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  • From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] stem splitting on apple
  • Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:01:12 +0000

A little ways northeast of you, we had drought most of summer. Until the mid-season apples were sizing up, then 3" rain in one week. Apples increased in size by 1/3 in a very short time, and any brittle spot on the skins of most apple culitvars split (some more, some less.) Many apple cultivars have a russet or corky patch in the stem dimple; I've been told this is from spider-mite feeding. These spot of brittle skin would split in above conditions.


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From: "loneroc" <>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] stem splitting on apple
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 06:39:33 -0500

Anyone know what the cause of a little cross shaped split where the stem enters the apple. Almost all my MN 447s had that goin' on. I didn't get enough other apple to know if it would have been a widespread problem.

Steve H. Lone Rock, WI






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