🍎 I DID IT! New Red Fleshed Apple Seedling is The Best Yet! ❤️
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2022
- This new red fleshed apple was grown from seed in 2014. It is probably the best overall red fleshed apple I've ever eaten. It took 9 years from pollinating the flowers to getting fruit. It has none of the typical flaws found in lower grade Red Fleshed apples. The parents are King David and Rubaiyat. Makes me want to keep breeding apples even more!
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Thanks goes to Steven for all that you do. Go man go!
Thanks :) I'd like to say it's some kind of noble martyrdom, but it's more like a compulsion lol.
Its been great to follow the apple breeding project. Definitely the best apple content on YT
Some of the best content on YT.
100%
You could also create a brand of sparkling red cider to make it popular. Put it in fancy bottles, give it a fancy name. Add a seed to plant in a little paper envelope to go with it. In Germany, for instance, it used to be traditional to plant a fruit or nut tree when you get married or have a baby. Make it a tradition here, too.
I like the seed idea. One idea i have is for a kit for schools that is an educational package, with some high grade apple seeds that tend to throw good offspring. Once the project was started, say for 5th grade, then eventually each class would start a tree and be seeing the results of the previous classes. It's a good lesson all around, especially in patience and investing in the future and other people.
@@SkillCult I've had a similar idea in the back of my mind for a few years as well. I'd like to make it a project across the whole school career of a student at primary level though (UK, ages 4-11). Start the young kids off with a seed or two and have them tend the plant as part of their school life. Introduce the different aspects of tree care and apple breeding in stages as the child grows, then when they leave school the tree is ready to plant and might even be producing fruit. You could end up with a lineage of trees that is specific to the school, which I think would be an amazing thing to see.
@@BurnsworthyII that would be amazing. I suppose the whole idea could be packaged as pretty easy to follow for schools, with educational materials etc. Maybe provide some starter material, like a few scions and rootstocks and seeds.
@@SkillCult Exactly. In my head the idea was to try and get as wide a mix of mongrel seeds as possible, the theory being that if every kid is growing a tree and there's no financial incentive to produce 'good' fruit from the get go, you can play the genetic lottery and see what happens. But having reliable varieties right from the start would be a huge asset as I imagine the attrition rate would be quite high that way! Kid got a duff apple? Bam - here's an opportunity to learn about grafting. Etc etc. There's a lot of scope to experiment and I think it would be a pretty unique approach to learning for many schoolchildren. Plus you get hands-on, relevant experience of the natural world and that's vital for our age.
@@BurnsworthyII I want to invent an easy way for people with no experience and kids, to graft. I like the idea of more focused breeding and producing seed that is interesting and high quality. One of my projects I want to do is about the idea of community seedbank trees. So, you would have trees tha are multigrafted to a focused genetic pool. Say red flesh, or high flavor, etc. That way all the seeds would potentially be cross pollinated with many other high quality and basically curated varieties. Seed would be super cheap to produce that way. The problem with that approach and apples is isolation though. I think it could be done in an isolation system, but it would require management to allow pollinators in once a day. It's doable though. And yeah, so many good lessons to be learned and a certain percentage of those kids will be bitten by the bug and continue. Albert Etter was one of those kids. he was working with strawberries at a very young age.
Given how tough a judge Steven is, that must be one hell of an apple. We put a small orchard of 12 various trees on our property last year; I hope to be able to try grafting something at one point.
Bro seriously! I think he's become a tough judge of apples because he's had so many different kinds at this point 😂 I aspire to having tried that many apple varieties.
Amazing work as always! Everyone is going to want this apple. My wife says name it “Queen Ruby” 😊
I planted like 20 seeds of a nice apple (not nearly as good as yrs) and I'm planning to grow like 5 trees to see if I get anything good. My first and last experiment, fingers crossed.
Right on! and for a name...drum roll please...Redholme. Looks like a terrific apple. Thanks.
I doubt I'll ever name an apple after myself lol. Maybe after etter though. At this point, I'm leaning toward Etter's Blood, or Bloodline, or Etter's Bloodline. I like the idea of honoring the origins and etter and also the idea of a bloodline, which makes us think of both origins and the future.
