Yup. I’m waiting (im)patiently for that time to come! 
Store is open but seed, scion and pollen sold out. Maybe he is about to add items?
I never even knew that was a flavor you could get! 
Now I’m definitely interested in apple breeding, I have an old Orchard on my property in Maine from when it was an old timey homestead so maybe I have a good place to start.
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I know, right?! First Steven Edholm, then Joseph Lofthouse with his chapter on landracing fruit trees, convinced me that I should totally be planting apple seeds. 
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I have access to the Skillcult scions ($3 support level), some are sold out, but most varieties are still available, fyi. Keep an eye out, because it is probably going to be public within 24 hours.
Maarten
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Thank you for the head’s up! I really, really hope I’ll remember to check it regularly over the next 24 hours, and am able to get the ones I want. 
The skillcult store is open
Maarten
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Thank you!! 
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Woo hoo, placed an order! 
Three of the varieties I wanted are too much for me to afford this year (Black Strawberry, Vanilla Pink, and Tomboy), so I’ll have to wait for a future year when he has more scionwood for them available, and thus can lower the price. But Chestnut Crab, Cherub, and Amberwine were all at a price I can afford, so I bought them! 
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One of these babies didn’t make it, but the Chestnut Crab OP seedling did!
I found an apple at the store today that I hadn’t tried before, another Honeycrisp offspring called Pazazz. It’s got a lovely crispness, some sweetness but not cloying, and some lovely pink streaking in the flesh! Looking into it, that pink indicates that the apple was a really good ripe one, so I’d say this one is going to be right up my alley. Since there were 6 nice, fat seeds inside, I tossed them in some starter mix and into the fridge to stratify they go!
I wasn’t able to get any scions this year, but I’m hoping by next year I’m in a position to pick up a few (esp. if Hella Kitty pops up! )
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Skillcult is selling his remaining scionwood for $2/cutting
Maarten
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Ooooh, mine!
(Pounces.)
Nifty. I just bought one scion each of each variety that he still has in stock that interests me. 
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I’m still waiting on my Skillcult seeds from this year to sprout, but in apple-related news… I was able to get some bare-root columnar apples this spring. Eventually they’ll form a privacy hedge to block a rear neighbor’s summer view and noise (they’re nosy for all the wrong reasons and they also play their TV/music on their deck too loud) but they’re also interesting with regards to my far future apple plans. Apparently, the columnar growth habit is a dominant trait, meaning 50/50 chance of passing on. I could see some fun intentionally crossing them with some of my Skillcult offspring.
Just dreaming here, but… columnar red-fleshed apples, columnar cider apples, columnar winter apples. I’m not going to have enough decades to play!
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I wasn’t able to get all of my Skillcult apple seeds that I bought last year to sprout last spring . . . but most of the rest are sprouting right now! So that’s good news, if the germination winds up not starting this year. 
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Not sure how he does it, but apple seeds won’t sprout in the fridge for me, so took them out a couple of weeks ago and got some nice seedlings (as a check, I kept some seeds in the fridge, and they are still dormant)
I grafted 140 apples so far, hopefully the expensive scion wood I bought on the skillcult auction will work out.
Maarten
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I’ve had an apple seed sprout in the fridge before, but I had sort of forgotten about it, so it had grown a stem about 12 inches long that was circling the container, trying to figure out a way out . . . 
I was so sad that it died when I took it outside! I really wanted to reward that seed for being so persistent.
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This year’s SkillCult seeds are germinating now, and a couple varieties from EFN, too. I have some that are pretty exciting (for me) and hope they all thrive!
Nice! What are the seeds you got from EFN? 
I got Plentiful and “Kelly Renee.” Both are crab types, with significant disease resistance and longer-hanging fruit. They’ll go nicely with all the crab and crab-crosses I got from SkillCult!
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Hey, nifty!
What are all the Skillcult seeds you got?