I have 30 Crimson Crisp trees here in the Southeast. It is a beautiful apple and is my favorite. But they are very susceptible to fireblight here. Mine are on M7 also.
I hope you can show your Pilot apple tree this year. Really curious about that variety. I have one planted but not fruiting yet. Can't wait to try it someday. Thanks for sharing your orchard!
Your crimson crisp you may pick earlier & they have more of a tart flavor or pick later & they will sweeten up more. They won't drop off the tree. I've picked mine in late October lots of times. A light frost will help to sweeten them up.
We also have a cosmic near Maple Valley WA on M106. Still young and still in a pot (because of deer), but I allowed a couple fruits. picked on 10/15/22 but were likely ready by 10/10. Apples were delicious, juicy and crisp but not much color due to temporary location. Glad to see the crimson doing well as I have 2 from stark bros nursery i bought last year. Amazing red on those!
@@brianpalmer967 They are available to Washington State residents due to the programs involved in breeding the variety. I got mine from Raintree Nursery. It's still illegal to sell/propagate outside of WA State.
@@nickkasko2097 A disease resistant and insect resistant variety of apple would be wonderful, I'm wanting to plant a tree for my grandfather with another variety grafted on for pollination because he has very little space. I'd like the entire thing to be as low maintenance as possible for him. What would you recommend, I'm beginning to strongly feel like king david is really the best just in terms of ease of growing and flavor, but I'd need two varieties to pollinate each other, and I have never grown an apple tree before in my life. Your experience would be much appreciated
@@nickkasko2097 Also, I'd like to know your opinion on the feasibility of having a shorter tree with no/minimal pruning, because I would really like for him to not have to work at all on it or have it be physically demanding for him but I live 3 hours away, and he's too old to be able to manage a large tree. But, I worry that pruning may be more important on semi dwarf trees than standard, if that's not the case and semi dwarf trees can handle not being pruned then that would really be ideal, but again I have no experience growing apples and would like to hear from you
I don’t have a lot of experience with apple storage but the fridge works pretty well short term, but the fridge does tend to dry them out. In the old days, they would just keep them in underground cold storages layered with straw! There are many different ways to keep them. Ideal way to store would be a walk in fridge kept at 34 deg F with the right amount of humidity and air exchange. Large distributors keep them in sealed rooms where ethylene gas is removed, this is the gas responsible for ripening apples. This essentially halts the ripening process and the apple can keep in the fresh state for years. I have actually tasted apples that were 2 years old and it tasted no different than a few month old apple.
@@nickkasko2097 hi there, tnx for answer and your videos, very informative. If you'll have a chance, get ukrainian apple variety Dmiana. I'll post description below
@@nickkasko2097Dmiana. Winter variety, immune to scab, obtained by free pollination of the Todes variety. In 2020, it was added to the State Register of plant varieties suitable for distribution in Ukraine. The tree is small, with a compact round-conical crown, is not damaged by powdery mildew at all, very productive, prone to overloading and crushing of fruits - 3-5 apples form and ripen on one fruit formation, so it requires careful thinning of the ovary. The type of fruiting is mixed, generative buds are formed even on one-year growths. Such a biological feature of the variety ensures rapid fertility in high-density plantings on weakly growing vegetative rootstocks even under the conditions of their creation by seedlings without a crown. Fruits are medium 120-180 g, round-conical, green-yellow, with a crimson-red blurred blush on almost the entire surface. The pulp is dense, very juicy until the end of storage, has a rich, unique taste, with a pronounced grape aroma, sweet-sour taste (8.7-9.0 points) when ripe. They are stored in the refrigerator without losing their taste qualities until May, but the fruits can be consumed almost from the tree, transportability is high. Chemical composition of pulp: dry soluble substances - 14.3-15.7%; sugars - 12.62-11.31; acids - 0.43-0.27; pectin substances - 0.96%; vitamin C - 1.8 mg/100 g of raw mass.
Another great video as always, loved seeing how each of those great varieties stacked up together!
I have 30 Crimson Crisp trees here in the Southeast. It is a beautiful apple and is my favorite. But they are very susceptible to fireblight here. Mine are on M7 also.
Thank you for that info!
I hope you can show your Pilot apple tree this year. Really curious about that variety. I have one planted but not fruiting yet. Can't wait to try it someday. Thanks for sharing your orchard!
I only have one branch of Pilot and it did not produce this year. I was only able to get a video on it last year!
Your crimson crisp you may pick earlier & they have more of a tart flavor or pick later & they will sweeten up more. They won't drop off the tree. I've picked mine in late October lots of times. A light frost will help to sweeten them up.
