Rubiayat

[thecityman]

What an amazing looking fruit!!! A few weeks/months ago someone here made a whole thread just asking if anyone knew of any red fleshed apples or crab apples. I hope they see that photo if they don’t already know about it, because that about the reddest flesh I’ve seen on an apple or crab apple! Very cool!!!

EDIT/UPDATE
I searched for the thread of the person who was looking for red fleshed apple/crab apples and it turns out there were 2 people in 2 threads who were looking for red flesh, so I hope they will see your post and photos here. I’ll try to help by tagging them below:

Experience with Red Fleshed Apples

Hi all, I’m curious what people’s experience with red fleshed apples is. I don’t have any, but I’d like to get one. My goal is to do some breeding work with one. It seems like most breeding has been done from Niedzwetzkyana Crabapples. So that seems like an option. Or maybe there are other options out there. Arboreum offered arborose last year, which sounded pretty good, but they’re good at marketing and tend to make all their stuff sound good. Thanks, -Steven

Red fleshed peaches and apples

Lately i have grown an interest in red fleshed fruit. I already had a red fleshed peach variety, very common over here, that i remembered fondly from when i was young and was one of the first i planted. Recently i have included a couple more and i just love the looks and flavor of these peaches. Even more recently i have added several new varieties of red fleshed apples. According to the sellers they are less acidic and have more sugar than the old red fleshed varieties (some of these old ones…