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  • From: Michael Nave <jmichaelnave@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Honeycrisp vs Arkansas Black
  • Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:54:40 -0700 (PDT)


Someone was selling it at a farmers market in Spokane
a few years ago. I didn't get it, but now I wish I had
tried it. I've never seen it anywhere else.


--- "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com> wrote:

> Garfield Shults's "Coconut Crunch". Extremely
> solid, long keeping
> apple with the texture of a big chunk of coconut.
> But from what
> Garfield says, they need all kinds of calcium or
> they rot or go spongy
> in a hurry. He showed me CC fruit that was still
> very solid and decent
> eating even after the next year's crop had been
> harvested.
> -Lon Rombough
> Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape
> Grower, at
> http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden
> Writers Association
> "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
> For even more grape lessons, go to
> http://www.grapeschool.com
> For all other things grape,
> http://www.vitisearch.com
>
> On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Michael Nave wrote:
>
> LOL
>
> What were the hardest?
>
>
> --- "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com> wrote:
>
> > Arkansas Black is crisp? That's like saying
> diamond
> > is firm. The
> > Arkansas Black I've had were the second hardest
> > apples I've ever had.
> > You could break a tooth on one that hadn't been in
> > storage for several
> > months, at least.
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