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["ROBERT W JUDY A HARTMAN" <hartmansfruit@msn.com>]

Doreen,

 

Are you saying you picked all the Sweet Sixteen on the same day?  Mine aren't ready yet this year but last year I picked a number of the Sweet Sixteen on the last day of September last year (2007) but didn't pick the ones that weren't ripe yet until we came back from a time away from home on the 11th of October.  I find that with most fruits that they don't ripen all in the same day but if you pick them as they become ripe you will have much better flavor.  What has been your experience?

 

Thanks,

Bob

Western Washington

 

Most fruits are 2 to 3 weeks later this year because of a cold spring and early summer but some are ripening on time.

----- Original Message -----

From: Doreen Howard

To: North American Fruit Explorers

Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 2:25 PM

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Late ripening apples

I'm a couple weeks ahead of Jim in ripening here along the
Wisconsin-Illinois border.  My Sweet Sixteens and  Honeycrisps were picked
yesterday.  I have a mystery apple grafted on to Bud 9 that a nursery sent
me as a replacement for Sops of Wine.  They actually sent two trees in place
of SOW, and both were missing tags.  The nursery didn't have records as to
what they sent.  I finally identified one as Sweet Sixteen.  The other
mystery apple is as large or larger than Sweet Sixteen, deep red (almost
black), crisp, juicy and sweet.  It was ripe and picked yesterday, too.
Does anyone have a clue to what it could be?
Doreen Howard

Jim Fruth wrote:
>    My Haralson and Sweet 16 are hardly showing signs of ripening.  Last
> week I finally got to harvest the McIntosh and about half of the Honey
> Crisp.  My Summer apples were all a month late too with the exception of
> Yellow Transparent which ripened right on time/Early August.

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