5 APPLES YOU HAVE TO TRY! (ORGANICALLY GROWN) 

Do you prefer sweet🍎 or sour🍏 apples?

I got to try apples grown in my yard for the first time this year. It s a sweet sixteen and it has 15 apples on it... Now it only has 13... It probably will now be my favorite because i grew it..

I've been look for a video on this topic, especially since we are a similar growing zone! Thanks for spreading the good word.

Some local cultivars here in Arkansas are Arkansas Black and King David. I can't wait to get my own orchard going!

Fantastic. Did not know this info, will seek these out for eating and my garden. Your passion and knowledge are inspiring.

Cox Orange Pippin !

This guy is the Rolls-Royce expert of Apples.

For growing here in USDA zone 3, my favorite is Liberty, hands down. It's hardy, disease resistant, prolific. The flavor is beautifully balanced. The flesh has flecks of red that make a warm, ruby tone apple sauce. It's great off the tree, cooks up well, and makes the most beautiful apple cider vinegar I've ever seen. I have a Golden Russet, and it makes knock-your-socks-off apple juice, but the texture is not my plan A. Haralson is my favorite storage apple, and it grows well in Minnesota. I also have a Honeycrisp, which I like for flavor and texture, but it's a fussy beast, always the first to pick up any disease in the area, always the first to react to too much or too little rain. I wouldn't grow it again if I were choosing all over again.

Red Prince might be my favourite! Thanks for posting your top 5!

Love that Stephan is so present that he notices the bird ☺️

From my youth Gravansten and Winsap and a recent one is Chelias.

BC Macintosh are my favorite from childhood. They are becoming hard to find but I still love them over anything else. I remember you had mentioned they were one of, if not the one that uses the most pesticides/herbicides so I'm looking for another favorite. We have very little choice in northern BC, we get what we get so it's hard to keep one in mind when there are so many new vrieties coming out every year. If there's an apple that's soft as the Mac's and some sweetness, it would be a favorite, but nothing so far.

My favourite commercially available apple is the spartan, I'm growing liberty and freedom which I'm told taste very similar and are incredibly hearty and resistant

Nice favourites!✌️👍

I’m so excited this year because my golden russet tree has fruit on it. I cannot wait to taste it.

My backyard favourite right now is Elstar. Its a child of golden delicious, so it sports some honeyed taste, as well as being well balanced and a hint of lemon on the finish. No disease issues yet, but that is relative to the amount of Neem and EM sprays I do.

I have a tiny apple orchard (about 20 trees) and have learn a little of what he mentions over the years. This is fun to watch. Liberties Spartans were some of my first trees. While I lost one of each early on to Fire Blight because I didn't recognize it I have found they are otherwise resilient to pests and disease, super productive, great to eat out of hand, ok for baking, good for juice, and good for cider. Red Fields are currently my favorite, red fleshed, tastes slightly of berries, makes good juice and cider, great for baking. Not the best to eat out of hand though but the trees are very hearty and very productive.

Spartan is my all-time favorite. I used to have two apple trees in my backyard in Sherbrooke, QC : one Spartan, I suspect, the other one undetermined. I was pretty ignorant of the care they needed at the time but did my best without chemicals. Fruit was not perfect but I did get enough to taste and cook, once trimmed. Unfortunately, a storm torn my preferred one down and I had to get rid of the other one which was unhealthy. Should I be younger, I would start all over with the help of your precious advice. Thanks for your fascinating work and videos.

Great video!

September Ruby is my favorite! Zone 2, very productive, very tasty, doesn’t fall off by itself

My favorite store apple is Jonagold apples but apples here in Iowa where I live depends on the time of the year. I like Yellow Transparent early and Northern Spy late. I like an apple with a balanced flavor and texture.

Favourite? Easily the 'Cox's Orange Pippin' - Crisp texture, balanced sweet / acid notes - but complex, with a profound 'apple' aroma, keeps well. A simply wonderful apple. (But perhaps not one for those used to 'cardboard' textured sweetness. But hey, everyone should be comfortable with their level of 'taste complexity' should they not?)

I love the different tropical fruit notes you can get with Blondee.

