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Hi all, just to beat out the squirrels from getting my last 9 hanging apples, I picked them this am. Only the apple in the center is full size. Two in the upper right hand corner are just turning yellow. Another week of sun would have been great. Any recipes for green apples? I won , but I won green apples! . Found two more!
. Found two more!
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Pristine store well enough, in my experience, that you could probably throw them in the fridge and they’d be sweeter in a couple weeks. I have been buying them for a few years through a CSA. They sell Pristine for about a month in August, and they are best about 3 weeks in. I’m guessing that most by the end were stored in cold storage for a while.
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Thanks!
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I have one apple of Pristine from the scions you sent me. It is big but I have no idea when it will be ripe. My guessing record is not very good. It has been awhile but thanks again for sharing the scion wood.
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Pristine should be lemony yellow, some have a pink blush. 
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I find them edible before they are ripe. Definitely my favorite summer apple at this point. I ate my first ones a couple of weeks ago and have been slowy picking the remainder to see how much the flavor changes. I do tend to have a number of smaller apples though, might be because my trees are young.
I don’t know how well they store. Last summer I had a full tree and mislabeled its ripening window, waited tooooo long to pick, and they went mealy on me.
But, strangely, this year, both Pristine and Zestar my other early apple gave me “ziltch” ( a NYC term). Pristine gave ZERO. I wonder if anyone has any experience about it going bi-annual?
Zestar only has about 6 hanging.
Mike
Look up crock pot applesauce. Yum!
I had a pretty big crop on my Zestar! last year given its age. Return bloom was a bit sparse on it this year, but it did bloom. I don’t know how it eventually fared though. We moved out right during bloom. Zestar is a bit unique in that it will bloom on spurs as well as last year’s wood. The 1 year old wood seems to bloom a little later than the spurs.
It is bi-annual for me and has been that way since it was planted 10 years ago. This year the tree had many blossoms, and apples, last year ziltch! Lived in NyC for 48 years! 
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Pristine also stores well.
Don’t own a crockpot or microwave. 
Pressure cooker works well too for applesauce
Nope. Don’t have one. I just cook, and can with a canner.
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No microwave?
what do you do with the leftovers??
Frying pan😋
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I picked the Pristine and the Honeycrisp had dropped. My grandaughters favorite was the Pristine. The Honeycrisp was sweet and the Pristine was more robust with a snappy sweet/tart taste with a little watercore. Seeds in both were dark. The Honeycrisp was on the small size but the inside was ripe.
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Thats it! Glad the kids liked it! Me too! Worth fighting with squirrels for!
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The apples get bigger. After I realized it wad biennial, I removed many blossoms on a good year and the apples were a really nice size! They have a nice thin skin too!