@SkillCult a close friend of mine owns the @39thparallel orchard. He has some unique varities of apples you might like and @chartman has some wild apples in his area (including red fleshed types) I think you might be very interested in. Chris has not been on the fruit growing forum lately but he is around. I bring this up because in general I care about fruit growing. I like what your doing with red fleshed apples very much. If your project goes well the next generation may have 50+ types of new red fleshed apples to chose from that actually taste good. I have bred several types of seedling apples over the years and give the scion wood away for others on this forum to grow. I’m focused only on specifically pears that can be grown in Kansas. Fruit growing fell out of favor in Kansas mostly because people don’t have good luck with it. What they do here with row crop farming causes mass erosion. Pears can even be grown spray free here. I have plenty of land already so I don’t need to buy that to grow pears and have experimented with those for many years. My apple breeding project was just an extra project for me Seedling Apples for cider I noticed Chartmans apples were much lighter pink colored. I had a theory since I grow an aronia orchard that maybe the darker color of red causes some bitterness. When I asked Chris about his pink apples he mentioned they tasted good like any apple but not noticeably different. I grow prairie spy apples and see pink veins occasionally in them. Much to my surprise when We cook them they all turn red. They are a very good tasting apple. @chartman
Was also running this website https://smarthunters.proboards.com/ . @derekamills also has many red flesh types of apples and pears he sells if additional materials are needed. I think everyone likes what your doing with the red fleshed apples. I’m waiting to see all the results next time.
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