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[NAFEX] photograph of the rootstock apple Bud-118 heavy with fruit.

From: BekeeprTop@aol.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] photograph of the rootstock apple Bud-118 heavy with fruit.
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:50:50 EST

Someone on the list posted a link, from which further exploration led to this photograph:
http://res2.agr.ca/kentville/pubs/fact01-01/B118/images/B.118Big_b.jpg
which is a photograph of the rootstock apple Bud-118 heavy with fruit.

At NAFEX convention in New Hampshire a few years back, one of the speakers with cider apple orchard said Bud-118 was being tested for cider to contribute some quality of taste or another. I thought this photo was interesting because the photo suggests the tree can bear about as heavy as any well known fruiting apple. Bud-118 is nearly a standard-size tree, but is also productive young, unusual for standard-size-type apple rootstocks, and imparts this productive young trait to its grafted on varieties. Has anyone tasted Bud-118's own apples? What do they taste like?

Charlie Paradise, Massachusetts

[NAFEX] photograph of the rootstock apple Bud-118 heavy with fruit., BekeeprTop, 10/31/2006