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["David Consolvo" <fruitopia@nexet.net>]

More evaluation of Early Blaze for you.  I've had five trees for 
fourteen years, left by the previous owners.  They bought the 
trees from Stark as "Starkspur Earliblaze".  I agree that they 
are pretty tasty for an early apple, not as complex and intense 
as a late apple can be, but what early apple is?  They ripen 
throughout the month of July here, not very good if you want to 
pick all at once, but nice if you want a few apples a day.  
Unfortunately they don't hang long when ripe, so you lose a lot 
to the ground.  The worst thing about them is that they are 
strongly biennial, and it's hard to thin them enough to get them 
out of this pattern.  Best thing about them is that they are 
STRONGLY resistant to scab, producing fine-looking apples and 
healthy leaves.  No sooty blotch on the apples either.  Some 
susceptibility to fireblight, but it never kills the entire 
tree.  Color is decent.  Tree shape and vigor is average.  They 
bloom earlier than average.

David Consolvo
Hungrytown, Virginia
Zone 7, elevation 1,200 feet 




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