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["Eddie Earles" <jas39a@earthlink.net>]

I raise Enterprise.  The apples are large, and the tree is productive (on M7).  The flavor is fair-to-good...certainly edible, but not on a par with my wonderful Stayman Winesaps (if you want a really good, large apple, plant a Stayman!!).  The texture of enterprise is very crisp; they fracture when you bite into them.  They are juicy and do not get mealy, even in storage.  Their disease resistance is not as great as claimed.  Every year about 5 to 8 percent of my Enterprise apples have scab; and the tree occasionally gets hit by fire blight, although it is certainly very tolerant of it.  The apples are highly susceptible to brown rot, and require regular spraying of Captan to control it.  The twigs are very long, slender, and drooping, and sometimes break from the weight of the fruit, which attains large size without thinning. 

 

Overall, it's a good apple, and easy to raise in an area, like mine (along the Chesapeake Bay) that has hot, humid growing seasons and a lot of disease pressure.

 

Eddie Earles

----- Original Message -----

From: Richard MURPHY

To: nafex

Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:31 PM

Subject: [NAFEX] apple poll

Hello Addicts;

 

Do any of you grow any of these?

 

Dayton

Enterprise

Freedom

Redfree

Fortune

Beacon

Norkent

Grimes Golden (any advantage over Golden Delicious?)

Connell Red

Regent

 

I have all the text book descriptions of these apples, but they may leave out such things as, 'not precocious, bad keeper, apple maggot magnet, drops fruit too early, grows slow, poor crotch angles, whatever.

 

These apples will be for Roadside Sale for fresh eating, and the leftovers go into the cider press. I am going to buy about 20 trees; maybe 30, on M111 or EMLA 7 stock.

I have no plans to buy 'cider' apples.

 

Thanks in advance for your opinions, good or bad.

 

Murph

 

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