I thought I saw on some gardening show where you cut out the bigger
branches in the middle of the tree so the outer branches then get more
sun and the fruit does better.
DISCLOSURE: I have never had any apple trees to trim or otherwise thin.
--R
On 11/11/15 12:16 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
There is a flowering crab up the street a few hundred yards, come to think
of it. Should I thin the fruit next season to get larger apples?
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
There's an awesome apple tree in my front yard planted by a PO in 1982.
Tree is not much to look at but the fruits are numerous and totally free
of
disease, although they look mottled and streaked red/black. Taste is
tart-sweet, crisp skin, small sized. I went to applename.com and it seems
to be a Virginia winesap. I made applesauce on the stove (cored but
unpeeled) and then blended it in the Blendtec - voila - pink applesauce.
:) Also, some apple-mint jelly that has deep flavor and is quite unusual
(not sure I like it).
The winesap is not supposed to be self fruitful but my tree has nothing to
pollinate it yet was lousy with fruit.
Red Winesap is one of the older varieties, tracing back to Yurp as sops of
wine. It is a hardy variety that will survive with little or no
care/spray. They will tend to have a lot of apples if not thinned. There
may be enough pollinators around to do the job. They don't have to be
within sight. Flowering crabs abound in suburbia, and will do the job.
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