During Spring 2020, I applied pollen from the columnar apple, Golden Sentinel, to isolated flowers of the red flesh apple, Redlove Calypso. An apple developed. I stratified the seeds, and three germinated - a red leafed seedling, a seedling whose leaves were green / red combined, and a green leaf seedling. (Blog Post)
The leaf color is from Redlove Calypso. The red color even shows in the roots. Here.
After growing for some time, the green leaf seedling was obviously not columnar. I planted it put in the garden. The red and red-green leaf seedlings clearly have columnar trait - thicker, mostly vertical stem.
Today I noted the red/green leaf tree has two clusters of flower buds.
They look quite red. Here is the form of the tree, with no pruning.
Developers of new apple varieties, evaluate thousands of seedlings to find something special. I have no expectations for that. If this tree's flowers develop into apples, and if they are "good enough" apples, that will be good enough for me. From the flower color and the coloration of the leaves, I'm already certain the apples will have red flesh, From the tree structure, I already feel certain it will be columnar.
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