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| I'm in western Oregon. Here we have (had) the Nick Botner collection, over 5000 apple varieties. Before he passed he allowed the Temperate Orchard Society to clone his collection.
http://www.temperateorchardconservancy.org/
You can order scions from them for just about any variety and graft them yourself or have someone do it. I got a lot of my more interesting apples from Nick. I started with a lot of popular dessert apples you all know like Jonagold, Honeycrisp, Fuji, etc. Since then I have a new criteria for apples. They have to be dual purpose, dessert and cider, and they have to have a cool name like Spokane Beauty or Old Sheeps Nose or Sweet Sixteen.
I get a lot of scion from the Agrarian Sharing Network on Facebook. That's where I got... Red Gravenstein! It's a pink flesh Gravenstein.
Heritage apple varieties are big in Oregon now and there's a big shortage of cider apples. Most cideries are using surplus dessert apple juice from Eastern Washington and you can tell. It's not the best.
I'm happy to help any way I can, you can contact me through email on this site. I know a guy who will graft and grow out anything you want, he's great. Probably won't cost any more than a Fuji from the big box store. | |
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