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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

Thanks John.
I was looking at this web site:
http://members.shaw.ca/BNikolai/Photonew.html
If the apple pictured is supposed to be their 922 end, then mine looks 
wrong. Maybe it's just a random picture. (That is why I asked in the 
first place.)
From that page, if you click on "apple notes" then scroll all the way 
down, there are some notes on the origin of 922 end apples. They say 
they are ripe on September 10th in Alberta. I had assumed they would 
ripen at an earlier date here. Maybe not. Maybe Alberta has more sunny 
warm days than I have here.

Steve


On 10/1/2011 11:55 AM, John Bunker wrote:
> Hello Steve,
>
> I know that at one time I ran across the apple and may have even
> received scionwood at some point.  I do have it growing at this time.
> It may be  a Minnesota apple from "Minnesota Harvest" orchard,
> introduced by a man named Sponselli.  It may also be a variety from
> Canada or Alaska.
> Maybe that helps a little-
> John Bunker
> Fedco
> trees@fedcoseeds.com
> www.fedcoseeds.com
> PO Box 520
> Waterville ME 04903
> 207-873-7333
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Steve wrote:
>
> > Anyone here growing the apple called 922 end?
> > I don't live where it gets so cold that I actually need this
> > variety. It
> > usually gets =30 to -40 every winter but there is an abundance of
> > other
> > apples to grow.
> > A few years ago, I was ordering some scion wood and the description of
> > 922 end made me want to try it. I made 2 grafts; one on the very
> > top, 10
> > feet up in a healthy young tree and the other on a side branch of a
> > declining tree. The declining tree is also young but will die sooner
> > or
> > later due to loss of most of the bark at ground level.
> > Only the graft on the declining tree has produced so far. One apple
> > last
> > year three this year. I'm starting to suspect that the scion wood was
> > mislabeled. I picked the last apple today and it was still firm and
> > tart
> > with some astringency. Wouldn't an apple suited to the far north be
> > ripe
> > before this? Possibly the poor health of that tree could cause the
> > apples to ripen late.
> > The other thing that makes me question it is the appearance. The
> > health
> > of the tree shouldn't affect that very much. The apple I picked today
> > was green and yellow with a bit of red striping. The real difference
> > was
> > the shape. Every 922 end produced (all 4 of them) had a very squat
> > shape. The apples are MUCH wider than they are tall. I would have
> > taken
> > a picture but I ate the last one before I thought of that. Pictures
> > shown on the internet show a normal shaped apple with a red blush on
> > one
> > side. Mine doesn't match that at all.
> >
> > So, can anyone offer any reason to believe I actually have 922 end
> > or am
> > I right about the mislabeling? I'll probably let the graft on the
> > healthy tree produce before I judge them to be worthless.
> >
> > Steve in the Adirondacks (zone 4 on a good year)
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