Congratulations, Steven! It’s been fun watching you search for this holy grail.
actually as a keen follower of you for the past 5-6 years I have actually never really dived into your fruit breeding content, it have always been the axes, tools, woodworking and tanning that I have been obsessively watching and learning A LOT from. But with that said, MAN that apple looks delicious, let alone the color of that thing! Here in Denmark, as far as I am aware, we don't really have these red fleshed apples, dunno if could be a climatic thing or whatever.
I am very happy to see all your hard labour and sacrifices are paying off and hopefully will segway into good things coming your way. Congratulations
Grats - on your success - now to be able to have scions to apple afficiandos and be the Johnny Apple Seeder of the 2000s
What you talk about at the 17 minute mark sounds like something I'd be on board with
Man. Now I really want to eat one of these!!! They look delicious! Never thought apples could be an art form but you have succeeded in doing so!
I wish everyone could taste it. Actually, no one else has tasted it but me lol. and I have like 1/3 of one left.
@@SkillCult well when you grow enough, you really gotta sell some online for us curious folks! I would pay for the shipping and cost of produce no problem!
It's like an open-source software system, open-source Agriculture.
Yeah maybe. I need to look into how all the works. I've never really understood it.
I didn't even know red flesh apples existed. Great job.
Dude I can’t believe you keep me interested in everything you post. Leather, axes, ash charcoal, freakin apple breeding. I love your content dude
I think we need to breed high nutrition back into the food supply as well as eating quality. I'm interested in the red flesh apple because I believe the red color is an indication of rutin and quercetin content. The more red, the higher the content.
Such a good legacy! What an inspiration. Thanks for sharing your work.
So happy for you Steven ❤
I ordered scions from you for cherry crush and cherub and you have inspired me to try breeding apples. Im going to graft to my existing trees that haven’t fruited yet and just see what happens
Congratulations, I'm happy for you!
Hooray!!! Super Congrats!!!
How incredible! Well done!!
Rooting for your success!
Congratulations! Well deserved success.
Congrats on the great seedling!
Congratulations on your success!! I know it’s been a labor of love
So exciting, Stephen! Nicely done, and thanks for all the coaching and knowledge you've given.
Congratulations! Incredibly excited to try to get my hands on these!
Congratulations!
That is great and so cool don't ever stop doing what you're doing
Congratulations! Patience has paid off!
Bruh i find your channel yesterday thats just too much of actual content you doing there, keep it up!👌
You’ve been inspiring to follow the last couple years. Congratulations 🎉!
Congratulations! I've been following your project for years and it's so awesome to see your grassroots approach succeed.
Amazing, what an accomplishment
Excellent, I admire your hard work!
I love the work you’ve been doing. I support your cause as much as I can. I wish I could do more. Thank you for everything and best of luck with your new homestead when you get there.
Success!! Very happy for you.
Congratulations. Looking forward to seeing where you take it.
Love that you are continuing Etter's work! Thank you and waiting for scions!!!
So glad you continue to develop this passion project and share it with the world.looking forward to buying seeds and grafts from you this year and in years to come!
Well done sir! Im so happy to have followed along your journey and love seeing all the successes you have achieved!
Congrats! It's a testament to your developed expertise!
Much appreciated 👍. Good for you and your unrelenting efforts!
Your Amazing and Super Inspiring! I'm excited to see how this new creation of yours will do in different environments. Wishing you the best of luck on finding the right flat land to move all your projects to. Thanks for all you do Steven!
You crushed it!!!!
I hope to one day try this apple, keep up the good work
Congratulations on such an incredible accomplishment.
I admire the effort.
So happy you had this success! I've been wanting to breed red flesh apples which is how I can't across your videos! I've loved your wisdom and teaching so much! I hope you put together a breeding course
Working on an apple breeding book, but getting it finished and published might be challenging.
You answered your question: WORK.
No one wants to work.
What question?
@SkillCult You asked why no one would plant these. I'm sure you meant it rhetorically.
