Spots on my apples…
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Jerry-B-WI
5 year old buck +
If that pot is supposed to have a teflon coating, I'd get rid of it. Read up on PFAS and you'll understand why.
Prof.Kent
5 year old buck +
The big blotches are called "Sooty Blotch". Clusters of very small dots is called "Fly Spec". Both are caused by air-born fugal spores. They are both odorless and tasteless (at least to humans) and are evidence that the apple has successfully fought off the fugal attack, otherwise the fungi would have eaten through the skin. This also means that the apple skin has ant-fungal antibodies on it, which are good for human consumption (natural immune boosters).
My understanding is that almost all apples used to have sooty blotch/fly speck. With modern fungicides they are no longer present on most commercially available apples. Good luck convincing people that eating apples that look like that are "good for them". We've been conditioned to think that things that look like mold/fungus are bad for us.
That aint black spots - this is black spot. I would love to have apples that looked as nice as yours
Walk through a commercial orchard under traditional spray management and look at the fruit. You won't find sooty blotch/fly speck.
Yellow and green apples can be scrubbed and scrubbed and you can still see the sooty blotch/fly speck. Dark red apples hide the remnants after washing much better.
Lots of old timers ate apples with a knife because they were used to cutting out the "bad spots". There's nothing wrong with eating apples infested with apple maggot or bitter pit either, it's just that most of us don't find it very appealing.
Yellow and green apples can be scrubbed and scrubbed and you can still see the sooty blotch/fly speck. Dark red apples hide the remnants after washing much better.
Lots of old timers ate apples with a knife because they were used to cutting out the "bad spots". There's nothing wrong with eating apples infested with apple maggot or bitter pit either, it's just that most of us don't find it very appealing.
AtomApple
5 year old buck +
they are from my Haralson tree in my back yard. Very under-rated tree imo. Still has fruit on it and been slowly dropping for the last month. it is prone to being bi-annual. It does get plenty of water, city lot drains to the back of my lot.
Those pics could be used as tutorials for what sooty blotch and fly speck look like
And I sprayed those trees four or five times last year
What did you spray them with?
Bonide Fruit Tree spray - supposed to be an all in one
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Sooty blotch and fly speck. Our camp apples have those too.
