[NAFEX] best late apples

Anton Callaway marillen at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 9 14:28:33 EDT 2010


Betsy,

Winesap is a wonderful name for an apple, which is probably why it's been used for so many different cultivars!  The Winesaps I have grown or purchased from Southern orchards, including Sweet Winesap, Stayman Winesap, Red Winesap and some others were all late Fall & ahead of Winter Terry.  I'm very interested in your Winesap strain that appears to be a couple of weeks later than the ones I've known.

Anton
North Carolina Piedmont

-----Original Message-----
>From: Hilborn.E at epamail.epa.gov
>Sent: Oct 8, 2010 5:02 PM
>To: Anton Callaway <marillen at earthlink.net>, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] best late apples
>
>I'm enjoying an Old Fashioned Winesap right now, it is coming ripe at
>the same time as my Terry Winters. It is a larger fruit than the Terry
>Winters for me and very tasty!  My Yates are not quite ready.
>
>Betsy Hilborn
>7a NC
>
>
>
>From:	Anton Callaway <marillen at earthlink.net>
>To:	North American Fruit Explorers <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Date:	10/06/2010 09:51 PM
>Subject:	Re: [NAFEX] best late apples
>Sent by:	nafex-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
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>
>Yup, I've grown all of those down here & my experience agrees with yours
>in several ways... Newtown Pippin (& Winesap) are too early down here to
>be considered a very late apple (actually they're all ripe before
>Yates).  Pink Lady is >highly< susceptible to fireblight (at least
>here).  Granny's do ripen very well here.  I've never eaten a Granny
>Smith of better quality than those grown on our Georgia farm.  They were
>also a bit more blushed than what you find in the store.  Much sweeter,
>too, though without losing the tart, just in balance.  Unfortunately,
>both it an Arkansas Black also will succumb to fireblight as well,
>though it may take a couple of decades.
>
>Our neighbor had some very nice Winter Terry apples last year that were
>very good.  They seem to be in the same season as Yates, but larger and
>more flavorful.  I've not grown this cultivar myself.
>
>Anton
>North Carolina, low 40's tonight.
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Oct 6, 2010 2:14 PM
>>To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
>>Subject: [NAFEX] best late apples
>>
>>I'm up in Z6 but you already have about the best late great keeper in
>>Goldrush as far as I'm concerned.  Just as good in a different taste is
>Pink
>>Lady, but it's bound to be harder to grow than Goldrush.  In heirlooms
>>Winesap and Arkansas Black fill the bill.  Up here so does Newtown
>Pippin
>>but down there it might ripen too early to really store well deep into
>>winter.   Your season might be almost long enough to properly ripen
>Granny
>>Smith which they don't seem to be able to do in E. Washington state.
>
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