My attempt at wiseass. 😁
Seeing you so proud of your new apples seems like it is finally paying off! Have you named this new one yet? It truly has been awesome to watch this literally come to fruition through the years. I am glad to be participating in your vision and can't wait to get my hands on more of your apple genetics in years to come.
Seconded on the name question... 😀
Been following a long time. Proud of your perseverance.
My frankentree is about to die. But I’m in too deep to quit now. Credit to you for making an apple nerd out of me.
Congratulations Steven, super awesome 😀❤️!
Thanks sis!
Amazing work!
Congratulations Steven. It's been a journey.
Im very happy for you buddy! I've had the plan for awhile of planting one of your "The One" trees to eventually replace my hammock tree silver maple before it gets too big and outta control.
Better a frankentree :) Then you can have multiple of my varieties and others.
Very happy to see you've achieved the results you were seeking with this project! The king David x Rubaiyat cross is also what gave you Black Strawberry as well as I recall. What a winning combo. Can't wait to see the results of the crosses you're making with your improved red Fleshed varieties.
I'm slowly learning some database stuff for work, so hopefully down the road I could help with an amateur plant breeder site.
Black Strawberry is king David and Grenadine. That's why the skin is thicker and more tannic. it is only a slight improvement on Grenadine in texure, skin thickness and tannin.
I think that project will need a dedicated web designer that is willing to stick around and experiment. it would get pretty complicated if it does everything I think it should do. And eventually at least one paid position. Paying for it could be partly done with a percentage of donations or sales by breeders and sponsoring nurseries that participate in the public domain fruit v certification.
Congratulations! Thanks for doing this work and sharing the information. Really inspiring, wish apples did better here, but I still have some seedlings going, just nuts I guess. Appreciate all of the background! Love seeing you have success! Hope for lots more!
Just start breeding for your location and plant a lot. something will do well eventually.
@@SkillCult Thanks for the encouragement! Never thought I would be doing this, I do have some apples that have grown out, in a few more years maybe I'll have fruit. Also breeding pitahaya, faster return to that. Best Wishes in all of your future work!
Thanks for all you do. I hope to snag some scions this time around. I missed out last season.
Wow they look amazing! Congrats. You have an amazing patience doing this.
I do now with so much practice 🤣
Congratulations on the awesome new seedling, I have loved following this project and look forward to future updates!
The "digital patronage" system you describe around ~17:43 is kind of similar to open source support in software, I like the idea! Maybe the site could tie into a kind of nursery cooperative so supporters could also purchase scionwood directly from the growers listed in the system.
yeah, I think it might be, but I've never studied how that actually works. Fonts too have alternative systems for personal vs commercial use.
Congratulations on the new variety! I like your idea for a plant breeder's platform. With a bit of going over and refining, the basic idea seems solid to me. I'm not a web developer, though, so I can't build it.
That is super Stephen! Congrats! Interesting that it happened in F1 and not a bunch of back-crossing. Fnerds unite!(Fruit Nerds)
Awesome!
I love your content. We just started breeding our apples up here in zone 3a Canada. I am going to buy a red fleshed pear to breed those as well. So happy you are finding your winners now. :)
I always share your content with anyone who will listen and comment to help the algorithms. Thanks again.
My advice is dont' cross RF pears to other RF pears, because they probably suck. Get as many as you can and trial as many good regular pears as you can. If you can find more than one, cross them to the best pears you can, then use those down the line for F2 and beyond. That's what I would do :) I do have a couple RF pears here, but never fruited.
Might be able to send you a couple sticks.
All the hardy pears here are kind of small and boring. But the Russians released some interesting very hardy pears. Going to start with some of those and some of the U of Sask varieties from the Apostle series. Hoping for good things! I appreciate the scion offer. I am going to get onto patreon in the new year as I really want some pollen to breed to my 2 old unknown variety apples one is like a small ambrosia (too cold for those here) and the other is like a round short gala type with lots of pink flesh. I want to add in that good candy flavour but I am pretty sure that scions would croak. Sometimes it gets down to -60°C with windchill. Our season is short here; end of September is likely the end of season here most years so those later varieties would never be mature enough to eat and ripen in the fridge. (But maybe)
Lastly, on the shitty days remember that your youtube is inspiring a new generation of fruit breeders/homesteaders up here in the bald prairies of Canada. My kids love your videos too! Thanks again!!!
