Yep, It's Still the Best Russet Apple I’ve Ever Tried

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Harvest and taste testing of Golden Russets, a classic American heirloom apple. My Golden Russet Story: • 🍏 14 Years, No Fruit 🍎...
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@lisakukla459 3 года назад

That has to be so satisfying, to get good results after so long. And it surely must be devastating to find a tree demolished. Ugh. I can't imagine.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

Well, it's a good lesson in acceptance lol. But yeah, the first time the bears wrecked that nice Yarlington Mill tree, it was pretty disappointing. a year latter, I lost 6 , 7 year old trees in one night to a bear snapping the tops off. most never recovered well.

@lisakukla459 3 года назад

@@SkillCult Jesus, that's awful! I don't think there's any bears in the Tulsa area, so I have no experience and this is probably a silly question, but why not cage them in? Like, hot wire or something? Is that not a thing?

@georgekubrick3134 3 года назад

Sounds amazing. I should probably add these to my orchard. Thanks for all you do.

@fezwhy 3 года назад

This apple is right up there in my top 10 apples for sure.

@bondiagarden Год назад

Thank you for the videos! They have been good help with selecting an apple cultivar for our small garden. Our young Golden Russet has been thriving among the raspberries. It will still be a few years before we see any fruits, but so far no pest issues :).

@dw235 3 года назад

Although only 4 on the tree, having the apples bagged to go made me smile.

@cholcombe973 3 года назад

I’ve got some golden russet scions on order for spring. I’m looking forward to tasting it one day!

@steveford9294 Год назад

I got a hold of some golden russets about 8 yrs ago in Boulder, I bought two bags even being pricey, my favorite apple hands down, phenomenal taste when they are right and I think they are gorgeous and rustic, edible art , that complex great flavor indicates great nutrition also. My second closest is Opal yellow, found in Natural grocers, organic and superb for store bought. I have two golden russet trees, hopefully soon I will get a decent specimen to try. I agree most every home orchard in the north should have this classic apple. Excellent informative videos.

@SkillCult Год назад

Yeah, it really is outstanding. I like Opal. It's one of the best grocery store apples I've tasted. Nothing like golden russet, but for the store, it's very good. I would think about crossing those two apples if I had opal.

@greenkeeper448 3 года назад

It's like when sniffing buds, it's so wonderful you don't want to exhale.

@elkhound25 3 года назад

hope to see scion from both of these for sale this winter.please consider keeping these apple seeds separate to sale.thanks for all you do !

@SkillCult 3 года назад

I should have both, but I don't know how much yet.

@captiveroots3037 3 года назад

Golden Russet is the perfect apple in my opinion! We have 2 in our home orchard in NY.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

Yeah, it's good for just about everything and it tastes great and keeps well. It could use cultural improvement, disease resistance and stuff like that, but it's a great place to start breeding improved russets.

@saltriverorchards4190 2 года назад

Man I feel your pain with the critter damage. I’m glad I don’t have bears here. The deer do plenty of damage. I’m impatiently waiting for my golden russet and my ashmead’s kernel to start producing.

@JimmyMeatwhistle 3 года назад

great channel🤠👍

@tonythepwny 3 года назад

Will you be selling Golden Russet scions? I'd really like to get one or two. Sounds great and I've got a root stock that will be ready for it in the spring.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

Yeah, I should have a decent amount of them, and probably a few Passe Crassane

@uglyapplehomestead1310 3 года назад

Mine grows like a lanky teenager that never fills out. Looking forward to trying it for the first time in the next few years.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

Exactly! I think if you micromanaged it, you can get something of the form you want and probably fill out the stems better with branching or fruiting wood. I think it's better to just plant individual trees though and let them do them lol.

@thomasholte1828 3 года назад

Thank you for this. Golden Russet and Ashmeads are both on my list of trees to grow. Do you have Roxbury Russet?

