Etter's Eden, nothing better

General Fruit Growing
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Our Eden’s are ready. We sampled some today and there is nothing better to us. I have many of the umami, nutty types including Wickson and Chestnut. Grown here Eden is the best of all. It tastes somewhat like lychee fruit. Maybe unfermented beer. Maybe chestnut. Complex, very rich sweet tart balance. Everyone should grow them
I’m in Michigan and apparently they were bred and grown in California. I imagine they would do well everywhere.

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Now I will go look up what Etter’s eden is!

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Let us all know.

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It seems to be an apple; here is a previous post from the OP:

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If you have scion wood this winter, I’d love to get a stick! I have Wickson, Vixen, Waltana, and a number of Skillcult’s varieties. Be fun to add Eden!

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I am happy to give scions. I gave a bunch to other members last year. The only problem is that I am very disorganized. If you send me a reminder sometime in January, I will cut sticks and send them to you or anyone else.

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Etter was a busy guy!

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It almost doesn’t make sense

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Eden is in the class of trees that takes well but is dead by late summer. Not sure I will try it again.

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Thank you! I will send a note this winter!

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Eden is one of the Etter apples picked up by Trees of Antiquity for propagation, so it can be purchased as a bare root tree as well.

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I would love to get some scion wood if you will have enough to offer. I will shoot you a reminder in January.

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Thanks for the review. Sounds great. I always wanted to try it. The one I had never made it through the first year. i got another eden which turned out to be a large boring apple.

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I don’t know you personally, but I’ve enjoyed your videos for years. Knowing your interest in unusual flavors I would highly recommend growing this one. I’m not sure if I mentioned it before but very similar to wickson but umami flavor is more powerful. Very rich also. I have only had wickson though here in zone 6a

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The queen of umami here so far is another etter called muscat de venus. but it is not a good apple. very low acid and other than the extreme savory thing pretty flat.

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I grafted that one 2 years ago but it has yet to fruit. We’ll see how it does in Michigan.