Congratulations! I should test it for you in Minnesota.
That’s so amazing
Your hard work and patience paid off.
Looks really amazing .
Are you by any chance sell cuttings or plants?
I’m interested
Thank you
i began an apple seeding project last december. i have 55 apple seedlings growing in our orchard, some are over two feet tall already. i'm excited to see what happens in a decade. we also have anna and dorsett apples on the property, we are in florida where the chill hours are around 400 per year only.
Great to hear. I hope you get some great stuff. I'm very interested if just growing seed from apples that were grown in the deep south would throw more useful, low chill progeny. I think they probably will. I would really try to get as much interesting stuff actually flowering and fruiting there and favor those seeds as much as you can. That is how I would do it. Are you familiar with kuffle creek and apple and oranges blog? that is a good source to find low chill apples. I will be getting more reports soon on how my seedlings do in the south.
@@SkillCult i'm hoping they all flower and fruit. it would be interesting to see how many of them can adapt to the high heat environment, and like you said, maybe their seeds will produce low-chill phenotypes. i'm expecting some crabapples, but i really do think some of them will produce useful fruits. i'm in one of the colder parts of florida so i'm hoping it's chilly enough during the winter months. most of my seeds are from Gala apples, some are from granny smith and it's possible a few are from red delicious but i think i might have excluded those. i'm going to germinate another round of seeds in the coming months and i have some amrbosia gold and fuji seeds to add to the mix. i've never heard about those blogs you mentioned, but i will for sure google them and do some research. i'm subscribed to your channel, so i will be reminded to update you in the future about what is going on here in central florida. i also started from seed several plum trees, mango, peach, navel orange, mandarin, and avocado. so far everything is growing wonderfully.
@@SkillCult i'm hoping they all flower and fruit. it would be interesting to see how many of them can adapt to the high heat environment, and like you said, maybe their seeds will produce low-chill phenotypes. i'm expecting some crabapples, but i really do think some of them will produce useful fruits. i'm in one of the colder parts of florida so i'm hoping it's chilly enough during the winter months. most of my seeds are from Gala apples, some are from granny smith and it's possible a few are from red delicious but i think i might have excluded those. i'm going to germinate another round of seeds in the coming months and i have some amrbosia gold and fuji seeds to add to the mix. i've never heard about those blogs you mentioned, but i will for sure google them and do some research. i'm subscribed to your channel, so i will be reminded to update you in the future about what is going on here in central florida. i also started from seed several plum trees, mango, peach, navel orange, mandarin, and avocado. so far everything is growing wonderfully.
I also sell seed and my open pollinated seed is pretty cheap if you want some real diversity. It really matters what seed you plant. I will usually do blends of seed from summer, september, October, November and then super late hangers in the winter. I only save seed from interesting apples, mostly stuff I breed with or my seedlings, or that I think has some potential. Sometimes I do a red fleshed blend too and I'm thinking about doing a savory apple blend. Then I also sell seed open pollinnated of specific varieties. Two you might consider are Wickson and King David, as I know they are low chill apples. If you use stuff from the store, I would consider Pink Lady seed. I don't know about chill, but it does well here in the heat, it's a good apple and it hangs super late, which could be useful there. In the spring I have pollen too, so you could try to pollinate those dorsett or anna to get some interesting genes into the mix. You would probably have to get pollen and hold it over, since your bloom would almost certainly preceed mine.
Heck yeah! Looking forward to eating that apple someday!
Love the idea about the honor system for supporting breeders. If everybody who grafted or sold a variety (including bigger nurseries) gave a dollar or two per tree to the original breeder, that would be jet fuel for the movement.
yeah, it would be neat if it worked. the idea is bigger too though. It would be a community as well, where eaters, breeders and growers could all interact around the plants. So anyone could leave a review, lists of who is growing it, where to find it etc. And breeders forums, with educational material to help out new breeders.
Great! it's good to hear the state of things, and especially your socially centered idea on the propagation of new, unpatented cultivars
I've been following along for a long time.
