[NAFEX] Honeycrisp vs Arkansas Black

Michael Nave jmichaelnave at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 25 01:54:40 EDT 2007


Someone was selling it at a farmers market in Spokane
a few years ago. I didn't get it, but now I wish I had
tried it. I've never seen it anywhere else. 


--- "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom at hevanet.com> wrote:

> Garfield Shults's "Coconut Crunch".   Extremely
> solid, long keeping 
> apple with the texture of a big chunk of coconut. 
> But from what 
> Garfield says, they need all kinds of calcium or
> they rot or go spongy 
> in a hurry.  He showed me CC fruit that was still
> very solid and decent 
> eating even after the next year's crop had been
> harvested.
> -Lon Rombough
> Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape
> Grower, at 
> http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden
> Writers Association 
> "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
> For even more grape lessons, go to 
> http://www.grapeschool.com
> For all other things grape,  
> http://www.vitisearch.com
> 
> On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Michael Nave wrote:
> 
> LOL
> 
> What were the hardest?
> 
> 
> --- "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom at hevanet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Arkansas Black is crisp?  That's like saying
> diamond
> > is firm.  The
> > Arkansas Black I've had were the second hardest
> > apples I've ever had.
> > You could break a tooth on one that hadn't been in
> > storage for several
> > months, at least.
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