I store apples in modified 6-gallon milk crates, and have noticed that the foul odor develops during our 5-month storage period. It is the same odor that I recall having smelled from fruit in wooden crates at Cornell's storages (Ithaca) in the 1960's. Our storage has never held wooden crates, and the walls have no exposed wood except for a few laminated posts supporting the walls. However, we use home-made wooden pallets, 2"x4" douglas fir on 4"x4" pressure-treated pine, to support each 10-crate unit. Use of plastic containers in itself does not eliminate the odor problem. I don't know whether they would smell bad if no wood at all were in the room. The odor does disappear with airing.
David Kollas Kollas Orchard, Tolland, CT On Sep 19, 2013, at 5:14 PM, "Kushad, Mosbah M" <kus...@illinois.edu> wrote: > I am interested to read the opinion/experience of the group with plastic or > wooden and collapsible or non-collapsible bins. Thanks, Mosbah Kushad, > University of Illinois > > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.net > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
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