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  • From: "Alan Haigh" <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Brix and frost protection
  • Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:28:41 -0500

Do not assume that an apple with high brix is sweet.  A lemon has plenty of sugar and if an apple is high acid it can be tart with lots of sugar also.  Goldrush has about the same brix as Fuji which I think is what makes it such an appealing apple to me- that and the denseness of its flesh.  I believe that some of the great tart English apples like Cox are also very high on the brix.
 
Anecdotally I assume that brix and flesh density are the determining factors in what holds the flesh together after hard freeze.  I have never seen a study on the subject, however.


  • [NAFEX] Brix and frost protection, Alan Haigh, 11/05/2008

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