Does anyone know where I can buy Dixie Red Delight apple tree?
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Looks like they still have some here: http://www.centuryfarmorchards.com/catalog/order.html
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An excellent choice; here it about blows your head off with balanced sugar and acid. They improve sitting on the counter.
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Applenut is modest. You can buy it from him, if you like. His nursery, Kuffell Creek, is in SoCal.
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Sounds promising! Does it have normal blight resistance in your orchard?
Unfortunately he is out for the season. 
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Thanks Drusket!
I am placing an order today. Also ordered Hooples, Goldrush, Grimes Golden, AM Golden Russet and Muttamuskeet! I need help…not sure where I am going to put them all but hey I have been there and done that before! Ha!
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That’s a nice mix of varieties you’ve chosen there. I’m sure you’ll get some good results and I hope you report back when you do.
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Bumping this old thread because: 1.) I wonder if anyone has any updates regarding this little-known apple; and 2.) I want to point out to interested parties that scionwood is still available here:
I grafted it this year.
NC State, btw, notes that Lee Calhoun included it on his list of heirlooms for the North Carolina Piedmont and that it has at least some cedar-apple rust resistance.
Calhoun in Old Southern Apples quotes a writer in Pomona, who says:
Red Delight [which Calhoun says is a synonym for DRD] fruits are sprightly, crisp sweet and all the other things a good apple should be. The spring blossom is an ornamental pink. Fireblight can be a problem.
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Really bad leaf curl on my DRD this year—more than on any other other apple tree. Believe it is very susceptible to leafhopper damage, or at least it was this season. On the bright side: no fire blight yet (though we’re still probably a couple of seasons away from first blooms—it’s on G.969, which ought to be precocious; Victoria Limbertwig and Old-Fashioned LT bloomed their second season on this rootstock—though, naturally, were not allowed to bear), and not a speck of cedar-apple rust. Believe Calhoun’s designation of “CAR-resistant” for DRD likely holds true here, where cedar “apples” outnumber real ones.
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I grafted a couple on my Ark Black. Very beautiful almost pure black bark with a slight burgundy tinge. The scions are most eager. I’m very excited and optimistic about this one.
The Winesap and Stayman both have impressive blooms, but a pure black tree with ornamental pink blossoms w/fresh green foliage would be quite an eye catcher. Vernon says he like this one better than the King D.
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Nice to know. We were going to grow it. But many of the Southern Nurseries have it now. Anytime a tree has an ornamental quality it is a plus.
My DRD graft is blooming for the first time this year. Hopefully I will be able to report on fruit quality this fall. Nice blooms.
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Barry, did your Dixie Red Delight fruit for you and if so how was the apple?
I didnt get any ripe ones. Its only one branch. I had to cut off most of the fruit to stop fireblight, which was bad on all of my varieties this year. The two that were left got summer rot. I may have tasted one of the routers but it was no where near ripe. There’s always next year……
Sorry to hear that. It’s frustrating when stuff like that happens.