„Pinova“ is fantastic, also „Gravensteiner“ and of course „Weisser Klarapfel“, all of them European varieties

I love Ambrosia apples I so very much want one at my place just not sure if I could keep it alive in the city

We've got a Braeburn tree in our small back garden ,it is disease resistant and the fruit is sweet and slightly sharp and nice and crisp .I'm going to get a Bramley this year for cooking. We also have a Conference pear ,peach (which suffers from leaf curl every year) and a damson tree. Thanks for the info.

Will try!

My favorite apple is Fuji. E.WA

1. Goldrush 2. Liberty 3. Newtown Pippin 4. Arkansas Black 5. Northern Spy

Anna apples are in my top 3. I have 2 trees currently in my backyard and they are prolific producers. It's got a good amount of disease resistance as well unless we see tons of rain like we did early this year. Awesome video!

my favorite apple is a fully ripe golden delisious.. the taste is sweet with a uniuk aroma.. really love them.. i have a golden delisious tree still young..:)

Here on pei honeycrisp grows to perfection. It is hard to beat for taste. Liberty to me is underrated for taste, is abundant,very resistant to disease and keeps for several months in the cellar.

BC Macs, R my pick. I try NOT to be picky, as I believe in NOT making of food a 'god'. In this way, life remains simple for me and I become more grateful for whatever is put before me. Thanks Stefan, for another informative and naturally delivered vid! God Bless you and yours! I should add that when I go to the grocery store, I like to buy the apples that are local, the kind that are NOT polished and waxed. They usually look kinda 'dusty' and can have a myriad of names that I can never remember. There...NOW I'm finished.

Thanks!

Recently found your channel and catching up- great content, thank you! Fave is Gravenstein because we have gorgeous 120 yr old tree still producing wonderfully. (Had 2 until the recent ice storm knocked a conifer over onto it).

Perhaps you will disagree but I think how storable apples are is also important. I can't eat all the apples when they are ripe so they must store well. Around here, everyone goes mad for honeycrisp apples, but they don't store well so they are only a seasonal phenomenon.

An old German variety (from the south west of Germany) called "Brettacher". They are rather sour at the time of harvest, but they change during storage and become sweeter. They can be strored (in a cold/dry basement - no cooling) at least until Christmas or often even until early March. They are good for beeing eaten directly, but also for baking and "musting"(?).

I've only had the opportunity of trying the Cox Orange Pippin on one occasion and it was truly an impressive tasting apple so much different then the North American apples I've been eating for so many years. I now have 6 trees of the COP in my young heirloom orchard and looking forward to having them more often.

I grew up working on my aunt and uncle's orchard in IL... here are my favorites: Jonathan - caramel apples, pies, fresh Yellow Delicious - huge from their orchard, best eaten fresh Ozark Gold was runner up unfortunately those same apples in the stores pale in comparison to the freshly picked sun warmed ones.

Lots of information plenty of knowledge, lots of varieties plenty of tastes

Northern Spy for eating and Winesap for cooking.

I live in Kentucky and it is a Great area for Apple growing. I planted 6 different varieties 2 months ago : 1. Honeycrisp 2. Golden Delicious 3. Granny Smith 4. Jonathan (planted it because that's my name) :) 5. Red Winesap 6. Macoun (not a good producer usually biannual but supposed to have a berry hint in taste)

I enjoyed this! Are there any other videos on your favourite Pears, Plums etc? Thanks!

#1 for me is Lady Alice. Second would be Coos River which is a local here. My third might be your first choice of the Russet.

Winesap! Makes me think of childhood!

My favourite now is a cultivar that got released here in Australia in 2019. If you love berries, strawberries, raspberries etc and can get your hand on a Magnus Summer surprise, you will not be disappointed.

I planted Honeycrisp , pink lady, Anna, golden delicious this year. I planted the Honeycrisp because it one of my favorite eating apples but I think they will be hit and miss for us due to chill hours, we are in 8a and can get 500-900 depending on the year. I will keep my fingers crossed and plant some Granny Smiths next year because they are better pollinators for the HC Apple.

Pink Lady

I would currently say perhaps Pink Lady and Fuji are my favorites. I am attempting an Orchard on 20 acres in North Florida. I planted a ton of stuff but the deer decided to eat it in the fall. I am in Zone 8 here. Other than deer our biggest battle is depleted soil and $$$ ;?) Kevin

I like golden delicious. They are not popular here, they are the last to go at the garden centre. But I am planting a few to try them out here on the east coast.

i don't know the name, but i love sweet yellow apples! ♥

Top 5 for eating apples: Jonagold, Fuji, Braeburn, Honeycrisp, Pink Lady. And of course Granny Smiths for apple pies.

