Still on The Trees in January, Awesomeness of Late Hanging Apples
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- čas přidán 19. 01. 2024
- Apples that are still hanging in edible shape on the trees in the winter time. I'm working on creating more super late hanging apples, so we can have a apples off the tree for more than half the year in some climates.
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new skillcult apple tasting video feels like an album from my favorite artist at this point
The recurring sound of taking that first bite is worthy of asmr videos, so I can understand how you could compare it to music albums :)) He always captures this so great that I can almost feel the juice dripping from my chin.
I'm 4 years behind on this type of action. Have my first crosses just now whipped out
I have Frankie trees because of you, 9 different varieties between 3 trees here now.
Very acidic, pineapple like tasting apples are SENSATIONAL in sauerkraut especially if you add a little rendered bacon and some lovage and cinnamon basil in the warm finishing.
Maybe it deserves the name: Edholm's Pineapple
My fruit trees are under a foot of snow and ice here in Michigan. I can't wait to get back out there. Thanks for the winter tour!
High numbers. there are so many apples that they can't keep up. also, our worst bird pests are still eating acorns I think. they seem to eat apples more in the early season. I do have a lot of damage though.
winter carrots are excellent!
the best. People think age makes them woody but not at least good varieties. they are usually better in the winter.
You should provide a pack of 5 choice variety scion sticks
The problem with that is just too much variation in everything from climate to tastes. I think it might make more sense if it were regional. Possibly one could eventually figure out a set of apples that are highly adaptable. I'd like to see frankentrees of my seedling varieties someday. that would be cool to offer. But we don't even know what does well where yet.
Some excellent late varieties here - good to see you have assembled so many. No apples left on my trees in the UK - prolonged frosts a few days ago finished them off. Mere Pippin did quite well here but had to be picked in early Dec; good flavour, and Burford Yellow is very good again; last ones picked last week (10 Jan).
I've never seen it cold enough here to freeze out apple fruits yet. I don't know what temp that requires, but apparently we don't see it. I think a lot of people would like Mere pippin well enough. They do tend toward banana though, which I never like. I would consider using it in further breeding possibly. It does hang fairly late, though here it is more of a December apple. Long season though and productive. I don't have Burford. I'm convinced I can have a selection of high quality dessert and cooking apples off the tree at this time of year and beyond. If I were to concentrate on just one goal, it might be that. Imagine the potential for year round markets without any storage.
Always love your apple vids dude! Great stuff!
Excellent winter tour!!! Thank you!
I've tried growing these antique varieties with very little success they have no disease resistance .
I hear about a lot of disease problems, but disease pressure is light here due to a dry climate in the warm months. There is a solution to that problem, breed in disease resistance. A lot of progress has been made in disease resistance that can be taken advantage of by anyone. I use some disease resistance genes and think I have probably passed on scab resistance into a few apple lines. Going forward, those genetics can progress into more interesting apples.
Pink parfait...super.❤
Oh yea. I’ve got some still on the trees but they’re raisinesque. Deer like them:)
Awesome carrots and leeks ! They grown in the charcoal mix
I think that carrot bed is a char bed, not the leeks though. maybe they would be even better.
9:47: I had ordered a batch of scions from a small family orchard in Victoria (Australia), and when the a few of the varieties I ordered were not in I asked the owner to surprise me: I was given Pine Golden Pippin, and Grand'Mere, which the owner said was her French husband's favourites since he was a child.
They're quick to grow, but I've found them slow to flower, so I'm glad to hear Pine Golden Pippin is worth the wait!
that cat has the most awesome personality ok now let me pay attention to the apples lol
She's pretty fun. She wasn't much fun when she had kittens, but as soon as they left she perked back up and is playful again.
Here's to that hard working Frankentree rootstock! Place looks great.
I am indeed interested in a banana tasting late hanging apple my good sir
If you can find My Jewel, it is that exactly already. It is out there, but not common. I don't have any clean scion wood, but I am going to try to get it again.
First! lol love watching the progress
Is it possible to collect all the rest of Pomo Sanel seeds for sale? For an apple breeding project. Tree hanging persistence is an interesting trait to have and will be inherited in its progeny.
