Red flesh parking lot tree

[Ruffdude]

Stopped in at my local fur harvester trading post today and when I came out I noticed this crab/apple-crab on the edge of the parking lot.
Fruit was starting to get soft, had decent flavor still.
What does the brain trust here think it is?

 

[TonySoprano]

Looks like a winner !

 

[sandbur]

Great color. It’s hard to find red flesh with flavor I like. Some I can tolerate.

 

[Telemark]

Pretty neat! What's the flavor like?

 

[Ruffdude]

Sweet at first then tart

 

[Telemark]

Sounds good. Grab some scions.

 

[homerj]

Shape of the fruit looks to have Siberian crab somewhere in its genes

 

[bigboreblr]

Where is this one usda zone wise?

 

[Ruffdude]

Where is this one usda zone wise?

5b about 3 miles north of the 45th parallel but it’s only a mile from Lake Huron, the big lake keeps it warm I bet.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Great color. It’s hard to find red flesh with flavor I like. Some I can tolerate.

Bur -
Does the shape & size look like a Dolgo to you - or a variation of Dolgo? His pic looks like the Dolgo fruit we get on our at camp. Even Ruffdude's flavor description is very much like what our Dolgo fruit tastes like. You're more familiar with Dolgo types.

 

[Oaknut]

Stopped in at my local fur harvester trading post today and when I came out I noticed this crab/apple-crab on the edge of the parking lot.
Fruit was starting to get soft, had decent flavor still.
What does the brain trust here think it is?

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I forwarded your photos to a friend who indicates they look similar to both Selkirk & Ranetka seedling red-fleshed fruits that he has.

 

[H20fwler]

Great color. It’s hard to find red flesh with flavor I like. Some I can tolerate.

Pink Pearl is a very good eater, the only other of my dozen Redflesh varieties producing well so far are Firecrackers and Roberts, they are bitter.

I’ll be grafting more Pink Pearls on M111 this spring.

 

[sandbur]

Pink Pearl is a very good eater, the only other of my dozen Redflesh varieties producing well so far are Firecrackers and Roberts, they are bitter.

I’ll be grafting more Pink Pearls on M111 this spring.

I agree. I had about 6 apples on my PP this year.

 

[Telemark]

Pink Pearl is a very good eater, the only other of my dozen Redflesh varieties producing well so far are Firecrackers and Roberts, they are bitter.

I’ll be grafting more Pink Pearls on M111 this spring

They might be a good addition to a hard cider for adding tannin and color.

 

[H20fwler]

They might be a good addition to a hard cider for adding tannin and color.

Yep, part of my retirement plan is pink hard cider/apple jack.
The wife wants more PP just for eating and giving to friends.

 

[Telemark]

Yep, part of my retirement plan is pink hard cider/apple jack.
The wife wants more PP just for eating and giving to friends.

I made apple jack once, and it gave me a horrible headache. I found a method online that gave a superior product that was more in line with what I wanted. Basically you distill some of the cider and take the hearts of the run and add it back to another batch of cider just before the last of the sugar is used up by the yeast. The high alcohol of the apple Brandy stops the yeast and leaves some residual sugar. Then you cold crash the cider and rack it to another container to let it settle for another couple weeks. What you end up with is technically a fortified apple wine, but it's excellent and should be shelf stable. The benefit of this method over freeze distilling apple jack is you get a lot of the unwanted substances out during the distillation process. It takes a fair bit of math, but it's all available online.

If you don't want to bother with distilling you can just buy Calvados at the liquor store.