{"id":516,"date":"2024-04-05T20:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.widespreadmalus.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2024-04-05T20:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T02:30:31","slug":"apple-cultivars-for-the-4-6-2024-grafting-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.widespreadmalus.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Apple Cultivars for the 4\/6\/2024 Grafting Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the apple varieties available for grafting at the Benevolence Orchard & Gardens grafting workshop on Saturday, April 6, 2024<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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Akane<\/b><\/a>       From orangepippin.com: "Akane is useful early season apple with an unusually good balance of sweet and sharp flavors. The flesh is firm rather than crisp, but with plenty of juice."<\/p>\n

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\nAshmeads Kernel<\/b><\/a>       Russeted apple. From orangepippin.com: "Ashmeads Kernel has remained popular for well over 2 centuries, and with good reason: it has a distinctive flavour which is quite different from most other varieties."<\/p>\n

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\nBaldwin<\/b><\/a>       Good keeper, juice valuable in hard cider, and it does well here in the Boulder area.<\/p>\n

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\nBlanc Mollet<\/b><\/a>       French bittersweet hard cider apple from the 1700s.<\/p>\n

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\nCortland<\/b><\/a>       A McIntosh-like apple. Good for juice and fresh eating when perfectly ripe, but doesn’t store as well as some.<\/p>\n

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\nDuchess of Oldenburg<\/b><\/a>       1700s Russian apple, early season. One of the apples used to breed Honeycrisp.<\/p>\n

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\nEsopus Spitzenburg<\/b><\/a>       Late 1700s New York apple. Very good eating apple. Keeps well.<\/p>\n

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\nFireside<\/b><\/a>       Good for pies, sauce, and fresh eating. Ripens later in the harvest season.<\/p>\n

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\nFreedom<\/b><\/a>       Good for fresh eating and pies. One source recommends it highly as a dried apple. Resistant to two diseases, scab and cedar apple rust, that aren’t big problems here.<\/p>\n

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\nGold Star<\/b><\/a>       Pomiferous: "Moderately sweet with some tartness and perfumed, fruity aroma."<\/p>\n

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\nGolden Russet<\/b><\/a>       Eric’s favorite apple — if I could only eat one apple ever again, I’d choose this one. Dense, bursting with flavor. High BRIX makes it valuable for hard cider. Grows well in the Boulder area. Late harvest season.<\/p>\n

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\nGrimes Golden<\/b><\/a>       One of the parents of Golden Delicious. Unlike most apple cultivars, it is partially self-fertile and does not require another nearby tree for pollination.<\/p>\n

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\nGros Frequin<\/b><\/a>       Bittersweet hard cider apple. Gros Frequin has done well on the West Slope and we are trialing it here.<\/p>\n

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\nHarrison<\/b><\/a>       Although considered a hard cider apple, I like Harrison for eating out of hand.<\/p>\n

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\nHewe’s Virginia<\/b><\/a>       A smaller-sized apple (sometimes called a crab), Hewe’s has notable astringency and is excellent in hard cider. I also like to eat this variety fresh, however.<\/p>\n

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\nKingston Black<\/b><\/a>       A bittersharp hard cider apple.<\/p>\n

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\nLiberty<\/b><\/a>       A McIntosh-like apple. Useful for fresh eating and in hard cider.<\/p>\n

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\nMutsu<\/b><\/a>       Mutsu, also called Crispin, is a Japanese variety. It is like a very large Golden Delicious. Good cooking apple and very good for fresh eating. The largest apple I ever saw was a Mutsu, in California.<\/p>\n

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\nPrairie Spy<\/b><\/a>       Prairie Spy is an early University of Minnesota apple that is very cold hardy. It would be a good one to try in mountain locations. Good eating apple.<\/p>\n

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\nSix-finger Jack<\/b><\/a>       Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project in southwest CO has preserved and propagated this apple. It has a very high BRIX and would likely be good in hard cider.<\/p>\n

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\nSmokehouse<\/b><\/a>       A fine cooking and eating apple that keeps very well into the late Winter.<\/p>\n

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\nState Fair<\/b><\/a>       Summer apple. Very good when perfectly ripe, but doesn’t keep for a long time. A good choice for a small orchard that needs apples of various ripening times.<\/p>\n

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\nSweet Sixteen<\/b><\/a>       A fireblight-resistant mid-season ripening apple. From the University of Minnesota, so it puts up with cold climates.<\/p>\n

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\nWealthy<\/b><\/a>       Good for many uses. Commonly found on old homesteads on the Great Plains.<\/p>\n

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\nWolf River<\/b><\/a>       A very large apple very good for cooking. Very cold tolerant.<\/p>\n

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