Who is growing Brown’s Apple?

General Fruit Growing
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Brown’s Apple is a great apple for sweet cider? Anyone with experience growing it? Curious about disease resistance and weather tolerance.

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I am, but I don’t have many useful observations. I have it on B9, but it is only just done with its second season. Of all my trees it was the last to harden off. I think it followed the same trend last year. It essentially had a full compliment of leaves until last weekend when I went out to strip them in the snow. Not sure if that is the scion or rootstock trait. It is my only Bud.9 rootstock.

I haven’t had fireblight, so I’m not a good judge on FB. It is in my neighborhood though. A rogue fruiting pear next to a couple callery pears on the street about 4 blocks away had blossom and fruit blight awful this year.

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Levers,
Thanks for that information. I think the younger trees keep their leaves longer because my small trees do that. I grow about 30 apple trees right now and want to get that number up to 60. I’m looking for an apple like browns with a reportedly unique and good flavor. I like sweet apples, crabapples, and some sour apples. Sour apples like Granny Smith I love when I’m in the mood for them. Let’s hope someone has tried one and can tell us more.

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Clark, it appears Cummins has it for this year. Here is a link to it, with some info on it:

http://shop.cumminsnursery.com/shop/apple-trees/browns-apple

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Thanks for the link the “Susceptible to fire blight” description is a deal breaker for me. Would have got it had it no been susceptible.

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Distillery Lane here in Maryland grows a Browns Apple. I am not sure its true to type though, its huge and has no stripes at all. Their Browns has been good for what its worth. There have been many cases of mis-id’s on cider apples, lots of trading before fruiting happened.

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