Anybody have any of these apples growing this year? I’m anxious to hear people’s experiences eating them
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I do,still aways off from picking here in Zone 5b.
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Sept 29th one fell off tree. Bugs got it. Seeds medium tan so not yet ripe. Flavor is nice but not sweet. They are large fruit similar to Wolf apple. Skin was not tough. First time fruiting and on a small tree. The remaining 3 are still green. I’ll pick one in another week to see if it’s sweeter.
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Oct 25 seeds still not black. Still not sweet. One is left on tree. I’ll pick it in two or three weeks.
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Nice looking big apple.
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Anyone have any updates for 2024? Would love to hear about eating experiences and disease resistance. It will be a while 'till I have any at my house
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I picked my on Oct 24.They can get very big.My biggest one weighed about 19 oz.
No disease issues.Flavour off the tree is fairly tart yet.Texture is crisp,average for juciness.
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I have 1 monty’s surprise on order from burnt ridge on semi dwarf MM111 RS. Looking forward to growing it out here and see what becomes of it. From what I read, it appears to be a good apple to eat for health.
We saw a MS tree at Burnt Ridge and tried an apple 10/25/24. Unripe and too firm to get much of a bite!
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Anything to report for 2025 by anyone? Im still impatiently waiting…
My two trees (one on G11 and one on Antonovka) are growing well, absolutely clean leaves with no-spray despite many of my other varieties covered in multiple types of leaf diseases. I think it’s easy to grow so far in VA, just waiting on FB and pest resistance. Also waiting to see if I have a long enough growing season.
I’ll update my experiences with Monty’s Surprise.
My original purchase was 2022. That tree has not grown any taller since I originally planted it.
The newest Monty’s Surprise was planted this spring, 2025. It is tiny, tiny, tiny. Looks like a sickly twig that fell out of tree and stuck into the ground. Sort of disappointed at the actual size I received. I know it stated a " small" was all that was left …but it should have said " TINY".
So we will see what happens this growing season.
I had fruit last year but squirrels stole it.
It’s been 3 seasons and not one fruit to taste.
This year there are none again.