. Meh, both taste and texture.
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Would you have gotten the “standard” tree size? The only two versions available are Reachable and Standard. No middle ground. .
What variety? If it is Crunch A Bunch, I would go for a standard tree. I like the apple that much.
Yes, I was referring to the Crunch a Bunch apple. Thank you for your answer.
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Today, 4/15, I brought 3 buckets of apples up from the basement. I did not store them very well. I put them in buckets with lids. The sealing was not tight.
Some were rotted but the majority are fine.
Top left - Pink Parfait
Top right - Rubinette
Bottom right (one last yellow apple with pink blush) - SunCrisp.
The rest are Gold Rush.
Most appear firm. A few have wrinkly skin including a lone Sun Crisp.
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We need an update on how they taste…
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Top left Gold Rush - quite firm, less tart/more sweet and has that aromatic apple flavor
Top right - Rubinette , firm, juicy and sweet.
Bottom left - Pink Parfait: firm, juicy, a bit tart than sweet. Tasted a bit fermented.
Bottom right - Victoria Limbertwig: firm, sweet. No tartness.
Condering they were stored in a less than ideal condition. These four were in storage innNov and were brought up to eat today, 4/15/23.
I say, they are all stored well. I probably won’t store Pink Parfait this long in the future. The texture was fine but I did not like fermented taste of it.
Off these four. Rubinette and Gold Rush are top two. They don’t taste alike so having both is very nice.
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@Ahmad
I have not gotten around to eat Sun Crisp. I am apple-out for now.
By the way, Fuji (the late variety I have), does not store well. The texture was almost soft and the taste was subpar. I don’t know the name of this Fuji variety. Schlabach sent me the wrong Fuji (I ordered early Fuji and got a very late variety).
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Do you have a photo of your Fuji? The one that I like most used to ripen late October in Delaware, and was more yellowish in color with little red. Other sports that had more red color, are not as tasty.
I never stored any apples till April, probably the end of February was my limit. However, I still have some Evercrisp in my fridge (purchased a few weeks ago from farmers market) that is very good, probably 90% of the quality of a fresh one.
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