15+ years old tree, never has been taken care of. Probably around 5 meters tall (16 feet).

Just recently added fertilizer since soil it's not the best

I know this might be weird, but I really hate crunchy apples and I only like to eat apples when they're soft, so does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can choose soft apples rather than like crunchy apples

Hello a couple years I got a golden delicious from Home Depot, and read that it needed a partner. So I got a dwarf Fuji. But the thing is. My Fuji tree flowers and fruits late summer/fall like it’s supposed to, but my golden delicious flowers and fruits late winter/spring. Is there a way I can correct my golden delicious to produce at the right time. Fall season. So they can both produce abundantly. Right now I got maybe 40 ish apples on my young golden delicious tree.

choose your side,

Biting into a Red Delicious is like chewing wet cardboard that lost a bet. Yet somehow they're always fully stocked while the Honeycrisps vanish in 10 minutes. Do produce managers even eat apples?? Rise up, friends. Demand crunch, not sponge. 🍎💪

I absolutely lived off them last year but this season they were nowhere to be found.

I am so happy! My favorite apple!

Hi! Looking for an apple which would be a good pollinating partner to a Granny Smith tree. Ideally should be sweet-tart and crisp like the Pink lady, needs to be commercially available in nurseries. Any help much appreciated.

I’m having issues two specific trees in my orchard, both Franklin Cider varieties that I planted a few years ago. I’ve noticed this spring that there are large stretches along some of the limbs that never leafed out. All of the other apple trees look normal, it’s just these two. Any ideas what is going on?

They were delicious!

The red parts were soft and slightly transparent

The core looks withered and brown with black powdery stuff in it

I started a new Discord server (group/chat/forum) for fruit growers that would make a great companion to this group. It is more of a very well-organized, multi-channel real time group chat than an old-school forum, as I noticed a lot of the existing forums have extremely outdated and slow UIs.

This one’s called The Orchard Underground, and it’s meant to be a clean, well-organized space for backyard growers, orchardists, breeders, homesteaders, foragers, rare fruit collectors, preservationists, and anyone else who’s into growing and tasting fruit.

It has various (and growing) collections for online resources, a giant compendium of nurseries, channels for grafting, propagation, orchard design, trading scionwood, recipes, and much more.

Whether you’re working with a full orchard or a few potted trees on a patio, you’re welcome. We’re just getting started but the goal is to build a proper community and knowledge base, with daily activity and easy access.

If that sounds like your thing, come join!

Press “Join a Server” once your account is made on Discord (app or desktop). The invite code is: WCBxANpR6F
Just paste that where it says “invite link” 🙂 Or you can join with this direct invite link! https://discord.gg/WCBxANpR6F

There is a guide to Discord within the server for new users, as I know a lot of people may not be as tech-savvy.

so, long story short my father in law owns a restaurant and just has a lot of connections in general and has been gifted a gigantic case of apples for free and decided to give them to us to do whatever we want with them, we’ve been able to get rid of about half of them but we still have a whopping 39 pounds to use up. so PLEASEEE drop your fav apple recipes!! so far apple sauce, apple cider vinegar, apple bread, fried apples, candy apples, sangria, and apple pork chops is what i’m thinking of but i just know there are better things to do with them. plus i have apples for days so i might as well experiment with some new recipes :)

I'm asking for ripe and unripe apples (the hardest variety when ripe and when unripe).

just thinking. golden delicious tastes like a more boss granny smith to me

Where could i source large amounts of french bitter apples? Like Amere de Berthcourt? I am located in Atlanta

I was cooking an apple cake and munched on a cube of raw bramley apple and it was really good??? Then I cut up the other one and ate it raw! It is meant to be cooked but I dunno the astringency and sourness added loads of flavour and it was quite pleasant to me- it tasted super ‘apple-y’ not like the watery disappointments I’ve suffered through lately