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Nutting Apple


(#1 on Splitter) & (#2 on Honeycrisp2)
aka Nutting Bumpus


Duchess of Oldenburg seedling, Perham, Maine 1800's

 

Grafted 2016 #1 on wild Splitter tree.    First fruit 2019.
#2 on wild seedling rootstock Honeycrisp-2.
First fruit 2023.

 

Nutting Bumpus fruit 2022

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Grafted with scions from Fedco, Maine,  2016. #1 on nw branch of wild 'Splitter' tree east of shop. #2 on low south branch of Honeycrisp2 grafted seedling tree by outhouse. Not sure now why I chose this one, as Duchess types are common around here, but I don't think I realized that then. But being a hardy variety did sound good.



2023 - #1 (splitter) - Full of blossoms this year with nice number of fruit off just one branch. Pretty much just harvested as they dropped, along with the Splitter fruit, starting late August through September. Nutting continues to be the larger apple and very clean. They both get added to sauce or cider as it's made.

#2 (HC2) - This small graft surprised me with two blooms and one apple. Very near in looks and size to the Splitter graft fruit.


2022 - #1 (splitter) - This year the Splitter tree and its grafts finally got out into the sunshine. Steve cut down the large elm that grew just south, so the apple went from a little over 2 hrs of good sun to 5-6 hrs. All seemed to handle the change OK. Nutting branch was full of blossoms this year, setting 6 fruit. The first one dropped 9/2, the last one 9/11. The fruit was nice, large, healthy (see main photo above), better than previous. It tastes pretty good when not compared to a sweeter apple. They mostly went into the sauce mix.

#2 (HC2) - This graft continues slow but OK, but being on a small bottom branch of a wild seeding that gets little good sun I'm wondering if it will ever fruit. I hope it does; it will be interesting to see how the fruit on two very different trees compare.


2021 - #1 (splitter) good, healthy growth;  #2 (HC2) fine though slower growing.


2020 - 8/28 single apple on Splitter graft dropped. Doesn't look quite mature, included in sauce.


Nutting apples2019 - 6/13 graft on Splitter, from 2016, has 2 blossoms! 9/16 dropped larger apple, touched 2nd & it fell (3rd missing). Looks and tastes a lot like Splitter fruit, but larger, earlier. Slight difference in skin color/pattern but tastes like common "Duchess type" (Nutting IS a Duchess seedling). Ate smaller one, saved larger.  10/1 cellared apple getting soft; included in sauce; nothing special taste, but it's an edible apple.


2018 - (1) Looking good; nice 2-10" growth.  (2) Slow but steady, 1-3" growth on three branches/tip.


2017 - (#1 on Splitter) Good growth, healthy, light leaf damage.  (#2 on Honeycrisp2) 8" growth. somewhat rough leaves but not bad.


2016 - Fedco scion. Grafts took and grew well.



Online notes: Late Summer. Introduced by James Nutting (1839-1893), orchardist, printer and state legislator, dedicated to developing apples that would thrive in northern Maine. Medium-large roundish-conic fruit, striped and blushed with red. Similar to Duchess. Juicy mildly subacid fine-grained yellow-white flesh for fresh eating and cooking. Mild sweet subacid taste. Z3-5.
 


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