discovery apples

[manicscousers]

look at them all, and, d'you know, they're not sweet yet  :o

[manicscousers]

[cleo]

Looking good!-but do check everyday now,mine are falling fast. There is something special about the first apples :)

[manicscousers]

we're picking p the 'windfalls' and processing them as fast as we can, all our neighbours are waiting with bated breath , they get bags full when they're ripe  ;D

[saddad]

Tried one last week but they weren't ready!!!
;D

[tim]

What a lovely sight - we're in for a poor year.

[saddad]

For the first time ever my Fiesta has no apples!
:-\

[artichoke]

My Cox has far too many and I know from experience they are not really edible until late September/October....

[wildthing]

This is the worst year ever for my apples. I have 2 "family apple trees" with 3 varieties each. They have 5 apples between them. I have an apple tree bought as a "Granny Smith", but it isn't. That has 5 apples. An unnamed tree bought at a carboot sale has about 10 apples, something like a small Cox. They never get big enough to interest anyone other than small children. The oldest tree, planted in 1937, is a Claygate Pearmain or so I was told when I moved in. That has a dozen or so fruits. Normally it is loaded, and I have to give them away as they aren't keepers, though I do slice and freeze some for cooking or adding to fruit salads. My cooking apple tree, also planted in 1937, died in the spring. That was a Brambley type, but not a Brambley Seedling. They grew to quite a size, and if left, got sweet enough to have as an eater. I would love to replace that if I knew what it was.

[tricia]

We have 2 Bramley Seedlings - one planted in the Spring doesn't have any fruit, of course, the other has a few but nothing to write home about. The Granny Smith is doing great - first year fruiting and has about 24 really good sized fruit on it (it's trained as an espalier). When is a Granny Smith usually ready for harvesting?
The Cox Orange Pippen has a few cherry size fruit not worth mentioning even though they were thinned out early on.

Why should one variety do so well and the others virtually nothing? They are all being trained as espaliers on the same wall.

Tricia