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["Richard MURPHY" <murphman108@msn.com>]

Hello Doreen, Spidra, Bob, and everyone.

 

Thanks for the callback. I will try a couple Pixies, in spite of the zone 5 rating they usually get; sometimes this is conservative....it happens

 

Honeycrisp also stopped me in my tracks at the store, Spidra. Beautiful ! I agree 100%. Who knows where they were from?

They were shockers. Then, on a couple of occasions, I've seen a couple of bins of what I thought were big ugly-duckling Mac culls, that turned out to be Honeycrisps. Really strange. It may have to do with trace minerals in the soil, or something like that according to a Cornell paper I was reading. I will be watching the growers in my area to learn more about this. It might turn out to be an easy fix. They are one of the nicest tasting / pleasing to eat apples I've ever had, and there is a bag of them in my fridge....even at the higher price.

 

RM