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[Heron Breen <breen@fedcoseeds.com>]

Hi Ozzie, I don't know what it is called but I think I saw the same thing you 
are 
describing in Honeycrisp grown last year in Massachusetts. The grower called 
it 
watercore, so I took his word for it, but this was in early September, so I 
didn't 
think temps had been right for watercore to develop. Then this year I saw it 
in a 
few different varieties growing in low spots. I guess I just assumed I had 
missed 
optimum picking time, but I think now I was making an incorrect assumption. 
Maybe 
we could email Renae and ask her...
a little rain,
Heron 
On Sat Oct 30 12:59 , 'Richard J. Ossolinski' <osso@acadia.net> sent:

>>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
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