Etter's Blood Apples, Unique, Beautiful, Tasty, Red Flesh w/ Red Flavor, Grenadine, Rubaiyat, скачать в хорошем качестве

Etter's Blood Apples, Unique, Beautiful, Tasty, Red Flesh w/ Red Flavor, Grenadine, Rubaiyat,

Four red fleshed apple varieties, Grenadine, Rubaiyat, Pink Parfait and Christmas Pink. These "blood apples" bred by Albert Etter, can look and taste amazing and should be more widely grown by home orchardists. More on Red fleshed apples: Nigel Deacon: http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/APPLE1.HTML Hocking Hills, Derek Mills: http://www.fourseasonscabinrental.com... Greenmantle Nursery: http://www.greenmantlenursery.com/fru... Support on   / skillcult   has been critical in keeping me experimenting and making content. If you want to help me help others, this is probably the best way to do it. Thank you Patrons for supporting the mission! Blog and website: www.skillcult.com/blog Instagram and Facebook @SkillCult Albert Etter bred apples and strawberries in the early part of the 20th century. One of his great interests was in apples with red or pink flesh. He pursued those in his breeding, eventually releasing an apple, Pink Pearl, which might be his best known variety. It is not however the most interesting. Greenmantle nursery claims to have pulled a number of apples from Etter's Experimental orchards in Ettersburg California, and later selling the trees under trademark names. In this video, I look at, taste and talk about four of those apple varieties, Grenadine, Pink Parfait, Rubaiyat and Christmas Pink. The pink fleshed apples, or "blood apples" range from a velvety red to light pink inside. The red flesh of the apples tastes of berries or other fruity flavors, candy and honey. Grenadine is the apple with the most berry and fruit flavor of the four. the skin is yellow but the red flesh shines through the translucent skin when it is ripe making it the same color as the inside. It has conspicuous large white dots all over the skin. There is often a strong rib down one side of the apple in extreme cases resembling a nose. I've seen this on other apples and refer to it as the roman nose. It has issues like early drops, scab susceptibility, harsh tannins before it's ripe, texture issue and a certain percentage go waxy and mealy early. On the plus side, it is productive, more regular bearing that most varieites, precocious, very deep colored when ripe and has a most unique and fantastic fruit punch flavor. It is often better for processing than eating and I believe a good candidate for breeding efforts to continue the work etter started. I have used it extensively in making breeding crosses and have already gotten one seedling with that I hope will end up being an improved grenadine. All in all, grenadine is stuck somewhere between being amazing and mediocre because of it's mix of problems and virtues, and well represents the unfinished nature of these apples in Etters work. Rubaiyat is a more refined apple than Grenadine. It is very beautiful on the outside with red blushing and streaking, a thin skin and it takes a high shine. It's weak points are susceptibility to scab, cracking of the thin skin. and the texture often looses quality as it approaches perfect ripeness in terms of flavor, internal red color and flavor. Howver, when a perfect specimen can be had, it is an outstanding apple with very good texture, easy to eat, with very high flavor. The flavor, like most red fleshed apples is very reminiscent of berries. This year there is a strong candy like note, maybe vanilla. The fruity notes do not have the harmonious fruit punch complexity of grenadine, but that is hardly a detraction and the flavor is simply outsanding. If it did not get scab and crack so badly, I'd say it was a good candidate for market orcharding. it may be anyway, but getting them ripe and just right for market may be quite challenging. Again, it has breeding potential. Pink Parfait is the best of the lot when you consider everything. it hangs and ripens well, has excellent if more subtle flavor of light berries and honey and outstanding texture which seems to hold well. I've had excellent specimens off the tree at christmas at least. It is also beautiful. It's down sides, scab, like all of them, and it is not as red as the others. This apple should be more widely grown. It is in my top ten recommendations for people with climates where temps stay above 20 degrees far. until christmas. Beyond that, I'm not sure, but it's worth a try. Christmas pink I've found to be the least intersting. It has light green skin, lighter flesh than grenadine or rubaiyat and less flavor. Of the four I would recommend it least. it is prone to early drops. It gets scab like the rest. These apples are intriguing, and their genes represent a unique opportunity though for home breeding. They were all bred and selected in a relatively salubrious climate like mine and may not color or ripen well in colder areas.