Heritage apple varieties

[@billycampbell854]

Greetings from Northeast Tennessee. I enjoyed your program very much. My 5th great grandfather developed the Hoss (Horse) in the 1780s ,here in East Tennessee.🖋

[@MrNiceSafe]

You really have a lovely orchard and thank you for passing your knowledge on.

[@rdk162]

Keep making videos Stephen We love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From U.S.A.

[@brianzpartner]

Thank you so much for this video and what you are doing for Heritage Apples. I appreciate you having the names of the apples listed in the video - very helpful. Cheers from California

[@timjturner]

Lots of good information.....Thanks for sharing......I have planted several fruit trees in the last few years and plan to add several more this year.....I will look for some rare fruits this year....

[@LondonTreeSurgeons-Camden]

It's all about saving the genetic diversity, watched your video before but just added it to our new Heritage and Heirloom playlist.

[@cosmic-fortytwo]

I really enjoyed this video. After watching, I was intrigued by your description of May Queen and did a search for it. I found it on the Deacons Nursery web site and plan on ordering a couple trees. It was great to hear about the rare varieties you have shown in this video. Keeping them alive is super important.

[@WickManDoo]

Steven, I have 30 different varieties of rare cider and dessert apples and 25 varieties of pears ready to plant in an orchard. I grafted them all myself on EMLA 111 and OHxF 97. I'm doing my part!

[@lalajithakur3244]

Odd variety... traditional wrong system u have

[@Chisola69]

A very beautiful and informative video(smashing Apples)....!!! Bye.

[@kellykilfeather]

I’ve been watching your videos for years -since I lived in a tiny flat in London, and now in the Cambs countryside and starting my orchard. I’ve just planted James Grieve, Orleans Reinette, Pitmaston Pineapple, Kidds Orange Red, Ashmeads Kernel, Spartan, Dumelows Seedling, Bramley. I’ve got some rootstocks too, preparing to graft some more. I was wondering, can what was taken off the young trees as their first prune post-planting be used as scion wood for grafting?

[@MadBadVoodo]

Outstanding video Colonel!! . . ★★★★★

[@BamaBackwoodsman]

@stephenhayesuk Hi I am new to your channel and i was wondering on your views on crab apples. when i was young we had a tree that pruduced loads of half dollar sized crab apples that were not to tart or bitter. I and my brothers often sold them in school for a bit of pocket change for drinks and snacks. We would also pickle them in salt which was a tasty treat late in the year. I want to start an orchard and grow a variety of fruits thank you for all of your information it has really helped.

[@samdesouza]

Hi Stephen, i like the video. I'm studying horticulture at the moment and im designing an orchard which will have only rare fruit varieties purely for preservation of these varieties :) Thanks for the information and experiences with your own orchard, it's much appreciated Sam

[@JohnnyTPaul]

I like St Lawrence Nurseries in New York if you happen to be on the east coast. They specialize in varieties for cold climates. They have over 150 varieties of apples including some of the older ones.

[@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead]

Big recommendation: Fallawater apple. My great grandfather had one and I was maybe 2 years old when I last saw the tree and I still remember the flavor 39 years later and finally found out what it was called. The apples are enormous, it's a very hardy tree, and makes the absolute best apple butter and pies.

[@stephenhayesuk]

@akagoldminer thanks. The definition of a crab apple is rather hazy. Many apple trees grow from discarded pips in cores and are properly called 'wildings'. They are usually sharp. The true wild crab 'malus silvestris' is I think rare. Many ornamental varieties are termed crabs, for example varieties John Downie and Golden Hornet, of which we grow both. They are mainly grown for beauty and as pollinators. They make good jelly i have never tried pickled apples

[@collectsoulpleasure1800]

Amazing

[@robertbarrow2799]

Great video. I’m all the way from New Zealand and I really enjoy your videos. I would love a pitmaston pineapple tree in my back yard. I believe we don’t have them here. I assume scion wood can’t be sent overseas?. Thanks

[@NuggetEternal]

I'd love to try a pineapple apple!

[@donnya1000]

I planted seven apple trees in the last five years but am not able to find any of the varieties you mention, I have the space and would like to plant a few. Do you know of any nursery in the USA that might have these rare varieties?

[@paidskn1488]

My brother just bought 40arces of land and he's gonna let me live there and take care of the property and im gonna plant a bunch of rare fruits and vegetable.Maybe raise some rare animals too.