@SkillCult 3 года назад

I grafted roxbury when I moved here, but it died and for some reason, I didn't regraft until this spring. I've not had one that can best golden, but it's very good and keeps great. From what I understand from friends, it's a good grower too, and productive.

@HonestHomesteading 3 года назад

Too bad I don't know of any bear-resistant varieties you could cross it with! I'm glad you finally got to eat a few!

@abcabc39 3 года назад

You need Red Russet if you haven't grafted it already from what I've sent. It was found in Oregon near Salem by fruit explorer Ken Priddy. Excellent fruity russet. Not RF, but a good candidate against other russets and actual RF apples, like Giant Red Russian Crab

@SkillCult 3 года назад

If I did graft it, I haven't seen it around, so it may not have made it. I'd definitely love to try it. My botner russet graft broke too, so want to get that one again.

@colddarkmatter1731 3 года назад

SLAYER!!! 🤘🤘🤘

@SkillCult 3 года назад

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

@HacknBuild 3 года назад

The lights are a good idea. I bet the concept could be taken a step further by adding sound to the setup as well. There are a number of cheap solar lights with motion activated alarms on Amazon. Might be worth a try! I also found a startup that was making a "digital scarecrow" using ultrasonic waves. Experiment for 2021 maybe?

@SkillCult 3 года назад

I think that soon there will be all in one solutions that play noises like dogs barking, or you could even record stuff to play back, various light colors and patterns etc. Could be used to microcontrol sprinklers too. You should hack and build that :). But you'd have to be able to control volume and what sounds, or it would wake us up too!

@HacknBuild 3 года назад

@@SkillCult Definitely would be a fun project. Who knows, I might even have some time to do some prototyping once get some of these home renovation projects finished!

@murky2502 Год назад

Golden Russet is probably my overall favorite apple that I can grow. This video makes me more excited to try some of your selections now that I see this as evidence of some shared overlap in palate.

@calebproductions5970 3 года назад

Is it better than a st. Edmund russet? Those are incredible

@georgekubrick3134 3 года назад

I missed the boat on the golden russet scions, I thought I would search the web to see if I could find anything at all.....Nothing! Everything is out of stock. I will try again next year. I'm pretty pumped about my order though. Loads of seeds to try, a few scions and some grape vines. My daughter and I planted your Polish Linguisa seeds today. Looking forward to those also. Thanks for all the inspiration.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

ha, probably because of this video. If I can find a scrap of it, I'll try to remember to put one in your order, but don't hold your breath ;)

@georgekubrick3134 3 года назад

@@SkillCult Yeah, something about hearing its the best tasting apple ever or something like that really sells them! Haha sounds good.

@TheFlash1940 3 года назад

You look healthy brother, makes me happy. Nothing touches my apples, or berries, plumbs, peaches nothing. Maybe I'm just lucky? The Old Man.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

Yeah, I finally seem to have turned a corner and gaining some momentum. They're all scared of you man! I don't know, you must have bears, we get a lot of trash bears here with a pretty high population, they get used to getting into trash and people's fruit trees. There are also lots of abandoned homesteads with trees that get them in the habit of eating all that delicious fruit.

@deanjensen2983 3 года назад

I feel your pain with the bear damage. Between them and beavers I've lost many trees. I live between Blodgett and Burtwoods OR and this fall I had an ODFW approved trapper come out. He snared 2 big boars 3 days apart then pulled his snares. 5 days later we had another big bear on the property as well a couple smaller ones. We did have a nice surprise this fall. While walking our place I found a wild tree that had lightly russet apples that on first taste reminded me of sweet lemonade. It's a wild tree so I have no idea what it would be. Gonna try find if anyone is interested in it enough to propagate it. I may be interested in buying a small handful of Golden Russet scions. And what is your opinion on the Hidden Rose apple if you've tasted it. I'm looking for scion wood of that as well.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

I'll definitely propagate and assess it if you send scions. you can contact me through my website, skillcult.com It definitely sounds interesting. I have a couple other apples with some lemon flavor, including one of my new seedlings, though it's subtle. Bears are awful. Too strong and smart for our good ha ha.

