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["Pete Tallman" <pete_tallman@hotmail.com>]

My Bramley's Seedling fruit is coloring up to yellow-orange with red 
stripes, which I wasn't quite expecting to see, and it seems a little early 
to ripen. I thought this was more a green-yellow fruit.  In size and shape, 
the apple seems to match the descriptions. The tree is bearing fruit for the 
first time this year, so I'm not quite sure what to expect. Is this as 
expected for this climate - hot summer, dry, and lots of sun?  (Tree 
purchased from Bear Creek.) Did I wait too long to pick it? Fruits are not 
dropping except a couple on a very windy evening before they started 
coloring up. I'm reluctant to pick one just to try if it's not ready yet 
'cause I don't have too many apples on the tree.

Pete Tallman, Boulder, Colorado, theoretically zone 5

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