Lucy Glo is my favorite apple, because it's not too sweet as most apples, not too acidic, slight berry flavor, and properly it has a very faint bitterness barely noticeable but gives a 'just right' touch, but not too bitter,… if they're picked too early they're too bitter. I love the somewhat coarse airy texture. To me it tastes mostly like berries. Depends on the growing conditions and other factors. To me Lucy Glo is the most healthy feeling apple I've eaten, plus the red-pink color is great to see.
@@EdAbleSolutions-qw9zb Yes, the eye appeal is a very special highly appreciated quality,…. someone on TH-cam mentioned the anthocyanins (or how spelled?) factor in the berry flavor,… so, yes, all factors are imporant in the Lucy Glo!
Hello, Ed! Thank you for making this video! I've had both Lucy Glo and Lucy Rose at their best and also at subpar quality. They can be really good at peak flavor, but the apples I got this year have been of subpar quality. Maybe it has not been a good year for red-fleshed apples, but I can attest to their flavor potential. Looking forward to more of your videos!
No, I'm right there with you. The first Lucy Glows I got this season in late October were not good. I want to say that they tasted like they were old, possibly last years crop. I almost didn't buy them again. But the Lucy Rose came in shortly after and they were good so I took a chance an bought them a second time last week, These were good. All I have to say is the packers should be real careful about what they ship. I would hate to see the market turn on these before everyone gets to try them at their best.
@@EdAbleSolutions-qw9zb, it's so sad when apples get stored for so long. I understand that our constant demand for apples may somewhat justify controlled atmosphere storage, but it's always better when the apples that make their way to market are fresh apples from the current season. I'm growing a few red-fleshed apple varieties (Bill's Red Flesh, Black Strawberry, Cherry Crush, Red Devil, Strawberry Parfait, Surprise, a few red-flesh seedlings created by a friend of mine, and also some of my own red-flesh seedlings), so we'll see how these pan out in the next year or two.
@@javierrivera9236 I agree, I get sort of uneasy in August of every year seeing last years Apples still being sold. Sounds like you have a great collection of red fleshed. I spent years trying to get Ram Fishman of Green Mantle Nursery to let me market some of the Red Fleshed he had from the Albert Etter collection. My intent was to make them available and protect the lineage. Never happened, People ended up getting all the varieties and now the lineage is lost.
@@EdAbleSolutions-qw9zb, I read that Green Mantle Nursery owned the trademarks for the red-fleshed Etter varieties (such as Pink Parfait), but once they closed it seems they weren't able to enforce them. For example, the cultivar name for Pink Parfait is Etter 7-9, so people would technically need to use that name if they don't have the nursery's permission to use the trademark name. I do have a Pink Parfait tree grafted on G.890 rootstock (an excellent rootstock from the Cornell-Geneva program that is close in size to M-106, but it has so many fantastic attributes such as precocity, waterlogging tolerance, heat and cold hardiness, woolly apple aphid resistance, fireblight resistance, and replant disease tolerance), and hopefully I'll get some fruit on my tree in 2025! Crossing fingers!
@@javierrivera9236 well, yes sort of. I never decided to challenge that he held trade marks to these varieties, as at the time they had been available for over 40 years or since Etter past in 1950 and he acquired the Ettersburg property. But many others ignored the trade marks and either offered them by name or renamed them, Ram would write about how these varieties were being stolen, but either he didn't really have defendable trademarks or he didn't have the resources to police them. I had the greatest access to them in the early 90's when i was with Dave Wilson Nursery, but decided to honor Rams trade marks and other than Pink Pearl, never chose to release any others. The Geneva root stock are interesting but still expensive for general nursery stock. Mostly for specialty growers. I particularly like the anchorage that G 890 offers, Fireblight resistance has to be tested still in different climate zones
thank you !! I’m excited to try them
Please let me know what you think when you do!
Hi Ed, I'm growing the Lucy glo here in Renton, WA. Helen (from Our Garden).
That Great Helen! You will have to let me know when you get fruit set. I have a friend who grows apple in Cordelia who planted some this year as well.
