One week after topworking
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Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Nice job greyphase.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
That's the first I heard anyone talk about a " Pound Apple " tree in a long time. My aunt and uncle had one at their farm and the apples were HUGE on that tree !! Nice job on the re-make, Grey !!
Do you still get " pound apples " from that tree as well ??
Do you still get " pound apples " from that tree as well ??
greyphase
5 year old buck +
Yes I left a couple of limbs. Many years ago while hunting rabbits with my Dad on the family farm we stopped and ate a apple from an old tree growing in a fence row. Dad said it was a Pound apple a neighbor had grafted. They were a delicious large yellow apple and the experience has never left me. My Pound apple tree produces a large green apple that is prone to water core and doesn't have a great taste for eating out of hand. It's more a cooking apple. I have to wonder if Dad got the name right on the apple tree in that fence row all those years ago.
buckvelvet
5 year old buck +
I wonder about what these 'pound' apples really are that most folks have. There are old trees normally, are they twenty ounce, pound sweet, pumpkin sweet, maybe a wolf river. Interesting stuff.
TMIL
5 year old buck +
I wonder the same thing. Perhaps folks called any really big apple a pound apple?
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
As I recall, the tree my aunt & uncle had produced big green apples with a very slight hint of red blush on the sunny side. 97% green though. 4" to
4 1/2" dia. and if I remember right, they were more sweet than tart, though it had some tartness too. It was an OLD tree.
4 1/2" dia. and if I remember right, they were more sweet than tart, though it had some tartness too. It was an OLD tree.
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
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