Dad brought home a apple tree from the nursery many moons back on the advice it would be a great tasting apple. Soft, yucky and an after taste. I find more trees than not have apples that suck.
Now my mother in laws tree has two styles. A red and someone grafted a yellow apple on long before I met her daughter. I could eat pails of apples right off this tree. So good. The reds are juicy and tart. The yellows are just awesome. Both good size and are crunchy. We went from having to support the branches with 2x2's as the tree was so loaded to minimal harvests the last couple years. 5 red apples last year and no yellows. Apples seemed to rot from the inside out. I cut back a bunch of dead branches this spring. The tree has many blooms right now so fingers crossed. Be a shame for this tree to be done. If it comes back, we will be grafting both onto dads tree.
I did notice her tree's bark has white spots on them. Trying to figure out what this is and how to remove it if it is harmful.
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