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  • From: <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Lymans Large Summer Apple
  • Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:05:46 -0500

Mark,

Lymans Large Summer apples are more of an early August apple than late July. The fact that you are using plastic bags that are collecting moisture could mean that you have a sort of greenhouse effect going on. Heat is retained between the bag and apple possibly causing the apple to heat up and ripen before it's normal ripening time. Also, if there is heat buildup going on and mositure is collecting in the stem pit, the warm moisture could be softening the stem. Due to the size of these apples, the stem may be weakening and the apple dropping. Just a guess.

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Dorogi" <mddorogi@comcast.net>
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 7:07 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Lymans Large Summer Apple


I have this Lymans Large Summer apple I got from Southmeadow Fruit Gardens,
IIRC. Anyone else have one?

This tree seems to drop apples for some reason. They are quite edible now,
close to, but not quite ripe. They have a bit of water core. Nothing
apparent is wrong, but every night a couple of them fall off.

Most of them are around 3.5" in diameter now, quite good sized. It's nice
to have apples in July! (I'm in southeast Michigan).

I bagged them this year and it's worked OK. The apples take up most of the
room in the zipper sandwich bags, and some have expanded the bag enough to
open the zipper. There is a fair amount of condensation in the bags, and
earwigs get in there and can be a problem, although it doesn't seem to cause
any problem for the apples. I'm experimenting with perforating the bags with
a wire brush, and it seems to reduce the condensation quite a bit, but it's
a bit tedious to do.

The biggest problem of late has been raccoons getting up in the tree. I put
some raccoon repellent spray and some bird netting around the bottom of the
tree and it seems to be working.

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o116/mddorogi/LymansApple001.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o116/mddorogi/LymansApple002.jpg


Mark









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