Apple Report: Grenadine X ? (Goldrush) 2011 #9 - Crunchy, Yellow, Scab Resistant Seedling

No time to type much. Gotta mail the old laptop off for a new keyboard this morning. But here’s a video report on a new seedling. In some ways it’s nothing super special. Just a competent, firm, crunchy, nice tasting, yellow apple in the Grime’s Golden/Golden Delicious complex. Good flavor, with a little spice and sometimes a fleeting lemon flavor. Though slightly pedestrian, it bore two years in a row and it’s almost scab free. It produced beautiful apples on a very sad looking sapling under tough conditions. It also expresses a very little bit of the red fleshed trait, which could be useful if used as a parent in further breeding of red fleshed apples. It might actually be useful for breeding for lemon flavored apples too, of which I have at least one other, actually named lemon. And of course scab resistance is also useful for breeding. This won’t be a long keeper like Gold Rush, but it does have the parentage, so it may express in offspring. all in all, a promising breeder carrying two important traits I want in apples, red flesh and scab resistance. It’s getting grafted out a few more places for further assessment and of course eating enjoyment :)