August Apple Tasting, Viking, Kerry Pippin, Chestnut Crab, William's Pride, Salem June

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Tasting some new and Heirloom apples in the homestead orchard in Late August, and Haogen melon.
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Комментарии : 69

@mynameisnotcory 5 лет назад

APPLE TASTING! YES. My favorite skillcult videos!

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

@ProfKSE 5 лет назад

Here! Here!

@oxbowfarm5803 5 лет назад

I always get a raspberry flavor from William's Pride, but it may taste different in the West Coast climate vs here. One of my favorite apples.

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

I have had it taste more complex, but I never recall much berry flavor. does it get red flesh staining there? this year mine had none, that might be why they tasted more like straight apple.

@oxbowfarm5803 5 лет назад

Yes, there's usually pink tinges in the flesh around the shoulders, not really enough to call it a red flesh apple. I don't have the most sophisticated palate by any means, so take my flavor statements with a lot of salt.

@tj21bem 5 лет назад

Thanks for your input. William's Pride is one of the trees I ordered. With limited yard space and chill hours here in FL, I want to grow great tasting apples, and not just Anna apple.

@newberryfarms7568 5 лет назад

Thanks for another great video!

@jakimpepin2719 5 лет назад

Thanks for your input, very helpfull !

@seff2318 5 лет назад

A word on viking- From the perspective of a chef/epicure, I adore foods that are olfactory stimuli. Harnessed properly this effect can make for a captivating dining experience. Viking may have its flaws but I feel that response merits further consideration. Always look forward to your apple tasting content :)

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

I didn't mean to be negative about it. I think it's very interesting, but I'm coming primarily from a direct tasting dessert angle and forget sometimes to address cooking and blending of any kind. It seems like it has really fantastic potential for cooking, in salads, pies and especially for sauce with some sugar added. It reminds me a lot of Gravenstein that way, but more sensational flavor and a little thinner tasting compared to a primo grav, at least these were. I will definitely be grafting more on this tree. This year I'll probably chop off salem June and put either Viking or sunset on there.

@tj21bem 5 лет назад

I agree. I'm not a chef but I love food- the texture, taste, smell, crunching sound, temperature, the memories they bring, etc. And when combined with other food or drinks- the overall experience I get. This is why I got interested in planting more edible stuff. Grocery store food are picture perfect but bland, mealy or too artificially sweet... Apples bring so many happy memories (as a child in the tropics, I could have them around Christmas time only). I don't have a big yard so I watch Skill Cult and Kuffel Creek videos to find just the right apple varieties that I can grow and enjoy.

@GraniteValleyDave 5 лет назад

Love these videos, well I love all your videos. Can't wait for my trees to mature so I can get my own frankentrees.

@brandrdrengr4075 5 лет назад

Thanks for sharing dude.

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

you are welcome

@growingyourfoodinyourownba1221 5 лет назад

Great video

@gardeningwithaloha5573 5 лет назад

This is awesome! U know this is on my bucket list! Just to pick an apple off of an apple tree! I would love to do apple picking & tasting!🤙🏽

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

If you are in Hawaii, check out Kevin Hauser. He grows apples in the tropics, so has lists of low chill and hot weather apples. His blog is apples and oranges and his business is Kuffel Creek nursery. Cheers!

@David-kd5mf 5 лет назад

I bought some Haogen melon seeds from baker creek but I am a truck driver now to help fund my homesteading efforts so I am not sure I will get to try it this year. Glad to know it tends toward the honey dew side rather then the cantelope side.

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

I'm not a fan of canaloups myself, so me too :)

@OakKnobFarm 5 лет назад

Always love the fall apple tasting videos. Thanks! I'm getting there... digging.... moving rocks.... Closing in on actual planting.... I can't wait!

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

Good times!

@suttonelms1 5 лет назад

Interesting video steve - thank you. Bad apple year for me here in the UK - prolonged heat, no rain and this has made it an ideal time for apple sawfly - most apples have holes and are ripening prematurely. Hoping that there will some left on the trees in October. I've started this year's apple tasting videos but I'll be surprised if we do any after Oct.

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

We have a pretty good year here it looks like. Look forward to your tasting videos.

@suttonelms1 5 лет назад

Hi steve - 12 varieties sampled here a few days ago (midlands, UK): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H60SFJesPSM.html including a handful of redfleshed.

@peachtrees27 5 лет назад

Did not know about Viking and that it's a PRI release. Thanks. Unfortunately I'm already out of room - crap!

@MrChickadee 4 года назад

loved those melons you sent seed for, except some rodent did too, and always seemed to smell them when ripe, so I only ever tasted what was not on the chewed up half...any tips?

@SkillCult 4 года назад

Murder! small rodents are usually easy to trap with regular mouse snap traps, but squirrels, chipmunks and rats can be harder to deal with. You can definitely grow them on trellises. My friend Mark does it that way every year. It's like a 6 foot fence of hanging melons. You can see here at the end of this video touring his garden. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-niOQaNZKcPk.html do you still have seeds?

