It sure looks like hail to me. Are you seeing this on most apples on the outer canopy and less of this in the interior? I had very small hail hit my orchard this season with some loss but not extensive enough so that won't get a good crop.
Side Note, Pristine is AWESOME! 3 apples for only for ever and ever? Pristine, PixieCrunch, Honeycrisp. My Pristine tree is taking the year off after big crop last year.
Yeah, I am a big fan of Pristine. Very yummy early apple with good disease resistance. The only challenge I have with it, is it doesn't seem very vigorous. Mine have been really slow to grow on both M111 and B118.
Curious on the Pristine. I have not planted one because I've read about licorice flavors. Do you find that Pristine
have licorice flavors? Some years? Most years?