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| Anyone fruiting Wickson: I would be grateful to hear your average harvest date relative to some other mid-later season apples...Honeycrisp, Northern Spy,Black Oxford, Reine de reinette (thats for you Scott;)) or any other benchmarks I can use. I gather it is a late season apple, but have not determined how late. And while supposed to be Z4 hardy, I am not sure I can fully ripen it this far north. |
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- Posted by jhoss_2009 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 15:41
| Good question! Interested as well. (have scions ordered). |
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- Posted by scottfsmith 6B-7A-MD (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 16:31
| Wickson is a late apple, its a touch later than Reine Des Reinettes for me. Its just before GoldRush, Orleans Reinette, and Rubinette. Scott |
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- Posted by windfall_rob vt4 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 17:02
| Well I know the timing and sequence won't correspond exactly but that is helpful Scott. I just came across one chart that has it just prior to or with honeycrisp, which overlaps RdR for me. If that's the case I shouldn't have any trouble with it. Scott, are you saying Rubinette ripens close to goldrush? I thought it was quite a bit earlier? I had heard folks are getting ripe rubinette in the north, but to my knowledge goldrush just is not happening. Perhaps the cultivars behave differently moving north? |
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- Posted by scottfsmith 6B-7A-MD (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 20:20
| Rob, in looking at my logs more I would not put Rubinette so late - the year it was late the tree was young and young trees don't ripen on as reliable a schedule. I should have looked at other years, for example this year Rubinette ripened before Hewes, Hawaii, Blenheim Orange, etc. This last year RdR did not set so I was not looking at that year when comparing logs for you. This last year Wickson ripened even later though, it was similar to GoldRush and Winesap. Scott |
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- Posted by windfall_rob vt4 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 21:41
| thanks for taking the time to look at that scott I appreciate it. It sounds like wickson may be stretch on some years....I can work with that.....just makes them more of a treat! |
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