Orchard Notes with Sue Robishaw - Growing Esopus Spitzenburg Apple on the Homestead

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Esopus Spitzenburg

unknown parentage, before 1776, Esopus NY

grafted 2023, on wild crab rootstock

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Said to be a choice dessert apple with great flavor, crisp, juicy. Great flavor right off the tree but improves with storage. Flesh tinged yellow, firm, aromatic, complex. Skin red or orangish with russet dots. Late ripening, stores several months.

2023 - transplanted small wild likely crab seedling, next east of Chokepear. 5/13 grafted scion from John Kring, Maple Valley Orchards ~ 24"^. Nice growth 7" plus 3 buds. Splice graft looks a bit iffy on one side. Late Nov. leaves not dormant yet.

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