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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: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:10:32 -0400

This 'Old Fashioned Winesap' is from Lee Calhoun.
 
I should modify my statement below. My OFW are slightly earlier than the Terry Winters as although I harvested many at the same time, the OFW are all gone and I do have some Terry Winters still on the tree.
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To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
From: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>
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Date: 10/09/2010 02:28PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] best late apples

Betsy,

Winesap is a wonderful name for an apple, which is probably why it's been used for so many different cultivars!  The Winesaps I have grown or purchased from Southern orchards, including Sweet Winesap, Stayman Winesap, Red Winesap and some others were all late Fall & ahead of Winter Terry.  I'm very interested in your Winesap strain that appears to be a couple of weeks later than the ones I've known.

Anton
North Carolina Piedmont

-----Original Message-----
>From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
>Sent: Oct 8, 2010 5:02 PM
>To: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] best late apples
>
>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
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>
>
>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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