Cider Digest #1667

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Subject: Cider Digest #1667, 2 November 2011 
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Cider Digest #1667                                         2 November 2011 

                 Cider and Perry Discussion Forum 

Contents: 
  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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