I’ve never seen this one before. Anyone know anything about it or is it another rename variety. Red King Red Flesh From grandpas orchard.
I just can’t seem to find any early pink lady available unless your commercial and order 30 trees. Anyone know where I can get just one tree?
I have obtained the variety, and have the branched tree in a 15 gallon pot. I am NOT going to be cutting any scions off it. Until I have gotten some fruit from it.
As to information about it or if it’s renamed…I’m still trying to discern the same things you are asking. One place says it’s a Red Delicious x a red crab probably open pollinated. (originating possibly at Grandpa’s or Roots to Fruits.) (I’ve not called and asked to speak to someone that might could shed more light on it’s origins.)
If it truly is large, dark red fleshed, and has Red Delicious in it’s ancestry, then I’ll probably be happy I obtained the expensive tree–time’ll tell. I might have bought a pig in a poke.
As for Pink Lady…the big box stores carry it in springtime in the KY/TN/NC region. I grafted it last year, can’t recall if it took or didn’t at the moment, I’d have to check. It needs a longer season than Granny Smith or Arkansas Black, and is disease prone.
Interesting! I didn’t see it last year and I’m not looking for a red flesh was just curious about it thanks.
My Red King Red Flesh Apple is fruiting for the first time. Really pretty foliage and red blooms. Apples are a very attractive red. Attractive to the birds as well, as they are sampling them even though they aren’t ripe. When I thinned apples in the spring flesh was dark red but now the flesh is light red. Seeds are starting to darken and I’m guessing they will be ripe at the end of the month. VanWells where I obtained the apples say they ripen in Washington around August 20th. They say the flesh stays dark red in Central Michigan where they originated but that heat (which I have here in Kansas) lightens the color. I thought that was interesting. Supposed to be a tart apple but sweet enough to eat out of hand.
Get Pink Princess rather than Pink lady, Trees of antiquity has them. Pink Princess Apple – Trees of Antiquity
how do you get such nice apples? mine are full of blemishes. looking at your apple i see museum quality, an artist would love those in his fruit basket just to paint them on canvas. .
The variety has been pretty clean the first year, but we do spray some. Keeping the birds away has been the challenge. The fruit I cut into had a big bird peck on the other side! The apple looks like a red delicious and I think I read that was part of the parentage
Picked a few of the Red King Red Flesh today. They aren’t very crisp but are sweet and have a berry taste. Enjoyable to eat!
