If anyone was still looking for Lucy Glo this year- it looks like raintree has them in stock now on MM106 along with Lucy rose. For whatever reason it doesn’t show up for me under apples but if you type in the variety it’s there.
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Is anyone in the Southeast growing these varieties? They look interesting, but Honeycrisp is notorious for growing poorly around here.
How has everyone’s Lucy Glo plantings fared this year? My tree on M26 I believe didn’t have a ton of growth. But still looks fairly happy and healthy. Unfortunately the only space I had available gets 5-6 hours of direct sunlight.
Mine is on B9. About the same height. It’s got two scaffolds a little under 3’ long on opposite sides and some spurs in the trunk.
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Mine is on Geneva 11 (from OGW), and early in summer it seemed like it wanted to grow a branch at every single node from the graft up, so I was pretty aggressive in removing everything other than the scaffolds I selected. I’m new to growing apples and not sure if that’s really what I should’ve done. It seems happy enough despite my aggressive cutting early in summer. This is from roughly the same angle as my last photo above:
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Mine is in first year so not much to report, other than it has been a Japanese beetle magnet. For the most part my apples get spared in favor of plums or cherries, but so far Lucy Glo and Honeycrisp seem to be exceptions. They got hit pretty hard.
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I see your tag looks like mine. If you got it from OGW then it’s G.11 not M26, though I guess those are very similar? Their website says it somewhere, but I also emailed them and confirmed it’s G.11.
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Ah good to know. You’re right. I just looked at the description and it says Geneva 11 is similar to M26. I must have skipped over part of that when I read it the first time.
I stand corrected, I also ordered from OGW and got the dwarf option which is listed on their site as G.11. I’ll check the tag in a bit when I go to harvest some grapes to confirm, but it’s growing how I’d expect.
Mine is a little over 3 feet tall. The top bud grew about a foot, the next 8" and the 3rd a couple of inches. Below that it seems to be spurring on the trunk. I chopped a bit off the top before planting and did something with it for insurance.
Seems like it finished growing for the season a couple of weeks ago.
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My first-year seedling of Lucy Glo has a nice compact growth habit so far, and no sign of slowing down for the season yet. This is my first time growing an apple seedling, so I’m not sure if that’s just normal for this age:
I’m debating grafting it as a branch on my Lucy Glo tree in spring, to hopefully get to evaluate it sooner, but I also just want to see how it’ll grow without getting topped this young.
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That’s doing a lot better than the ones I let grow in place next to my apple tree. Looks great! Good luck.
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I ate some Kissabel apples about a month ago. I picked them up from Whole Foods and haven’t found any since. Much more superior in texture than Lucy Glo and Rose. I can’t recall if the flavor was better, but clearly, it’s a matter of how much red flesh there is in each apple. I have a feeling Kissabel will average more red flesh: https://www.kissabel.com/
I’m positive there will be something better to come along. Maybe one of Skillcult’s children already is, but I promise you that Kissabel Apple has a lot going for it.
Thanks to a friend who visited, I also tried Ludacrisp for the first time. It has the best texture of any apple I’ve ever eaten.
I still have a spot in my heart for Goldrush. It still retains its crispy firm texture even in fruit salads I drench in lime and other fruit juices.
Kissabels that I had were astringent, unlike Lucy Glo. Crisp texture and sweet, but more of a cranberry flavor than a cherry flavor I get from Lucy Glo. Tasted like skittles a bit, but I left my throat dry after even the most ripe one I could find
I’ve tried the red and yellow Kissabels. They were…waxy? Like to the point I wiped them off with a towel. I’m not sure if the packer/processor/whoever went a little nuts trying to make them super shiny or they’re like that normally. I found a bag at Whole Foods and the other at The Fresh Market. Yellow ones I thought had a banana flavor to them, but it could have been my imagination.
