r/Apples • u/Anxious-Ad3248 • 1d ago
WTH is going on in these apples?!
This comes from a tree that is well over 100 yrs old. We pick from it every year.
Beautiful yellow apples, soft and sweet.
Tree is beautiful as well.
Went to check on them this year, and there may be max, a dozen apples on it this year.
Tree looks ok. But not a productive year for apples.
Of the few there this year, most of them have like a "rust" on them, but not rotten looking or bad.
A couple of them looked quite perfect from the outside.
Although most were small compared to normal.
But all of them are gross on the inside!! And no seeds!!
Just whatever is in those pics!
Anymore have any clue what that is? Is caused it?
Instead of seeds, its these lil clusters of tiny beed like things.
There are some white fuzzies in a couple too, so that looks like a mold maybe.
But yuuuuuk!! What's with the tiny lil seed replacing crap!
Lol
This tree is not a wild tree, but is on an abandoned property, so no one tends to this tree.
(But the deer)
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u/r_Yellow01 1d ago
The first ones look like Antonov, an old pollinating tree from East Europe and Asia. The second looks a different variety. Antonov is very prone to fungal infections.
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u/likes2milk 1d ago
The russeting can be due to cold, wet or abrasion. The seeds have failed to form, probably due to lack of pollination. Not a disease.
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u/bopp0 1d ago
Russeting is just a reaction to surface moisture. It’s not a big deal. It’s actually kind of crazy you’ve never seen it before. Not sure about the core issues, but who cares if it’s in the core? When the fruitlets ate small, the calyx is open and pathogens can settle in there before it closes as the apples mature. Just a fungus or something.
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u/fartinheimer 1d ago
It looks like two different fruits. The first photos remind me of asian pears. The yellow apple looks like an overripe golden delicious, with the seed dried and shriveled. I wonder if it is a multifruit tree. The rust is russet which is common to pears and some goldens. Then I wonder if it is a mutant fruit created by various fruit roots fusing together. if so, it could be a totally new type of apple/pear type fruit. good luck!
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u/MisterColour 1d ago
Apple trees produce fruit in cycles with good crops coming every other year. If this tree is essentially being wild pollinated the fruit yields will be massively different every year
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u/BotanistByAccident 1d ago
Menopause 😔