Red Delicious

[b116757]

Guys

I’m no fan of Red Delicious apple for my personal eating pleasure but they are troopers for wildlife and worth having. My Enterprize apple is likely my heaviest producing tree most years and drops latter than Liberty but this year has been exceptionally wet and it’s suffering from a lot of apple rot which is very unusual for that tree but it’s been a very wet year. My terrible tasting Red Deliciuos tree is not suffering from apple rot at all that I’ve seen and drops latter than Enterprize this year it will be my most valuable deer apple tree by far and I’m in a high CAR area also so despite its poor fruit taste I would recommend it for a wildlife planting.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Or if you want a great wildlife tree and a decent eater you can go with Hawkeye, it is one of the parent trees for Red Delicious. Mine is loaded this year, fruit is as clean as it can be from a bug perspective and the tree has no disease weakness.

 

[gunfun13]

I refuse to participate in the propagation of this god awful apple nor will I ever accept that it has any redeeming qualities. May it suffer the same fate as the passenger pigeon, sabre tooth tiger, T Rex, etc.

 

[b116757]

^^^ lol

 

[Mortenson]

I screen shot this review from some article a couple yrs ago.

 

[b116757]

But it’s a damn tough “****ing atrocity” which makes a good wildlife tree! All admit Turkey Creek has peaked my interest in Hawkeye may need one of them this year.

 

[bigboreblr]

Some of my trees have a few apples here n there. Freedom is suposed to be a great disease free apple. Got black eyes everywhere.

The single nicest apple I have is franklin cider. Might be the old ugly duckling 9N ford just chugging along year after year. The dislike for it on this forum made me not graft it this year. Might need to redeem myself and topwork one or two up there.

I dug up a red delicious and gave it to a cowrker 2 or 3 years ago, was in a bad spot. Leaves looked good, bugs were going after it , but still kept growing ok. Was one of those $10 cheapie ones at tractor supply on malus domestica rootstock. Most red delicious is spur bearing too.

One of my old mature unknown trees is tip bearing and hates when I prune it far as making apples go.

 

[Maddog66]

Hilarious!! No shades of grey in that review!!

 

[Mortenson]

I just hung a cam over a red delicious my dad planted 60 years ago. It's always a fun spot for a few weeks.

 

[Turkey Creek]

But it’s a damn tough “****ing atrocity” which makes a good wildlife tree! All admit Turkey Creek has peaked my interest in Hawkeye may need one of them this year.

Well I just so happen to know where you can get one. LOL

 

[homerj]

Or if you want a great wildlife tree and a decent eater you can go with Hawkeye, it is one of the parent trees for Red Delicious. Mine is loaded this year, fruit is as clean as it can be from a bug perspective and the tree has no disease weakness.

Is Hawkeye not the original Red Delicious? I thought modern RD is simply redder sports of Hawkeye?

 

[Turkey Creek]

Possibly but there is more to it than that I believe. While Hawkeye does have the lobes on the bottom of the apple like a Red Delicious, the fruit is more round in shape. Red Delicious tends to be more of an elongated apple in my observations.

 

[b116757]

How has Hawkeye faired against CAR in your area?

 

[b116757]

Some of my trees have a few apples here n there. Freedom is suposed to be a great disease free apple. Got black eyes everywhere.

The single nicest apple I have is franklin cider. Might be the old ugly duckling 9N ford just chugging along year after year. The dislike for it on this forum made me not graft it this year. Might need to redeem myself and topwork one or two up there.

I dug up a red delicious and gave it to a cowrker 2 or 3 years ago, was in a bad spot. Leaves looked good, bugs were going after it , but still kept growing ok. Was one of those $10 cheapie ones at tractor supply on malus domestica rootstock. Most red delicious is spur bearing too.

One of my old mature unknown trees is tip bearing and hates when I prune it far as making apples go.

It wasn’t that I didn’t like Franklin Cider both of mine died so I figured it’s not a good apple for my area.

 

[b116757]

The Franklin (not Franklin Cider) I got from Turkey Creek has a few apples on it this year it’s the first apple tree to fruit in my larger wildlife orchard. And look at the number of tubes in the background of that photo.

 

[homerj]

Hawkeye

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[bwoods11]

Or if you want a great wildlife tree and a decent eater you can go with Hawkeye, it is one of the parent trees for Red Delicious. Mine is loaded this year, fruit is as clean as it can be from a bug perspective and the tree has no disease weakness.

I planted a Hawkeye from you … down in Iowa. I’m looking forward to seeing how it does!

 

[fishin coyote]

I love the couple that I got on clearance at the local feed store. No one would buy them. So I grabbed them for some deer food trees.

The best part is some dummy put the wrong label on them. We think they are actually macintosh’s but whatever they are they sure as heck are not RDs so it’s a win for my apple pie addiction.

 

[b116757]

I have a large Macintosh it’s not a great hunting apple mine are done dropping already for the year.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I screen shot this review from some article a couple yrs ago.

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No sugar-coating there. Old neighbor had a RD tree, and that thing put out tons of apples every year - and that family didn't like apples at all. Lots of apple pies & sauce for us - they wanted none of them. That was in the 1960's / early 1970's.