Envy

Glad to see you included at least one Canadian: Nova Spy. Since I last responded, I have had to remove Hunt because I live near desert. Hunt, along with other russets, breathes out all moisture. Sigh. Now Lamb Abbey, GoldRush, and Claygate are the leaders in my home orchard. Two heirlooms & one from Purdue, Rutgers & U of Illinois (PRI).

Fuji 100%, back up is Granny Smith. Haven’t tried Honeycrisp. I’ve heard it’s also good

Love the honey crisp but where do you suggest purchasing the cultivars? Love your videos

Viking is a favorite. I liked Jonagold, but they aren't cold hardy enough.

In central Ohio, our local U-pick orchard has rubinette and mutsu apples that are amazing. These varieties seem rather fussy for an average backyard grower in a humid region, but I look forward to eating them every year.

Gravensteins!

Jazz apple is my favorite but they are hard to come by. So, my husband & I will eat: Pink Lady, Braeburn & Fuji apples. Would like to try more varieties...

Pippin is a good apple.

In zone 8a South Normandy I like "grosse jaune / big yellow" (I don't know the exact origin). Reine des reinettes and Reinette du Canada grise (in fact it is not from Canada !) as well as Reinette Clochard and Winter Banana are tasty too for me. I have some "red skins" but yet don't know the origin.

old Apple varieties resistant but red stripped fruit not all red yet more tasty

i have 2 small/semi-dwarf apple trees. One tree grows small golden delicious apples; the other grows small red sour tasting apples. Taste matters. Some years the squirrels and BIRDS pretty much got them all. I hate squirrels. They only take a bite or two and go on the the next apple (or peach). For whatever reason they kind of leave the pears alone.

Alexandre is my favorite apple

What do you think about a honey crispy?

I love Corland. Are they disease resistant?

Fantastic video with such good information. Paula Red and Golden russet are our favs. Where is a good place to purchase any of these 5 varieties of apple trees here in Quebec? We are especially interested in planting the russet varieties as we purchase golden russet from our local farmers each fall.

I always try to taste every apple variety that's available in the local farmers market. So far, the best apples I ever tasted are #1 Beforest, #2 Lobo, #3 Mutsu. I've planted only Beforest, and the fruits are already attacked by scab :( I also have a nearby crabapple growing by the road, it's so good that I think I will need to graft it.

Spartan is a night mare for woolly Apple aphid and some red mites do not plant with delicious a field day for red mites

Thank you!! Love your videos!! "OSPREY!" Not distracted, rather, you are totally atuned! // Observation and a question for the community especially if you keep bees and have an orchard, is regarding the commercial growers spraying antibiotics at bloom time, the possible effect on bees and the possible effect on levels of probiotic in the apple. Recently in the news, there was an article stating that apples possess probiotic qualities in the core of the apple and the recommendation is to eat the core structure (but not the seeds) and that is perhaps the genesis of "an apple a day, keeps the doctor away". Here's the question: Is there evidence that spraying antibiotics on apples knocks out the bee's immune system making them more susceptible to disease and at the same time lowering the probiotic content of the apple?

Northern Spy apples were sold at a grocery apple sale once a year. I've only seen them there. I LOVE them. Can I get a Northern Spy apple tree to grow in zone 6? Where can I buy one?

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I bought 5 bareroot apple trees and planted them last spring. This spring after the snow melted, 4 of the 5 had bark splits on alot of the trunks. The NovaEasygro was supposed to be easy lol, but now with that one I have only a shoot from the semi-dwarf rootstock. I'm hoping to graft honeycrisp onto it. The honeycrisp, wealthy, and wagener all produced a new shoot or two and hopefully will continue to grow. The last one, Freedom, had no splitting and seems to be doing pretty well. I haven't tasted any apples from those trees yet, and I'm not sure why I had so much trouble, but there was alot of snow last winter. I have tasted honeycrisp from the store though and it is probably my favorite so far.. Thanks for the video!

Jonagold is my favorite. Perhaps because of nostalgic reasons - we had a full size one in the backyard as a kid. Given that it is a triploid and is fairly susceptible to most diseases, it wasn't really on my list once I started planning out which trees to go in our yard (going to start with an Enterprise and a William's Pride).

