Thanks for reminding me Ed, Pristine would make a good deer apple, but.........it is very biennial, you have to thin a lot in early years and it will drop by October here in Vermont. I like having some early ones like Pristine, zestar!, Initial and Yellow Transparent, it gets some deer coming early.
I haven't done it, but if you created an orchard of these trees you would set up a great early kill zone to take out some does. This would leave other areas quiet for the rut.
They eat bigger apples just fine here Art. They pass up any wild ones for Honey gold here.
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