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Looks pretty.
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ΩÏαία!
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Itâs ok to crop your screenshot before posting.
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I posted it on instagram stories before. I let it like that because I wrote a quote and I wanted to see if we have any friends from Greece here !
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Iâm so sorry George, but your apple is not Granny Smith.
Granny Smith does not have such marked skin lenticels.
You have an improved mutation of Granny Smith, which is infinitely better.
Your variety is this:
- Granny Smith Challenger
Do not eat it freshly harvested, since with a period of tuning in cool , it is an âEXPECTACULARâ apple.
Regards
Jose
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Hello Jose !
Happy to hear from you !
Yes itâs possible the Challenger mutation !
We used to have this variety 30 years and so !
The only fields in my area that make apples with this remarkable white dotting !
Iâm impressed of your knowledges on every fruit !!
Regards
George !!
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It is a Challenger without a doubt (it is extremely delicious apple ).
George, that apple is easily identifiable, 3,000 kilometers away hahahaha.
Regards
Jose
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You should communicate with South Africa and tell them about this apple because the regular (maybe) Granny Smith they send us here (Canada) is terrible tastingâŠ
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I can send you mine !
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May I ask what makes it superior to the original cultivar? I am very curious.
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beautiful apples!
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Hi Shabou .
It is logical, here in Spain, which is a very fruit producing country, the same thing happens to us, when at Christmas we have melons from Brazil or cherries from Chile in the supermarkets, the visual appearance is good, but their taste is worse than mediocre.
Canada being a country where many and very good varieties of apples are developed and produced, when an apple comes to the supermarket from a very distant country, where it had been harvested very early, it is normal that you do not like it.
Granny Smith is a somewhat peculiar apple variety, which has both sides of the coin, lovers of acidulated apples love it for its high acidity and peculiar flavor, and those who prefer sub-acid flavors, Granny Smith is not his variety and they loves the Ambrosia variety, which is tremendously sweet and without acidity.
As always it is a matter of personal taste.
But Granny Smith is an excellent variety and its improved mutation Challenger is even better.
Regards
Jose
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I donât spray for rots, and Granny is the absolute worst for it
(among my apple collection, anyhow). Plus, for fresh eating I can think of
scores of better tasting apples.
(For pies, itâs pretty good though.)
Hi Buckeye (good mutation of the Gala apple).
The Challenger mutation has two major improvements over the standard Granny Smith variety.
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Commercially it is more interesting because it is visually more attractive due to its marked white lenticels.
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From the flavor point of view, standard Granny Smith is an apple with its peculiar flavor but very acidic even after its cold tuning period, however Challenger significantly improves its flavor, balancing sweetness-acidity after its cold tuning period.
Regards
Jose
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Buckeye, after the praise of the Granny Smith Challenger apple, I will tell you that I am incapable of eating one of these apples (and it is in my collection of more than 150 varieties of apples), but as I have commented on countless occasions, I am lover of sweet and sub-acid flavors, so if I have to eat an apple, I prefer varieties like Ambrosia, Modi (George I think also grows the Italian Modi apple), and one of my favorites, which is Story Inored.
All of these varieties (and many more), which have high sweetness and low acidity, are my favorites.
Regards
Jose
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George, if I remember correctly you grow the Italian apple Modi variety.
Do you have some photos?
Regards
Jose
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