Thanks. The very first one this year was underripe. It was too tart for me. Lodi is not for me. It is a beautiful apple, however.
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Yes.
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Zabergau Reinette. A large apple. Some dropped but those were not fully ripe, judging from the seed color.
@BobVance mine were not completely russeted. No enough sun, I guess.
Do you have yours this year? I’d like to compare pics, please.
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As you wish…
I had several drop that seemed mostly ripe. I picked this one today and it had good texture and dark seeds. Mine is only somewhat russeted as well.
From what I read, Zabergau Reinette should get a lot milder in storage. But they already seem pretty good. My oldest apple taster thought it was pretty good, even if it isn’t Honeycrisp…
It is a prolific bearer and sized up the apples even though it was a small tree with too heavy a crop. It is on P2 rootstock and the whole tree is under 6’ tall.
I had to look it up to confirm that this was Zabergau- I don’t really remember too much about it from past years. I think there was a large fruited apple in that general area, but I think the animals may have gotten them in the past.
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I got the scionwood from you (thank you). I grafted it in 2021 (I think). I let it fruit this year. The first 3 apples apples fell early. Since yours ripened now. I should wait 7-10 days before picking my last one.
Mine does not have any red streak. The white dots on mine does not look like yours (yours look just like Fedco described.
Thanks for the pic and the comment on taste.
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Mine is close enough to ripe, but I may let them hand a few more days and see if they get even sweeter. From what I read, they are often picked in October. I’ll probably pick a few tomorrow and put them in the fridge. Though with only 1 fruit left, you don’t have a lot of flexibility in when to test it.
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Here is a pic of whats left of my Reine des Reinettes. I’ve already picked about 20 apples and lost a few to the wind. The weight of the apples bent the branches really well! I will pick the rest of the apples next week. Very little red on them. You can see the damage done by a week of 108 F temperatures. It was a very hot summer here. Finally cooler. I am hoping the the cooler weather will let the apples redden.
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picked some apples along the road today. definitely yellow transparent seedling but has a nice rose blush. was sweeter and firmer than a yellow transparent with not a trace of damage or disease on this wild apple. tasted similar to zestar. after i left it and tasted a few apples, i wish i had took some branches of it to chip bud. sorry didnt take a pics.
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For the fist time I’m going to have a small Fuji, dance, dance, dance. It’s finally pays off, haha.
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Is this your first Fuji and it is a small apple?
My Fuji are usually quite large.
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First edible small Fuji. Last year I had a small apple, the size of a cherry.
Go back in winter and get a limb for grafting! 
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Picked 3 nice Fuji today. (Got 'em before the varmints, even if not 100% ripe.)
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My Zabargau are starting to drop here as well- ( SW Ohio). I noticed they were not quite ripe here either.
I will still try to use them in an apple crisp.
Here are a few photos of my Zabargau apples from a couple of years ago. The date of the photos I took were September 30. This tree seems to produce fruit when the other trees are stingy. Same with this year, a nice crop of apples on my Zabergau tree.
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id like to if i can remember where it is. in a open field about 100 mi. south of here.
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Honey Crisp harvest 2023 - got some big apples this year. Apples were holding pretty good until last couple days when I started observing brown rot spots. Overall it’s a good first harvest for my young tree.
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Honey Crisp dark spots, likely a bitter pit disorder.
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One of those Fuji for lunch…nice. (No, not better than the ones at the supermarket…but I grew these no-spray, and they looked great.)
Look like bitter rot (as opposed to bitter pit, a disorder).
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