posted 11 months ago
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.
Hubby has been bringing me windfall apples from our neighbours' tree, and most have had varying degrees of core rot, which looks just like the brown centre to the apple in the link Anne provided (thank you, Anne, for showing me what that is!). But yours don't look like that.
I'm only 65! That's not to old to learn to be a permie, right?