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- From: "Brungardt, Sam" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>
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- Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Red Delicious
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:02:10 -0600
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About Delicious
lacking the distinctive conical shape with "knobs" on the blossom end: While
Delicous grown in the West have the distinctive shape, the same strain will
often lack it in the East. Since the distincitive shape helps sell
Delcious, some eastern growers spray with the growth regulator Promalin. --
Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.
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Subject: [NAFEX] Red Delicious
In a message dated 3/27/2005 1:17:55 PM US
Eastern Standard Time, lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu writes:From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jwlehman@aol.com
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Subject: [NAFEX] Red Delicious
Can't recall when I've had a grocery store Red Delicious that was worth eating, but have had some home-grown ones that were excellent - probably one of the earlier sports of the original Hawkeye - as they weren't even solid red - and didn't really have that conical shape that the general public has come to expect in a RD.
Lucky
Hello Lucky, etl.,
Let me expand on what you said. I believe the original variety what was named Delicious (may have been Hawkeye Red Del.) is several sports removed from what we see in the grocery stores these days. As I've been told (or read) down through the years Red delicious has mutated many times and when the sport was prettier (darker red or shape) those mutations were propagated. But like so many other fruits being selected for marketing, appearance was consideration #1, not flavor. My understanding agrees with yours, the first variety was red striped not solid and did taste better. Result, today's market Red Delicious should really be called Tastless Pretty Red rather than Red Delicious.
Ed Fackler, can you confirm this?
Jerry
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[NAFEX] Red Delicious,
Jwlehman, 03/27/2005
- Re: [NAFEX] Red Delicious, David Doud, 03/27/2005
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RE: [NAFEX] Red Delicious,
Brungardt, Sam, 03/28/2005
- [NAFEX] Which of the 140 Red Delicious?, Charles Paradise, 03/28/2005
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