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What are the spots on my apples?
We have apple trees in our back yard my father platted 20 years ago. i went to pick an apple to see if they are ready.
The granny smiths have dark spots on them that rub off with a wet towel.
What are these spot and is it ok to eat? Is it from all the rain we had this year?
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
If they rub off without any skin coming off with them, I would look at the leaves and see if you see lots of little pale green or white bugs on them. If so, then the spots are probably honeydew spots and the apples are ok if you wash them well. Honeydew is sugary fluid the bugs suck out of the leaves, pass through their bodies quickly getting what they need and then pass out, with sugar still left in it. It drips on the leaves and apples, and some little dark colored molds grow on it, eating the sugar. Washing well to get the little molds off is all you need to do, though if you are creeped out just peal them. It wouldn't hurt to give the trees a good hosing with the high pressure water spray from your garden hose to knock a bunch of the aphids out, they usually can't climb back up if they are knocked off their tree.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
you would be getting apples that have been tossed around alot. there are circumstances that I even have that ensue and specific it is troublesome because of the fact who needs to devour a bruised apple yet reckoning on while they have been picked and how they have been shipped can very much impact apples and the brown spots that they get. it incredibly is from bruising. the hotter temps in a house can advance up the bruising technique, because on the save they are stored in cooler temperatures.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Probly Bacteria