Growing Old Apple Varieties with Dan Bussey 🌳

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  • Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
  • Learn about old apple cultivars with apple historian Daniel Bussey, author of The Illustrated History of Apples in the United States and Canada.
    The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com. Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.
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    CHAPTERS
    00:00 Exploring old apple varieties at an apple tasting event
    00:34 Podcast name change in January
    01:53 Why Dan started writing about old apple varieties
    03:23 Why old apple varieties have funny names
    05:25 Smokehouse Apple and fire blight resistance
    06:31 Ginger Gold Pedigree
    07:52 Slack ma Girdle apple!
    08:36 Best old apple varieties for fresh eating
    12:07 Why russet apples fell out of favor
    14:09 How do you identify apple varieties on an old tree visually and with DNA testing
    17:25 Black Oxford and Roxbury Russet apple questions
    19:14 Westfield seek no further apple history
    20:58 How names of old apple varieties have changed over the years.
    22:44 Ben Davis apple history and why it has multiple names
    24:46 McAfee apple history
    26:08 Sheep nose apple variety
    26:54 Tolman Sweet apple trees
    28:07 Old apple varieties that are easier to grow
    29:58 A Word from our Sponsors
    34:37 More on Old Apple Varieties
    35:53 History of the USDA apple illustrations
    37:10 Pitmastin Pineapple and Fire blight resistance
    38:12 Ashmeet's Kernel - and identifying Russet apples
    39:47 Franklin apple
    40:34 Are many old apple varieties lost forever?
    41:30 Limbertwig apples
    43:54 Allergies to some apples and not to others
    46:44 Where to buy old apple varieties
    47:41 Programs to preserve old apple varieties and apple tree grafting
    51:46 Which old apple varieties make the best pies
    54:00 Did you enjoy this show as a livestream on UA-cam?
    54:42 How to order Dan's books and how to reach out to him
    56:41 How to access more fruit tree podcasts like this one
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  • @zsoltvecsernyes4568
    @zsoltvecsernyes4568 6 місяців тому +1

    I never had the pleasure of listening to you before, great podcast, wonderful info.Dan was awesome.Have you heard of Steel Red apples?

    • @Orchardpeople
      @Orchardpeople  6 місяців тому

      Thank you I'm so glad you enjoyed it! You can find more podcasts here: podcast.orchardpeople.com/. No I've never heard of Steel Red! I'll look it up in Dan's books! How did you hear about the podcast?

    • @zsoltvecsernyes4568
      @zsoltvecsernyes4568 6 місяців тому +1

      @Orchardpeople I was just surfing UA-cam trying to learn. I have an old orchard with 40 +trees, many which I can not identify. I live north of Port Huron. I read about steel red apples in the 1920-22 MSU Horticulture report. I claimed it was also called Canada Red. It's a great late season storage apple which I have stored in my attic until March. I have an old 1976 catalog from South meadow Frouit Gardens which lists it as an apple called Nonsuch from 1822.

    • @Orchardpeople
      @Orchardpeople  6 місяців тому +1

      @@zsoltvecsernyes4568 Interesting! Too bad we used to have someone who did DNA apple testing here in Ontairo but they retired! Oh well...

  • @davidstentiford9359
    @davidstentiford9359 6 місяців тому +1

    In California, russetting is regulated by state apple standards. I suspect rusetting was a crude way of defining and standardizing quality (in narrow terms) to make varieties commensurable and marketable. My guess is that this may be an important factor affecting the favorability of these varieties. In short, apples had to be standardized to become traded as commodities). I am a big fan of Ashmeed's kernal (a highly rusetted apple) and recently asked a grower a similar question. From him, it sounded like these regs had an affect on the types of apples he was comfortable/confident in bringing to market. He suggested that Ashmeed's probably couldn't be sold as a choice apple under CA laws, despite its amazing keeping properties and utility for cider. Size was another factor. My hunch is that part of the rusette answer lies and in the 1923 US national apple standards or the Washington state standards from 1915. I have also heard that the US agricultural extension programs had a major bottleneck effect on apple diversity in North America. Part of the russet story probably is located in the history of that institution as well.

    • @Orchardpeople
      @Orchardpeople  6 місяців тому +1

      Yes, my friend Ron who worked in the industry said it's all down to marketing. He says "Eye appeal is important" and I guess Russet doesn't make the cut! What a shame! I think that Dan Bussey would agree with you on the national apple standards too...

  • @AshritPlays
    @AshritPlays 5 місяців тому +1

    I planted apple trees but unfortunately I over fertilised them so the plants are in hibernation from 1 and a half months, what to do?

    • @Orchardpeople
      @Orchardpeople  5 місяців тому

      Hi there I’m not sure that the “hibernation” is due to over fertilization…in any case, time will tell. I hope your tree recovers!