This one is a winner here in the north. Precocious, and tasty, quite nice for a late summer apple. Golden delicious parentage lends some richness to the flavor. Beautiful fruit in a no-spray environment! Must be scab resistant or immune, alon with reported rust and fireblight tolerance. My 5th leaf trees on antonovka have a couple dozen apples at least per tree-productive.
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Nice looking apples Jesse. I never heard of a Red Baron. Will have to do some research on it. That is precocious for a 5th leaf Antonovka!
This variety started producing fruit 2 years after planting, now in year five the trees are turning it on!
Very nice growing tree with wide branch angles, virtually no training needed. Plenty of scionwood come fall if you want to try it, Rick.
Thanks for the offer. I may take you up on that.
What other apple varieties that you grow are showing strong disease resistance. Am trying no spray apples in zone 7.
Trailman crab, Baldwin, Cox OP have all made some nice apples without spray. I have a few of the modern disease resistant cultivars, but no cropping on those yet, a few Goldrush will hopefully ripen in late oct…
Wow, ripe already for you? U. of Minnesota says mid-Sept. Put me down for some scions too if you’re willing. Sounds like a good one for my low spray multigrafts.
Plenty of material, Kelby. Just remind me in Feb 2016!
I will be making more trees with this variety for my nursery, it has impressed me.
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Another day’s picking, about a third of the total crop from my two RB trees. I will put some into cold storage and see how they hold up. Son is set for fruit in his school lunches!
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Jesse, that is a lovely, lovely basket of apples. Your son is going to have lunches worth envying.
Is it a crispy and wet apple Jesse?
Crisp, coarse fleshed, not especially juicy, nor especially acidic, fairly mild flavored.
JesseS, how north is, north? Said somebody living in SE-OH.