I recognize that this is an old topic, but I just found it. I planted half a dozen Pixie Crunch trees from Cummins a few years ago and they fruited this past fall for the first time. I really love them. They’re small, but they’re easy to grow, the trees are easy to train and the fruit, at least this past fall, were very attractive with no blemishes of any kind. The really good news is that to me at least, the flavor was sensational. Sweeter and less tart than a Honeycrisp, but with the same crisp texture and a very nice apple flavor. I have a brother who tasted a few from my trees and he hasn’t stopped bothering me yet about them, constantly asking, “what’s the name of that apple that I liked?” (he wants to plant some too). The other thing that I noticed in my orchard is a very long harvest season. I have over 30 varieties of apples in my northern Pennsylvania orchard and this is among my two or three favorites (the others being Honeycrisp, Sweet Sixteen and maybe Cox’s Orange Pippin (I’ve only gotten a couple of fruits so far and haven’t completely decided yet)).
