I sent mine off the first of October and received the results early March. Mine was a simple test.
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I’m going to donate some Summer Banana leaves and funds to add to their system.
Kinnairds Choice is in the accessory section with no know parentage.
No Rebel or Red Rebel. I believe these two are different. No sign of either on the main page or the accessory page
No Dixie Red delight on either section.
Fort’s Prize/ Jim Kell Thinskin parentage was a surprise for me. Plus the “Pink Sugar” thing too. Never heard that reference.
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I wonder how recent this list was compiled, for it had no parentage for Black Oxford. The 2025 Fedco Tree/Shrub catalog mentions as a test they paid for that Black Oxford is a cross of Hunt Russet and Blue Pearmain.
Not a complaint, as the apple genome is being tested at this writing, no doubt. Someone on this thread might want to know about the parentage of Black Oxford.
Reinette Franche appears as the seed parent for many high-flavored apples. It also lurks behind the scenes, as that list shows R. de Hollande a seedling of R. Franche and R. des Carmes, while R. de Hollande is seed parent to Lamb Abbey, one of my favorites.
Thanks for posting that list.
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When I sent in samples to WSU last April I got the results 10 months later. Good thing, since I had mislabeled two of my trees and now await debut samples from Twenty Ounce.
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I grafted 4 Reinette des Carmes trees on B.118 in 2020 and may have fruit this year. I received the scion from Scott. I think I had one apple last year, but I don’t recall anything about its characteristics. Interesting it is showing up as a parent to Pearmains. Adam’s Pearmain has been fire blight prone for me, and of low vigor.
I’m grateful FB is only briefly a concern most years around here. I’ve seen it only once as Honeycrisp was blooming.
For anyone still checking on this thread, the MyFruitTree website is back, but now at a new domain! Here’s the link: myfruittree.cahnrs.wsu.edu
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Still waiting for results from last October. I was told in April it’d be ready at the end of June.
Edit..I’m told it’ll be another month
Re-edit…now I’m told it’ll be September
Thanks for attaching it. Links to it on the new UofW website generated an error message.
I have an apple tree that was supposed to be a R.I.Greening apple. When it produced apples they were no where close to being a R.I.Greening. Neither looks, taste, nor ripening time.
So I send the leaves to be DNA tested by U of W. It was almost 5 months to get the results. It is a Tolman Sweet apple. Now that I read about what they are supposed taste like it makes sense.
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What worries me about testing more unusual heirloom apples, is how they determine what the real apple X is? There got to be mislabeling and maybe even more than one variety going under the same name for some. You’d really have to go to several sources and sample them to establish an identity. If you just have individual submissions for not previously tested varieties , then I think that the results should be treated as tentative.
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Friends in Maine love their Tolman Sweet, so you may have lucked out. I know you’re not in Maine but you may have a winner.
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Absolutely.. It appears that that’s why the last tab/sheet on the MyFruitTree spreadsheet exists. It is labeled:
Accessory Profiles with cultivar names but insufficient confidence in identity of DNA profile for Reference Panel inclusion
Although I don’t know how many different “Cultivar X” samples they have to receive from different people.. Before declaring that that DNA fingerprint is indeed it.
Although I’m not a big fan of Tolman Sweet, since it isn’t balanced with any tart, it usually scores quite well in our apple taste tests.
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I tend toward Pink Lady and Braeburn apples. Some acid pop to them. Occasionally I might go for a Gala.
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Cameron presented on this at 2024 Maine Apple Camp! Essentially, a cultivar has to accumulate 10 points to be added to the Reference Panel. Points can come from multiple tests from different sources, pedigree accuracy, phenotypic match, etc., etc. Cameron also presents certain cases to the Historic Fruit Tree Working Group for discussion on identity. There have definitely been a few mistakes over the years, but for the most part the reference panel is the most accurate information we have based on the technology and knowledge currently available.
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I agree with you. Having this apple identified as a Tolman Sweet makes sense. Once I compared what I had with the details of what a Tolman Sweet is it was a happy surprise. It has done better than I thought it would have done. A great apple variety mistake in my favor.
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I contacted WSU to inquire about testing of ATUS-001. It’s a tree that grows here and is available at Blue Hill as “Smitty’s Seedling”. It is a unique variety.
Father is most likely Mcintosh but could be a Mac child(much less likely statistically), mother is for sure a crab and the only one in their dataset that matches is Whitney. I could pay for further testing but Cameron Peace felt pretty confident they had it right. I’ll accept it as “fact”.
Interesting process. I’m glad it’s available for everyday folks
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