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[Stefan Brandle <sbrandle@css.taylor.edu>]

>  About 20% of the fruit are split like a tomato that was watered too 
much. Is this normal or commonplace?

In my experience (limited to 3 years bagging a few trees), I've not seen 
any split apples.  Some had bugs get at them anyway, etc., but no splits.

-- sb
East Indiana, Zone 5b