jim_flanegin wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool <fflmod@> >> wrote: >> >>> I did not know about this. This I why I stopped eating >>> apples. They're too firm and I can't buy ripe ones >>> anywhere. They don't ripen at home, eiher, and leaving >>> them out for a month in the hopes they will ripen >>> attracts fruit flies. Yes, I have actually left them >>> out that long. >>> >>> It sounds like this chemical works too well. >>> >> My sister, who recently moved to Vermont, has some >> old apple trees on her property that haven't been >> cared for and look pretty miserable. But she >> discovered a couple of small, misshapen, but nice >> red apples on one of them, picked one, and ate it. >> She says it was fantastic, vastly better than any >> of the commercial apples she's had in years. >> >> > Yep- There is no comparison at all. Oddly enough I find the apples > from my tree stay firm and ripen slowly, and they are organic. > Perhaps the trees sprayed with pesticides and stuff produce a > different kind of apple? > > Judy, you may want to tell your sister that next year when all the > little apples come out on the tree to thin them out, especially the > clusters of two, three and four. Thin them down to one apple per > branch site, and the apples will grow much larger. Which *is* a lot of work and probably fine for someone who has no hobbies or other interests. I didn't get many apples this year due to the weird spring weather which messed up a lot of crops in the area. Commercial growers use a spray that thins and indeed apples as well as strawberries are one of the most heavily sprayed fruits. Keeping the worms out of them is indeed another challenge.
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