Can't wait for this one to hit the shelves..or the auctions😃
amazing
Have you given the new apple a name yet? Love your videos. Im growing some of your varieties, and i will definitely want this new one when you release it.
I do have a name, just not releasing it yet. It's good :) It'll happen eventually, hopefully this coming season, but we'll see.
Wish i was richer. Cuz i believe in what ur doing. Im so passionate about especially apples and the history of the genetics and breeding practices. I recently few years ago Started grafting my own trees in my yard and doing bonsi multi grafted frankintrees like you call them 😂. I followed u all along this journey for few years ,u gave me tge confidence ti just graft my own. Don't overthink it just doit. Thank you 😊
Wow, what if you made really cool bonzai apple trees that actually make fruit. But shape them all funky you know. Glad to hear you're having fun. I could use a rich person right about now to fund all the stuff I want to do lol. I think I'll be able to do a lot with what I can get though. It's people like you that keep me doing this stuff.
@@SkillCultthey make some fruit. Not much got a few apples last year. First ones ever. They were soo good being all organic . well I promise u now. If I win the lottery, and I play Alot....lol. I'll be sending a pile your way. I Kno it's a long shot. I love this way
I agree that there can be resentment in some cases. One example is U of Minnesota only releasing Sweetango as a "club apple", where homeowners (even Minnesota taxpaying homeowners), and orchids not in the club, cannot legally grow Sweetango until the patent expires.
asolutely fantastic!!! i soo want to taste it! :D
Great video...wish one day eat this aplle.
That will be possible :)
Yeah, loving the idea of a clearing-house for contemporary amateur fruit-breeding efforts, in the tradition of Munson, Rombough, etc. CRFG's infrastructure would probably be the easiest way to go about it.
I'm not really familiar. I want it to be a community and a data base. Breeder forums, reviews and growing experience can be left by anyone, or at least members, links to sources, who is growing it etc.
I finally got about a dozen of your Sugarwood© apples from my grafted tree this year, and let me just say, they are fantastic - high sugar, small, pink fleshed, berry flavor, good eating out of hand, and it will be an awesome cider apple. This year I cross bred your Sugarwood with another Etter apple, Thornberry ,with a a goal getting more red fleshed Etter genes into an apple. I'll send you a scion one of these day. I'm also taking up your mantel by breeding other redfleshed apples such as: Otterson X Redlove, Redlove X Wickson, Roberts X Redlove Sirena. Thanks for all your inspiration.
Great to hear. Sugarwood was less woody and more RF this year, but still pretty woody. It does have a very rich flavor though. did you get a brix reading by chance? My tendency is to mostly cross RF with non RF, or lightly RF apples, like william's pride, viking, Pink Parfait, rome etc. Then think about back crossing or crossing those crosses with other crosses. I'm kind of afraid that any not so great traits in two less than stellar RF apples will compound, rather than dilute. Now that I have this apple though, I may go more to RF on RF. I have done some, but not too much. I tend to think a lot now along the lines of creating lines to work with in future generations.
@@SkillCult the Brix on the Suragwood was 20. I like your RF reasoning and did something similar. I did one cross that was Thornberry X Robert's because I thought that the Etter apple was more civilized due to his efforts, and the Robert's was more Kazakstanie and primiative. Robert's is a super redfleshed variety that tastes almost like redwine. I thought I'd mix the civiized pink and the primitive red and see what happens.
@@Tmakepeace wat? Really? 20brix apple?
@@Sp1tfire100 yup!
Just discovered your videos today - I'd recommend reaching out to your local mutual aid groups (anarchists, Anarcho-communists etc) your ideas on sharing apples for community reasons is right up their (and my) alley lol
Working on a permaculture garden to over produce and share with the homeless, and share propagated fruit trees/ vegetables plants. There's always suckers we prune off - why throw that away when you can give it to your neighbor style. I vibe with your shit
Great. Let me know. I have a Fedco Redfield and a Mountain Rose...
Thanks for putting this video up! What would happen if you crossed the Appleosa with something like Pink Lady (good pie apple) to hold the texture into the stages of ripeness? Both the apples you showed look amazing and sound delicious. Keep up the hard work!