Amazing! Where are you located (state/zone not your home address😆) and what low temps have you add over the last couple of weeks?
I'm in the colder part of zone 9, 1800 feet northern california coastal ranges. Lows are usually above 20f
Those tree collards, though!
And thanks for the great tour!
I'm hoping to finally take cuttings this week and start propagating Peasant King! should have some plants by summer or fall.
Я так зрозумiв що у вас вiдносно тепло...що можно цитрусовие розводити..😊
I’m amazed. How do you have fruit on your trees? Our birds and squirrels would not allow it!
It is mostly in the numbers. There are too many for them to damage them all. but also our worst bird pests seem to favor acorns whenever they are around, so they are still digging those up. Squirrels don't seem interested at all here, but we have greys only, no red squirrels.
@@SkillCult you are truly blessed!
have you ever done any grafts onto quince stock? I have a variety that is an apple type I did a graft of apple but has been slow growing. I have also looked for a place to get apple seedlings thought of doing multi plants for future graft stock and wildlife without paying out as much seen a place 2 years ago but has disappeared they were a juice producer selling from the scrap any thoughts?
No, not sure that works. Haven't tried it. If you want to plant seeds, I sell open pollinated seeds on my website. but you can also just buy apples and use the seeds. Get pink lady or granny smith. both seem to sprout easily and are sometimes already sprouted in the apples.
Great! Where is your orchard?
Northern California costal ranges at 1800 feet.
the warmer end of zone 9
Can you write Claryon as a symbol?? Im kinda going to miss The Apple Formerly Known As Ice Princess
Dunno. Not sure what you mean. It is a primitive trumpet.
Is Hunt Russet an abbreviation of Hunts Duke of Gloucester?
Not sure. I was thinking it was an american apple for some reason.
Have you ever worked with Meyer lemon trees? Ive had one for going on 4 years now & the last 2 times I had blooms, all if the fruit fell off shortly after the appeared.
The first bloom I had probably 6-7 lemons, but now i inly have 1 lemon growing where sll the rest fell off within weeks if sprouting. They were the size if a small pea when they fell off.
I've not been able to find any info online.
I had one for a while. I"m not sure what that would be. Maybe they are not well pollinated? Or are they seedless, I can't remember. sounds like duds, but sometimes trees also have a wisdom to not produce. I'd say concentrate on making it healthy. Look up signs of defiiciency in the leaves and correct anything, repot if it is in a small pot, fertilize etc...
@@SkillCult thank you for the reply. That's the only thing I can think of is this is in a pot. The tree/leaves look very healthy. Lots of blooms especially this last time. I really thought it was going to be fine this last time too. Then when they all fell but 1 it kinda kicked me in the gut...
I will repot and see how that works. Thanks again!
Yeah, do that and fertilize for fruit production. @@jeffallen3382
@@SkillCult yes I do that too. But I only give about a tablespoon or so every 2 months. Burned up the very first tree I had by giving too much.
Instructions said a cup of fertilizer... Smoked that tree overnight! Oop!
i like pineapple, banana and nutty flavours, everything steven hates apparently.
I love pineapple flavor. It is not common in apples, but it happens. Banana I've tried to like, but really haven't been able to and have finally given up lol. I can tolerate a little bit, but I don't like it. The "nutty" flavor in an apple, that is really the closest description, but it really isn't. I've never been a fan of it, but some like it.
I desperately hope within a couple years there's apples that taste heavily of blueberry, I want blueberry Apple's.
I found one this year! It is labelled as Rosette. I'll be making crosses right away. I have never tasted that in an apple before. I bet it will happen eventually. Not within a couple years, but if you aren't too old... ;)
@@SkillCult my fellow young sir I have plenty of time and all the curiosity, red flesh is cool but if the blueberry flavoring comes without that so be it, I just need me some blueberry apples.
@@KYRonDonTongLongSchlong I don't know anything about this apple, but I will be propagating it and making scions available eventually and offering pollen for breeding, seeds etc. As far as an actual fruit, that could be a long time. it's a long game. the flavor is probably connected to the flesh color.