Good job
We also have a cosmic near Maple Valley WA on M106. Still young and still in a pot (because of deer), but I allowed a couple fruits. picked on 10/15/22 but were likely ready by 10/10. Apples were delicious, juicy and crisp but not much color due to temporary location. Glad to see the crimson doing well as I have 2 from stark bros nursery i bought last year. Amazing red on those!
How do you get them? I would have thought the patents were very carefully guarded to the point that only truly commercial growers had access to them?
@@brianpalmer967 They are available to Washington State residents due to the programs involved in breeding the variety. I got mine from Raintree Nursery. It's still illegal to sell/propagate outside of WA State.
Hey, does your king david not get much codling moth at all? The fruit didn't seem damaged
No codling moth seems to avoid king David and certain varieties like gold Rush, Rebella, Spartan, Liberty and some others that I am growing
@@nickkasko2097 A disease resistant and insect resistant variety of apple would be wonderful, I'm wanting to plant a tree for my grandfather with another variety grafted on for pollination because he has very little space. I'd like the entire thing to be as low maintenance as possible for him. What would you recommend, I'm beginning to strongly feel like king david is really the best just in terms of ease of growing and flavor, but I'd need two varieties to pollinate each other, and I have never grown an apple tree before in my life. Your experience would be much appreciated
@@nickkasko2097 Also, I'd like to know your opinion on the feasibility of having a shorter tree with no/minimal pruning, because I would really like for him to not have to work at all on it or have it be physically demanding for him but I live 3 hours away, and he's too old to be able to manage a large tree. But, I worry that pruning may be more important on semi dwarf trees than standard, if that's not the case and semi dwarf trees can handle not being pruned then that would really be ideal, but again I have no experience growing apples and would like to hear from you
That dome is where you grow “the good stuff”?
Yes
Can you show us how to store apples?
I don’t have a lot of experience with apple storage but the fridge works pretty well short term, but the fridge does tend to dry them out. In the old days, they would just keep them in underground cold storages layered with straw! There are many different ways to keep them. Ideal way to store would be a walk in fridge kept at 34 deg F with the right amount of humidity and air exchange. Large distributors keep them in sealed rooms where ethylene gas is removed, this is the gas responsible for ripening apples. This essentially halts the ripening process and the apple can keep in the fresh state for years. I have actually tasted apples that were 2 years old and it tasted no different than a few month old apple.
maybe the king david was a bit over-ripe
Is Honey crisp immune to scab?
I have never seen a scab on Honeycrisp
@@nickkasko2097 hi there, tnx for answer and your videos, very informative. If you'll have a chance, get ukrainian apple variety Dmiana. I'll post description below
@@nickkasko2097Dmiana. Winter variety, immune to scab, obtained by free pollination of the Todes variety. In 2020, it was added to the State Register of plant varieties suitable for distribution in Ukraine. The tree is small, with a compact round-conical crown, is not damaged by powdery mildew at all, very productive, prone to overloading and crushing of fruits - 3-5 apples form and ripen on one fruit formation, so it requires careful thinning of the ovary. The type of fruiting is mixed, generative buds are formed even on one-year growths. Such a biological feature of the variety ensures rapid fertility in high-density plantings on weakly growing vegetative rootstocks even under the conditions of their creation by seedlings without a crown.
Fruits are medium 120-180 g, round-conical, green-yellow, with a crimson-red blurred blush on almost the entire surface. The pulp is dense, very juicy until the end of storage, has a rich, unique taste, with a pronounced grape aroma, sweet-sour taste (8.7-9.0 points) when ripe. They are stored in the refrigerator without losing their taste qualities until May, but the fruits can be consumed almost from the tree, transportability is high.
Chemical composition of pulp: dry soluble substances - 14.3-15.7%; sugars - 12.62-11.31; acids - 0.43-0.27; pectin substances - 0.96%; vitamin C - 1.8 mg/100 g of raw mass.
Great video. Where did you get cosmic crisp scion wood from?
Cosmic crisp is only available to Washington state growers. I got mine from a nursery here locally
My cosmic is ripe in the puget sound near Seattle
That’s very cool! You must have more heat units there throughout summer. Does the apple shape seem to match yours?
i thought the crimson crisp was a jonathan and rome hybrid, am i wrong? Either way, i love your videos, they are super helpful ✌
You are right I lit has Johnathan and Rome beauty in its parentage. As well as golden delicious which is probably where the Crispiness comes from
@@nickkasko2097 ah, cool, thank you.
Assalamualaikum halo mister saya dari tangeang indonesia saya sangat menyulkai buah apel tapi saya tidak tau banya tetang nama buah apel
Maybe organza bags?
Will try next year. Also plan to hang up some traps
Looks like canker
Will continue to monitor, thanks!