I've made that cross already and probably will again. It is sort of a back cross, since Lady Williams, appleoosa's pollen parent is also an ancestor of Cripps. I also have Pinker Lady Cripps pink x rubaiyat. that might make a good back cross. But cripps / appleoosa will be made more in both directions.
You deserve to make some money!!! Patent it but spread it to everyone at the same time. At least you'd be protected from evil apple giants getting ahold of it. That's my opinion. I'll trade you fresh seafood for a scion of this or at least a chance to come down and taste at your property.
I'd love to visit with you if you can come down. I can manage at least something small to graft I'm sure. Some kind of limited license for personal vs commercial use is probably possible.
wow. 💯Tremendous achievement🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 ✌️
I learnt a lot from your grafting videos inuding how to handle the knife safely.
from Australia.
I would love to have some scion wood of the final product of this project.
someday...
Are there red fleshed varieties that can grow in the south? I've got some Kuffel Creek trees selected for the subtropics here on the Texas coast, King David is one of those that will do well here, but I don't know enough about varieties to try to grow a red fleshed apple.
I don't know. They probably still need to be tested. that is one function of the eaters, breeders and growers project I was talking about. grower feedback by region.
@@SkillCult Well once I get some skill and experience (my apples are in year 2 and a half) I would love to participate in your vision, sounded awesome. I'll have enough trees to graft onto.
I haven't had much luck with red fleshed in Georgia. Pink parfait, grenadine, hidden rose and others haven't developed much red flesh if any. Probably too hot and humid and apples drop pretty quick here
Hello, great video, i was wondering if you had a website or store that you sold trees or grafting wood, thank you in advance and great work!!
I do sell scion wood for grafting every year. I start cutting wood this week, so probably early february. This variety is still under evaluation, but I have other varieties from seed. I don't sell trees yet, but I might eventually do bench grafting, a fresh grafted tree that you plant, then unwrap the graft when it is ready. links to other variety descriptions are here. skillcult.com/applebreeding. And I have a webstore on that site.
Congratulations beautiful apple. What is its bloom time
I don't know that yet. This is the first year it flowerd and bore fruit.
Love your ideas. I'm going to do something similar with Asimina triloba.
I put a link to this video on my FaceBook
Pretty cool, Pawpaws are under-appreciated. Just planted four common names varieties, worth sticking in this community to see if we can outdo parent strains with hand pollination and isolation. Something like Maria’s Joy x Susquehanna. Not sure though how there would be commercial PawPaws because of shelf life. 👍🏼 Maybe some extreme luck with seedling mutations.
@@ToddMagnussonWasHere Actually going to be getting (Susquehanna x Maria’s Joy) & (Maria’s Joy x Susquehanna) from a friend. KSU has a 9 year old (Susquehanna x Sunflower) that is much firmer than Susquehanna with Susquehanna quality. I have over 12K seeds of custom hybrids of cultivars, about 500 of which are (Al Horn's White x Nyomi’s Delicious). Al Horn is very firm & stores long, Nyomi’s is 27°Brix with color break. Hopefully, (Susquehanna x (Al Horn's White x Nyomi’s Delicious)) is flavorful, sweet, firm, with color break. Nyomi’s Delicious has a gene which slows PolyPhenol Oxidase enzyme browning of fruit. Selecting for fruit acidity will slow down the enzyme too. The enzyme activity is fastest at pH neutral. Color break will allow detection of ripeness with 485nm LED flashlights, rather than fruit squeezing. If all goes well, approximately 1 decade from now will have cultivars.
@@ToddMagnussonWasHere Regulus (Shenandoah x Susquehanna) & Canopus (Susquehanna x Shenandoah) are very close to being commercial cultivars. I plan to use them in breeding too. NC-1 also has good possibilities in breeding.
@@Pay-It_Forward Wow, didn’t even know about some of these cultivars. Definitely going to check out Nyomi’s and some of the other ones you mentioned.
oh those apples look so delicious. Any chance they can make it over the Atlantic to Germany?
