Top 10 Apple Varieties

 

Top 10 highest ranked varieties

• D'Arcy Spice (5.00)  - votes: 5
• Silken (5.00)  - votes: 5
• Irish Peach (4.86)  - votes: 7
• Lobo (4.86)  - votes: 7
• Grimes Golden (4.83)  - votes: 6
• Shizuka (4.83)  - votes: 6
• Tydeman's Early Worcester (4.83)  - votes: 6
• Weirouge (4.83)  - votes: 6
• Zuccalmaglio's Reinette (4.83)  - votes: 6
• Opal® (4.80)  - votes: 10

   

Top 10 Most Popular Varieties:

1. Pink Lady® apple

   
   One of the best-known modern apples, Pink Lady is actually a trademark and the variety is more correctly known as Cripps Pink.

2. Honeycrisp apple

   
   Sometimes marketed as Honey Crisp or Honeycrunch, this is a crisp, and predominantly sweet, modern variety from the USA. It was developed by the University of Minnesota specifically for growers in cold climates, and is one of the most cold-hardy of apple varieties.

3. Fuji apple

   
   Developed in Japan, but an all-American cross of Red Delicious and Ralls Janet. A very attractive modern apple, crisp, sweet-flavoured, and keeps well.

4. Red Delicious apple

   
   One of the most famous American apple varieties, a sport of Delicious, known for its bright red color.

5. Gala apple

   
   One of the most widely-grown apple varieties, with a sweet pleasant flavour, and good keeping qualities.

6. Cox's Orange Pippin apple

   
   This is the benchmark for flavor in apples - from a good tree in a good year it can achieve exceptional flavor.

7. Golden Delicious apple

   
   Undoubtedly one of the most important apple varieties of the 20th century, both as a commercial variety in its own right, and as breeding stock for many other varieties. Very good flavor when home-grown.

8. Jonagold apple

   
   A very popular commercial variety, with a good flavour. Inherits many of the good qualities of its parents Jonathan and Golden Delicious.

9. Granny Smith apple

   
   The most instantly-recognised of all apples, and perhaps Australia's most famous export.

10. McIntosh apple

    
    A crisp red apple with bright white flesh and refreshing sweet flavor.

Rubinette Apple Update

I noticed that the apples and asian pears around this area can be heavy strickened by worms. I noticed that I had already lost a couple to worms. Well time to protect my prized Rubinette Apple. So on goes the mesh bags. The tree is still in it's first season in the ground so I do not expect it to have it's best flavor but it's still exciting to see what they'll taste like.

Espalier Fruit trees along my fence.

Espalier.

The beginning of my Espalier Fruit trees.
4 in 1 Asian Pears
4 in 1 Asian Pears
Spartan Apple
Akane Apple

At first the espalier idea seems a bit intimidating but once you get the ball rolling it's not so bad. I pruned all the unwanted branches off of my selected trees. Leaving only those that would tier well with wire that I was planning on attaching to my fence.

I used 8 inch eye screws and 12 gauge 100 ft wire. I plan on having 3 levels about 25 inches apart. In hindsight I probably should've kept the spacing to about 20 inches.

Apples, Pears and Figs take to this type of treatment well. But any stone fruit will probably be much more difficult to control.

Try this out if you have very little space in your yard.

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Apples.

As a Washingtonian we live in prime real estate for some of the best apples in the country. So of course I have to have at least half a dozen varieties in my yard.

My Trees consists of:
1. Rubinette - Offspring of a great orange cox pippin
2. Akane - Great tasting apple for the NW
3. Spartan - In blind taste test the Spartan beat out 40 other apples
4. Beni Shogun - Related to the fuji but rippens early enough for the NW weather
5. Columnal Sentinel - I bought this guy for the novelty of a single stalk tree. I have since grafted 2 other varieties on it to see if it will take.

*Grafted Honey Crisp and Macoun.

All of my trees were purchased bare root. I planted them with a mix of compost, manure, bone meal, and Micorrhizae to give it an extra boost.

My beautiful rubinette Apple tree.

Column Apple.
Last year I got 2 apples from this tree. They were not fully ripe but conveniently fell off the tree when my mom came over to visit in September. 

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My row of Fruit trees.