The totally red Honey Crisp is likely the Royal Red Honey Crisp, a red strain variety, not the original Honey Crisp.
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Not sure of the Honeycrisp strain. The tree came from either Schlabach’s Nursery or Wafler Nursery. I will have to look up my order from 2 years ago.
I was surprised with the color of all the apples on the tree. i have a commercial Honeycrisp orchard bordering my land that colors up pretty good but nowhere near this tree… No sign of bitter pit yet. We will see what happens with storage. Hope the calcium spray works.
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Great looking Honey Crisp variety! I’m surprised how late you are picking them, I picked mine HC on Sept 2nd.
@somerset, do you have any tips on growing tall spindle (pruning starting from year one)?
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Those look like the babushkas lacking kerchiefs in the orchard! Are you growing this also?
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This is my first year fruiting it. So it’s hard to say for sure. But mine seem ripe now, which is about the same as Hooples and about a week or two earlier than Golden Russet.
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Picked some Arkansas Black to share with neighbors. Really nice size and color. I’ll let them know to give them some time in storage.
The largest weighed in at 11.4 ounces!
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Beautiful apples.
I like them in an apple cobbler. 
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I hope you can try one soon & another after Christmas to see how it shifts in flavor and chew.
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I picked a few early so I could store them and see how they developed. I’ll report back.
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Golden Delicious Spur Type, Crimson Gold (kind of pale for Svatava but too big for Etter’s), November Peach, York Imperial and a NJ55 (Suncrisp) that was hiding from me all summer.
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Wow, not sure I’ve ever seen Honeycrisp that red. Do you know what kind of brix you are getting? That is so different from mine here.
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Comparing key, goldrush, and golden delicious. The key is totally sweet, no acid. Rather bland. Reminds me of a juicy cousin of red delicious.
The goldrush has a delightful firm but not overly crisp juicy texture. A definite acid component that tastes like lemon to me.
The golden delicious was unfairly matched having been left cut in half on the counter for days. Nonetheless I still love the taste, honey sweet but complex. Still my fav.
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I am surprised that your Gold Rush’s color was so green. If you did not say anything, I would think green apples on the left abd the yellow one on the far right was Gold Rush.
Even at yellow color, Gold Rush still keeps its acidity. Only after a few months in storage when acidity recedes.
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It’s still a few weeks away from being ripe for me, so I don’t have a 2023 report, but I like WineCrisp a lot. Flavor is classic apple in all the right ways without being boring. The flesh is super dense and cleaves off in big hunks. Add to that its qualities of disease resistance, long storage, and ease of growth – I’d say it’s a winner. Here’s a photo from mid-November last year.
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@SMC_zone6 Happy to hear! It looks beautiful! After you recommended WineCrisp to me, I got mine from Cummins and put it in ground this year. It’s growing beautifully. I’m hoping to get some fruit in the next year or 2. Thank you for the encouragement! Very excited about this variety!
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uki I got the most information watching you tube videos from Cornell;s Terence Robinson on tall spindle high density orchards. Most of the incentive to try a sample planting comes from living in the area of many commercial orchards. One main tip I can offer is to install your trellis system first. I did not and and paid the price. I staked 10 trees at 2 ft spacing and set my end poles. The trees had a few blossoms the first spring and I allowed a few fruit as samples. This year some of the trees set quite a bit of fruit. well then along came a big wind storm and I lost three trees that snapped off at the graft. My advice PUT YOUR TRELLIS WIRES UP BEFORE PLANTING.
Anyways its a great system and produces great fruit quickly. Would make a great fence for privacy for those with a small urban lot, or any lot for that matter.
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murky, I don’t have a meter for checking brix. I have noticed a lot of members are using them. They seem to be quite expensive when I googled them.
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