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[tanis cuff <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

Congratulations! That's still my favorite chance seedling.  Although the 
original tree on its own roots dropped most of its fruit in the drought, just 
before ripening.  BUT, the one on Bud.118 had so many fruits-- and held onto 
them-- that the tree is falling over.  (Note for orchard planners: Bud.118 is 
better for small apples-- less total weight when tree is full!)  I have 
another on home-grown seedling, and it had no fruit altho the tree is mature, 
and blossomed this year.  On EMLA7 it just doesn't want to perform here.  It 
barely grows!  Soil?

Anyway, on the Bud.118 it had a long ripening season.  Mid Sept, though a bit 
green, til later in Oct.  I originally used Bud.118 for its advertized 
drought tolerance, and the last 2 years proved it.  Lowville/B118 was my only 
mid-season tree with fruit still in the tree for ripening.

I'm still trying to figure out how to store it.  It is so sensitive to 
freezing, AND wants to pick up stray odors.  But what a nice apple.  (For the 
uninitiated, we're talking about a yellower & prettier version of Zestar, 
with a more delicate crispiness, slightly zippier flavor.)

I have 2 other chance seedlings I'm learning to admire, altho they are both 
just "wormy little crabapples".  I like the sweet-tart flavor, and one or the 
other or both usually bear well, in the wet years & the dry.  Better than no 
apples.

Typo: below should say "refrigerator set a little too low".  I was typing on 
a keyboard which kept sending the cursor to a previous paragraph.

tc

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> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:55:05 -0500
> From: loneroc1@gmail.com
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Apple freeze question
>
> Hi Tanis,
>
> We had the first two fruits on your Lowvill(e?) apple this fall. They were
> ripe way before any potential frosts. Have you found a wild seedling that
> you like better?
>
> Steve Herje
> Lone Rock, Southwest Wisconsin


> On Oct 31, 2013 11:34 AM, "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mine vary a lot. Some show damage from light frosts which don't bother
>> the apples in the next tree of different variety. My favorite chance
>> seedling is very sensitive to freezing, and gets damaged by light frosts
>> and is the first thing to freeze in a refrigerator set I little too low.
>>
>> I had more losses from the summer drought this year than from cold so far
>> this autumn.
>>
>> tc, sWI, on sandy soil which repels rain clouds
>>
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