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Summary: They've bred the red delicious with the honeycrisp. The honeycrisp is enjoyable to eat, the red delicious is bad to eat but good for apple warehousers

Summary: They've bred the red delicious with the honeycrisp. The honeycrisp is enjoyable to eat, the red delicious is bad to eat but good for apple warehousers and sellers. So now we get the middle of both worlds.

badfrog 7y ago
> Summary: They've bred the red delicious with the honeycrisp. From the article: > The Cosmic Crisp (right) is the result of crossbreeding two varieties: the Honeycrisp (left), which growers find finicky but which gives the Cosmic Crisp its texture and juiciness, and Enterprise, a late-ripening, long-storing apple. Is Enterprise a fancy word for red delicious?
- fiter 7y ago
  I think they are different[0][1]. [0] https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/red-delicious https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/red-delicious [1] https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/enterprise https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/enterprise
  - danso 7y ago
    Apparently "Orange Pippin" is a variety of apple, but I'm amused that a site with "Orange" in its name is actually "all about apples, pears, plums, and cherries"
    - jelliclesfarm 7y ago
      Pippins are usually light green(like Granny Smiths) and can be yellow too..with a tinge or red or orange as it’s cap... no one knows the exact parent of Orange Pippin that used to be known as Cox(after the breeder) but it could have been a Pippin but Cox’s Orange Pippin is a russet/orange. Having said that, I have a very old Apple tree that came with the house(this is in California) and is probably over 25 years old at least(if not more)...it looks like a Granny Smith but it tastes like a Pippin to me.(not entirely..still reminds me of my favorite Cox Orange Pippin from the UK. Nothing in America compares to Cox Orange Pippin afaik)...I don’t even pick it before first frost. After first frost, something happens to the tart flesh and the sugars as it comes to the surface. It’s magical. I never pick apples before first frost. Not from this tree anyways. I have a newer Gala and it’s ok. The first frost trick doesn’t work on it. I wish I knew the name of my green apple variety.
lacker 7y ago
No, it's honeycrisp + enterprise. The Enterprise is not related to the Red Delicious: https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/enterprise https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/enterprise It's also important to realize that apples are grown as genetic clones, rather than a normally breeding species. So a brand like "Honeycrisp" refers to just a single genetic identity rather than a range like most species or subspecies. That also means that crossbreeding a Honeycrisp + Enterprise can create many different varieties of apple, depending on which bits of which parent's DNA gets into the clone.

badfrog 7y ago

> Summary: They've bred the red delicious with the honeycrisp. From the article: > The Cosmic Crisp (right) is the result of crossbreeding two varieties: the Honeycrisp (left), which growers find finicky but which gives the Cosmic Crisp its texture and juiciness, and Enterprise, a late-ripening, long-storing apple. Is Enterprise a fancy word for red delicious?

fiter 7y ago
I think they are different[0][1]. [0] https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/red-delicious https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/red-delicious [1] https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/enterprise https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/enterprise
- danso 7y ago
  Apparently "Orange Pippin" is a variety of apple, but I'm amused that a site with "Orange" in its name is actually "all about apples, pears, plums, and cherries"
  - jelliclesfarm 7y ago
    Pippins are usually light green(like Granny Smiths) and can be yellow too..with a tinge or red or orange as it’s cap... no one knows the exact parent of Orange Pippin that used to be known as Cox(after the breeder) but it could have been a Pippin but Cox’s Orange Pippin is a russet/orange. Having said that, I have a very old Apple tree that came with the house(this is in California) and is probably over 25 years old at least(if not more)...it looks like a Granny Smith but it tastes like a Pippin to me.(not entirely..still reminds me of my favorite Cox Orange Pippin from the UK. Nothing in America compares to Cox Orange Pippin afaik)...I don’t even pick it before first frost. After first frost, something happens to the tart flesh and the sugars as it comes to the surface. It’s magical. I never pick apples before first frost. Not from this tree anyways. I have a newer Gala and it’s ok. The first frost trick doesn’t work on it. I wish I knew the name of my green apple variety.

lacker 7y ago

No, it's honeycrisp + enterprise. The Enterprise is not related to the Red Delicious: https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/enterprise https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/enterprise It's also important to realize that apples are grown as genetic clones, rather than a normally breeding species. So a brand like "Honeycrisp" refers to just a single genetic identity rather than a range like most species or subspecies. That also means that crossbreeding a Honeycrisp + Enterprise can create many different varieties of apple, depending on which bits of which parent's DNA gets into the clone.