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Mark, I suggest you consider some of the
older cultivars: Stayman Winesap, Jonathan, Grimes Golden, and Golden
Delicious. Admittedly some are challenging to grow [Jonathan: fireblight;
Grimes Golden: crown rot (so have to have the cultivar on a resistant
interstem)] but all of these have marvelous flavor when grown well in
Kansas. -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.
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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mark & Helen Angermayer Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 5:14 PM To: North American Fruit Explorers Subject: Re: [NAFEX] best apples article Bob,
Do you know where the sub-quality Sweet 16 & Keepsake
were grown? In other words how far south were they
grown? I would like to grow some good tasting apples down here
in Kansas but we seem to be in the wrong location for growing any really
good apples. I've heard were too far south for some of those great
Minnesota apples (Keepsake, Honeycrisp, although I did plant a Sweet 16.)
But supposedly they get mushy, drop, won't produce, or are just not very good
quality with our hot summers (the Missouri extension doesn't even recommend
Jonagold-another favorite-as it's too hot for it.) But I think we're too
far north for Fuji, Pink Lady. They take 200 days to mature and I don't
think we have quite that many growing days here, although I don't know how to
calculate growing days. Ed Fackler once wrote he had 180 growing days in
S. Indiana. I don't know how far south his orchard was, but I'm guessing
it was close to my latitude, which is just south of Kansas City. I'm
really looking for some apples which taste like-in order of preference-
Honeycrisp, Fuji, or Pink Lady that have a similar crispness, which can be grown
here. I think we're considered more or less on the Mason-Dixon
line at 39 degrees latitude.
Mark
In no-man's land
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