@phil8580 3 года назад

have you come by the knobby (or knobbed) russet? I can't recall where i heard of it (maybe your channel? I would like to get some scionwood but but can't trace any.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

I think I tried it once, but I'm not sure if I've grafted it or not. One of my local apple friends has it I know.

@kingdavidapple 3 года назад

"Will this live up to my own hype?" - always good to laugh at ourselves. I've not had wonderful experience with Golden Russet, yet. When I began growing fruit trees Ashmead's was disappointing in every way except the taste of the couple fruits it produced. I now have Rosemary Russet in the ground & there appear to be many blossom buds on it for next year - its first bloom. If the fruit compares at all favorably to Ashmead's I will be quite content. RR has many things going for it, including nice crotch angles and scaffold spacing with little help from me (like Gold Rush in that respect, from which we enjoyed our first samples this year).

@SkillCult 3 года назад

I have something labelled as rosemary russet, but it never was very good. I think I grafted a new one last year, so we'll see. Ashmeads around here seems to do well over all, better and more reliable than Golden Russet in terms of production and culture. You might try roxbury if you can find it.

@FionnKirwan 2 года назад

Best Russet I've tried is Norfolk Royal Russet

@matthager1149 3 года назад

Have you ever tried a Razor Russet? I'm thinking about ordering some scions.

@rolandsarins7151 3 года назад

You should try pair of west Siberian Laika hunting dogs against bears and other wildlife if it's getting out of control .

@amandaisoutdoors 3 месяца назад

I have a golden russet tree that I bought from St. Lawrence nursery in 2013 (Antonovka rootstock). It is a gorgeous tree and the apples are our favorite of the varieties we grow so far. It seems to ripen over a long period Sept- oct. I am curious which of the russets it is. It looks a little bit more golden than yours? I bought a piece of scionwood from Fedco this year and want to compare to see if it is the same. Their description led me to believe theirs may be a later ripening variety than the one I have. That is disappointing that it is your favorite russet, I have some other russet grafts in the works and I was hoping that they would be as equally amazing as my golden russet 😅. Thanks for your videos!! 😊

@SkillCult 3 месяца назад

A common variety is the bullocks pippin, aka american golden russet. You can tell by the growth habits of the tree if it is the one I am eating here. It will tend to be lanky, with long sections of wood that don't have side branches. It also bears quite a bit on the tips. It is hard to train or figure out how to prune.

@amandaisoutdoors 3 месяца назад

@@SkillCult I just looked back at my notes and from their (st. Lawrence) description they said it was English russet seedling parentage....it is lanky but I also haven't pruned much because I wasn't sure how to approach pruning of tip bearing trees 😆. The Fedco scionwood I got this year said the golden russet is of uncertain parentage but possibly English, New York or New England 🤷. I guess it will be a few years before I can compare, but I'm definitely going to graft some more trees from scionwood from the one I have! Lol.

@SkillCult 3 месяца назад

Sounds like the right one. It used to be called Engilsh Russet. @@amandaisoutdoors

@666Necropsy 3 года назад

i have incoming scion from that golden nugget. i will graft it on some established dwarf root stock this spring. i will let you know how it is in a few years. i ordered a lot of promising scion wood this year. mostly apples,pears,plums. i couldn't get everything i wanted though. can we ever though. still looking for a good source for italian plum prunes. the market seems saturated with the japanese style plums i am looking at more cooking types to add into my trees. i cant eat everything out of hand. in my climate my future interests will explore more fruit i can process. hopefully that angel Eliza makes some more appearances.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

I tend to favor prune plums as well. They are more versatile and better for drying and other preservation. I think I will offer french prune this year. It's similar to Italian, but smaller. Tastes kind of like red vines licorice when dried.

