apple breeding

apple breeding. excited about norland x black strawberry, an early apple with streaks of red, super cold hardy -40, crossed with black strawberry which has dark skin, red flesh and strawberry flavour. a full description link in the comments, if you haven't gone down the apple rabbit hole then you might find it's more exciting than expected. my goal here is to get an apple with a mix of the traits, surely black strawberry is awesome but like most california apples it just won't grow on the canadian prairies in zone 3, but some of these seedlings should.. hope to get strawberry + red flesh + cold hardy + early .. will see, the first round of selection here will be to grow them for a couple of years and see what survives above the snow. it's a back burner project, check in with me around 2032 to find out hah