1. Karmijn de sonnaville 2. Cox's orange pippin 3. Akane 4. Opal 5. Honeycrisp

Just bought me a 4-in-1 apple I am so excited mine is granny, Fuji, golden delicious, and forgot what the last one is I need to go check out what it is

My favorite apple is empire

Cosmic Crisp is the best apple I’ve ever had, by far and away..

My favorite apples: 5) Pink Lady, 4) Arkansas Black, 3) Jazz, 2) Kidd's Orange Red, 1) Esopus Spitzenburg Ironically, I only grow #1 & #2 in my tiny orchard - mostly I grow English cider apples (Dabinett, Brown's, Harrison, Kingston Black, and Sweet Coppin). For weird reasons, I also have a baby Wolf River graftling. They are all 3 or 4 years old; only the Dabinett has any fruit this year.

I’m looking for an apple as close in flavour and texture to a BC Mac as possible but I live in Calgary, zone 3a. Any suggestions?

Ashmead’s kernal, Queen Cox, Melrose, Liberty, Almata (zone 8b)

From my orchard..Gravensteins!

Do you recommend an apple variety for zone 8a?

Best in my experience among at least 50 varieties is Hunt Russet. Practically unknown: it has little russet, is nearly all red outside, golden flesh, ripe latter half of October here, taste is tangerine & rose petal - the rose finish goes on and on; 18 & 19% sugar with enough tartness to balance it into seeming to be mildly sweet at picking; no disease problems here. It's one caveat is only moderate production so far. Spurs put out anywhere from one to six blooms each - never yet seen the usual seven. Tree is still young. No disease problems whatever. Next is old or Virginia Winesap: smaller fruit; ripens same time as Hunt Russet, tasty and keeps until May, excellent every way I've used it. Very productive but its triploid pollen will not set fruit on another apple tree. No scab if fallen leaves are raked up beneath it before winter sets in. No fire blight here either.

I bought 4 apples that are not any you’ve heard of in the store. One is a jeffreys apple cuz my sons name is Jeffrey. Lol. Hope they are tasty. Hoping to grow them espalier style along the chain link. Thank goodness fruit trees take bad cuttings well and are quite forgiving

Mr. Stefan.......if the fruits size of a tree are small is it because of it variety or it is the cause of less fertilizing.

I think orchards should sell sampler packs of a dozen or so varieties. I like Suncrisp, Jonagold, Winesap, Honeycrisp, Ginger Gold but I am planting many more and hoping to get some apples. I hadn't thought about squirrels. We have a lot of woods.

Any idea where I can order a cultivar of reinette russet in Ontario? Or anywhere that would deliver to Ontario.

My fav is Mutsu/Crispin :-)

Ok. I have eaten Golden Russet years ago. My grandparents had an apple orchard in Poland, and grew lots of different cultivars. I am not sure if it's the same as your number one, but I loved it! I haven't seen it since I moved to the USA 30 years ago. I'd love to grow it here, but is there a place that sells them? Also, will they grow in zone 7/8?

Honey gold and Melrose are the two best apples I’ve tasted. Not sure how resistant they are though

#1 Envy, # 2 red delicious, # 3 rocket, #4 honey crisp

I would be interested to hear what you think about the King David apple . Also where could I get one or two of them Thanks much.

Well i have 2 hauer pipen apples o bought aboit 7 years ago and i havent got any edible fruit yet!. Do you know pf a good variety for zone 8b

small apples

Cox’s Orange Pippin...but. It’s hard to grow here!

hello Stefan how can i get cuttings of your apples on this episode. please let me know thank you.

Hi Stefan! Love your show. I am on the hunt for my favorite apple. Last year, a neighbor gave my family some locally grown apples (I am in Winnipeg, MB). There was a smaller one that had just the most amazing taste. Unfortunately we don't know what variety it is. I asked another friend who works at a greenhouse which sells apple trees. She speculated that it could be the Goodland, a dwarf variety. This spring I put in one Goodland and one Prairie Magic dwarf apple tree. I am looking forward to the fruit in a few years. Do you grow any dwarf varieties?

Honeycrisp or Fuji only for me... Once I tasted a ripe honeycrisp I realized that all previous apples I had tasted were trash.