<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Kurt- Apples will begin freezing at about 28F- if the event is 4 hours or longer significant damage will occur.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fruit that experienced only a mild (~28°F or above) freeze of short
duration (less than 4 hours) may recover and be perfectly salable, but
should not be considered candidates for long-term storage. If this is the case, wait until the fruit thaws out the next day before harvesting.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Note:</b> Temperatures in the low 20’s and teens will make the fruit unsalable.</div><div class="">I have been guiding the growers I work with in NJ, NY and PA to have all fruit harvested by Friday pm if they wish to sell it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See Penn State- <a href="https://extension.psu.edu/handling-of-frozen-apples" class="">https://extension.psu.edu/handling-of-frozen-apples</a></div><div class="">and Extension- <a href="https://ask.extension.org/questions/157126" class="">https://ask.extension.org/questions/157126</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 8, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Kurt Alstede <<a href="mailto:kurt@alstedefarms.com" class="">kurt@alstedefarms.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Hello Fellow Growers,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">We are well aware of the quality impact of extreme cold weather on apples in terms of long term storage, quality, etc. We are facing low temperatures in Northwest NJ of 17 degrees F on Friday night surrounded by 27 on Thursday evening and 25 on Saturday evening. Daytime highs on Friday are expected to be only 34 and on Saturday 41. We would love to be able to maintain some apples on our trees until Thanksgiving for PYO uses only. Do any of you have any experience with this? Will the apples maintain a sufficient amount of quality to be able to be marketed to a rather non discriminating PYO cliental following the freeze event with the expectation that the apples will be used quickly for fresh use and not stored? Are these apples suitable for cider?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">I appreciate your insight into this question.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Best Regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Kurt <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Script MT Bold', serif;" class="">Kurt W. 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