Are any of the Summer apples good for fresh eating/pie or just apple sauce? Pristine, Lodi, Yellow Transparent, etc? My earliest apple is Sansa which is fruiting for the first time this year and I grafted a William’s Pride this Spring, so I won’t be eating any of those for a bit.
Pristine is, Mantet is a fresh eating apple, Kerry Irish pippin is good for fresh eating
Gala without a doubt. Best tasting in my opinion, self polinating and easy to grow. My first attempt at 6 varities this one grew the best.
Yes, Pristine is a great fresh eater. They also keep really well which is unusual for a summer apple. It and Williams Pride are the two best early fresh eaters.
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Trailman crab and MonArk.
After decades of trying to grow decent apples, I’ve just accepted that I don’t really like apples all that much, and pears are much easier to grow, and more to my liking.
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Clark’s crabapple and September Wonder Fuji. Clark’s crabapple will produce plenty in the second Year. Wonder is large, and early.
Tony
Couldn’t that be a good thing? Like, just monitor that tree, use it as a guide as to when to spray, spray it when needed and maybe spray everything else then too.
Or just attach a bunch of sticky traps.
I have a young Liberty on MM.111 too. I’m gonna have to get creative.
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Question: A lot of you mention Sundance. At least 6 years ago, I bought it from Cummins on G.890 rootstock. It has grown well but has bloomed lightly and has not ripened a single apple. G.890 is supposed to be somewhat precocious, so I can’t blame the rootstock. And I don’t think I can blame myself – To benchmark, I have 15 other semi-dwarf trees and ~30 dwarfs and none of them has failed to produce at least a small crop. Other semi-dwarf trees (MM.111, B.118) that are the same age produce bushels.
At this point, I’m assuming that my top growth is not Sundance. I’m guessing that maybe the graft failed and I bought a nice big rootstock tree. Can anyone else think of another explanation? Thx.
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nobody has said it but I love braeburn since eating them from a friend’s orchard. it was the first named apple tree I planted, too.
I like gravenstein and I like a lot of the weird-flavored apples, russets most of all- but if I had to have one it would be braeburn. I don’t know how to pick a second choice.
edit; I forgot I already said this in here and so I’m just saying it again for emphasis I guess
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I have been enjoying the Monark apple the last few years. It seems to last longer than any other spring time apple and is not get soft and mushy as the other spring apples.
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@MikeC - Agree! MonArk is good for eating out of hand, baking, drying. And, as you noted, unlike most early-season apples, it lasts a long time without going mealy.
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Picking just 2 is so hard haha.
If disease/pests werent an issue and growing just for me (my wife has different favorites) i would probably pick:
Braeburn and Crimson Topaz for fresh eating, or Winchester for cooking and maybe E.Spitz for an all-arounder.
But taking my own confidence in my ability to grow them in my midatlantic climate without having to quit my day job to care for them, the apples my partner and I both enjoy the most and are the ones we find keep the best of the ones we have tried (both of these kept months on the counter and while they will shrivel, they didnt get mealy or develope any off tastes and were still pleasant to eat) and my actual answer if I could only pick two at this time would have to be:
Goldrush and Roxbury Russet
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Macoun and Arkansas Black. Growing in NY
Tony-- Is Sept Wonder Fuji fairly disease resistant? I’ve seen Daybreak Fuji recommended as disease resistant.
I did serious branch-bending to force Sundance to bear and still has a very small crop even with 80% horizontal branching. Small crop actually suits me fine for my purposes.
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I do have humid summer and it produces just fine . I just sprayed for curculios pest.
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I grafted trailman crab this spring… it grew strong… bloomed and set 5 apples… and continued to grow a 2 ft shoot.
I thinned the apples down to 1 and… it ripened and dropped from the tree July 22.
My wife and I split that little apple and it was very good. It had some zip to it… tartness wise… but also a good dose of sweetness.
Hopefully we get more next year.
TNHunter
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Do you spray your Gravenstein or find it easy to grow no-spray?
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Can you please describe Ruby Rush taste? Is it anything like its parent Goldrush?
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