Apple [Malus pumila, not the tech company] fanatic here. I've been following the development and pre-launch activities for Cosmic Crisp for a couple years now,

Apple [Malus pumila, not the tech company] fanatic here. I've been following the development and pre-launch activities for Cosmic Crisp for a couple years now, mainly through "Good Fruit Grower" magazine. [I've also tried to get a tree of this variety as an experiment, but the nurseries are prohibited from selling Cosmic Crisp trees to non-Washington growers for some time. The amount of scientific, horticultural, and marketing effort associated with this apple is really something. The Washington apple industry is wagering a _lot_ on the success of this variety. Hopefully they can capture some of the success associated with Honeycrisp [undeniably a great variety when grown well, and for years the most profitable variety for growers by far], without the quality problems that attended Honeycrisp's status as an unmanaged variety [especially after the patent expired], some of which are noted in this thread. side note : Cosmic Crisp's "other" parent, Enterprise, is an awesome apple with bright 'candy apple red' skin [rather thick] and a very dense, crunchy flesh [hence its fair resistance to bruising]. It was developed by the Perdue-Rutgers-Indiana apple development program that also produced Williams' Pride, Pristine, and other fine varieties.