Cooking apple ID required

Planted in the late 1940's, it's a late season cooker that's good for baking and in apple pies, but what variety is it?

 

Dunno... but suddenly I feel like apple pie

 

With over 3500 named apples I would not dream of even suggesting which one your apple might be.

To id an apple you need an expert. They would need to smell it, taste it and see the leaves.

I recommend you send samples to Brogdale where you will get a professional, expert opinion, from people who deal with apple for a living 365 days a year.

Read about what to do here...

 

Far too expensive doing all that and then buying trees. I'll just graft a few new trees next year for <£2 each. I managed to find out the variety of one of my eaters from a local apple expert who thought it was identical to those a tree she knew of which was planted around the same time as ours only about 4 miles away and we compared them at harvest time.

So just a 'looks like it could be ......' will be fine to get me started.

 

You should checkout any local apple day's next year Scrungee they usually hold them around September/October then get one of the experts interested and get his contact details

 

I've been trying that for years and never got anywhere. There seems to be more chance of finding another tree within a few miles than getting an ID from somebody at an apple day 20 miles away. I've also tried with members of orchard groups and apple growers/pressers - that's why I'm posting here.

 

First glance I thought of Laxton's Superb, but thats not stripey enough.

This one would fit with the time line

Apple - Akane - tasting notes, where to buy fruit and trees

Although yours seem to have more flecks on them.

 

Aren't both of those desert apples, and mine's a culinary (cooking) apple?

I've just pressed another 6 galls of juice from the last of these apples today, after setting aside the maximum amount we can cope with in cool storage/freezing.

The reason we want some more of whatever cookers these are is because they cook/freeze well, press well for juice, and look so attractive.

 

Hm, not a clue then Scrunge, sorry.

 

Looks like Newton Wonder to me.

 

Thanks, that one came up when I Googled the characteristics on a pic search, but the results when specifically searching for that variety looked nothing like it:



No red stripey bits on them

EDIT: But these Newton Wonders look like my apples:

 

Have a look at 'Beauty of Bath' Scrungee

 

I've got a Beauty of Bath, which is an early eater, not a late cooker.

That looks very close, but those are Marriage Maker, a smaller eating apple.


This pic of Martins Custard looks like it could be it, but it isn't clear enough:





However, these pics show Martins Custard apples grown on a graft taken from the tree the above apple grew on, and they don't look like my apples:






But I've had real trouble locating any other pics, especially because there's a teddy bear named "Martins Custard".