Apples - weird stuff on the outside

[Tony F Dordogne]

Hi folks

I've been helping a chum in their orchard today and have been picking apples.  Both the red and black eating apples - not effected the others, the russets etc - have a strange black/grey marking on the skin, sort of looks like a dried something but it's on all the apples so not insect damage.

We peeled a couple and the insides are just fine, they just look very unsightly.

Anybody got any ideas what may have caused this?  

[Sunshine]

I have a number of apple trees and 2 trees with the same gree variety of apples were just like yours.  I had looked after the orchard well, spraying and using glue on the trunk etc., and they were laidened with fruit.  Not sure what happened, but like you when peeled they looked normal and the taste was not affected. 

No one noticed when they were cooked!

[Pierre ZFP]

Could be a lot of things.

I found a website that has lots of pictures of apple problems, maybe this will help.

http://www.caf.wvu.edu/kearneysville/wvufarm8.html

 

 

[Weedon]

[quote user="Pierre ZFP"]

Could be a lot of things.

I found a website that has lots of pictures of apple problems, maybe this will help.

http://www.caf.wvu.edu/kearneysville/wvufarm8.html

 

 

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Here is another

http://www.hortnet.co.nz/publications/hortfacts/hf205001.htm

I found another reference which said that apples without any skin markings and blemishes are a sign of a heavy use of pesticides!