I have 7 different varieties, all M26 rootstocks. I helped the june drop and took hundreds off in june/july. I now have large apples and bountiful started to drop ripe fruit. I didn`t spray this year, only ever sprayed last year and it was successful. This year I used that green triangular codling trap, it was worse than useless. So bountiful is ready and I have frozen many small portions and eaten some, baked with honey and raisins, absolutely gorgeous. I decided that I need a heads start and have taken all the apples off that tree, thanking my lucky stars that I had thought to thin. More than half have codling holes, so tomorrow I will make puree again and the next day and the next. I put some into a drawer in my wooden apple store knowing full well that bountiful don`t last at all but they make beautiful puree
Bardsey are next, I ate one today, a windfall, very sweet and nice. Another one that doesn`t keep. Fortunately a combined cooker/eater
We are so early this year, unbelievably early. Red windsor started dropping perfect apples yesterday