Anyone know their apple varieties?

[Tursiops2]

I haven't been scrumping, these grow in a hedgerow by a public footpath .



They're delicious, a bit like Cox's but not quite as sweet. I'd love to know the variety, does anybody have a clue?

T2

[Jez]

They could well be a Cox but which Kings Cox,Queens Cox, Cox Orange Pippin? The trouble is subtleties in Size and skin colour. An Expert will brobably ask you also for a cross sectioned photo to see what the apple looks like on the inside. I happen to work in a farm shop and we sell over 30 diffrernt varieties of Apples so i guess i should know exactly what youv'e scrumped, my excuse is 30 against thousands what chance do i stand? My guess is a Cox or Possibly a Laxtons Fortune. Can i have a Bite

[naturelover]

Originally Posted by Jez

They could well be a Cox but which Kings Cox,Queens Cox, Cox Orange Pippin? The trouble is subtleties in Size and skin colour. An Expert will brobably ask you also for a cross sectioned photo to see what the apple looks like on the inside. I happen to work in a farm shop and we sell over 30 diffrernt varieties of Apples so i guess i should know exactly what youv'e scrumped, my excuse is 30 against thousands what chance do i stand? My guess is a Cox or Possibly a Laxtons Fortune. Can i have a Bite

hi i bet its a laxton they are a beatiful apple,you dont see alot of them now like the wooster when i was 15 just left school i yoused to go fruit picking with my mum,there is nothing better than sitting in dewy grass eating a wooster and cheese sandwich yum yum.

[Jez]

I like apple season! I remember having to do Apple Tastings on my first couple of days in to the job. It's like going full cycle through the seasons Apples to Apples. You could have put me on a spit roast after my first apple week i tell you! We had an old variety in some years ago you may know of- Ashmeads Kernel. Seems to be becoming very popular with our customers. Red Riding Hood is a nice one with red flesh. But I agree Cheese with Apples Can't beat it!

[Tursiops2]

Originally Posted by Jez

But I agree Cheese with Apples Can't beat it!

Guess what I had for my tea last night They went well with a nice bit of mature Stilton

You could be right about Laxton, I have a vague memory of reading a Sunday Suplement article, or something, about apple varieties a few years ago, and Laxton definitely rings a bell. I totally agree about the old varieties - if I had some land I'd love to grow some.

Nice job you've got there Jez, do you get to do Quality Control?

Cheers
T2

[Adam Cheeseman]

Hi T2,

I'd give them until October before picking, it's a bit early yet so they haven't had time to sweeten up. I'd go along with the cox/laxton line.
Is it a remant of a former orchard do you know?

Cheers,

Adam

[Tursiops2]

Originally Posted by Adam Cheeseman

Hi T2,

I'd give them until October before picking, it's a bit early yet so they haven't had time to sweeten up. I'd go along with the cox/laxton line.
Is it a remant of a former orchard do you know?

Cheers,

Adam

Hi Adam, they're ripening now, picked half a dozen yesterday and they're well tasty - was eating one as I read your post . Snaffling a few of these has been a highlight of my autumn since I found them a couple of years ago (I love free food), they'll be past it by October.

I don't think it's relic of an old orchard, it's just one tree in the hedge by a main road. I don't know what's on the other side of the hedge though, can't see through/round/over.
T2

[AlanS]

As this tree is in a hedgerow it has presumably arisen by seed - bird sown or a carelessly discarded apple core.

Even if its maternal parent produced that seed by self-fertlilisation (as I presume apples do, from the abundant fruit one sees on isolated wild bushes) there will have been genetic rearrangement during meiosis (the "reduction" cell divisions that result, eventually, in the ovules and pollen) and gene expression will alter, even if no different genes arrived in pollen from a different bush/tree.

Consequently this hedgerow tree may not be an exact match to any named cultivar.

If, as seems likely, its parent was one of the Cox cultivars, then we can expect it to be pretty much a Cox itself, but I think it would be wrong to claim it was any particular Cox.

Why not call it Tursiops2's Cox?

(In my experience, Cox apples always arrive in packs of six in a nice carton wrapped in clingfilm, but I suppose this might not be a totally constant identification feature?)

Alan

[Tursiops2]

Originally Posted by AlanS

(In my experience, Cox apples always arrive in packs of six in a nice carton wrapped in clingfilm, but I suppose this might not be a totally constant identification feature?)

Alan

There's plenty of that stuff lying around in the road, so you never know

I'm seriously tempted to try taking a cutting - I don't have anywhere to plant a tree, but I could try growing it as a cordon. If it works, I'll call it Cox's WABbin!

[Jez]

T2 I share quality control & on a very high level! By sharing Quality Control it is my upmost duty that customers & i, if poss, finds the very flavour that one is looking for! It's not an Easy Task but somebody has to do it