Skog Lee

Nancy Reading wrote:Welcome to Permies!
It does look to me too as if the fruit have just not produced seeds for some reason....If it were mine I would probably just assume that the weather had not been right at the time and be grateful to get apples (I think I have 10 this year!). Were all your other apple varieties normal? Were the fruit smaller than usual?

Thank you for the welcome!
The other varieties were fine, the fruit normal size.

Jane Mulberry wrote:That apple looks interesting, Skog! I did an internet search and it appears some freak apples do just have seedless cores, so if the apple looks otherwise fine, it may not be an issue.

In my (limited!) experience, apple maggots, codling moth, and core rot, common causes of core damage in apples, mostly leave brown debris, which your photo doesn't show.

They definitely have seeds in normal conditions. I don't know the name of the variety, but we've harvested great amounts and quality for three seasons since we took over the property.

And yeah, no maggot holes, so a lot points to core rot, although can't find pictures online that looks exactly like our apples 😅

One of our apple trees produced many apples with some kind of core malfunction. I've tried to search for what it could be but haven't found a definitive answer. Attaching an image of the apples.
I want to add those apples to one of the compost projects we run that does not guarantee reaching 70°C temperature, to kill off potential harmful entities. But I'm also not planning to use that compost for the apple trees, so I'm thinking if that mold, or whatever it is, is only attacking apples, I might get away with it.
Hoping someone could advise on what happened to the apples and whether it's ok to compost them.
Our plastic compost bin, with the lid on the bottom, is too small to take all the apples, so I'm planning to throw them together with other materials in a more traditional three wall heap.

Also, this is my first post, been reading the forum for a while, excited to finally join!