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Not only that -- tell them to replace it/them with double, considering the time now lost for fruit!
What did you do in your orchard today?
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It's a toss up which will ripen next.
Seedling peach. I'm debating on pruning for another set of scaffolds or not. The existing scaffolds seem to be handling it's fruit load pretty well. But I am glad we thinned it twice.
Or Loring. I have yet to prune for scaffolds.
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Seedling peach. I'm debating on pruning for another set of scaffolds or not. The existing scaffolds seem to be handling it's fruit load pretty well. But I am glad we thinned it twice.
Or Loring. I have yet to prune for scaffolds.
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Golden delicious turning golden or is it golden funk ???
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I vote funk....skin damage.
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But still perfectly edible, right?
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I think the golden patches are russeting. Which occurs some seasons. Old school golden delicious is prone to russeting. I believe I recall reading russteting has mostly been bred out of modern day golden delicious apples. I've studied A LOT and my memory only holds so much information, thats why I said I recall. They bred an apple called golden russet it's parentage includes golden delicious.
I didnt want a modern golden delicious apple anyways. I wanted a old school golden delicious for flavor and crunch that I remember as a child. If the golden blotches are rustteting, which I believe they are. Then yes, it's absolutely perfectly acceptable to eat the apples, skin and all.
A few more pictures from this golden delicious tree all of it's apples have russeting to some degree or another.
P.S. We had a huge golden delicious apple tree in the back yard of one of my child hood homes. My mom would send me out to pick them in the fall with a ladder. The tree was so productive, it fed the neighborhood. As a treat my mom would core some and bake them. She also would fry skinned chunks in butter, so delicious and warming when it was freezing outside
But I liked to just wash them off and eat out of hand. That was equally as delicious and enjoyable to me. What I would give for some scions to graft from that tree. But it's gone now, cut down and dead. Hopefully this tree will be close enough...Jesus is Lord and Christ
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