Didnt see a thread for apples 2025. Our trees are still young so not much fruit yet. But some apples are better than no apples. Hope you all post your apples here.
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The girls are excited as we have one Cripp’s Pink apple growing. I did not realize summer copper spray would darken up lenticels. So it may not be the prettiest apple. Hope it will clean up.
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Williams Pride from a second year G.11 tree. Produced about 10 apples total with these being the last. Large and surprisingly good.
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chestnut, the last trailman, and an early granny
trailman were amazing. second year in the ground and had 20 ish? all sweet and crisp fresh picked. chestnut are good but better when they sit a while. you can see this one hung longer, it’s more colored up. this granny smith has 5 apple on it and i keep forgetting the tree is there. noticed and took a look today and this one came off easy, letting it store a few days or a week before eating it.
winter banana and gravenstein.
the Whitney apples from early August ish. these were better after a week or two off the tree, bland fresh picked. there’s some trailman in there too. they are brighter and smaller, on the left. the earwigs got into every apple that i let go fully ripe in the trees so it’ll be sluggo plus next year.
braeburn has 2 or 3 hanging.
high hopes for next year.
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Not sure exactly what fugi causes this but I thought it was brown rot last year, maybe it’s black rot? I went ahead a pulled them all before more gets ruined. My wife made me pie crusts, so i’ll just cut around the bad spots and bake a golden delicious pie with whats good 
Yet another fugi to reseach and figure out how to treat. I may already have a fungicide, I need IDK…
Maybe someone knows what this is on golden delicious?
But i picked some nice non-infected ones.
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Thanks for posting this. I’ve never heard of White Rot until now, but I sure to have it in spades on my Golden D.
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You’re welcome its completely new to me also. We haven’t had rain in atleast 4 weeks, so it stands ro reason the fruit trees are under stress. Way to much moisture late winter into early spring, now no water. It is what it is… there will be better growing seasons and hopefuly not too many that are worse.
Here’s as far as I got in my reseach last night. Seems @alan gave me some great advice with topsin and captan in the peaches 2025 thread that I will put into practice. Although Merivon appears to be the best but its pricey… I may try and get in on a group buy if anyone is planning on it.
Have a read through the AI generated content, which is mainly just a summary with references
We are too stuffed from supper to have a slice of golden delicious apple pie, i made earlier today (my wfie made the crusts).
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Once again, the reason the new tech fungicides are rated higher than older ones is mostly about the resistance created in commercial orchards that have used the older materials until they no longer work. In new and especially smaller orchards several miles away from commercial production that resistance has yet to occur so you can buy stuff after the patents run out for a much cheaper price than recently introduced products.
This is a subject that no one pays to research- research is mostly funded by companies seeking to market recently introduced and patented products.
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Aunt Rachel, picked 7/21. Not the greatest for fresh eating but were fantastic with some Cinnamon as “Southern Fried Apples”.
Ginger Gold, picked 8/4. Superb (early) fresh eating apple.
Stayman, fell 8/23. Typically ripe a few months later than that but a few early drops have been quite good.
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Thanks Alan its nice to understand how the fungicide business operates in the background. with respect to resistance, patents and costs.
I’ll give topsin (thiophanate-methyl) tank mixed with captan a try see how it does. It’s interesting that I ordered topsin from Martin’s Produce but recieved talaris 70wsb. Talaris has the same active ingredient, at the same concentration as topsin. I suspected talaris was a topsin generic, now I know it is.
Thanks Again
Lonely Crimson Crisp starting to color up.
Golden Delicious not quite ready.
Honeycrisp hanging low.
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What strain of golden delicious do you have? I’ve heard the versions with the russeting often have a deeper flavor.
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I’m not 100% sure. I got it from StarkBros. It’s supposed to be a spur type.
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Is crimson crisp off patent and are scions available
I really do not know the strain of golden delicious I have, but the scion I grafted was supposed to be a older golden delicious, not a modern strain.