>>1204610>people don't pick them when they are ripe.This is true for essentially all commercial varieties though. A Cox's Orange Pippin or Egremont Russett from a supermarket will also usually be under ripe, but still leagues above Red Delicious (IMO).
You probably have a point on the red sports being selected for colour at the expense of flavour though. Still I'm pretty sceptical, I won't lie you've got an absolutely normie tier apple collection. You're definitely doing an awesome thing if you help preserve the best of the wildling and unknown apples in your area though. Are you grafting your cuttings to rootstocks or rooting the cuttings themselves?
I've got a little collection i'm building up. All British Isles apples at the moment, but I want to get a the best overseas variety from each region. I'm thinking Golden Nugget from Nova Scotia is the most promising North American apple at the moment. But I've been hearing people raving about Sweet 16 too.
This is my current collection...
>CommonBramley's Seedling, Egremont Russett, Yarlington Mill
>UncommonAshmead's Kernel, Blenheim Orange, Red Devil, Cornish Gilliflower
>RareRosemary Russett, Claygate Pearmain, Cornish Aromatic, Court Pendu Plat, Irish Peach, Black Dabinett, Pitmaston Pine Apple, Tydeman's Late Orange
>Very RareCourt Of Wick
>Ultra RareBurn's Seedling, Dredge's Fame, unnamed russett wildling, unnamed yellow wildling
