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[Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca>]

Personnally, I suspect there is quite a bit of confusion about true to name 
Golden Russet. I have G.Russet and Ashmead's Kernel, and once picked, I 
can't tell them apart - give me a basket of each, and they just look and 
taste identical. Maybe one of the two has the wrong identity? I came to 
think that at a certain point in the apple history, any apple that looked 
like the G.rsst was called by that name!
Claude

At 14:20 2009-10-13, you wrote:
> I have 3 Golden Russet types in my orchard (SW Iowa zone 5)  I have an 
> English Golden Russet, American Golden Russet, and Ashmead's Kernal.  The 
> English Golden Russet seems to have less russetting than the other two 
> apples.  The American Golden Russet is a flatter apple.  The Ashmead's 
> Kernal is larger and has less russetting than the American.  They are all 
> tip bearers.  The American Golden Russet bears almost every year while the 
> Ashmead's Kernal took a long time to come into bearing and tends to be a 
> shy bearer (except this year).  My favorite use of the apples is for 
> drying.  They make the most flavorful dried apples.  I do not have good 
> luck keeping them.  My orchard is organic (I don't have time to spray) and 
> they do get some insect pressure.  Chieftain and Paragon keep much better 
> with their slick skins.
> Judson L. Frisk
>
>
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> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ed Fackler
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:45 AM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Golden Russet apple
>
> Andy:
>
>      I'd suspect that the "good" one is the true Golden Russet.  And the 
> other Golden Russet sounds like the one I had...or just okay, not great, 
> matured later (mid Oct.) with a very weeping or willowy growth habit.
>
> ed
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Whipple, Andy 
> <<mailto:ANWHIPPLE@tayloru.edu>ANWHIPPLE@tayloru.edu> wrote:
> Brian and Ed,
>
> I have two different Golden Russets in my little orchard.  One is a 
> small-medium,  fairly round fruit, that is one of our favorites  (east 
> central Indiana, zone 5b, maybe an hour east and north from Brian).  It is 
> ready in late September – early October at which time it is hard, crisp, 
> quite sweet and juicy  yet with many other flavors so as to make it quite 
> tasty.  It's much more than simply sweet.  The other Golden Russet 
> produces fruit that are medium in size and rather flattened in 
> shape.  They are sweet and adequately juicy, but not nearly as 
> full-flavored as the other Golden Russet.  That tree I've top worked to 
> other varieties given its lesser quality of fruit.
>
> This year I had the most fireblight I've had in the orchard, but I don't 
> recall the good Golden Russet being infected.  With just one tree, though, 
> that's not much to go on
>
> So which of these is the True Golden Russet?  I don't know, but perhaps Ed 
> can comment.  We really do like the eating out of hand quality of the 
> round Golden Russet, though  I can't comment on its use in hard cider.
>
> Andy Whipple, just outside of Upland, Indiana
>
> From: 
> <mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org>nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ed Fackler
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:58 AM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Golden Russet apple
>
> Brian:
>
>      I was never that impressed with it's flavor even when fully 
> mature.  And it is hyper sensitive to fireblight.
>
> ed
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Raby, Brian 
> <<mailto:brian.raby@roche.com>brian.raby@roche.com> wrote:
> Wanted to throw this out to the audience.  My friend and I are beginning 
> our experiment with apples to test for our hard cider brew.  He had heard 
> that Golden Russets were a good apple to use in the mix so last weekend he 
> bought a bushel to press and test.
>
> I've got one at my desk right now and as I'm chomping into it, I'm not 
> very impressed with the flavor or the juiciness (concerned about how much 
> liquid we will get from the pressing).  Kind of reminds me of Honeycrisp 
> with the snap that you get when you bite into it.
>
> Is this one of those apples that getting better as it sits?  I'd say the 
> apple was picked a little premature because the exterior, except for the 
> russeting, is more green than yellow.  But then, I don't know much about 
> the apple.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
> Zone 5a/b
> Sheridan, IN
>
>
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