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[nottke1 <nottke1@earthlink.net>]

Sorry my previous note got sent before I finished it.
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Mark,
Your note about "snap" causes me to mention my experience with "squirting"
apples a few weeks ago. A neighbor planted four identical apple trees of 
unknown
variety about 25 years ago so that he would have apples to feed his several 
horses.
The trees are un-pruned and un-sprayed and have gotten very large.  Apples 
are medium
size, similar to Magnum Bonum, but ripen a couple weeks later.  This year the 
apples were so pressurized that when you cut into them, or bit into them they 
squirted a long stream of juice - I had never seen anything like it.  The 
owner said that has happened a few previous years when we had a hot summer, 
and the apples ripened early, as they did this year.  After 4 or 5 days 
storage at room temperature they no longer squirted.
Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Angermayer <hangermayer@isp.com>
>Sent: Nov 1, 2008 4:24 PM
>To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [NAFEX] Apple tastes
>
>Alan's good post on the Cameo apple promted me to write something I've
>discovered about my own apple tastes. This post may generate a lot of
>disagreement.  That's OK, I've got a lot to learn about apples.  But as a
>novice, I've still been ordering apple samplers from Applesource.  One thing
>I've discovered is that the most important apple characteristic for me is
>snap.  

Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC