Dang Rhonda! When is the apple tasting party at your house this fall? I have never heard of most of them. I had apple trees at the last two house I lived in, not sure what kind, I didn't plant them but they were all good. What do you do about the apple borer we get? I don't know the proper name, I just know it is some sort of grub that bores the center of the apple and eats the seeds, then exits the bottom of the apple when it's developed. I never did any sort of spraying, I would just take a bite and look at the apple where I bit it before chewing. If there were tunnels..spit it out, no tunnels..commence chewing.