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Cider Digest #1667
Subject: Cider Digest #1667, 2 November 2011
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Cider Digest #1667 2 November 2011
Cider and Perry Discussion Forum
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Re: malformed apples (Steven Gougeon)
RE: Cider Digest #1666, 25 October 2011 (Richard MURPHY)
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Subject: Re: malformed apples
From: Steven Gougeon <steve@avwoodworking.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:47:48 -0400
We had 11 days of rain right during mid season pollination. This resulted
in very poor fruit set this year with our crop being about 1/3 of what
it was last year in those cultivars. Along with the lack of fruit we had
a huge number of malformed fruit, which I know can sometimes be caused by
pollination issues. Our Cortlands in particular seemed to have a problem with
this. This isn't science, just an observation from our orchard this season.
They were still fine for making juice at least.
Steve
Steven Gougeon
Bear Swamp Orchard
www.bearswamporchard.com
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Subject: RE: Cider Digest #1666, 25 October 2011
From: Richard MURPHY <murphman108@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:25:50 +0000
An apple has 5 lobes. All 5 need to be pollenated in order to produce a
'standard shaped' apple.
Incomplete=2C anisometric pollenation is a common cause of fruit deformation.
Examine your 'seed star'. Is it typical?
Murph
R A Murphy Jr
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