Anyone out east growing any of the Redlove variety apples, specifically Redlove Era? I am wondering about its fireblight and overall disease resistance. There’s not much online or youtube except for some comments about scab resistance, or people growing in WA state that don’t have the same susceptibilities. Would love to hear testimonies or see pics, thanks!
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If you like a sour apple, try Cierce. Odysso has disappointed. Can’t think of a reason I’d like to try Era. ?
what was less desirable about Odysso? A guy on youtube i watched grew Odysso and Era and like Era better.
i have odysso but the 2 fruitlets it set were stole by birds. maybe get to taste it next year. if they aren’t very good ill probably graft it over to black oxford.
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I have era but it’s still to young to produce. I haven’t noted any more disease on it than the handful of others I have going. My main pressure is CAR.
It does get some nice fall color so that’s something.
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Odysso is advertised to be higher in sugars. So far, if it’s highest, I’d just as soon have Niedzwetzkyana.
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is it edible though? i prefer tart apples myself
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I have Era. Small, hard, sour, a bit dry. They do have pink flowers and red flesh.
I also have Calypso, Odysso, and a non-Redlove, Otterson. I my garden, Calypso has a bit better flavor and not quite as dry, but if not for the red flesh I wouldn’t grow any of them. The red color leaches out on cooking, so an apple pie with one Redlove Era and ten Jonathans tastes pretty good and has a red-ish color to the apples.
I’m going to over-graft most if not all of my Redloves this winter, with something better.
I’m in WA State so maybe yours will be different. I have not had disease problems. Pretty much my only really scabby apple is Airlie Redflesh.
I have about 15 varieties of apple. The Redloves are the only ones that I really don’t like, Well, and Otterson, which is even more red, and maybe slightly better than the Redloves.
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Red love apples taste very good if they are stored for about 1-2 months in the fridge. Even 15 days improves flavor dramatically Directly off the tree they are all mediocre.
I grow dozens of apple varieties and red love apples hold their own. More tart, berry notes, slightly less sweet but very tasty.
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I had expected Redlove to be mostly bluster and hype. Proved correct.
But, I collected a bunch of red fleshed cultivars…intending to get them to have children using a tastier apple as the marriage partner. (If not for breeding, I’d probably graft mine over too.)