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["Richard J. Ossolinski" <osso@acadia.net>]

>From a newsletter by Renae Moran, Pomologist, U of ME:

> Watercore:
> With cold temperatures occurring at night and apples becoming mature to over
> mature, the chance for watercore is likely. Apples with severe watercore 
> should not be > stored since they will turn black on the inside. Mild cases 
> will cure themselves,but 
> should not go into CA storage.
> For those of you who have never seen this, it is water soaking around the 
> core and 
> inside the core. The air space in the flesh becomes filled with sugars, 
> alcohol andwater. > McIntosh gets it in rare cases, Delicious gets almost 
> every year. 


And speaking of watercore,  this year I have noticed (for the first time) a
few apples (of different varieties) displaying the supersaturated appearance
of watercore but just under the skin (and sometimes a bit deeper) but not in
(or even near) the core itself.
Examining the exterior of the fruit (the skin that covers these areas) does
not indicate any abnormality within, i.e. the fruit must be cut or bitten into
before the watery areas can be seen.  Anyone know what I'm looking at?  Is it
just a derivation of typical watercore?  Common elsewhere?  

Many thanks,
Richard
Gouldsboro, ME Zone 5



Pat Meadows wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 05:58:49 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
> 
> >Our 12 year old Norcue (small Canadian summer apple) developes watercore, 
> >delicious, Del
> >
> 
> What is watercore?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Pat