Lol…You can grow Ben Davis and not run out of free tennis balls for lots of months.
The archival websites seemed to have overcome the malware attacks they suffered and I found another nursery in Jacksonville Florida that was selling apples that fruit in North Florida. Ole Ben Davis was one of them.
True story… however i have really enjoyed SweeTango which i may live long enough to grow myself…maybe not.
I read the funniest review of Autumn Glory that is in supermarkets now… well worth the read.
Well, science has finally created an apple that tastes like the spit in your mouth right before you vomit. This fever dream of a deranged Washingtonian scientist is shielded by a clever name and shifty marketing team who carelessly toss around manufactured flavor notes such as “caramel”, “warm cider”, and “subtle cinnamon.” But, make no mistake, this pee-stained lump-fruit tastes less like cider and cinnamon and more like a urine-soaked gas station bathroom floor that someone accidentally spilled cinnamon on. Which makes this apple less Autumn Glory more Autumn Glory Hole.
That being said, this nasty piss floor of an apple does have the benefit of tasting unique. And while it certainly won’t be for everyone, there are an adventurous few who may actually enjoy a walk on the wild side.
Here is his review of Pink Lady
One of my favorites that i cant grow SweeTango…
If this was the apple that tempted Eve in the garden of Eden I wouldn’t blame her; for the taste of just one SweeTango is worth living through 1000 painful childbirths.
I assume you’re aware that a small segment of our population revels in this taste, and even enjoys showering in this golden colored fluid.
I guess theyre catering to that untapped segment of the market. 
These are a few Pink Lady’s I’ve got left on a graft I made a few years ago. Homegrown Pink Lady has certainly wow’d me so far. I’m going to try and let these hang another month to see how they taste. Hopefully our temps don’t drop too low. We’ve had a few mornings at 25F already.
Pretty apples.
They look pretty good now. Have you sampled any yet?
Yes! I have eaten about four or five of them and I have about four or five left on the tree. They were great. A nice balance of sweet and tart. Sweeter and less tart than I remember grocery store Pink Lady tasting. I have read that they hang well into the winter and am curious to see how they do if I leave them a bit longer.
Nice!
Question : Is Pink Lady self fertile? I’m in 
and I just got my first set of blossoms on a Pink Lady graft I did last year (2023). Unfortunately, my Gold Rush made it’s first blossoms last month (October). This meant that I missed the chance for cross pollination.
Pink Lady is not self fertile. It is in PG4. Meaning trees from PG3,4 and 5 should pollinate it.
Those apples are gorgeous. In my experience, Pink Lady is one of the most consistent apples to at least be good from the grocery store with the caveat that it seems to be the well-colored fruit that shine. I’ve probably never seen ones that look as good as in your picture though.
Pinks were very tasty for us this year as well. Like previously mentioned, mine were a mellower tart (which we really liked) than usual this year—most likely from the extra hang time this year. I’ve had to strip them all off near the end of October the past couple years due to low temps coming.
Have a barnsby pink too but still too young to fruit—which will hopefully help with the earlier picking window we often have. I read somewhere the early pink strains revert back to later ripening after a few years and barnsby is the better bet.
Cripps Pink is so bad at the store. I’m no longer buying it. Back to the Fuji and find one that is sweet and crunchy. Modi is like Pink Lady and I’m eating that one too. Still waiting for my Pink Lady tree from Stark Bros to fruit. 2 years and nothing so far. It was a clearance tree. Everybody Pink Lady looks good. I’m just waiting for my turn.
Two years and not getting fruit is pretty normal. I would not worry about it and at least let the tree get bigger before you let it produce any apples. Some apple trees runt if you let them produce fruit too early. So I usually not worry about letting the apple tree produce apples until around year 4 or 5+. Once it gets much past year 6 I start to wonder if it is worth keeping around. If they at least blossom then I worry less about keeping it in the ground. Once it gets past about year 8 then I start looking at replacing it with something that will give me fruit.
My Gala that was purchased in a pot was able to fruit the next year. They were small, but some have good flavor. The tree didn’t grew much because I let the apples hang and cut the top tips to graft onto my crab-apple. The graft grew amazing this year and I expect fruit next year. I bet, I"ll get more apples on the grafted crab-apple trees.
The Pink Lady for some reason never hibernate for winter. Last year, It stayed green throughout winter with no damage to the leaves. There was 1 other apple seedling that does the same thing. I wonder if that was a Cripps Pink seedling?
Be aware of Stark Bro’s clearance. They sold me 2 supreme trees this year. Cox Orange Pippin and Golden Russet. COP was a poor supreme tree. Extremely thin on top and no significant branch. It grew poorly this year; wimpy tree. The GR has 6 significant branches and looks good from bottom to top. It grew well and produce strong branches.
I wouldn’t be surprise if my apple seedlings, about the same year as the Stark Bro"s was able to produce apple first. No more Stark Bro’s for me.
A tree grown in a pot has restricted root growth which is as dwarfing as a rootstock that does the same- a 111 tree functions about like a 9 if grown in a 25 gallon pot if roots are kept in the pot.
If you buy a potted tree in a smaller pot and plant it in the soil, the pot and root cutting that preceded placement in the pot may already have caused the tree to make flower buds which can make fruit the following year. However if you leave the flowers and fruit on the tree you slow down establishment of a larger tree that will provide meaningful harvests.
All that said, Pink Lady is a relatively precocious tree on any rootstock and very grower friendly. It and Ark Black bear the most beautiful fruit I grow, with Spitz not too far behind, but a PL tree well pruned (and it’s easy to manage) is the most beautiful tree in my orchard. It gets its beautiful color long before it’s ready to harvest so you can admire it for over a month.
I grow both the original strain and the somewhat earlier ripening Barnsby strain. When we get a long growing season here in NY, I prefer the original, otherwise Barnsby is much better.
Those of you in Z7 and higher should probably stick with the original.
By late winter, Pink Lady and Goldrush are the apples I most use for fresh eating out of my storage fridge.
Picked and ate my last Pink Lady today. First fruit of the year. It tasted great and texture was still good.
Wow incredible you can pick pink lady fruit after new years. Did you have frost yet and does it affect the apples? Or rain? I put a pink lady last year in the ground and very happy for that when I see all these great reports. I also live in 9a (portugal mountains) and summer is very hot and drought and winter quite wet and frosty.
Happy new year pink ladies 
Sounds like we may have somewhat similar climates. It has been a relatively warm winter so far with little rain (5 or 6 inches). The temps have dropped down to ~25F but only a handful of times. The little amount of rain we’ve had didn’t seem to affect the fruit much if at all.
