Hello Fellow Growers,
We are well aware of the quality impact of extreme cold weather on apples in
terms of long term storage, quality, etc. We are facing low temperatures in
Northwest NJ of 17 degrees F on Friday night surrounded by 27 on Thursday
evening and 25 on Saturday evening. Daytime
Kurt- Apples will begin freezing at about 28F- if the event is 4 hours or
longer significant damage will occur.
Fruit that experienced only a mild (~28°F or above) freeze of short duration
(less than 4 hours) may recover and be perfectly salable, but should not be
considered candidates for long
"Will the apples maintain a sufficient amount of quality to be able to be
marketed to a rather non discriminating PYO cliental following the freeze event
with the expectation that the apples will be used quickly for fresh use and not
stored?”
No.
David Doud
grower, IN
picking the last of the
Powdery mildew has historically been a minor problem here, but this year there
was unacceptable levels of infection, particularly on Goldrush and in the Vf
block where the spring sees a much reduced amount of fungicides. I am wondering
about any control measures I could use this fall to reduce i
Kurt,
October 19, 2015 temp at midnight was below freezing and dropped to 24 for
three hours, 3am to 6am here. Plenty of apples still on trees. Some
varieties did not thaw until late that day. Some trees looked like they had
been torched, black leaves. We continued PYO for three weeks, I don't
rec
