I hope so, but mom’s 45 year old winesap gets plenty crows and other birds…it’s not a red clone.
The antioxidants are even higher if the flesh is also red. 
That’s my plan, cross Evercrisp to a red fleshed apple. Among other crosses I’m dreaming about.
Thanks Mike!
I casually follow apple prices for growers/customers et cetera.
Okay so it’s more like a flirty perusal with a an occasional side glance but no nobody’s keeping score so it doesn’t matter. Or does it?
Color means everything hence how red delicious came into existence. In a world where taste testing produce at the store is not allowed (it would be fun for customers but not for the store employees…or the owner who has figure the costs of taste testing into prices) somehow the goal is to to get apples to look how they taste…I never got the hang of it myself…lots of people fall into my dilemma…the orchard I buy Snapdragon from, their Snapdragon apples look like they got beat up during the growing season…and they taste wonderful…the travails of selling to fickle customers…
My understanding is that it is not just $100 to join, it is $100 per year for the duration of the time you are growing them…definitely cost prohibitive for the small grower. I have thought about joining just to be able to grow Rosalee, but our orchard is too small to be worth it. Plus, the club system just rubs me the wrong way.
You are correct plus a minimal trademark fee per tree for 20 years due January 1 each year.
I got some Rosalee fruit from Pennsylvania that had been in storage for a long time. Still held up well and tasted good.
I wonder if theyre being sold together. I know appearances vary by location climate etc… but there are some almost pure red ones for sale and I see lots of 2/3 green colored apples people posted in the thread. I happened to buy two apples and the much redder one was far tastier. The greenish one even tasted worse on the green parts vs the red parts. Could swear they were separate apples.
So Mitchell/Evercrisp are not both Honeycrisp x Fuji in your opinion?
Because Mitchell is a sport of Evercrcrisp by definition it would have to be Honeycrisp x Fuji because that’s how phylogeny works.
To my knowledge Mitchell was just released year to growers on a scale sufficiently large that the trees planted would bear enough fruit to supply either a pick your own or a farm market operation so it’ll be a handful of years before Mitchell’s commonly available to the public.
Whether or not the orchards that have been trialling Mitchell such as the one my friend works at will sell fruit from the Mitchell trees they already have planted is a question I can’t answer.
Maybe I’m just a sugar fiend. The one I just had was especially sweet so I broke out the refractometer. 21 brix!
edit: frankly its too sweet. I think it would be better if it were 18. Golden Russet can balance that much sugar, but this apple is a little too much. Like Cotton Candy grapes, I only want one and then I need a break.
Here’s a marketing blurb that came out yesterday about Evercrisp.
https://theproducenews.com/apples/evercrisp-apples-are-ideal-late-season-differentiator
This is interesting to look at. A 2025 inventory to preorder trees on various rootstocks. They are showing approximately 50,000 Evercrisp Mitchell on various rootstocks. The company represents various nurseries so access to a lot of varieties.
Also if you click on the order trees in menu you get a box for order inquiry that lists a huge number of trees and rootstocks that you can get a quote on a minimum of 30 trees. I found 3 sports of Stayman that don’t show up anywhere but in cultivar register lists. Wish I was rich to buy some! That query box takes some clicking to get it working to match up apples and rootstocks. On my phone it was stuck on cherries until i clicked around a few times.
Have you ordered from them before?
No I haven’t. Since they are a commission based company, I would expect the 30 tree minimum to apply to all orders that don’t fall under the 1,000 custom grafting/budding.
I am curious how these will be marketed at retail. A bin of original dull looking Evercrisp beside a bin of bright red ones. Of course other apples have faced redder strains coming along but not as dramatic as this. Especially when growers are picking almost completely green Evercrisp to start the season.
https://summittreesales.com/maia-mitchell-a-better-coloring-evercrisp/
Somehow I missed this thread.
We are growing Evercrisp (the late Evercrisp, not the Mitchell). A friend talked me into it. We have 55 young trees of it.
The same friend gave me a small bag to try from his orchard. They were really good. Better flavor than Honeycrisp, but with the same magic crunch (There’s a name for an apple I’m surprised no one has used - Magic Crunch apple).
One of our young Evercrisp trees produced it’s first apple this year. It was very good despite a very dry hot summer (our trees aren’t irrigated). It’s a very very late apple.
Jerry is correct. It’s not just a one time $100 fee. It’s a per year fee. The club makes you sign a contract. The contract is for 20 years, so the fee is really $2K.
The contract also states that you have to pay $X per tree per year (I can’t remember the exact amount without looking up the contract, but it’s not a large amount.)
I think this is our 4th or 5th year in on the contract.
I wanted our Evercrisp trees on Bud 118 or MM111(ELMA111) which basically can’t be found because most people who join apple clubs grow very large acreages of apples. Those growers all do high density systems, hence it’s very difficult to get a club apple on a semi-dwarf rootstock.
Schlabachs was willing to custom graft the 55 trees for us (on MM111) but I had to join the MAIA club before they would even bud the apples. It was a year later we finally got the trees. It seems to me we may have also had to pay patent fees, but I can’t remember for sure.
I am curious, when does it bloom? And when does it ripen for you?
Here in the north east, it blooms in the last week of April and ripens end of October/early November.
When properly thinned, it produces quite large apples, that are super sweet, but balanced with some tartness, very juicy and crunchy. It is one of my top apple choices.
Unfortunately, a lot of pick-your-own orchards don’t thin their apples anymore, and rely on the “farm, back to nature” experience to attract customers. I visited three pick-your-own orchards last fall, and most of their apples were very bland… Some picked the larger apples themselves, and left the tasteless number twos for customers to pick 
I haven’t paid enough attention to know if it blooms early, mid, or late. Here it ripens a bit later than Fuji. I’m thinking my one Evercrisp apple ripened mid Oct. this year.
Redder and earlier is good for commercial, but not necessary for the backyard hobbyist.
I’m still looking for that first apple that doesn’t get ripe before November here.
Terry Winter based on descriptions. Too late for me.
I think I may have to retrain my eyes when it comes to Evercrisp. With some varieties, like Pink Lady, it seems that without good color there will not be good sugar.
I planted Terry last spring. Alive but not thriving. You might be right…time’ll tell.
Arkansas Black is ripe before first frost most years here and it and Braeburn are my latest apples that have fruited.
I had Arkansas Black back in the '80s. It was hard as a rock around Halloween when I usually get freezing temps. I didn’t like it very much and it got crown rot after only a couple of years fruiting so I never replanted it.
