Crimson gold Svatava is the name of the apple he is referring to as it is called in the US for those who are curious
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This is from their commercial availability list. Crimson Gold is the name they sell it by- the original name is in parenthesis. CHAT misled me on the name being one word. I guess it was embarrassed for jumping to the conclusion that I was asking about the crab 
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Crimson® Gold (Svatava Cltv.) EMLA 7 217 206 0 0 0 5 4 2 0
I much admire 39th Parallel’s use of “Little Rosybloom” for Etter’s truly medium size apple that CNC entered as Crimson Gold.
Apart from being Etter’s name for the apple; it also sets it apart from the confusion from some operations selling Wickson as “Crimson Gold”.
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How do you like Rosybloom? I’m a fan of medium sized apples over giants.
It is a good sweet tart classic. Fruity. But not as much spice here. Very Juicy. The Kids like them. They are not good for coloring up here though.More stripey.
Looking forward for Etter’s Gold and Waltana to fruit to compare them against each other. Probably 2027 though.The ones on P.2 should be ready then.
Etter’s Crimson Gold is not crab sized. I get pretty good sized apples on a regular basis. They are not uniformly shaped - some are more flattened and some are more round, but they are usually just under 3". I got mine from Ram Fishman in 2018 (?), so I know they’re Etters. They are, indeed, crimson and gold colored, and so therefore would probably not be easily confused with the Czech apple.
I don’t think of Egremont as being a late apple. My goal here is to have multiple blooming dates, and multiple ripening dates, to try to hedge my bets. Egremont is kind of in the middle. It blooms a little later than some of mine, mid-latish April this year (but it also bloomed in October last year, which was weird… never saw that before), and ripens in October. I don’t have Black Oxford, so can’t compare.
I think a lot of my disease pressure is from wood that gets wet in October and stays wet until June… when it still has the likelihood of being wet until about 11am due to fog. (A lot of my trees have moss on them!) I don’t, however, have summer storms that cause wind and fruit damage.
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I am near the coast and the prevailing wind comes off the water, so maybe my site is atypically humid in the autumn. But Egremont is extremely vigorous, probably the most vigorous variety I grow.
I grow roughly 30 varieties and I’ve probably fruited 40-50. Some of these are pure cider apples, so I won’t include them in the list. But the dessert or dual-purpose varieties include Ashmead’s, Rox Russet, Black Oxford, Egremont, Enterprise, Liberty, Hudson’s GG, Jupiter, Belle de Boskoop, Golden Russet, Centennial, Chestnut Crab, Redfree, Munson’s Sweet. I wouldn’t claim that Enterprise is even Top 5 in this group, but it is sweet and juicy with a distinctive, appealing taste.
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