Pretty apples.
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Some late apples I took off
L to R: Sundance, summer banana, Virginia beauty, Liberty, another Virginia beauty, hosui Asian pear, Johnson’s keeper, Golden Delicious, Hubbardston none such, labeled as Granny Smith maybe Rubaiyat, goldrush. The only one still hanging is Arkansas Black. Bees went to work early after all the rain we had.
Sundance, Liberty, and Virginia beauty remarkably clear.
I’m going to try and sample them and compare.
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Another grouping of my more unusual apples or first time grafts. I think I need to write my tasting comments down. Excited to see many of these first time apples.
First row L to R: Sundance, pink lady, black LT (listed as can be green in Virginia), McIntosh, ?, gs?
Second: cathead, red Cinnamon, frostbite, Johnstons keeper, Rubaiyat orig labeled as Rusty coat, Liberty
Third: sweet muskmelon, Virginia beauty, pipsqueak, Hubbardston, goldrush, pink pearl, summer banana
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Quite the collection, hope many/most of them taste good!
If I’m following your legend correctly this one looks like you identify as Rusty Coat:
Just wanted to say that it looks very much like my Virginia Beauty, and what you have ID’ed on here as that cultivar as well.
Anyway, just as a compare/contrast, this was the first year for Rusty Coat to fruit for me. Little different looking:
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I’m so glad you mentioned this! I totally agree with your comment. I have tried really hard to keep tags straight, so I went back to my 2022 grafts on Bud9. I only had one graft take of Rusty coat. I put it in an espaliered area and I did some drawings and then made wooden labels.
Low and behold, I have a sketch of those trees and the tags for Rusty coat and Rubaiyat seemed to be different between two different drawings. I must have switched them.
Skill cult shows his Rubaiyat as similar to VA beauty which I do have but have never cut scions from.
Long story short, I should know when I cut the apple open. 
I think we’ve figured it out!!! If it’s not red fleshed, it’s back to the drawing board.
Pretty good for a 2022 graft to have one apple in 2024. I think it formed before I ever realized it was pollinated so I just let it go. Those short branches on the espaliered are pretty stout too and can hold the weight.
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“Soft” seems like a terrible quality for an apple, but I just tried some later hanging ones and get what you’re saying. I didn’t find it at all off-putting. Melon-like, might be how I’d describe it.
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I believe these older apples that were described as " soft" is not the same as the description of “soft” apples today. People accepted the softer fleshed apples as normal. If they had the harder apples of today back then it would have pulled out their bad teeth. I hope this makes sense.
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@Luisport Luis, all of your apples are so beautiful. 
Do you have to spray? . . . or do you live in Apple Heaven? You have so many different varieties, as well. I appreciate seeing all the pictures of your fruit.
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Hi. No i don’t spray… i don’t nead here. I live on a apple production area.
Thank you very much for your support!
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I drove 3 and a half hours today to Winchester Virginia to go pick your own apple picking. As you can see in photo the dwarf trees were fairly loaded with the variety Red Stayman apples and unfortunately a lot had fallen off. I got some softball sized so they were not drought strickened. Will post close up when I get home. Seven to 8 foot tall.
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Nice… We called a local fruit specialty store we buy a bushel or two of Stayman from most years. They said the orchard they buy them from (in West Virginia) told them they had sprayed the apples to keep them from dropping. They wanted to keep them on the tree a bit longer to continue accumulating sweetness. I’ve heard of chemical thinning sprays in the spring, not this though.
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The rows of Idared and Red Delicious next to them had ground covered as well. I am thinking a wind event and ripe fruit put them down.
I have about 30 Clarks crab and 3 liberty left on the trees. we hit a low of 25f last night and supposed to be the same tonight. both types of apples still have some green on them. supposed to warm back from the low 50’s now to highs in the mid 60’s through the weekend into next week. should i pick or wait until after the warmup to see if they continue to ripen? picked my lone redlove odysso 2 days ago. i should have left it a little longer. was good but still on the tart side. liberties are half red and half green.
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first apple from any tree on my place. braeburn. was delicious.
we have a few hanging on a granny smith that are not ready. ark black and Gideon flowered this year but didn’t fruit. Pearmain has one apple hanging. every graft this year took. a lamb abbey from last year good growth. a Clark’s crab took. put a winter banana and a russet in the ground yesterday (they were potted over summer).
looking forward to next year.
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hmm… i looked up when liberty is supposed to ripen. it says mid to late sept. i know for sure its liberty as the branch is tagged and it’s grafted to a yellow transparent tree. dont know what to make of it. it also says liberty is a deep red apple. the 3 i have are green with half the apple a light red blush. i also have burgundy and cortland grafted on this tree.
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Nice looking apple. Braeburn is one of my favorite apples to eat. Very delicious. I had looked at putting one in my orchard. I think my area gets too hot for them to do well. I am glad you can grow them there where you are.
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Thank you so much for sharing your experience. Sorry it took so long to respond. I was gone for a couple weeks helping my mom after she got knee replacement surgery.
I hope we don’t have to wait forever to get to try ours.
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