Grimes Golden is the perfect apple here -- a friend of mine in grade
school had one in their yard that was more or less completely unpruned
and produced huge amounts of very large, wonderful apples every year
with no "user intervention" other than picking them.
Pretty much gone now, they bloom and ripen over an extended period and
hence the orchards don't grow them. Too expensive.
The current apple called "Red Delicious" was selected strictly for
it's bearing behavior. It has never, to the best of my knowledge,
been a decent apple, wherever it's grown. It's mealy, bitter, and
unpleasant here, with a thick bitter skin. Picked early, before it
gets mealy (and without growth hormones to change it's shape) it's
sour with a thick, bitter skin. An orchardman's apple through and
through, not a consumer's apple. Whether or not this is the original
I have no information on, but I've never eaten a good one.
I suspect Yellow Delicious is the same, an orchardman's apple. Easier
to grow and harvest than other more appealing ones.
And I agree about Washington State apples grown on the dry side of the
mountains -- even the Granny Smiths are pointy and pithy, nothing at
all like the ones from NZ.
Peter
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