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["loneroc" <loneroc@mwt.net>]

Hi Charlie,

 

Bud 118 has lovely pink flowers and a columnar habit (until the weight of the fruit drags the branches down).  Bud 118 has sweet fruit with a relatively low acid levels and a nice dose of soft tannins--something that hard cider makers value for imparting depth (mouthfeel) to the cider. It's nothing you'd want to eat for dessert.  Most European cider apples (generally so tannic as to be inedible) are not reliably hardy in zones 3-4, so the usual source of tannin for Northerners has been crabs of various sorts.  These also tend to be very high in acid and have not allowed cider makers to control levels of acid and tannin independently.

 

3-4 years ago I wrote the cider makers e-list about my observation (I had a Bud 118 that I never got around to grafting).  Someone else may have had a similar experience with Bud 118 or perhaps passed my observations along.  I've not made hard cider for a couple years because I still have gallons and gallons I've not even bottled yet, so I have no more recent experience to share bout Bud 118's cider making characteristics.

 

Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI USDA zone 3-4

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Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:50 AM

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

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

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