Carter’s Blue

Good Apple Info Snapshot:

Carter’s Blue were one of the few varieties to bloom after grafting. Small growth this year. Otherwise nothing to note.

Good Apple Info Difficulty Rating:

Medium. Limited info, suspected good disease resistance.

Tree Habit:

vigorous, productive tree.

Apple Color:

green or greenish yellow washed with dull red with prominent darker red or purplish broken stripes, covered with a heavy bluish bloom; dots numerous, prominent, white.

Size:

Medium to large, roundish to slightly oblate.

Flavor:

Mild subacid – Flesh is white, crisp and juicy and very fragrant. Rose-water flavor.

Bloom:

Start Main season

Ripe:

late September

History:

Colonel Carter of Mount Meigs Depot, near Montgomery, Alabama, originated this apple in the 1840s. Carter’s Blue was grown widely in the South as a high-flavored apple borne on a vigorous, productive tree.  For many years this fine southern apple was extinct in the United States. Thanks to information from Theodore See of Corvallis, Oregon, a tree of Carter’s Blue was located in the National Fruit Trust in Kent, England. Scions of Carter’s Blue and two other southern apples were imported from England to this country, and the trees are now available..

Storage:

Does not store.

Uses:

Fresh Eating.