@seen.3 Год назад

Russet apples are my top 1

@SkillCult Год назад

Definitely try golden russet if you haven't.

@manatoa1 3 года назад

One of the few things that makes me excited about GMO is taking high eating quality fruit and vegetable varieties and upgrading them with disease resistance and other characteristics that make them easier to grow and ship.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

GMO has a lot of potential to make genetics a super fun and useful playground, but I'm against it for the most part and certainly in apples. Once they are out, it makes it impossible to make informed choices if people don't want to eat them, and the genes can then cross out all over the place. I saw a talk by the breeder at geneva who said she thought people should have a choice on whether they eat GMO's, but that's just naive or bs. Once they are out, there's no real control and the genes can contaminate the rest of the gene pool. Other genetic tools are accelerating natural sexual reproductive breeding greatly. Ridiculously, the first GMO apple is just to prevent browning so unfresh food looks fresher.

@manatoa1 3 года назад

@@SkillCult just to be clear, I'm not talking about transgenic GMO, just taking genes from one apple and plugging them into another apple. Not taking genes from a fish and putting them into an apple. When it comes to transgenics, I'm on the same page as you. Using our knowledge of genomics to guide breeding is awesome, but you can't make a disease resistant Cox's Orange Pippin that way. You can only make something kind of similar to Cox with greater resistance. I want new awesome apples and old awesome apples.

@Hayley-sl9lm 3 года назад

@@SkillCult We need transparency and ethical regulation of GMOs, for sure. But since we all know that that's not going to happen, I feel like the answer needs to be open-source protocols for smaller operations and home growers to have some of these same powerful tools that used to be only available to huge companies with fancy labs. If it's going to be a wild west of playing god, I want people who are truly passionate about apples and people who care about the environment making the GMOs.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

@@manatoa1 Oh, I didn't know that was possible. I was under the impression that it required other organisms in order to get the genes in there. I might just be behind the curve on what's up with genetic modification now.

@manatoa1 3 года назад

@@SkillCultthere's a number of different types of GMO. Transgenic is transferring genes between unlike species, and cisgenic is transferring genes between like species. It's the cisgenic, that I'm at least cautiously in favour of. You don't necessarily even need to transfer genes at all, but just activate or deactivate genes within the organism's own genome. The non-browning apple is an example of deactivating the gene that produces the enzyme for browning. I think cisgenic GMO is fairly recent, which seems like the opposite of what you'd expect.

@666Necropsy 3 года назад

just missed it. aw man

@SkillCult 3 года назад

Maybe next time. I'm trying to hold a little bit of a schedule for now saturdays at 10:00

@EKSPIOIL Год назад

Hey Steven, do you know the "lineage" of your Golden Russet? I'm more inclined that you English Golden Russet Regard, Victor

@SkillCult Год назад

It used to called "english russet" here, but no one calls it that anymore. There is one called american golden russet, but that is different. This is the good one. they way you can tell is if it is a pain the ass to train and prune, partly tip bearing and with long stretches of wood with no side branches.

@kirstenwhitworth8079 3 года назад

I don't know why watching you eat those Golden Russets and looking at that poor apple tree makes me think of the myth of the Golden Apple of Discord that ultimately caused the Trojan War.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

I should read that.

@barrydasilva8579 3 года назад

What's the link to purchase on those golden rus seeds off of you

@SkillCult 3 года назад

I just added it to the video description. I usually release them in the winter time with scions. Best way to find out when is to follow me on Instagram or facebook @skillcult, or follow my blog, www.skillcult.com/blog

@tc5427 2 года назад

Hello Steven, do you know the "lineage" of your Golden Russet? From my reading there are 4 different apples that have been called "golden russet". "For well over 100 years, at least four varieties have been regularly called Golden Russet. These include American Golden Russet (aka Bullock), English Russet (aka Poughkeepsie), Golden Russet of Western New York, and Hunt Russet. All have beautiful solid, deep yellow, golden-russeted skin and are difficult to tell apart. Regards, tc

@tc5427 2 года назад

Ugh just saw your other video on GR and they are "English" GR. regards tc

@SkillCult 2 года назад

@@tc5427 You can always tell this one by the growth habit. Very lanky and odd, and hard to train and control. It is also the famous one and probably most written about. No one is going to write sonnets about the bullocks pippin lol.

