interested in late apples or pears

[driftwood]

interested to know who has the latest ripening apples or pears.
i have three apples that still have some apples on them...
a friend says his bartlett pear still has lots of pears.
this is in central wv........

would a late november apple from n.c. ripen the same time in wv?

[Common Tator]

I don't know about your area. Winesaps are a late apple. We have plenty in our 101 year old orchard, and they are our latest variety, and sooooooo good!

[where I want to]

My favorite apple site- http://www.orangepippin.com/apples

I have Hauer Pippin for my late one.

[thehermit1000]

Goldrush and Claygate Permain are late ripening and great tasting.

Hermit

[driftwood]

i am wanting hem for deer food.........latest one i can find....

[LoonyK]

Originally Posted by driftwood

interested to know who has the latest ripening apples or pears.
i have three apples that still have some apples on them...
a friend says his bartlett pear still has lots of pears.
this is in central wv........

would a late november apple from n.c. ripen the same time in wv?

I can't vouch for it since it is young and not produced, but bought an apple called Sherry, the description was that it is a hard apple that hangs into the winter.

Our Bartlett would hang all the way to the freezes, only problem is Bartlett is more of an August pear...haha, so obviously was sold mislabeled, I think it is actually Kieffer.

[LoonyK]

I think I read somewhere that Hudson's Golden Gem apple can hang into the winter, too.

Contact Saint Lawrence Nurseries, is where I got my Sherry, I think they also had some crab that also was described to hang late.

[LoonyK]

I've received the Saint Lawrence catalog in the mail lately, and besides the Sherry apple that hangs into the winter, the crabs are called All Winter Hangover, that has fruit 1 inch to 1.5 inches, and also Viola's Hanging Crab, said to have fruit in the 2 inch size.

[haypoint]

Originally Posted by driftwood

i am wanting hem for deer food.........latest one i can find....

Be very careful the deer will eat the trees long before you get any apples off it.

[chickenista]

Arkansas Blacks are the best late apple and keeping apple.
You can't really even eat them until they have been stored a bit.
They ripen in late November/December.
Mmmmm.

If you do it right you can still have ABs for eating when the early June apples are ripening.

[MichaelK!]

If you have a favorate mail-order nursery, they might have a harvest chart like this one.

http://www.vanwell.net/harvest-dates/apples

This is a west-coast company I've bought trees from. A lot of companies publish this kind of chart to help customers decide what they want.

[ronbre]

one of my apples has apples on it well into Dec..but you can begin to pick them in Oct, best in November..I think it is a Northern Spy but it was from a pile of apple cores thrown out after cider making so I'm not sure..it appears a spy though

[Grandmotherbear]

Originally Posted by chickenista

Arkansas Blacks are the best late apple and keeping apple.
You can't really even eat them until they have been stored a bit.
They ripen in late November/December.
Mmmmm.

If you do it right you can still have ABs for eating when the early June apples are ripening.

I planted an Arkansas Black a few weeks ago! How do you store yours?? I also have a Terry Winter Keeper and a Hoover that will need storage time to get ready for eating.

[chickenista]

Ours hasn't started producing heavily enough to worry about storing.
Though I bought many pounds for next to nothing in Nov. or Dec.
I have them in a plastic bin in the coldest room of the house.

I go through every few days and turn through them and look for suspect apples.
Those go into something in the kitchen.

That is not the best way to store them, but I figure it will be short-term-ish.
So far so good though.
I had a multitude of varieties and have used all but the Arkansas's.
They are happily sitting there.
Some are getting 'settled' enough to use, some are still pretty hard and still quite bitter/tart.
I use them as they get ready.

[homstdr74]

Originally Posted by Grandmotherbear

I planted an Arkansas Black a few weeks ago! How do you store yours?? I also have a Terry Winter Keeper and a Hoover that will need storage time to get ready for eating.

We've had an Arkansas Black (on an MM111 rootstock) for about twenty years or so. They don't produce heavily every year or even biennially, just when they feel like it, apparently, but they always produce something. We have stored them all sorts of ways---in the 'frig, in baskets in the pantry, wrapped in newspaper, not wrapped in newspaper, on the ground under the tree, on the tree, canned, dried, etc. They are best picked after a good frost---not too heavy a frost, but one that seems to break down the sugars. They have kept almost equally well in all the above circumstances, but will last into April if kept cool, first in the pantry then in the 'frig. I have eaten them off the ground from right under the tree during the first week of one February, and they were still firm and very good.

Probably one of the finest eating apples for any orchard.

[LoonyK]

Was interesting that I had my Arkansas Black bear some apples last year and they were the most insect damaged apples I had.

[haypoint]

Originally Posted by driftwood

i am wanting hem for deer food.........latest one i can find....

Get your trees established as soon as possible. You can always graft on later varieties. The trick isn't selecting the latest variety. The trick is getting them to survive . Deer eat branches. Rabbits and mice eat the base of the trunk, lawnmower bumps and weed whip damages the base. Doesn't matter how late of a variety it is if the tree dies.
Different apple like different climate, soil \and are effected by different pests. Good to try many varieties. You can graft several varieties on each tree if you want, next year or a decade from now.

[homstdr74]

Originally Posted by LoonyK

Was interesting that I had my Arkansas Black bear some apples last year and they were the most insect damaged apples I had.

That is interesting. Of all the apples that we have grown, Arkansas Black is the only apple that has never had any insect damage.

[LoonyK]

Maybe bad luck, I will see as the tree becomes larger and has a lot more fruit, so have a bigger sample. Love the dark apples and how they stay hard. Don't have to worry about fast rotting apples under that tree.