Help with ideas for large size apples to graft

General Fruit Growing
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I would like to graft on my apple tree with apples that has large fruit.
Any idea what to use.
Thanks
Popeye

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I think you are going to want to be a little more specific on what you are looking for. Wolf river is supposed to be a big apple but I think it may not be great to eat fresh.

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I was looking for just a jumbo apple only for looks
In back yard.

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Wolf River is indeed a good choice for that, as are Spokane Beauty (both red-blushed) and Gloria Mundi (yellow). Hanners Best is a particularly large version of Spokane Beauty, but scionwood may not be easy to find.

Some slightly smaller varieties that produce big apples that are still good for fresh eating are Spigold (red-blushed) and Stayman (red-striped).

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Cauley is large, allegedly getting to more than a pound. I have it grafted on a tree, but it hasn’t yet fruited for me.

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Pound Sweet, 20 Ounce, and Sierra Beauty…

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Honeycrisp can get really big. I had many this year that were over a pound each.

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Jonagold is a choice large apple. Burshey Grove and Grenadier great cookers reaching 1 1/2 lbs

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Fortune is the biggest apple of hundreds I grow, and a very nice eating apple to boot. I just weighed one at 490 grams, which is about a pound. No way it was the largest apple in the tree, but it belongs to a client so I wasn’t going for that.

Unfortunately, like a lot of big apples- Jonagold, Honeycrisp for example, Fortune is prone to black rot when grown in conditions most conducive to largest size.

I may have gotten much better results by making 3 apps of manganese during summer. I did this to one Fortune tree at an orchard and left the other as a control and got a lot more useful apples from the treated tree.

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