And this other one
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Headed into growing season #3
I snipped the top off this spring and grafted it in 3 or 4 places, don’t want to lose it. Finally put it in a more permanent spot so hopefully we can start sizing it up and start getting some fruit.
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what cultivar is it? love the leaf color. i have a purple leafed chokecherry on my property that gets that dark as well but new growth is green then turns purple in mid july…
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A seedling I started 3 years ago. Has great foliage color throughout the growing season. Hoping the fruit turns out red fleshed and interesting but we shall see.
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These seedlings are interesting. These are all Lucy glow seedlings. Seeds were acquired from the same retail grocery store about 2 weeks apart. The first round I forced inside. The second round, still crowded in one pot, I sowed outside and waited for spring sprouting. Anyway, I am surprised how the later seeds all appear green leafed and green stemmed. The earlier batch has 2 red leafed and red stemmed seedlings, and lots of in between colors. I would have expected a more similar “mix” from both batches of seeds.
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cool! they might have had a different pollen parent! Nice to have some genetic diversity!
67 pounds of small - I did not thin them this year - Winekist picked in one day. My Better Half deserves plenty of credit in picking. Making sauce, since I don’t yet have a cider press handy, is quite a chore. Nevertheless, I don’t want them all going to waste.
These pictures are of less than 10% of the take so far.
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I had my first blooms this year, but no fruit set.
Amazing!
Even darker than the Glowing Heart I got from 39th Parallel Nursery.
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Looks as though it will be a spreading tree, a common characteristic of red-fleshed apples in my limited experience. I am pruning Otterson (not nearly as dark foliage as you have there) to grow upward before it reaches for the horizon.
A name suggestion: Burgundy Noire. (Anyone with better grasp of French could tell you if this is a proper spelling. @mrsg47…?) I merely react to the dark hue.
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Those have a similar look to some Scarlett Surprise i found at a nearby u pick.
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I found bags of Kissabel Jaune (yellow…I assume it means yellow in French). Only tried one so far. It’s very noticeably waxy. I’m not sure if it was given the protective spray store fruit sometimes gets, but I wiped it off with a towel. Texture was softish. Like too ripened soft, not the McIntosh foamy-firm soft. Taste was sweet. I was getting more banana than berry. Interior color was mostly pink. Overall, not great.
Found it at a The Fresh Grocer looking for Lucy Glo which I haven’t seen on shelves yet this year.
Cummins has a bunch of Skillcult’s releases on G.16 for 2026 if anyone’s looking for them. Cummins Nursery - Fruit Trees, Scions, and Rootstocks for Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches, and Nectarines. He gets $5 per tree sold I think, so it supports his breeding work.
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Going back and reading some red fleshed comments. What if one of the seedlings has the genes for red flesh but not red leaves or stem. Would it be possible to overlook them when they could be what you are looking for?
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Lucy Glo is a great example of that, it has green leaves and stems.
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Good to know. I read comments by those planting seeds after making crosses and they are looking for red leaves which makes sense but not totally inclusive. Too bad genetic testing is out of the hands of the grower and probably will always be.
Any idea what the seed parent was? Certainly impressive foliage.
Roadside feral apple.
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Do the apple varieties with completely red flesh also have a red cambium?
Or red leaves?
@Roland There is a connection where many red flesh apples also have red coloration in the leaves or bark, but I do not think that it is a direct relationship, so leaf and bark color will not reliability predict flesh color but might be a useful clue that there could be red flesh.
Is Vanilla Pink the best flavored “very red” fleshed apple so far? Any others?
Best flavor being sweet/tart or just sweet (with interesting/berry flavor notes) vs very tart or a small crabapple.
Anyway to get scionwood this winter (from SkillCult?) vs buying full tree that will come in 2026?