Anyone recognize this cultivar? Planted by my grandfather ages ago but nobody knows what they are. Trees lookmgrafted but not really sure.

Macone

It has lenticels like a red delicious, but lacks the “typeiness” of a red delicious.
It has the striping which can occur on a melrose or possibly a johnagold or a gala.
We stopped working our orchard many years ago, so I have lost some of the knowledge.
750 trees became overwhelming with other obligations.
So…… possibly a jersey gold macmelrose jonathan gravenstein.
Good luck getting a positive identification!

Looks like a honey crisp.

It wouldn't be a honey crisp they haven't been around that long, with a zillion cultivars its anyones guess...

I think it is a red apple !!!!

I thought Galveston
But as already said, who knows for sure.
Make some dumplings or apple sauce

We had a bunch of trees that had apples just like that on our family farm in North Central SD. Ours had to get a frost before you wanted to eat them. My great grandfather planted them in the 40s

There was a great push after the Stock Market Crash of the 30's that every farm should have at least 3 apple cultivars on it to be self-sufficient in food.

I totally thought this was gonna be a thread about Apple's "Apple ID" for signing into Apple services lol

Cant stand apple products so it definitely aint this thread lol. Do have a company iphone for work.

What's it taste like? That's all that matters to me.
When I was a kid in the 60's there was an overgrown apple tree that had huge, homely, misshapen apples on it as big as a softball. They were the juiciest, sweat apples I have ever eaten. Never knew what kind they were. Didn't matter, they tasted fabulous. They had red streaks inside.

They're decent tasting. Not overly large, about the size of a baseball. Not a sweet apple, a bit tart but not on a granny Smith level

Looks tasty.

There's so many apple varieties on the market roday it can be tricky to know which to plant.

As far as deer go, will they gladly munch on any type of red apple?

Looks like a honey crisp to me as well.

A friend of mine has apples that look exactly like that in his front yard that were planted in the sixties. He had 7 1/2 acres of apple trees, many like that, that he cut down a few years ago. They are good for cider and are pretty resistant to blight and bugs.

Keith

Deer don't discriminate by color. I have a Criterion tree (a yellow/blush apple) in the side yard and the deer are willing to attempt sneaking under the radar of our two Rotties to get to, so...........

Orange Pippin?

We had a similar tree when I was a kid, long gone now, but never seen an apple that big since. Dad called them 'winter greens"?