If the apple’s initial green colour is slowly turning yellowish, for a lot of varieties that means it is ready to be picked.
#IT TIME TO HARVEST MEANING SKIN#
Colour of the skin (image 2): You can also tell how ripe a variety of apple is by keeping an eye on the colour of the skin of the fruit.The downside to this method is that early varieties in particular don’t turn brown until a lot later, even though the fruits are already ready to eat. The colour of the core (image 1): This popular test sees you choosing a few apples at random, cutting them in half and checking whether the cores are brown in colour, meaning they’re ripe.You can easily determine whether your apples are ready to be picked using our handy criteria below: Just as not every flower on a tree blooms at the same time, not every fruit ripens at the same time either. Winter apples (such as Cox’s Orange Pippin, Jonagold and Gloster) can be stored for the longest amount of time – up to three months can pass before they lose their distinctive aromas. Autumn apples (such as Boskoop) can be stored for longer – approximately six to eight weeks – without losing their taste. When it comes to storage, keep in mind that most summer apples, such as the Elstar, are edible as soon as they have been harvested and shouldn’t be stored for longer than three weeks.
Apples are generally sorted into maturity classes based on when they are ready to be picked and ready to be eaten. The second thing is the variety of apple. The first one is the weather conditions throughout the entire harvest year, with sunny days being the most important as these have a significant impact on how sweet the apple is. The exact time to harvest them depends on two things.
You can see from the harvest calendar (graphic 1) that apples should generally be harvested between late summer and late October. If they’re harvested too late, the apples might have a slightly floury taste. The fruits won’t be sweet if they’re picked too early. Pruning the apple trees isn’t the only thing that you need to time correctly – you also need to time when you harvest the apples correctly, too.
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