What type of apple

by Bonnie Bassett

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this apple tree is in my yard and produced an abundance of apples for the first time it was very young when I bought this house( now seven years later) can anyone identify what type of apples these are....my roommate made a delicious apple pie with them !

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Catherine Smith on Sep 07, 2013
They look like the Gala Variety, which make wonderful pie apples and too die for homemade apple sauce and butter. Yummy~ The maturity time to produce fruit for a standard size apple tree is about right.

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- Bonnie Bassett on Sep 07, 2013
  @Catherine Smith ty Catherine for your reply the pie was soooooo good!
  
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- Bonnie Bassett on Sep 07, 2013
  are gala apples a cross between granny smith and Cortland apples ?
  
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- Douglas Hunt on Sep 08, 2013
  @Bonnie Bassett Gala apples were developed in New Zealand in the 1930s. They are a cross between a Golden Delicious and a Kidd's Orange Red.
  
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- Bonnie Bassett on Sep 08, 2013
  @Douglas Hunt ty Doug wow you know a lot !! :) now my friend wants to know if any apples have been crossed with granny apples and if so what kind and what kind was produced? Also do you think my apples are a type of gala?
  
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- Douglas Hunt on Sep 08, 2013
  @Bonnie Bassett I'm afraid that is the extent of my apple knowledge. If you really want to know what type of apple you have, I suggest you go to a good farmers' market and inquire of one of the apple growers. At the Union Square farmers' market in New York, some growers have a dozen or more varieties and someone like that may be able to tell you in one bite.
  
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- Catherine Smith on Sep 08, 2013
  @Bonnie Bassett apple hybridizing covers a very, very large area. Not sure if there is a granny cross out there at least commercially, but many home orchard growers do "experimenting" with that kind of cross. Grafting fruit trees is very interesting and fun to do, btw. It's fairly easy to get a "good" graft and the results can be surprising. We grafted some of our Bosc pear tree whips to a Seckel pear in the early spring. The grafts look good so far, I'm hoping to add to our fruit trees this way. Besides is was fun to try.
  
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Bonnie Bassett on Sep 08, 2013
you are much more experienced than I Catherine I would not know where to begin when it comes to grafting but it is interesting and I think it is fantastic that you do it !

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- Catherine Smith on Sep 09, 2013
  @Bonnie Bassett It's important to me to be able to share my gardening experience. It's my "pay it forward" to thank those who helped us learn the ropes, so to speak. I've always been interested in some of the more esoteric areas, like grafting etc, so when they offered a MG class on this given by one of the local gurus I jumped all over it. It was fascinating and such fun. And this guy was a master, more than willing to share his knowledge and experience with great excitement and enthusiasm. The true test, in my opinion, of a great gardener are the one's that still get excited about something they've been doing over and over for a very long time. ^-^
  
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Sandra T on Sep 09, 2013
gala

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Candy J on Sep 09, 2013
The apple on the left looks like a McIntosh but the one on the right looks like a gala

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- Catherine Smith on Sep 09, 2013
  @Candy J A McIntosh is much deeper red, and more elongated body. The little "cusps" are not as rounded and pronounced. Although it is another excellent pie apple. And also makes totally yummy sauce and butter. A bit tarter and has a tendency to get a bit mushy over time.
  
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GrandmaCarol Speight on Sep 09, 2013
Bonnie..IF there is not a market close by..BUT..IF there is a quality garden centre near to you,(here the high end garden centres have very knowledgible staff),...they may be able to answer your inquiry too. It may be a good idea to stop by a garden centre anyway because IF you are getting fruit, the tree will need to be sprayed in order to continue producing quality harvest. AND google grafting...think you maybe surprised...it isn't really that hard.

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- Catherine Smith on Sep 09, 2013
  @GrandmaCarol Speight Well now, you'd have to define "sprayed" for me. It is possible to grow fruit and nut trees organically. It does require a bit of planning and preparation, but works quite well. You need to pay attention to your trees, encourage pollinators (I plant white clover under all my fruit trees, draws bees like crazy) and provide rich organic compost/worm castings for fertilizer. I favor copper sulfate to deal with fungal problems. And use "light" horticultural oil in the spring on the nut trees, to help against borers and fungal problems there. I have 2 mature black walnuts and 1 mature pecan. The black walnuts are at least 60 years old and are getting tired, so we recently added 4 young black walnut saplings. I doubt I'll live long enough to see them produce fruit, but they are lovely trees and add depth to the area, even though they don't always play nicely with others. LOL
  
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- Judy on Sep 09, 2013
  @Catherine Smith How do you keep worms out of them?
  
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- Bonnie Bassett on Sep 09, 2013
  @Catherine Smith I didn't spray and won't the fruit is good the way it is
  
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- Catherine Smith on Sep 10, 2013
  @Bonnie Bassett You don't need to unless it's necessary. Healthy trees require minimum care, which is what you want to shoot for.
  
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GrandmaCarol Speight on Sep 09, 2013
Seems you have everything under control then (wondering to myself IF this Gal does the organic thingy which requires extra work, why does she not investigate grafting?...oh well)....lolol. Personally...I don't do organic. Haven't found anything we have bought over the years of making meals to have much in the way of the flavour/flavor department. (spelled for both American and Canadian readers)

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- Jenny on Sep 09, 2013
  @GrandmaCarol Speight organic doesn't add flavor it just keeps the chemicals out. i will only eat organic fruit/veggies because of that.
  
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- Patricia W on Sep 09, 2013
  @Jenny But, there is a HUGE difference in taste, especially in fruits.
  
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- Jenny on Sep 09, 2013
  every 4 weeks i get a delivery of organic fruit from "farm fresh to you" to my home. i have gotten the best tasting apples i have ever eaten from them. i get different types of fruit i have never seen before. last delivery the peaches looked like little pumpkins. i didn't even know they were peaches at first.
  
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- GrandmaCarol Speight on Oct 11, 2014
  Whatever works for some, doesn't have taste for us.
  
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Catherine Smith on Sep 09, 2013
I spray with Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) it is an organic pesticide specific for worms. I also lightly pain the bottom of my trees in the spring with light grade horticultural oil, evidently they can't get traction(LOL, not sure why, but it works). And keep the area around the tree as weed free as possible.

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Wendy Willey on Sep 09, 2013
I found this site of apples grown in your area.... http://www.newenglandapples.org/index.php?catcont=varieties

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- Bonnie Bassett on Sep 11, 2013
  @Wendy Willey wow I had no idea there are so many different varieties ! ty Wendy mine look like the orange pippin (never heard of them :)
  
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JUDY.P on Sep 09, 2013
LOOKS LIKE A GALA APPLE , VERY GOOD FLAVOR

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Wendy Willey on Sep 11, 2013
You're very very welcome.

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Gail on Sep 11, 2013
I am fairly sure they are winesap apples. They do make a wonderful pie.

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Gail on Sep 11, 2013
Winesaps are very common in New England. We use to get them in Vermont.

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Feral Turtle on Sep 12, 2013
I would call this a lucky apple tree. Perhaps a new species..lol. Your apples look amazing and how wonderful to make a delicious apple pie! Cheers

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Beverly Boucher on Oct 23, 2013
I just came on this site and saw your posting. Sorry a little late, but many have said, gala and that's what I was going to say. I come from Nashua, NH and our gala's look just like yours.

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Bonnie Bassett on Oct 24, 2013
I think you are right ty for your reply !

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Tyia Padilla on Oct 10, 2014
They look like Gala's to me

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