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222daisy
· 4 years ago
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Ooooo moonshine stories??
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snowbeast
· 4 years ago
Lol to the guy who named the "Busty Top" varietal
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snowbeast
· 4 years ago
I think this is awesome actually. Many of the old apple varietals are extinct or very nearly so - we have much fewer varietals available nowadays as growers go for the most profitable ones only.
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thekaylapup
· 4 years ago
We could actually create more fairly easily though, if we wanted. In fact, there is a very simple reason why we have so many apple varieties now. Apple trees experience something known as exterme hertrozygostity, meaning that when you plant an apple tree from seed, the resulting tree produces apples that look and taste nothing like the parent tree's apples. Unfortunately most apples taste terrible actually--so when an apple is delicious, we use that tree to make clones and grow more of the same kind of apple. But if we really want to have more variety of apples, we would just need to plant many apple trees and taste test until we found good ones.
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kcat
· 4 years ago
Soooo the Apple DOES fall far from it’s parental tree then
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ewqua
· 4 years ago
The one on the bottom right is called "Manson Beauty" ... Uhhhhh did Charles Manson have an apple farm?
theblacksun
· 4 years ago
Moonshine story time: this was back in 1991 or 92; we had just moved to Charlotte, NC and got an apartment in a complex that we soon discovered really enjoyed partying. The property manager drove a camaro with WILDRIDE as her license plates. The complex was really nice; pool, hot tub, weight room, club house, free outdoor grills, nice landscaping, etc. Turns out they also held monthly resident parties as well. We attended one party where I had some vodka jello shooters, smoked a joint with some guy that was laced with something that really fucked me up. Told my fiance (wife now) I had to go home. She continued to party. No problem. I'm laying in bed with every tiny noise sounding like it's in an amplified echo chamber hoping it will wear off soon. Then someone starts pounding on the door. Drag myself up, open the door, there's someone I don't know standing there with my fiance draped over him. Draped. As in she was not capable of standing or even holding on to another person to keep
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theblacksun
· 4 years ago
upright. Piecing things together over the next few days, turns out she was invited to an after-party that had real moonshine. And tried to outdrink the other person.
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