Wisconsin | davy crockett - 7/27/2025 08:04
there was a time probably 50 yrs ago (God i`m getting old ) when the red delicious were like softballs, soft and sweet, but something happened about the time they came out with the new formula coke :-)
That's about the same timing I remember so maybe you're on to something, or maybe we both started drinking beer around the same time?
It could be controlled atmosphere storage really took off and let them sell a fresh looking apple in July, August, September, and if you weren't careful October, November and December from the last year. Controlled atmosphere limits oxygen and CO2 and the apple keeps without getting soft, but goes in unripe and comes out unripe as well. Seems around the late 90's early 2000's there were a lot of southern hemisphere apples, that I haven't seen for twenty years, NZ or Chile on an apple. Plenty of grapes, just not apples. |
help finding a old variety of apple tree
