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["David Doud" <doudone@netusa1.net>]

>>Will Baldwin and MN 447 taste good in my area because of the summertime
100 degrees?

no apple (at least none I am familiar with) like 100 degree temperatures -
but they will tolerate them in an immature state - it is the temps the last
few days/weeks before harvest that matter - if those Baldwins are a week
from harvest and the days are 90* and the night 75* they will turn soft and
greasy,  having never developed good quality - that they are dark red means
that the sun will heat them beyond air temp,  so if it is 90* and sunny,
they will cook on the tree,  never developing good quality -

I'm not familiar with MN 447,  but I'd wager the same general principles
apply -

for consistant apple quality from year to year,  look to varieties that
mature in the season when the days are bright and cool and the nights are
crisp - yellow is better than red in hot climes -

regards - D




----- Original Message -----
From: "Naomi" <dragon-star@cableone.net>
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] ? Baldwin & Minn 447 Zone 6 Idaho


>
> Thank you.  It is not the frost /cold tenderness I worry about.  I have
had
> a Cox for 15 years.  One year it bore well.  The rest of the time it
> produced poor fruit.  Ed Fackler said that Cox does not like hot weather.
> He said the same on the Karminj.  That is my concern. Will Baldwin and MN
> 447 taste good in my area because of the summertime 100 degrees?
> Naomi
>