@@EdAbleSolutions-qw9zb planted last Feb, and got 3 apples this year. I'm training as espalier.
@@helenerickson8455 That's Great! that suggest that variety is precocious. Lets see what you get next year!
Lucy Glo is my favorite apple, because it's not too sweet as most apples, not too acidic, slight berry flavor, and properly it has a very faint bitterness barely noticeable but gives a 'just right' touch, but not too bitter,… if they're picked too early they're too bitter. I love the somewhat coarse airy texture. To me it tastes mostly like berries. Depends on the growing conditions and other factors. To me Lucy Glo is the most healthy feeling apple I've eaten, plus the red-pink color is great to see.
That is a perfect description. The only thing that i would add is the eye appeal. Lots of beauty in every bite😋
@@EdAbleSolutions-qw9zb Yes, the eye appeal is a very special highly appreciated quality,…. someone on TH-cam mentioned the anthocyanins (or how spelled?) factor in the berry flavor,… so, yes, all factors are imporant in the Lucy Glo!
Hello, Ed! Thank you for making this video! I've had both Lucy Glo and Lucy Rose at their best and also at subpar quality. They can be really good at peak flavor, but the apples I got this year have been of subpar quality. Maybe it has not been a good year for red-fleshed apples, but I can attest to their flavor potential. Looking forward to more of your videos!
No, I'm right there with you. The first Lucy Glows I got this season in late October were not good. I want to say that they tasted like they were old, possibly last years crop. I almost didn't buy them again. But the Lucy Rose came in shortly after and they were good so I took a chance an bought them a second time last week, These were good. All I have to say is the packers should be real careful about what they ship. I would hate to see the market turn on these before everyone gets to try them at their best.
@@EdAbleSolutions-qw9zb, it's so sad when apples get stored for so long. I understand that our constant demand for apples may somewhat justify controlled atmosphere storage, but it's always better when the apples that make their way to market are fresh apples from the current season. I'm growing a few red-fleshed apple varieties (Bill's Red Flesh, Black Strawberry, Cherry Crush, Red Devil, Strawberry Parfait, Surprise, a few red-flesh seedlings created by a friend of mine, and also some of my own red-flesh seedlings), so we'll see how these pan out in the next year or two.
@@javierrivera9236 I agree, I get sort of uneasy in August of every year seeing last years Apples still being sold. Sounds like you have a great collection of red fleshed. I spent years trying to get Ram Fishman of Green Mantle Nursery to let me market some of the Red Fleshed he had from the Albert Etter collection. My intent was to make them available and protect the lineage. Never happened, People ended up getting all the varieties and now the lineage is lost.
@@EdAbleSolutions-qw9zb, I read that Green Mantle Nursery owned the trademarks for the red-fleshed Etter varieties (such as Pink Parfait), but once they closed it seems they weren't able to enforce them. For example, the cultivar name for Pink Parfait is Etter 7-9, so people would technically need to use that name if they don't have the nursery's permission to use the trademark name. I do have a Pink Parfait tree grafted on G.890 rootstock (an excellent rootstock from the Cornell-Geneva program that is close in size to M-106, but it has so many fantastic attributes such as precocity, waterlogging tolerance, heat and cold hardiness, woolly apple aphid resistance, fireblight resistance, and replant disease tolerance), and hopefully I'll get some fruit on my tree in 2025! Crossing fingers!
@@javierrivera9236 well, yes sort of. I never decided to challenge that he held trade marks to these varieties, as at the time they had been available for over 40 years or since Etter past in 1950 and he acquired the Ettersburg property. But many others ignored the trade marks and either offered them by name or renamed them, Ram would write about how these varieties were being stolen, but either he didn't really have defendable trademarks or he didn't have the resources to police them. I had the greatest access to them in the early 90's when i was with Dave Wilson Nursery, but decided to honor Rams trade marks and other than Pink Pearl, never chose to release any others.
The Geneva root stock are interesting but still expensive for general nursery stock. Mostly for specialty growers. I particularly like the anchorage that G 890 offers, Fireblight resistance has to be tested still in different climate zones