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["Naomi Counides" <naomi@oznayim.us>]

That brings up a thought.  I have 4 Mutsu apples left from the fall.  They 
Are soft but they have flavor.  Recently bought Fugis from the grocery.  
Crisp but bland.   Is it the storage?  Are Fugis being Red Deliciousized?  Or 
is it just me?  I think I will switch to Granny Smith  for a while.
Naomi  

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Lucky Pittman
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:30 AM
To: 'nafex mailing list at ibiblio'
Subject: Re: [nafex] Keeping apples

Jim,
Fellow who used to run a small commercial orchard here had a big walk-in 
cooler - but had to keep wet towels over baskets of apples in long-term 
storage to keep them from shriveling. 
I remember visiting with him at the beginning of a fall apple season, and 
having him tell me he had some Arkansas Blacks from the previous year that 
were better than they'd even been, but couldn't sell them because his wife 
had gotten tired of keeping the towels wet over the summer, and they were 
shriveled, and no one would buy them - even though the quality was vastly 
superior to what they'd been when they came off the trees almost a year 
earlier. 

Lucky