2024 - Good growth, set fairly large crop for such a (relatively) small tree! Thinned out quite a few. Nice large apples, some a bit bumpy. First drops 9/18 & 22, some bird damage. Seeds brown and decent flavor but not ripe taste. Exciting to finally see and hold a "real" Prairie Spy apple! 10/3 more bird pecked so picked. Seeds brown but still rather sharp, but juicy and high flavor. Harvest 16# med-large, 20 good, 12 with some damage (pecks or bumpy). Very short stems! Had to carefully "screw" them off to avoid spur damage, so hard to pick but hopefully worthwhile! 10/28 - too early to eat, still on sour side, tastes underripe. 11/6 - a couple had rot, rest OK.

12/2 - Good! Thankfully. Tender, juicy, interesting flavor, nice sweet-tart balance. Some B.P. and rot, but many OK. Still happy those other original trees turned out to be Beacon's but glad to find that Prairie Spy's are a good apple, too. Ate them fresh daily until 12/14 when the last one was enjoyed. It appears they'll be a good alternative for Haralson's biennial habit. We are now on to eating Black Oxford's for our daily fresh apple, also appreciated in its own way.

2023 - Similar to last year, but there were several blooms this year. Set one very poor apple which I removed mid-season. 

2022 - All grafts doing fine. Did some light pruning plus cutting out original tree branches to give grafts room.

2021 - grafted another W, grew ~6". Good growth on all others, pulled some down. Mid Nov PS still had leaves, Akero and rootstock had dropped.

2020 - cut scions mid February, grafted 4 branches around top of tree end of March. All took & grew fine. Decided to give the top half of tree to Prairie Spy (Akero the bottom). NY gr one more on west side.

2019 - (a7crab) ‘17 gr,looking better, mod growth. Cut scion  next year to gr ‘20. More in future, towards btm all PS (top Akero).

#2 root graft grew well in spring but then died. Winter damage?

2018 - #1 - slow growing but alive.

#2 - Scion from Carole, Washington (GF member). Rootgrafted, planted NEOrch. Grew well .

2017 - Grafted on good sized a7 wild seedling crab. Slow to go, later leaves curling & half brown. 

Online Notes: Hardiness: Very-extremely; -50 F with occasional winter injury. Zone: 3-6.  Keeps for three months with flavor developing and improving while in storage. All-around apple with a notably dense flesh. Somewhat tart and somewhat sweet, but truly with a unique flavor. Low vigor tree, somewhat spreading growth habit, late blooming, very precocious. Fruits large, somewhat flattened, good keepers, excellent for pies and OK for fresh eating. Better in storage.