@@SkillCult It is an English apple from the midlands, most likely a sport or seedling from Discovery. It was released in 2011
Який мороз максимальний у вас...?де ви мешкаете..
Would you have an estimate on how many apples grew on that tree this year? I mean, you've seen 150 varieties, but each variety must have been several apples, so I'm guessing ballpark 1000 apples on one single tree! That must be some kind of record, especially since it's not an extremely huge tree, and if I remember correctly, it's not extremely old either...
No, not at all. but way too many. I broke two very large branches due to under thinning.
@@SkillCult You are just too good at what you do, making the trees work too hard for you =)) In today's world, I think losing branches because there is too much fruit is a tragic luxury problem: tragic because we are facing global famine, luxury because you are so efficient with your trees that you have massive excess food from them. Of course, one can only eat so much apple sauce before it ruins out of their ears (roughly translating a local expression, but I'm sure you get it haha)
Where do you live. Id love to live there
Northern California. Land is actually very cheap here right now :) Low population, lots of wild land, good hunting and fishing.
That first apple sounds intriguing to me! I've tried doing a Google search but I don't think my spelling is correct. It's Pomme ... Os... inel? Anyone know? :)
It is "Pomo Sanel"
@@3FeathersFarmstead Thanks! Added it to my list. I'm going to have to keep an eye out for it!
It is very rare, even among fruit collectors around there. I have been meaning to go out and try to find a clean scion. I know a place where Michael Maltas planted a tree. If I don't find that, we may never see virus free scions again. I have made a bunch of crosses with it in the past though. I planted some and sent out tons of seed crossed with very good winter apples, so there will probably be better apples soon that can be grown or used for further breeding. I can also collect and send out pollen. @@reppy
@@SkillCult Oh, that's interesting. That sounds similar to the situation with Black Madeira. As far as I know, EVERY fig tree has fig mosaic virus. Anyway, I'm mostly just intrigued by the banana flavor. I grafted "Winter Banana" but reviews seem mixed on whether it actually has a banana flavor and my graft is still too young for me to find out. But I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for seeds and pollen. I haven't tried either method yet so I expect to mess it up a lot the first few times. 😂
@@reppy You want My Jewel, it is the most banana flavored one I' ve tasted. Crazy strong artificial banana when very ripe and hangs on the tree into winter in very good condition. Unfortunately, mine is virus infected. i got a clean scion last year, but it did not take. I'll try to bet another one. If you want to breed for that trait, get gold rush, mere pippin and those other two. I would mostly cross the others onto gold rush for disease resistance and overall quality traits and excellent keeping. I'm pretty sure you'll end up with some really in-your-face banana flavored apples! first choice would be my jewel onto gold rush. If we have a good bloom season, I will try to make seeds of that cross this year.
I wonder if your cat thinks you’re talking to the trees
I'm not sure she reasons at that level. Probably more like charlie brown adults, we just make noise mrmrmmmrreerrrmm
What is your zone again? I'm 5a (100meters from 5B) on a southern slope at 1100'. Winter Hanging is a trait I'm trying to really get on my 'stead. I'm afraid its just to cold here. We had low double digits a few times in DEC.
I'm in the colder part of zone 9. I know a guy up in the mountains here that says he only has one apple that survives the harder freezes, Hauer Pippin. I have it, but forgot to check it in this vid. It may be that there will be fruits that can survive that little bit longer to get you into december, but we won't know until they are all planted and tested in those colder zones. Now that people know to pay attention and have this trait on their radar, there is a chance it will work out eventually. I'll ahve a few hauer scions this year when I list scion wood if you want to try it. I don't think it is a very good apple,b ut it has breeding potential. BTW, that guy has not tried many late hanging apples, so there are probably others that would survive his place.
I had a volunteer seedling apple in my (zone 5-6) garden before we moved that had delicious dark red apples. There were always a lot left hanging into winter that we left for the birds. A couple years ago I found one on the snowy ground in January and it was still crisp and delish! I had never thought to try them mid-winter before, and I didn’t find any other good ones- the birds and coddling moths had taken their toll- but that one apple amazed me!
@@lornabaker4039 Sounds very useful in breeding. If you can get me a scion, I'll use it :)