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[Chris Garriss <cgarriss@garriss.net>]

Interesting observations about Korean Giant.   I had one in a previous small orchard - central NC near Chapel Hill.   Got it from Bear Creek many years ago.  It grew well, flowered and set fruit well.  Fruit were large, crisp, juicy and sweet.   All around excellent.   I had few if any disease problems.   Even the ubiquitous Japanese beetles left them alone - unlike the apples, plums, cherries, medlars, peaches and European pears I grew.  We have hot and humid summers here with winters that often have exceptionally warm spells.  Tree always performed well.  I don't know what stock it was grafted on and I have been gone from there for 20 years.   Still in NC, but a different area.   Chris

On Jun 21, 2010 7:36 PM, "Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu" <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote:

Apple? - "MonArk" - probably the best apple in my orchard.  Ripe mid-July; large,
firm, crisp red-over-green apple with white flesh, good for fresh eating or cooking;
keeps well under refrigeration for up to 6-8 wks.   Good disease resistance, to boot.
Fred Wiche, the long-revered Louisville radio personality who had a Saturday morning
gardening show on WHAS always pushed 'Gold Rush' as the best apple for the
Kentuckiana area.
Ed Fackler should weigh in...

Looking at that UofKY list, I'll take some exception with their Asian pear list -
Niitaka is OK, but produces relatively flavorless little pingpong ball-size fruits
unless you are relentless about thinning.  Korean Giant - though many folks sing its
praises, and maybe mine was not true to name - was a dog here - rarely set more than
2 or 3 fruits - and they'd be huge watery tasteless things - not much tastier than a
raw potato; and a fireblight magnet/cripple/fatality, at that.

Lucky

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Gang:

I could use apple and pear suggestions for Louisville Kentucky. I am making a gift
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