Sooty blotch and flyspeck. I’m no spray, so I get both on my apples. Has absolutely no impact on taste for me.
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@Podunk of course you are no spray. With trees of that height you’d need to rent a helicopter if you wanted to.
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That extraordinary tree belongs to Lodidian. I wish I had a tree like that on my property!
I do have a long handled apple picker, so I can pick the last of the Ida Reds. But, no, I don’t spray that tree.
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Well that’s a lot less entertaining when you cite the wrong person.
Thank you @Lodidian for also not spraying. At least the comment still works. Impressive trees in any case.
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I am so glad you enjoy D’Arcy Spice. It came as a bench graft from Ram Fishman (Greenmantle) maybe 12 years ago, on Bud118. In my situation it dropped all its fruit as soon as the daytime temps got to 90 degrees F. Four years in a row. All. I was dashed about it & top-worked it.
How is it?
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I may have to look at the D’Arcy Spice apple. They look kinda nice there.
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Picked Suncrisp from a grafted branch Oct 31 - tart and nothing special. Will try waiting longer next year.
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Some varieties of apples harvested in october. They are all resistent to scab.
Freedom
Florina
Golden Reinette
Liberty
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From the first impression Freedom wins because it’s sweet but has the right acidity and the pulp is not too crunchy, i don’t really like crunchy apples.
However i can’t express a definitive opinion yet because Liberty is in its first year of fruiting and i harvested fruits too early.
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Blenheim Orange. If you like crumbly and dry texture, you probably will like this apple. I don’t but it is a good looking, large apple.
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Ive got a few honeycrisp in my nursery rows that also have issues with the leaves. Ive thought about grafting over, but wondered if having honeycrisp as the base of the tree would still cause problems. Ill probably cut them off at ground level below the graft, let them send up a new shoot and then graft onto that.
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I am going to do the same thing with one of my Honeycrisp apple trees. The other Honeycrisp apple trees I have are going out next spring. They are horrible looking trees with their leaves. Not worth having in my orchard. I will replace them with something that is not so troublesome. I have done everything possible to try and make the leaves look better and produce some fruit. Such poor looking fruit when and if I get some fruit. Not very good tasting fruit that has been coming off the Honeycrisp trees. So I will put in something that gives better fruit.
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Don’t dig them out, just graft over to something else.
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I’ve had Lady over two winters, bought from an orchard 150 miles away. In near desert conditions & standing on the shore of the Columbia River (microclimate humidity down to maybe 30%?) Lady delighted me with a definite almond overtone when stored through Christmas.
How do you like it?
I have a few more I’m going to let hang a little longer to see how they develop. I can’t really comment on the almond overtone since we’ve had a tone of rain this year and none of my apples have reached their full potential, especially subtle flavors. But so far so good for Lady.