I picked these and a few more this morning.
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I like them though they are on the small side of medium. I have 5 left to do something with. I am thinking about frying them. The nutty tree is trying to bloom again.
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Yes, my Pink Lady goes from medium to small. All of them taste great.
Hoping for our first cripps pink flower set in the spring. Pink lady is a TM of cripps pink per my understanding.
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Look very clean, do you bag your apples?
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Mine was so precocious that it bloomed heavily the first year, a month after planting bare root, last year. Bloomed heavily again this year. About 8 smallish fruits with good color that may be ready about now.
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Yes these were bagged.
I taste tested Sundowner this morning. They needed a little more hang time.
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I have a Pink Lady apple tree ordered for next spring 2025. Your Pink Lady apples look very nice.
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Ours is on standard root stock, I have it 20 foot away from the other apples. It’s currently in growing season #2. I’ve lightly pruned it, just for form haven’t had any dead to prune out of it yet. It’s already grown about 10 foot tall. I know its going to be a good producer once it gets going, it sure is good about putting on new growth and girth. Hoping for first flower set on two year old wood this coming spring. Your words are mighty encouraging to me.
I think I also have another on MM111 (semi dwarf) I grafted spring of 2023 and set out in a row this spring 2024. That row has really grown well this year. So one way or another we’ll have some pinks eventually.
Thanks for posting
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Those of you who like Pink Lady apples will probably also like Lady Williams. LW is the female parent of PL and has a similar sort of taste (IMHO better). LW is very long keeping as well - has been observed hanging on the tree as late as early Feb. Needs a long season though in order for the fruit to ripen. Not suitable for most parts of the UK but in the continental US you should be OK.
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Well, of course, such early fruiting of PL may not be typical, but I was sure surprised
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Pink Lady was never on my list. But I am glad my ladies bought it for my birthday. It has to be the opposite to Honeycrisp as a grower. Easy to manage if a bit curly bushy here. Hope to get longer laterals trained on it this next year. If it stays as is it will be an apple shrub…lol…My Anna is just as bad though. Wants to be multi trunked.
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Pink lady is my absolutely favorite apple variety! They are always the best one even purchased from the store, because I’ve never ran into a soft/mealy pink lady as compared to others variety…if you have a long summer growing season combined with a favorable fall weather season…pink lady is hard to beat because they ripen so so late into the fall season, thus the warmer sunny daytime temperature and much cooler nighttime temperature really sweeten it up to give it a crispy, crunchy, super sweet with a perfect balance of tartness to it. Our sweetest measured at 18Brix just a few days ago!
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The pictures do not do the fruit justice. Along with Ark Black they are the most beautiful apples in my orchard when hanging from the tree- and third place is way back.
Now there is a somewhat earlier ripening version available which is a bit of a gamechanger here in NY. When we get a long growing season the original has time to ripen properly, but this one will hopefully be more reliable. Now ACN also carries an early ripening Goldrush which is also an amazing apple.
For eating raw out of storage, Goldrush and Pink Lady are my staple apples because I’m not into pure sweet so much, so Fuji isn’t given space in my apple storage fridge. GR and PL will still be crunchy in spring, although Goldrush will be tasting more like Golden Delicious while PL won’t have altered much.
For cooking, several other varieties should still be fine during all of winter- they just won’t have the crunch anymore. I like using grated Jonaprince and Spitz in my waffle recipes mixed with Goldrush.
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I had never eaten a bad pink lady until this last bag. They definitely weren’t soft, they were like wood though!
The flavor ranged from decent to pretty bland but definitely not what I had become accustomed to.
SweeTangos and cosmic crisp are my go to store apples now
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For clarification I would like to inquire if this post is about ‘Pink Lady’ the cultivar developed in Canada, or ‘Cripp’s Pink’ a cultivar developed in Australia and marketed in the US under the trade name “Pink Lady”?
Hehehe sorry to hear that Phlogopite! At least it’s not soft…I take a wood pieces any day lol. Those are two great variety…but most of the time they have this weird bitter aftertaste for us especially the comic crisp.
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I think we are talking about the Australia “Pink Lady” variety here in this thread.
As far as I know, in the U.S., Pink Lady and Cripps Pink are the same apple. Now there are a few sports available including the Barnsby strain that ripens about 10 days earlier.
People on this forum love to talk about the apples they buy and which they prefer, but as far as I’m concerned, the goal is to usually never have to buy apples. Varieties like Pink Lady, that can be stored for many months in common refrigeration are a godsend.
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