There are several "Open source seed" initiatives - at least for vegetables and grains, don't know about trees - maybe contact those to set up some sort of cooperation?
Awesome!!!
Any way to get 1-2 buds for chip grafting?
Not this year, but I'll release it eventually. I don't usually do summer wood, just dormant, but you can chip bud with dormant wood.
@@SkillCult, thank you!
If you are developing a list for scion buyers, please put us on it. I’d buy a (4) bud one for $20…
Peace…
Great job…
What you're doing is so awesome. Love the ideals you have about letting others use your intellectual property. Only issue I see if you don't patent your fruits is that some butt pipe will steal it and do that anyways and then you legally won't be able to grow or sell the very fruits you developed. I would say patent it and just don't prosecute anyone for spreading it around and just legally take credit but let the public know they can do as they please with your intellectual property. Obviously asking that they honor your work and hopefully donate willfully back to you. Do like the whole free market idea you have but people just suck. I know you know that I'm sure. There's good people out there but unfortunately there's tons of bad people too. At any rate keep up your work!
As far as I know, you can't patent someone elses work legally. I think it would have to be claimed as their original property, and it would be pretty easy to prove it is not with the trail I leave behind. More reason though to document everything on a public website.
Anybody ever mistaken you for Beau of the fifth column? Same vibes, its a good thing.
No, but I've had all kinds of comparisons over the last 10 years, techno viking, bob ross, ragnar from vikings, rob zombie and the most uncomplementary, john malkovich- ew....
Very cool! Congratulations!
I have a lot of red fleshed varieties here, got some wickson trees grafted and looking forward to get some king david scions! Next to a lot of interesting local and other varieties.
I have two questions for you: Do you think it´s better to plant open pollinated seeds from good mother varieties if i do not have the time to cross or the father varieties in spring or wait some years to plant only hand - crossed seeds to spare the space?
And how do you select younger seedlings on growth or diseases, sunburn etc?
Greetings from Germany
It depends on your situation. If you are going to have very limited space, then you might want to hold out for intentional cross pollinations. I will send seeds overseas too and I have a lot of good cross pollinated stuff this year.
Contact me ahead of time about shipping though.
Thanks for your answer! I think i will just select the open polinated ones very hard.
I think a asked you about shipping to ger, there was a thing with an adress in the US, which i don´t have, that i didn´t understood. But new season new try, would be cool!
@@derweschi2979 Just contact me. We can figure it out. I'd like to see some of these genetics get over there in seed form if you will grow them.
Just started breeding apples this year along with native red mulberry and native grape varieties for Louisiana. I'll be reaching out to you for pollen and genetics to pair with a low/no chill wild crab.
That sounds like a cool project. for low/no chill apples, check out Kevin Hauser at Kuffle Creek Nursery and the Apple and Oranges blog. that's his thing. He has a list of no chill varieties. Starting with those seems good. King David and Wickson are two I know he talks about.
@@SkillCult Thanks for the lead! Feeling pressed for time at 38 and just starting but hopefully the kiddos can carry on what I start and be time ahead.
Can you release your Apple under ossi? That would protect it from other crosses being pattented. Love the social idea
l don't really get OSSI. I'm not sure what problem it is supposed to solve. Also, I don't care if people use the genetics to do further breeding. I'm not really into long term control of genetic material.
How can I obtain a few scions? I have some young trees that I'm not pleased with the product, I also have 2 b-9 rootstocks that I want to graft something delicious.
You are amazing and I'm feeling very inspired by your videos.
Thank you so much.
I doubt I will release this until it is at least well tested over multiple seasons. It is not fruiting this year enough to matter, so that means it will be a while. I've grafted a bunch of them out and trying to take care of the original tree, which is crowded and shaded. It's going to be a while unfortunately. I just need to have a good handle on what it's like before I put it out, as I will probably try to really promote it.
@SkillCult it doesn't have to be the apple in this video, any good tasting apples will do. I'm 71 years old and I just want something better than the crap they sell in the stores. I have a taste for winesaps, honeycrisp sweet and tart. I have a columnar tree named "tasty red" nice taste but not productive. I have to pollinate it by hand just as you do to get fruit.