Pomme Bomb?

It's always nice to discover something new. Because it's new, however, does't always mean it's going to be useful. There is an excitable story about runner, Archie Thomas, coming across a new apple variety whilst training in the Nadder valley in Wiltshire (https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/nov/28/new-variety-of-apple-discovered-by-wiltshire-runner0. It seems likely that the variety is a hybrid between a cultivated apple (probably from a discarded apple core) and a European crab apple (a wild species). Every hybrid between these two apples is, however, going to be different. Apples grown commercially are cultivars, where a stem is grafted on to a root stock (people like their apples to be consistent). Cutivars will only be produced, when the variety has real commercial potential. The description of the fruit characteristics of Thomas's find unfortunately don't suggest it is different enough to be worth the effort and expense.