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  • From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
  • To: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] best late apples
  • Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:02:53 -0400

I'm enjoying an Old Fashioned Winesap right now, it is coming ripe at
the same time as my Terry Winters. It is a larger fruit than the Terry
Winters for me and very tasty! My Yates are not quite ready.

Betsy Hilborn
7a NC



From: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: 10/06/2010 09:51 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] best late apples
Sent by: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org



Yup, I've grown all of those down here & my experience agrees with yours
in several ways... Newtown Pippin (& Winesap) are too early down here to
be considered a very late apple (actually they're all ripe before
Yates). Pink Lady is >highly< susceptible to fireblight (at least
here). Granny's do ripen very well here. I've never eaten a Granny
Smith of better quality than those grown on our Georgia farm. They were
also a bit more blushed than what you find in the store. Much sweeter,
too, though without losing the tart, just in balance. Unfortunately,
both it an Arkansas Black also will succumb to fireblight as well,
though it may take a couple of decades.

Our neighbor had some very nice Winter Terry apples last year that were
very good. They seem to be in the same season as Yates, but larger and
more flavorful. I've not grown this cultivar myself.

Anton
North Carolina, low 40's tonight.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 6, 2010 2:14 PM
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [NAFEX] best late apples
>
>I'm up in Z6 but you already have about the best late great keeper in
>Goldrush as far as I'm concerned. Just as good in a different taste is
Pink
>Lady, but it's bound to be harder to grow than Goldrush. In heirlooms
>Winesap and Arkansas Black fill the bill. Up here so does Newtown
Pippin
>but down there it might ripen too early to really store well deep into
>winter. Your season might be almost long enough to properly ripen
Granny
>Smith which they don't seem to be able to do in E. Washington state.

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