Native Hunter Apples 2023

[Native Hunter]

Native,
What was those striped apples you posted on june 1st.

Ikeman,

If your still following this thread, winesap is triploid. Which means you need 2 different polinators for that tree. They say hewes, liberty, enterprise, redfield, or golden russet are good polinating partners. Any one of those are good later season apples too.

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They are called Striped June and also known as Margaret. They are a vert tart apple that makes a great cooking apple. A better early eating apple that is about 2 weeks later is Bevan's Favorite. It is also striped and looks very similar. Look back at the beginning of this thread for more info.

 

[Native Hunter]

This is the pink cast of the flesh that these apples get when really ripe.

 

[H20fwler]

Those are AWESOME!!!!! ^^^^^^


I need to buy a couple scions from you...I haven't had luck finding any. Those are a double plus, Early drop and red flesh!

 

[Bowsnbucks]

This is the pink cast of the flesh that these apples get when really ripe.

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Spray or no-spray? They look great!!

 

[Native Hunter]

Spray or no-spray? They look great!!

I'm 100% no spray.

 

[SwampCat]

I'm 100% no spray.

How do you keep the varmints out of your trees? Overwhelm them with number of trees?

I have a granny smith now full of apples - they wont get ripe until october. The tree will be stripped clean in another month, probably

 

[Native Hunter]

How do you keep the varmints out of your trees? Overwhelm them with number of trees?

I have a granny smith now full of apples - they wont get ripe until october. The tree will be stripped clean in another month, probably

I have more food dropping than all the critters in the county can eat. At the farm I probably have over 30 bearing trees each of the following species - apples, pears, persimmons and chestnuts.

We have varmints, but the damage they do is not as severe as yours. Sometimes at home when we have a tree dropping fruit we want for ourselves, I put up a quick temporary fence around it to keep the deer from getting the ones that hit the ground overnight. I keep some welded wire on hand just for that purpose.

Birds pecking apples hanging in the tree is probably my worst problem at home. Something that helps is having an Illinois Everbearing Mulberry, which they like better. It’s nothing to see a dozen birds at one time in that tree, and it drops for two months or more.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I'm 100% no spray.

Great looking apples for no spray. WOW!!!

 

[Native Hunter]

Great looking apples for no spray. WOW!!!

They are nice, but they can’t hold a light to Priscilla.

 

[bigboreblr]

Thats good you're no spray. a 1/2 mile to a mile in any direction by my home is atleast a 50 acre apple orchard. Got a few stubborn pests from time to time.

You have Black Arkansas? I thought that would be a great southern apple tree to have. Picked up one from Stark last year. Guessing by the roostock section color it's not B118. IT root suckers like M111 and the roots sure looked similar to a M111.

 

[Native Hunter]

Thats good you're no spray. a 1/2 mile to a mile in any direction by my home is atleast a 50 acre apple orchard. Got a few stubborn pests from time to time.

You have Black Arkansas? I thought that would be a great southern apple tree to have. Picked up one from Stark last year. Guessing by the roostock section color it's not B118. IT root suckers like M111 and the roots sure looked similar to a M111.

Yes, I have Arkansas Black and love it. Unfortunately, my first one was on B118, and it blew over. I stood it back up and now have it and the other B118s braced with double T-posts and clothes line. So far like 5 trees have blown over. I planted another AB this spring on Dolgo, which has proven to be rock solid here so far on other trees I have planted.

PS - I do get some pest damage from time to time. Japanese Hornets are probably the worst.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

They are nice, but they can’t hold a light to Priscilla.
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"Can't hold a light to Priscilla" ....... as in looks, or taste?? I have yet to taste a Priscilla at camp. Actually, I haven't tasted many of the apples & crabs we have at camp!! I need to get on the stick - when late frosts don't clobber our blossoms.

 

[Native Hunter]

"Can't hold a light to Priscilla" ....... as in looks, or taste?? I have yet to taste a Priscilla at camp. Actually, I haven't tasted many of the apples & crabs we have at camp!! I need to get on the stick - when late frosts don't clobber our blossoms.

Priscilla wins on both looks and taste.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Priscilla wins on both looks and taste.

Good to know Native. We have 2 Priscilla's at camp, maybe put on fruit this year?? Late frosts have been putting the clinkers to some of our apples lately.

 

[Native Hunter]

I may be jumping the gun on recommending this next one, but I don’t think so. It only has 2 apples but was just planted in 2022. Two things are impressing me so far. First, this is a bad year for various diseases here, but this apple is growing as clean as the best I have.

Second, the fruit is bigger than Yates so far, and it is advertised as having about the same drop time as Yates. It is also advertised as having a good, sweet taste.

The apple (or Applecrab) is Sweet November.

 

[Native Hunter]

Here is a new to me apple I’m getting my first crop from. It only had 12 apples on the first crop, but they are very nice. The tree is Early Harvest.

I’m going to rate this tree above my other 2 very early apples. All 3 have great DR, but I prefer the taste of this one above the other two.

I bought this tree for my mother a few years ago. She had been given some EH and fell in love with them as a cooking apple. She talked about how tender the skin was and how they held together when cooking them. Mom has since passed, but my brother lives there and alerted me to the apples.

Yes, even though I’m running out of space, I need one for my yard.

 

[bigboreblr]

I thought all apples in your zone are early harvest.... Can;t wait till my new trees come

Here's what Malathion thinks about Japanese beetles...................

I'm 100% spray.......... Swiss cheese is for the deli, not my apple leaves........ Superior firepower before rifle season........

 

[Native Hunter]

This is an apple I have never posted before. It was my wife’s grandmother’s favorite apple, but oddly they didn’t have a name for it. I have given it the name of Summer Granny because of the granny link and also because it reminds me of a Granny Smith - although ripening early season.

We saved this tree when the road came through the home place by digging a root sprout. The tree is now 10 years old and loaded this year.

The fruit is large to medium, and the taste is really good. You may see some occasional leaf spotting but it seems to be highly DR. It is beginning to ripen now and some apples will take on a slight yellow cast - but they remain mostly green.

The parent tree was large and produced nearly every year. This 10 year old root sprout must have 200 big apples this year.

 

[SwampCat]

It does look like my granny smith - but my granny smith got ate up with fireblight this year. It always appears to have some type of leaf curl - but if never seems to bother fruit productionn Clean from CAR. Dont know what they taste like as coons always strip it about now. My granny apples never that clean looking.

Your tree is really looking good

 

[Native Hunter]

It does look like my granny smith - but my granny smith got ate up with fireblight this year. It always appears to have some type of leaf curl - but if never seems to bother fruit productionn Clean from CAR. Dont know what they taste like as coons always strip it about now. My granny apples never that clean looking.

Your tree is really looking good

Thanks. There is an old southern apple that used to be widely grown which was known as "Horse" and/or "Hoss." My apple fits the description for that apple, but I don't know anyone around here that grows Horse so that I can compare. It could be that apple or possibly a seedling from that apple, but I will probably never know. I'm just glad to have another good clean bearing apple coming into production.