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| I just harvested a bunch of Gala's and a handful of them have some "cracking" around the stem. It's not really cracking like tomatoes do after a big rain, it's more of an abscess. I'm not sure that's right word either, so here's photo. What's going on here? Thanks, |
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| Bumping from page 3............ Has anyone seen this problem on Galas or any other type? |
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| I've seen it on mine. Seems to happen as the fruit gets riper. I hold those out to eat first, I think the cracks might be a problem in storage, and generally I eat the riper ones first. |
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- Posted by Appleseed70 6 MD (My Page) on Mon, Sep 22, 14 at 10:22
| I have not seen this issue and am awaiting an answer too. I'd like to know what causes this as well. |
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- Posted by Appleseed70 6 MD (My Page) on Mon, Sep 22, 14 at 10:27
| Here is a research report from the web and interestingly dealing also with Gala. http://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/3078 It seems it is caused by longitudinal growth strain. Incidents of it's occurrence were increased by 50% under heavy irrigation. |
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| I've had it in TX as well. Could have been rain induced. Picking earlier would probably help. |
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| Interesting, thanks! We had two very heavy thunderstorms about a week apart in the three weeks before harvest so I bet that was the cause. (no irrigation) |
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- Posted by scottfsmith 6B-7A-MD (My Page) on Tue, Sep 23, 14 at 13:47
| I had it on my young Gala but have not seen that in several years now. My tree is ten years old. Funny, its the same story as my Indian Free peach and Wickson apple -- cracking when younger and "growing out of it". Scott |
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