You might spend some time studying the thousands of apples at pomiferous.com
There is a subtle difference in “ripen over a long time” and “hang on the tree a long time” though–they’re easy to confuse I suppose, but not the same. Especially not in the South.
If a first apple ripens in July, but some on the same tree are still unripe mid August…that’s ripening “over a long time” in hot locations.
And you need to learn the idiosyncrasies of the particular fruit as well. I learned the hard way you harvest Satsumsa’s partly green. Let them get nice and pretty orange on the tree and they are awful.
Not sure your William’s Pride is small. My WP, even, a small graft on M 27 produces a regular sized apple. It ripens for over a month.
I do not call WP small. I call Frostbite and Pixie Crunch small apples.
That site is great. Thank you for the recommendation
How long it has produced for you?
I have had WP off and on for 10 years. Never had small one. I thinned out fruitlets moderately.
2 years. I get about five apples every year. I thin them to one fruit per cluster. The trees are about four or five years old, but I didn’t know what I was doing when I was pruning them the first two years, so that delayed them.
The last couple of years have been very hot and dry where I am at, and I haven’t pushed growth. I water them as little as I can. We have been getting rain this fall, so this next season might be more fruitful.
Despite the size, the taste is good.
Water deficit may have contributed to a smaller size of your WP.
Lack of water hardly ever is an issue in New England.
Thieving dog Dr.Nichodemus Hackworth took a very fine Georgia originated Apple and shamelessly named it after himself. He crossed a creek and state lines and stole it from the opposite bank. It delivers an apple every day in August.
Hence forth it and it’s redder sport will be referred to as Nick’s Shame to reflect his cowardly deed.
