Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database

moralestapia

500 error. Hope it comes back online soon, I really want to see this one!

samch

Nice database (got a brief glimpse before it was hugged to death). Personally, I’ve always really liked this apple rating site (no affiliation): https://applerankings.com/

bigbuppo

I read that wrong at first.

TechSquidTV

Ha! I very recently started something for peppers (Capsicum) https://pepperrank.com/

dsecurity49

It’s refreshing to see a site that’s just a database without five popups asking for a newsletter subscription. Just pure, unadulterated pomology

FarmerPotato

pomiferous looks like a labor of love. Labor is finite. I use this site for many years: https://www.orangepippin.com

wxw

A lot of fruits seem to have their varietal information flattened out by the time they get to market (i.e. a yellow peach is just a peach yet there are many kinds of yellow peaches). Apples have not, and I think that's great. Is this because other fruit varietals are generally not significantly different? Is there some special sauce behind apple distribution?

halapro

I don't understand why the west is so focused on apples. There are thousands of fruits and people just stick to apples, bananas, oranges and grapes. They're not bad, but, like, it's like going to a restaurant and ordering sausage every time.

biotinker

There are dozens of us! I run a nonprofit group that maintains a similar but different database, ours focuses on identification of heritage varieties, I.e. apples that existed pre WWII. We're in the PNW so we also have catalogs of where they were sold to make their way to us, etc, as we identify trees in old orchards. I've learned some interesting stuff along the way, like that English varieties keep showing up in eastern Washington because English nurseries shipped to Vancouver in the late 1800s. Our apple database is here: https://heritageapplecorps.org/varieties/

linsomniac

Let me take a moment to say: Try an Envy. Apples are my go-to snack over the last decade, and Envy has been my go-to for the last 3-4 years. They are consistently crisp, readily available, have a complex sweet taste, and even after sitting on the counter for a week tend towards crisp rather than mealy. I've had a few duds, but over 500+ the number of meh ones I've run across is just barely out of the single digits.

FarmerPotato

Here's another heritage apple site: http://www.westonapples.com

fsckboy

anybody in southern VT and wants to check on a rare variety (last of its kind) apple tree? i know exactly where it was. this was a while ago, and it was already old, but who knows.

withinrafael

I remember I used to regularly seek out varieties and look them up on https://www.orangepippin.com/ . I wonder how this database compares!

MostlyStable

Very cool site, but I'd love some info pages describing the various categories (harvest period, pollination group, etc.). I wonder if there is a way to report issues. We have several apple trees of different varieties, and as I was playing around with the harvest period calculator, I entered the peak harvest of one of our later ripening varieties, and asked it to calculate the harvest time for our earliest ripening variety. It told me that peak harvest would be in December. It's actually (as the description for the variety notes) in June/July. So either there is an issue in the harvest period for that variety, or else the calculator is messing up somehow.