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[Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>]

I just read this week in a very old Pomona [e.g. 1971] of a member who used a 
4"x4-1/2"
polyethelene sleeve to bag individual apples.  If I understood the article 
correctly, the bottom
of the bag was never sealed so the apple just sat in the bag secured above 
but with an open
bottom.   I'm keeping an eye out for the article to quote at more length.  
This member applied
the bags right after June drop.

Last year I took a cereal bag [you know, those milky-colored bags you find 
inside Cheerios and
Corn Flakes] and put an individual Northern Spy applel in it.   It worked 
great, till I noticed
the moisture inside during late August and decided to change the bag, 
knocking the apple off in
the process!  This year I went a step further and did a whole small branch, 
and the results were
negative, too much moisture + heat caused all apples inside the bag to drop 
and the leaves to
suffer as well.

What I derive from this is you've got to get the apples from fruit set to 
past june drop without
letting the bugs chew into them, which may mean one spray of Imidan or your 
favorite other
treatment, then apply such a bagging method.

Has anyone else tried bagging apples with the open-ended sleeve or the milky 
cereal bags?
Charlie Paradise
zone 5 Massachusetts
where the true Macintosh and the Northern spy rule

Sam Franc wrote:

> If you are serious, I would bag the apples.
> Use a small brown bag you can get at the market, no need to pay for the
> special ones for a few apples like you have.
> If the rain destroys them, replace.
> To redden up take off a few days before you pick.
> Sam
>
> jack e wigal wrote:
>
> >Hi Ya'll,    I think I remember some talk in the past about bagging
> >apples for their protection.  I have some new types that are only two
> >years old and grafted on old trees which have produced a few apples and
> >would sure like to taste at least one of each.
> >
> >My problem is the birds which are pecking and ruining many of them.  I
> >had one clump of three Bramleys Seedlings and one fell yesterday, so my
> >chances of ripening the other two are slim.  I have from ten to twenty of
> >some other varieties, so may get to taste a couple if I can foil the
> >birds.   Have also considered a fony owl?
> >
> >Would appreciate any suggestions from some of you more experienced folks.
> >
> >Thanks,    Jack Wigal
> >Washington, WV
> >Zone 6
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