@amandaisoutdoors 3 месяца назад

I am curious what my golden russet tree is.... probably English? They are soooo good. I originally got the tree from Saint Lawrence nurseries. I ordered some scionwood from Fedco this year because theirs seemed to be later ripening in the description. Mine ripens around September.

@baddriversofcolga 3 года назад

I see this is only suitable for zone 6 and below - bummer! Anything similar that grows in zone 8?

@SkillCult 3 года назад

See the replies on strive4impact's comment here.

@baddriversofcolga 3 года назад

@@SkillCult I don't know if I missed something, but they mentioned zone 4 - I'm in zone 8.

@IrreverendThomas 3 года назад

@@baddriversofcolga I’m in zone 8/9 and growing it just fine. Not sure why you couldn’t

@baddriversofcolga 3 года назад

@@IrreverendThomas Oh, nice. It's weird all the sites have it listed as zones 4-6.

@raytreize 3 года назад

Wondering if someone can help me on this? I once heard from an orchardist that the Russet is one of the very few varieties that can be reproduced from seed (meaning that the seed will give you something very close to the parent tree). Can anyone elaborate ?

@SkillCult 3 года назад

I don't think you will find that to be true. Russet isn't a variety, it's a trait that presents more or less. There are lots of russets with lots of different parents. They may be one russet that does that he's referring to, as there are apples that are alleged to grow true to type from seed. So that may explain it.

@ThomasShue 3 года назад

What state are you in?

@SkillCult 3 года назад

Northern California, zone 9, temps usually above 20f in winter, occasional light snows 1800 feet.

@TJHutchExotics 2 года назад

Passa Crissane - I’m sure they’re delicious but the name just sounds bourgeoisie lol!

@strive4impact 3 года назад

Will this grow in zone 4?

@SkillCult 3 года назад

It actually might, it is known for being hardy, but I'm not sure how hardy. But if it is close, it would be a good breeder for breeding more hardy russets.

@manatoa1 3 года назад

I've heard claims of it being hardy to z3. Not sure if that's just optimism. U of Minnesota has a variety called MN 1734 that is supposed to be similar to Golden Russet and is at least z3 hardy. One source here in Canada claims z2.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

@@manatoa1 I'd like to get that one. Probably a GR offspring. It was used in breeding early on I think.

@erwinbrubacker7488 Месяц назад

Smoked apples.

@wtfrankian 3 года назад

Sign me up for some seeds!

@Will_Spence 3 года назад

I don't know if this is true, but I read that Golden Nugget was actually the result of an accidental cross.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

Interesting, haven't heard that.

@liammcelvarr4859 3 года назад

Idk i like that color. I think with the name being golden itll sell well.

@SkillCult 3 года назад

It's easy to sell at farmers markets. You just edumacate people and have them taste it. But stores not so sure. I think it's possible to get russets into the public market eventually, but with some education.

@liammcelvarr4859 3 года назад

@@SkillCult ya put them on sale or give samples. Normal stuff to get people to try things and than once they taste them people will shift ur thoughts id say. If u breed them with red flesh thats tik tok ready right there lol jk

@daveyjoweaver5183 3 года назад

Luckily I have an apple here while watching Steven! But I don't think this apple tastes like yours. It's good but not the orgasmic reaction as you've displayed! Are batteries included? Kind Thanks and Joy of Spirit! DaveyJO admiring your apple