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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 7h

Formidable.

old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 8h

winter calleville apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1900

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 2d

These are a few of my favorite things #apples
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Scenes from an autumn

A few visual takes on the best time of the year.

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 2d

Educated guess that could be wrong: this is a modern variety that may have been rebranded.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, apple reviews, I can't quit you. Today, the snake oil panacea in apple form, sold out of a rickety wagon along with various potions, goos and bezoars: HUDSON'S GOLDEN GEM.

Apple Review #10: Hudson’s Golden Gem

WE MUST BETRAY THE ALGORITHM AND BURN IT ALL DOWN wait I’m getting ahead of myself, sorry. Man, that’s a helluva way to open a fucking apple review, isn’t it? All right, to rewind…

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 3d

Hey @applebluesky, can anyone fill me in on an apple sold to me as "Tipp Pippin"? It looks like a redder Cripps Pink and has dense breaking-crisp flesh. On the sweet side.

It is Irish.

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New photo · Tuesday, Oct 7 📸

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Kimber Agonistes @kimberagonistes.bsky.social · 4d

The lead-in to the actual review is great.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 4d

"An apple that acquiesces to the oppression of the teeth. And yet --"

Today's apple review is an apple from Denmark who might demand to speak to the manager. Meet: the Ingrid Marie, aka the Karin Schneider.

Apple Review #9: Ingrid Marie

I think there’s something interesting too about the association with apples and America. Apples, a non-native fruit, are thought to come from an ancestor in Kazakhstan — and were largel…

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 4d

Wasn't he in Midsummer Nights Dream? #apples

old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 4d

peasgood nonesuch apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1907

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 5d

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 5d

On the other hand a sport branded as a new variety, like Kiku, maybe needs to be included in my catalog so that people who read me, at least, will know that it is Fuji.

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 5d

I have complicated feelings about treating sports like full-fledged apple varieties (on my blog I mean).

A few are genuinely different, in effect new varieties. But the ones that are basically the same but redder earlier or something, it feels wrong to list 3 kinds of Jonagold.

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 6d

Alliteration and apples always amuses.

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 6d

That's Jonagold, yes? I do not know Dowse, must check them out. Thanks!

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 8d

nonono de gustibus is my motto, truly.

And pears are really interesting. Start a blog! I will follow it.

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 8d

nonono degustibus is my motto, really.

And pears are really interesting! Start a blog, I will follow it.

Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 8d

And to eat #apples.

Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 8d

October is the best month to ride bikes

#BikeTO

A green Marinoni touring bike, leaning against a black and orange construction pylon on a gravel path covered with fallen leaves. The trees behind are still mostly green but a lot of leaves are already on the ground.

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 8d

Follow this account.

Awais Khan @khan-awais.bsky.social · 9d

Enjoy & feel free to share! Diversity in size, color & shape of domesticated #Apples & their wild relatives! Photo credits, Awais Khan Cornell University.

#GeneticDiversity #CropWildRelatives

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, pretty sure you'd have a different take on a better sample. Not saying you'd like it. My take was "more chewy than crunchy." But in no way grainy or dry or mealy: that is death.

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 9d

FWIW, Chuck got a bad sample.

Also FWIW there is a second apple, unrelated, of the same name. It is excellent.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 10d

Everything is bad, but apples are good, and today I'm reviewing an apple that is new to me -- behold, the Maiden's Blush.

Apple Review #6: Maiden’s Blush

So, the other day, I was sitting at my desk and a Facetime call came in from a friend who I won’t identify here, I’ll just say his name is — gosh, what’s a good entirely mad…

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 10d

Everything is bad, but apples are good, and today I'm reviewing an apple that is new to me -- behold, the Maiden's Blush.

Apple Review #6: Maiden’s Blush

So, the other day, I was sitting at my desk and a Facetime call came in from a friend who I won’t identify here, I’ll just say his name is — gosh, what’s a good entirely mad…

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 10d

In case not obvious: those are Cox.

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 10d

This is what I am here for.

Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 10d

It is a fabulous fruit year in the islands and I'm trying to share as much of it as I can with y'all.

Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · 10d

More heritage apple events coming up in October! Our third annual apple tasting with the Orcas Museum is Saturday October 4th (12:30-2:30), and on October 11th we're joining the San Juan County Land Bank, apple ID expert Lori Brakken, and master orchardist Marguerite Greening for Apple-Palooza

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 10d

It is a fabulous fruit year in the islands and I'm trying to share as much of it as I can with y'all.

Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · 10d

More heritage apple events coming up in October! Our third annual apple tasting with the Orcas Museum is Saturday October 4th (12:30-2:30), and on October 11th we're joining the San Juan County Land Bank, apple ID expert Lori Brakken, and master orchardist Marguerite Greening for Apple-Palooza

Poster for Apple Tasting. It reads: "Annual Apple Tasting hosted by Kwiaht and the Orcas Island Historical Museums. Saturday, October 4th 12:30-2:30pm. Orcas Island Historical Museum 181 North Beach Rd. Free Event! Enjoy fresh-pressed cider! Community is welcome to come and sip, or bring their own apples to press! *Press until 3:30pm. Dozens of local varieties of apples to sample! Supported by Girl Meets Dirt and Orcas Isle Cider." There is a photo of an apple tasting display, a striped apple on a tree, and at the bottom the logos for Kwiaht, Girl Meets Dirt, Orcas Isle Cider, and the Orcas Island Historical Museums.

Poster for Apple-Palooza. There are the shapes of two red apples with green leaves in the middle of the poster. It reads: "Apple-Palooza. Saturday, Oct 11, 10am-2pm. North Shore Preserve Orcas Island. Identification, tasting, pruning." At the bottom are the logos for the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank and San Juan County.

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 10d

Hey look at the #apples I got this month:
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September treasure

A dispatch from the best tie of the year.

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 12d

First encounter with an exceptional apple:

James @15c3po.bsky.social · 12d

I had my first Ashmead’s Kernel apple today. I had never had an apple with such intense flavor. Truly stunning.

It is a heavily russeted apple and the flesh browns quickly so I can see why it would be hard to sell. But that is a real shame. Maybe it could be marketed as a pie apple?

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 12d

I want to say "welcome!" but I am not sure what to, exactly.

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