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Sorting apples for long term storage

creekweb
11 years ago

This year i used a very limited spray program on my apples which gave mostly okay results but with higher incidence of minor imperfections than usual. I'm now sorting my apples and am considering which imperfections would disqualify an apple from being fit for long term (3 - 6+ month) storage. The imperfection type and approximate percentage affected are scab (up to 2 spots less than 3mm) 30%, PC scars 10%, windfalls with soft areas I know I could invoke conventional wisdom and just rule out all apples with imperfections for long term storage, but I'm really not looking for advice on this decision, but instead for specific observations some of you may have had of any of these insults definitely leading to rot or not.

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