https://acnursery.com/variety-spotlight/
ACN has them listed as siblings. I believe their website did as well.
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Lucy Glow and Lucy Rose spotted here in NJ. There both advertised as tart with sweet finish. They where both anthing but. Very sweet with maybe less tart than a good honey crisp.
Lucy Glo’s tartness drops off pretty sharply in storage, I believe. As does the texture. The ones I had in late October were great, the mid December ones were just OK.
I don’t think Lucy Rose (I mean Glo) stores great. What date did you try them. I think they lose their edge with time, and probably depending on how they are handled.
The one I had today had the acid balance of a good pink lady. If anything I’d have liked a little more sugar to go with it, but I wasn’t complaining. It was good. My wife wouldn’t have been willing to eat it though due to acid.
Are these club varieties? If so, I wish posts were made on the lounge category, because we cannot grow them. If they are available as trees please let us know from who.
People seem to love to post about their fruit shopping experiences on the fruit growing section. Am I the only one who finds this slightly frustrating? I don’t really like reading about apples that are illegal for me to grow. I don’t buy apples except on the rare years of crop failure of that fruit.
I’m only expressing my opinion, and it isn’t a big deal, but I wonder how the rest of you feel about it.
At any rate, I’d love to grow Lucy Glo and when people describe the texture of Honeycrisp comparatively, I think it is more descriptive to describe the texture of HC as crunchy rather than crisp. I do not feel HC is crisper than other crisp apples, but crunchier as a result not of denseness of flesh, but very large cells that fracture when you chew on it instead of splitting between cells as other varieties do.
If we do a kind of standardization of taste descriptions, communication becomes clearer.
Maybe we should have a separate category called, “fruit shopping”. I don’t buy apples but I do buy citrus and Kaki persimmons. This year, I’m buying all my Fuyus from Trader Joes because I haven’t been by my favorite Asian market where I can sometimes by Fuyus in cartons for a very good price. TJ charges 75 cents per, which is a good price for them when they are decent sized, fully ripe and still firm. I’m waiting for the arrival of the big Saijo (acorn) shaped non-astringents that will probably be coming from Spain soon for a premium price at my local luxury food store. They are twice the size of typical Fuyus.
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I tried them before thanksgiving. I bought them a couple of time and I could tell the texture was degrading. I dont remember which but texture wise the one ate was about as crisp as an old golden delicious. The next week when tried the new supply they put out it was much firmer.
Ha!
You haven’t been paying attention. I think these are the nail in the coffin of your argument 
Both of these former club varieties are available bare root retail now!
I also think of Honeycrisp as crisp and not crunchy. It’s the honey in the name that I take issue with because the ones we get are low brix and sour.
I think that the characteristic I’m thinking of as crisp is how Honeycrisp cleaves and fractures down a plane when you bite it. You’re teeth don’t have to go all the way through before a hunk breaks off.
Another way I think of the distinction between crisp and crunchy is cheese puffs vs cheese curls like Cheetos.
Fresh puffs are crispy but not crunchy. They have that low density, hollow kind of break.
edit: I tried to get my (good humored) barb in earlier. I guess I should have @ mentioned you: Lucy Glo Apple - #89 by murky
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I wonder if maybe yours spent a few weeks at room temperature.
Okay, what red-fleshed apple is better than Lucy Glo?
Is it Pink Pearl you mention later? Can you describe what’s great about the stunning local ones?
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Burt ridge has whips of Lucy glo for sale right now 28$. None of the Washington state only BS that they tried to bootstrap onto cosmic crisp.
I have not been so excited for an apple in a long time. Even if they were purple with green polka dots. That is a fine apple and the deep red flesh is just a bonus. It is a standout in a field of Olympian’s about to race.
Lucy rose it was less impressive. It was squishy and mushy and reminded me of a blah red delicious from the 90s. I feel I may have buyers remorse because I ordered one of those too.
Interesting side note, I skipped the whole red love series. The guys at restoring Eden talked me out of that series on 3 separate visits. He said they were not good apples, just red. Plain, bland, and a waste of space. He said go with mountain rose it’s a much better all around apple. It’s an older Oregon crossed arliele red apple that the restoring Eden guys said is a winner.
So my plan is a single red tree on my lot. Lucy glo, Lucy rose (maybe), mountain rose, and firecracker red crab. It makes me smile just thinking about it.
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I’m with you there Alan. I almost never buy fruit in stores. As far as I’m concerned buying fruit in stores is a waste of money. The little woman will buy fruit and it kind of makes me mad. When you’ve grown up eating fruit off your own trees, stuff from the store tastes like cardboard.
I’m the same with fish, I’ve caught my own fish since when I was a kid. I can never buy fish from as store or restaurant. Best case, I’m disappointed, more often than not I’m disgusted with the quality of any purchased fish.
As long as I can grow it or catch it myself, I’m not wasting my money on the substandard commercial offerings.
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I’m happy for you, but also a bit annoyed with Burnt Ridge since I specifically asked them if they’d be getting Lucy Glo before I ordered from Gurney’s and they said that they will not.
Hmm, I don’t see Lucy Glo listed at Burnt Ridge. Can you give a link?
It was not in the search, it failed. But scrolling thru the apples I think 3rd page. Says in stock.
Actually it was Lucy rose at burnt ridge. My bad.
The Lucy glo is at restoring Eden. Still in stock.
And the mountain rose not related to the Lucy
Thanks. It’s cool to see that Lucy Glo is getting broadly released apparently.
I’ve already ordered Lucy Glo from Gurney’s, it just would have been more convenient and significantly less expensive to get from Burnt Ridge. Plus the added bonus of them labeling the rootstock.
It’s strange that Restoring Eden says zones 5-7.
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That’s got to be a typo. Very strange.
Well I witnessed it. Apples where fresh on Monday and desiccated by Friday at the local ACME grocery store. When the new Apples arrived to refresh the supply, I bought some more and the Lucy Ruby they added that day.
@Noddykitty timing does matter they decline at room temp but are quite good fresh. Never ate a mountain(hidden>) Rose I thought was more then novel. But the Lucy’s are both quite good.
Is Gurneys listing rootstock? I can’t find it…
No, they do not. I meant that the added advantage of buying from Burnt Ridge, were they to offer it, is that then I would also see the rootstock.
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OK, I did mention the possibility that it might be available and I’m glad to know that, however, I believe you are on the wrong side of the argument of whether Honeycrisp is best described as crisp or crunchy. In Europe it is often marketed as Honeycrunch. Nevertheless, crisp is in its legitimate name which was given by the creator or creators, so perhaps that should hold sway. But I’ve often read descriptions of it as “having a special crunch” which is a more specific textural word than crisp.
For those who have eaten Airlie Red and Lucy Glo, do you think it is worth while to grow both? I have scion of AR and a tree of LG coming, but only so much space for grafting and growing alike. I have eaten Lucy Glo from the store and enjoyed it. This year the apples I had were much sweeter (less tart) than past years and still had a nice crisp texture. But I think I enjoyed the ones with a bit of tartness better.
I am also planning to graft in pink parfait and wickson as well this year to existing trees.