@lacklusterami Год назад

An army of cats

@therawlifefamily 5 лет назад

I have William's Pride and Wynooche Early. Last time they fruited William's Pride was hands down the best, but this year their flavor is not strong and sweetness is low, but my Wynooche Early has a lot more flavor though it seems to be a couple weeks later than William's Pride.

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

Mine are less impressive this year and less complex. They are still very good though when just right. Unfortunately the quality doesn't hold and it's hard to keep them on the tree long enough with the bird issues. Mine also had zero red flesh this year.

@ajones8699 5 лет назад

That chestnut crab is a pretty apple.

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

It really is. It gets even more rich and translucent looking.

@danielmusick211 5 лет назад

Love the videos. Just lost an apple tree to fireblight, but I have shoots coming off the rootstock vigorously so I will def. be grafting something new come January. Any suggestions for a hot zone (9b) North bay area? I have Anna apple and Granny smith only at the moment. One graft of shizuka on a De'anjou pear tree : )

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

If you have low chill, king david. Probably wickson too. Check out the kuffel creek website. If you have normal chill, late ripening apples are good to beat the hot weather issue. Check out pink parfait, lady williams, katherine.

@danielmusick211 5 лет назад

Thanks so much! I have a wish-list now.

@teknikulrighter8454 5 лет назад

Steve, do you know any heirloom apple varieties that will grow readily in hot climates with very mild winters? I would love to plant some eventually but all the variety recommendations I can find for Texas are for boring stuff like Gala and Fuji.

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

Look at Kevin Hauser's apple site, the blog is apples and oranges and his company is kuffel creek. He grows apples in the tropics and tests stuff in San Diego. I know he likes wickson and king david, both excellent apples.

@HomesteadOC 5 лет назад

13:15 Chicken!

@tj21bem 5 лет назад

LOL, did you watch one of his videos when the chicken was so loud and he threw something that clanged? It was a very serious video but I burst out laughing at that point. I like watching videos from generous people who have real skills because they actually live what they are showing on camera.

@growingyourfoodinyourownba1221 5 лет назад

How many different apples do you have on that one tree ?

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

Not that many, probably around 15. I could easily double that.

@toddgillespie8165 5 лет назад

Are you growing crab varieties for their long-running flowering to pollinate the others? How does Chesnut compare to Wickson?

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

No, I grow the for the apples. I have so many apples, that I don't need to worry at all about pollination. Wickson is sweeter, though Chestnut is plenty sweet! Wickson flavor is more unique and remarkable. Wickson has more acid too.

@rawkrentals 5 лет назад

What are the covers you have on your apples - they look like stockings. What are they used for?

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

They are foot sox, basically low nylongs for trying on shoes. They let light through but protect from insects and birds to an extent. If they birds really want in, they will peck through them, but it still helps a lot. the other option is small paper bags stapled on

@rawkrentals 5 лет назад

SkillCult ahh, good to know, thanks!

@Thazo79 2 года назад

Do y oh know what the chill requirements are for chestnut crab? I can’t find the information anywhere

@SkillCult 2 года назад

Sorry I don't know. you might check the kuffle creek website and see if it's on there. It hails from the north, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be low chill.

@Thazo79 2 года назад

Thank you for that link. We get around 650-950 chill hours with 800 being the average where I live. That website said Wickson tested well in souther California. Surely that means it would work where I live. I just really want to try it. And thank you for your speedy reply!

@martinweber3859 3 года назад

I am looking for yellow fleshed apples. Could you help?

@SkillCult 3 года назад

Look into one called apricot. I have only one, a small crab, and it's not available anywhere.

@martinweber3859 3 года назад

@@SkillCult Do you have a link where I could find more information about it? BTW I live in Germany.

@David-kd5mf 5 лет назад

Homegrown apples. Jealous.

@OakKnobFarm 5 лет назад

Working on mine (but I'm still in the land clearing & leveling stage.) Own land? Plant ASAP!

@David-kd5mf 5 лет назад

@@OakKnobFarm Nice! I planted some apples this past winter on my little half acre plot. Now I am in the waiting phase.

@OakKnobFarm 5 лет назад

Oh, see... you have me beat! Now *I'm* jealous ;)

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

My problem is a can't really eat fruit anymore if you can believe that. Even doing this tasting and splitting out all the pulp it messed me up the next day.

@OakKnobFarm 5 лет назад

Oh no! My wife has serious problems with certain foods, too. She's unable to eat a lot of things she used to enjoy

@Fallen_Grove 5 лет назад

Thanks for the apple vid! I took a tip to queen's university and found an apple that was pretty interesting. Posted pictures here: imgur.com/a/qiwiTxJ

@SkillCult 5 лет назад

Cool, likely it was too early, but many red fleshed apples are of generally low quality.