[@stephenhayesuk]

@CHEECHAKOSMONTANA Thanks for the enquiry. pears need to pbe pruned in the winter like apples. I don't think its critical. With a tree that size, you have few issues! My advice to anyone who inherits a grand old tree like that, I'm assuming neglected, is to carefully saw out badly placed, overcrowded and diseased whole branches NO MORE than 25% of the total and leave it alone for a year. I put up a series of videos 'restoring a neglected city garden orchard' which may help, about 2 years back

[@jonewer]

So far I have bought trees from Bernwode and Adams Apple's. Can only comment on the former so far but they have all grown disease free and apparently true to type.

[@BamaBackwoodsman]

@stephenhayesuk I am not sure of the type of tree it was but i know where it grows still and plan on getting a few of its offspring if possible. the carbapples we pikled were done in salt water and had a salty sour flavor that was quite tasty to us. the tree wasa great producer and the limbs would be loaded almost tothe breaking point from their weight. it was next to our porch so we could easily reach high into the tree with a piece of cane to dislodge them if needed.

[@themockbeggars]

Stephen I've got a good size garden and have unknown red apples and cooking Apple trees and want to top out 4 of my 5 cooking Apple trees and also plant Agee more?? Whst and where do I get?

[@christianlloydcomia9138]

United States or Australia?

[@Sami-Nasr]

I have Adam's Pearmain on M25, it produced apples this year. it tastes very good, the only apple in the supermarket that tastes better than it is Pink Lady.

[@stephenhayesuk]

MESSAGE FROM STEPHEN thanks for all the interest and enquiries re pruning etc. I will try to answer them all but you won't hear anything from me for 5 days as I'm travelling. If you are planning to plant any fruit trees this winter, you have no time to waste as the nurseries plan to sell out and planting needs to be done by early April at the latest.

[@edleyroberts6155]

id like to learn more.

[@Teorispa]

With an extremely rare variety I wouldn't dare to graft just one tree. If anything went wrong with it, I'd be left with nothing. So I can relate with planting "too many".

[@YahcobYsrael]

How do you keep the birds from eating all of your apples?

[@mikebetts2046]

Yahcob Ysray, I do not have problems with birds eating apples but they will hit my cherries and other soft fruits. What worked well for me was to hang quite a few reflective mylar streamers (scare tape) all around the tree. Do not put on until fruit changes color. Otherwise birds will get used to the tape. I also put a fake owl with head that spins in the wind nearby on 12' pole and move it around orchard every day. Then take tape down as soon as all fruit is picked. Also, my house is about 300 feet away from tree line out front and even more from woods out back. This might help to reduce population of birds right in close to orchard.

[@YahcobYsrael]

Thanks for the help and information.

[@johnnyreis6899]

Well, I went overboard.

[@paidskn1488]

@stephenhayesuk Thanks for the advice.

[@mytech6779]

One could say that every pip in the compost is an extinct variety, just the nature of apples. Though I do see the unique types being good for the breeding gene pool. Graft 4-5 rare types on one tree, if only to preserve the genetics and provide samples. If the type is worth a larger crop then dedicate a whole tree. Some folks go full in and get 50 on one tree(generally a larger semi-dwarf) but I would need to start small for that as I couldn't bring myself to reduce an established cultivar to make room for the new types.

[@stephenhayesuk]

@donnya1000 Thanks. There is a nursery called trees of antiquity in California. I should think you could Google up a few others. Google on Michael Phillips, his great book 'The Apple Grower' deals with the US apple scene. Michael and I have corresponded, he's a great man and I'm sure could point you in the right direction.

[@prasannaveenai3376]

அண்ணா இந்த ஆப்பிள் கன்று தாருங்கள் இந்த ஆப்பிள் பழம் கிடைக்கவில்லை இந்த ஆப்பிள் ருசியாக இருக்கும்

[@anaheller9920]

do you sell cuttings? I a from the UK; so i am unable to buy there trees, I want however to have them in my garden. If its possible please contact me :), I should highly appreciate it

[@martinskipper7948]

The East of England Apples and Orchards Project sells all the 250+ varieties of apple, pear, plum and cherry that come from the east of England. Visit our website at www.applesandorchards.org.uk and come to an Apple Day in the region to see our displays.

[@stephenhayesuk]

@samdesouza Hi Sam, I wish you success.

[@brianzpartner]

@donnya1000 ... trees of antiquity com Fantastic heritage varieties!

[@stephenhayesuk]

@danchirit I cannot praise Blackmoor too highly, and no I don't get paid by them! if you go to my website at fruitwise (.) net and click on links I list all the fruit tree nurseries I know

[@PortagePenennials]

@donnya1000 Google "Apple Scion Heaven - Nick Botner"

[@elifaresfares2442]

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