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[kim m <fruitgrowing101@gmail.com>]

Sarah et all. I did a pruning job on a old red fleshed apple tree in West Edmonton last year.

It was distributed by the U of A in the 1950's. It's probably Almata. I will be returning to see if the tree has survived and i will try to collect some budwood. It's a really nice apple. The tree is quite old and was in poor health.

 

Cheers

 

Kim

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi Derry and others,

Windmill Point Farm in Quebec carries a stunning, large, very dark red fleshed apple  called "Purple Passion" that I am very excited to have now own two trees of.  They seem to be really hardy as both mine made it through last winter's -45C with no die back at all.  I've tasted "Purple Passion" and it is definitely for juicing/jelly: the juice is on the tart side and the flesh is not so much melting as it is inedible cellulose that you just can't eat!

Canada's Clonal Genebank (contact Margie Luffman) has a great collection of red fleshed apples.  Just off the top of my head I can think of Geneva, Geneva Crab, Crab 6, Shelley, Wisley, and Scugog that they carry.

I also have a couple of "All Purple Jason Jansen" apples which has been given a new name that I need to track down.  They also seem hardy, but mine are only a foot or so tall so it'll be a few years before I can share budwood.

If you have of any others that you would be willing to share/trade budwood for next spring, please let me know. I fell in love with red fleshed apples when I saw "Purple Passion" at a Fruit Grower's Festival at the Devonian Botanic Gardens a few years ago and now I'm trying to collect every one I can find with the idea of breeding a cold hardy red-fleshed apples that is good for eating (yes, I know that is a lofty goal even for a 36 year old!).


Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


--- On Sun, 5/10/09, derry&bill <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:

> From: derry&bill <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca>
> Subject: [NAFEX] red-fleshed apple trees in Canada
> To: "nafex" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Received: Sunday, May 10, 2009, 5:07 PM

> I've received a request from a fellow
> in Ontario looking for red-fleshed
> apple trees.
>
> I've referred him to Harry Burton on Saltspring Island,
> B.C., and to
> Siloam Orchards in Ontario.
>
> Does any one know of other sources of red-fleshed apple
> trees in Canada?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Derry Walsh
> south coastal B.C.
>
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