Adam 🍎
@adapples.bsky.social
Amateur apple maven and blogger adamapples.blogspot.com
Once the premiere apple in NE, out of favor because not cold hardy. Baldwin deserves to come back now that winters are less severe. This is a first-class lovely fruit.
old fruit pictures@pomological.xor.blue · 2d agobaldwin apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1915
I love the second half of August in New England. Not only are the first decent eating apples just getting harvested, but the nights are getting much cooler and the days are warm but not as unbearable as July. These are the last of the Dog Days of Summer.
Olga Red Gravenstein: this uniquely red sport of Gravenstein was discovered in Olga on Orcas by local grower Clay Cunningham in 1905 and extensively propagated and marketed by local and regional nurseries.
* Have had Red Grav * Have been to Olga! * Have never had Olga Red ☹️
Madrona Murphy@arbutocrat.bsky.social · 2w agoOlga Red Gravenstein: this uniquely red sport of Gravenstein was discovered in Olga on Orcas by local grower Clay Cunningham in 1905 and extensively propagated and marketed by local and regional nurseries.
Old guesses became received wisdom, now falling before science.
Will Rea@willrea.bsky.social · 2y agoOne of the cool things about compiling genetic pedigree is that you might find something new. SNP data has Feltham Beauty with an unkn. parent with a pedigree of Hapsburg x Margaret. The FruitID project has it as Cox's x Gladstone. It's SSR data also seems to suggest Gladstone is HapsburgxMargaret
Everyone should get to farmers market this week!
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 3y agoMarket day! Returned to my favorite local apple vendor that grows for Cornell's breeding program. Excited about NY 428, a delicious Northern Spy–Empire cross that was never named because it doesn't keep well in storage.
Q: What do all these accounts have in common? @jsentance.bsky.social @applefarmer.bsky.social @irishapplegroup.bsky.social @orchardnotes.com @adapples.bsky.social @macrumors.bsky.social (Hint: Not subject matter, the last one is about computers!)
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opalescent apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1913
Obscure personal fact: My little avatar here is an Opalescent
old fruit pictures@pomological.xor.blue · 3w agoopalescent apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1913
Windfall season has well and truly started. The 'Irish Peach' apple tree at work had dropped a few dozen fruits whilst I was away last week. Mostly damaged / codling moth infested, alas, but a good few were worth washing and scoffing 😋
"Hubbardston" is a town on Massachusetts where these originated. The town has apples on the town seal.
old fruit pictures@pomological.xor.blue · 4w agohubbardston apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1905
Well, the doughty Blue Pearmain sure comes to mind.
Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · last yr.potatoes are "apples of the earth" in french. but maybe apples are potatoes of the tree
winslow apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1911
Anyone finding their fruit trees are ripening much earlier than usual, because of the ongoing hot and sunny weather? I'd like to hear your UK examples, please, for a The Times story later this week. Drop me a message here or email me (adam.vaughan@thetimes.co.uk).
And also: They can even look like a potato.
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner@vegplotter.com · 2mo agoNext time you pick an apple remember, they trace back 10M years to Kazakhstan’s Malus sieversii forests! Surviving Ice Ages & Silk Road trade, they were first domesticated 4,000+ years ago. A true survivor, evolving into 7,500+ varieties worldwide. Almaty, their birthplace, means “Father of Apples”!
