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SCROLL DOWN FOR RELATED LINKS: Revisiting BITE ME! (caps and exclamation point mandatory :), and a few other apples in season now. Also it's an excuse to talk about some apple categories and a last look at my biochar beds for this year with thoughts on experimenting with biochar and making charcoal.
BITE ME! is my fist apple grown from seed. BITE ME! defies the common myth that it is, as a guy on reddit just put it so typically, "extremely unlikely" that an apple from seed will be even edible let alone good. Not only is it very good, but it is not offensive in the least in any parameter. While not an intense, complex or demanding apple, It is very enjoyable and easy to eat. This year in it's second fruit (apples often improve in quality over their first fruiting seasons), it seems to have more flavor and more of it's parent Wickson's special indescribable flavor inherited from crab apple genes. Bite me is open pollinated, a seedling of wickson and some unknown parent, though an old form of yellow delicious seems like a good possibility given the orchard it came from.
I'm re-excited this year to send out scions for testing in other parts of the country. BITE ME! is 100% intended for the public domain, so anyone can grow it, including commercial growers. I think it is worth a trial by collectors and is a great poster child for an effort to undo the myths surrounding the growing of apples from seed. I may sell the scions on my website, skillcult.com starting feb. 1st, or just give them away whenever anyone orders scions. Don't contact me at random times of the year about them or to get in line or anything. I'm too busy and all over the place to keep track of that sort of thing.
I'd like to see a renaissance of fruit breeding and seed planting. Growing seedling apples is a gamble, but you can come up with all sorts of unique apples too. Some will be good, some bad and hopefully some great. See my video playlist on homescale apple breeding for how to grow new varieties of apples from seeds. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAMOPvU-yyF4JfuW5ocJvC4
Related links:
BITE ME!
Biochar videos, including easy methods for charring: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAfBgRAHKXjsNiUwqD1GTFK
Homescale Apple Breeding: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAMOPvU-yyF4JfuW5ocJvC4
Backyard biochar, Kelpie's website on small scale biochar: http://www.backyardbiochar.net/
Stephen Hayes UK, apple reviews and stuff: https://www.youtube.com/user/stephenhayesuk
Adam's Apples Blog, Apple Reviews: http://adamapples.blogspot.com/
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