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[Karen Tillou <arboretum@homeorchardsociety.org>]

i have:

enterprise: fairly reliable every year if you keep them thinned, nice eating quality, decent keeping for a month or two at least in the garage, not an AM magnet. 

fortune: in the middle with regards to apple maggot (not as bad as akane or russets, but it gets it), i love its color and spiciness - it used to be one of my favorites, but now it's lower on that list due to too many varieties.

grimes golden: denser and spicier flavored than G Del, but with a tendency towards biennial bearing.  that said, i got my best grimes' ever this year, with very little AM and not enough scab to mention.  lovely.  they don't hold on the tree, but they don't all drop off like a macintosh either.  

redfree: a nice early-ish apple, after gravs, seems to have some scab and AM resistances as it is usually quite clean.  no keeper, just a clean, average apple flavor, nothing fancy. goes biennial without thinning.

karen

oregon city, OR - zone 8a and wet

On Oct 8, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Richard MURPHY wrote:

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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