I need some help identifying a late apple in an 20-year old abandoned orchard. There are some tags of some trees, so it gives me some idea of relative ripening times.
This apple ripens later than Honeycrisp (the tree is bare). SnowSweet and Rubinette are still hanging on tree but both are falling. Rubinette is falling, but SnowSweet is hanging tighter and needs a good pull to release. Rubinette is basically full red while SnowSweet is half green and red right now.
There is another unlabeled tree producing really big apples, which I think might be a wolf river (based on size, since I don’t know any other large late apples)? The suspected wolf river is basically bare now (I managed to pick the last of two apples.)
The apple I like though seems to be red on green. Mostly red. Slightly yellow flesh, doesn’t seem to brown much. It has a sharp tart taste. Once fully red it is starting to get a bit mealy. The picture I took of the cut apples was done 30 minutes after they were cut.
These apple trees all came from Cummins, Schlabach, ACN, and or OGW. None of these companies keep 10+ year old sale records, so I was unable to narrow the possibilities down.
Based on ripening time, I was thinking maybe King David? Macoun?