Is anyone here growing Husk Sweet? Originated as a wild apple on the Joyners big horse creek farm in North Carolina. Wondering how it is for fresh eating. Thanks.
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I’m growing it, and got a couple of apples this year. I think I waited a bit too long to pick them, so they weren’t at their best, but they were very sweet and tasty. Good for fresh eating if you like sweet apples.
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If I should place an order with the Joyners (Big Horse Creek Farm)…Husk Sweet would be on the list…because of their description.
I have a few other sweet apples that have not cropped yet for me (plus Fuji that has of course).
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Tried a couple this year for the first time and was not impressed, but often times it takes a tree several seasons to produce it’s best fruit. My Kentucky Limbertwig was a perfect example, bland fruit last year, good tasting apples this year.
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Just three people here growing the variety you reckon?
I may have to order some scionwood from BHCF.
I just read the description and it sounds like my kind of apple. I wonder if it could survive up here?
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Did you have any Husk Sweet to try this year? Any more or less impressed with the variety?
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Tasted a few this year. Just so so. Maybe next year will be better. 
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I had 2 successful grafts of Husk S
this year…may be some time before fruits.
Though one is a 1-inch caliper topped seedling so it might not be too long.
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I plan to order a stick from Big Horse Creek if they open for ordering soon
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BHCF really bragged on it. I got it last March from him…so I’ll have scions possibly next year. He’s getting old and subject to call it quits from my understanding. For a little spell,
had someone from his area commenting here…then they disappeared.
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Yup, i know theyre slowing down due to health and age. I emailed them back in november and they indicated they would open towards the New Year.
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Nice folks, both of them. Wish I’d known about them back when I lived in Asheville, as I could have driven up to West Jefferson and met them at the farmer’s market there.
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I just checked, BHC is open for scion orders
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I got an order confirmation for 2 sticks of Husk Sweet and 1 of Arkansas Sweet. They didn’t offer a couple other varieties I was going to order, but the Husk Sweet was the one I really wanted.
Now to find out if it can survive a central MN winter.
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I’ve now got 6 grafts of Husk Sweet. All but 1 I grafted at 5-6’ above ground on wild crabs. I’m hoping the height above ground adds some winter hardiness to a N.C. variety. If I ever see a fully ripened Husk Sweet here I’ll be a bit surprised, but I’d welcome that surprise.
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I’ve grafted the variety…but be some time before blossoms.
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If you ever get to taste one, let me know what you think. The description from BHCF certainly sounds like an apple I’d enjoy.
My concern with Husk Sweet is that even if it survives our winters, it won’t have a long enough season to fully ripen. Time will tell I suppose. I’m out very little except time if the variety doesn’t pan out.
I grafted it here right after Ron at Big Horse had scions. Taste was a big zero for me, nobody home. Maybe it tastes better at elevation in NC.
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Not an awesome taste review. I suppose it may be an apple with very different taste profiles from different areas. Frostbite here is an amazingly complex apple, but I’ve heard folks from warmer zones describe it as “meh”
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