Question...apples etc

[TOMO 30,196]

So I'm all over the country every week...and on my travels I see apples still on trees....now I can't say as I've noticed this before in other years...is it because of the mild winter generally and the bumper harvest in the autumn....or I've just had my eyes closed in other years

[Chid 6,871]

Probably the mild weather.. 

[chartpolski 29,193]

8 minutes ago, TOMO said:

So I'm all over the country every week...and on my travels I see apples still on trees....now I can't say as I've noticed this before in other years...is it because of the mild winter generally and the bumper harvest in the autumn....or I've just had my eyes closed in other years

I don’t know the answer mate, but we had a bumper crop of sloe berries and I thought I’d leave them until the first frost, as usual , before making my sloe gin, but they disappeared before the frost.

Last year we had a bumper crop of plums but this year barely any !

I can’t explain it.

Cheers.

[Greyman 33,449]

7 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

I don’t know the answer mate, but we had a bumper crop of sloe berries and I thought I’d leave them until the first frost, as usual , before making my sloe gin, but they disappeared before the frost.

Last year we had a bumper crop of plums but this year barely any !

I can’t explain it.

Cheers.

I picked my sloes at the end of summer due to the early blooms caused by a lack of rain and found absolutely no difference have always waited for the frost or put them in the freezer to split but this year never even pricked with a pin and all good 

[TOMO 30,196]

36 minutes ago, Greyman said:

I picked my sloes at the end of summer due to the early blooms caused by a lack of rain and found absolutely no difference have always waited for the frost or put them in the freezer to split but this year never even pricked with a pin and all good 

Same mate when I make it...never wait for frost or prick them...just chuck them in the jar...or demi john ...bit of sugar fill with Gin...its easy

[Greyman 33,449]

22 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Same mate when I make it...never wait for frost or prick them...just chuck them in the jar...or demi john ...bit of sugar fill with Gin...its easy

Funny like you said with the apples there are still plenty of sloes still on trees round me 

[chartpolski 29,193]

1 hour ago, Greyman said:

I picked my sloes at the end of summer due to the early blooms caused by a lack of rain and found absolutely no difference have always waited for the frost or put them in the freezer to split but this year never even pricked with a pin and all good 

Yeah, I should have picked them early and put them in the freezer. 
I bought plums when they were cheap at Aldi, (breaks my heart buying fruit or veg ), and a pal brought me a litre bottle of export blue label Smirnoff off a flight so I’ve made slivovitz, plum vodka

Cheers.

[chartpolski 29,193]

37 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Same mate when I make it...never wait for frost or prick them...just chuck them in the jar...or demi john ...bit of sugar fill with Gin...its easy

Letting the frost get to them or freezing them is supposed to make a chemical change converting whatever makes them bitter into sugar, supposedly I sometimes add a bottle of cheap red wine aswell.

Cheers

[mC HULL 17,812]

1 hour ago, TOMO said:

So I'm all over the country every week...and on my travels I see apples still on trees....now I can't say as I've noticed this before in other years...is it because of the mild winter generally and the bumper harvest in the autumn....or I've just had my eyes closed in other years

i said this begin of the season farmer said to me its been a great year for the apples it will be a heavy winter 

he said it was best harvest for a decade 

[downsouth 8,514]

4 hours ago, TOMO said:

So I'm all over the country every week...and on my travels I see apples still on trees....now I can't say as I've noticed this before in other years...is it because of the mild winter generally and the bumper harvest in the autumn....or I've just had my eyes closed in other years

If youre seeing ehole trees left unpicked they may just be pollenators or the odd late strain thats go no real commercial value.If youre seeing a few apples left on multiple trees in orchards it might just be missed fruit wher pickers have been rushing on peice work

[Halfhound 856]

5 hours ago, chartpolski said:

 

Last year we had a bumper crop of plums but this year barely any !

I can’t explain it.

Cheers.

The topic is called White Death you’ll be spoilt for choice any amount of plums hanging out there 

[TOMO 30,196]

4 hours ago, downsouth said:

If youre seeing ehole trees left unpicked they may just be pollenators or the odd late strain thats go no real commercial value.If youre seeing a few apples left on multiple trees in orchards it might just be missed fruit wher pickers have been rushing on peice work

No mate road sides motorways etc

[harryshounds 1,684]

I would say mild weather especially low winds

[Borr 8,877]

I saw a couple pulled over on M5 picking apples, bit mad really. I remember being in a pub in New forest and a tree was dropping the odd apple, out of nowhere a sounder of about ten small pigs came in kids screaming parents running it was hilarious and in a minute they were gone again. Some orchards only pick the windfall for cider, most orchards are past being a commercial enterprise, I think thatchers just planted  13,000 apple trees. Good idea really to combine co2 capture , with food production . There was orchards in France that were basically pyo after the main harvest. A crab tree a few weeks back fed a few birds and deer I imagine....

[Borr 8,877]

8 hours ago, TOMO said:

Same mate when I make it...never wait for frost or prick them...just chuck them in the jar...or demi john ...bit of sugar fill with Gin...its easy

Chuck em in freezer for a quick split.