How do I tell when an apple is ready to be picked off our tree??????

>How do I tell when an apple is ready to be picked off our tree??????

It’s minutes before the parrots get em….

When the apples are brighter, is the way I go.
Green to deeper green, or light green apples get red shiney cheeks , for coloured ones.

I have read that if you gently lift the apple, it should pull away easily. You shouldn’t have to wrench it off the tree.

One of the said apples…….

Its a Fuji apple.

Lucky1 said:

One of the said apples…….

Its a Fuji apple.

Oh shoot that’s our 1 and only Red Delicious apple. There are about 4 big Fuji in the duck run.

Most apples can be picked from Feburary onwards. Have you tasted one?

roughbarked said:

Most apples can be picked from February onwards. Have you tasted one?

Mine where all finished by the end of Geb, prolly more like mid feb, I give them a jiggle and if they fall of me my hand ready, but some I dont mind slightly green and tart, I was coming home to most on the ground so I pick the lot in the end and that would have to be 3 weeks ago plus ?

My Granny Smiths often hang on the tree until May June but that’s only because I like them that way.