apple picking technique

Ribston Pippin are supposed to be picked early October, but this is not always so. You must pick apples when they are ready, not when the book says. On 30th August we noticed they were falling freely and separating easily, so yesaterday and today picked the whole 20 trees, about 14 boxes of select fruit. The boxes are around 15kg, so thats about 11kg (23 pounds) per tree, which isn't too bad. These apples weigh 8 or 9 to the kilo, so thats about90 decent apples per tree. As well as that there were about 6 boxes of decent quality fallers and marked apples that will juice for hard cider. You can use fallen apples for sweet (unfermented) cider as long as they are select, washed and you don't have a lot of animals (for example geese, chickens or pigs) pooping in you orchard due to the risk of salmonella, E Coli 0157 or other potentially dangerous contamination. The risk is probably extremely trivial, but never exactly zero. Fermentation will certainly wipe out any such bugs, but there is a very small risk in unfermented aple huice, which is why I only use picked and washed fruit for juice I am offereing at markets.

Note the picking technique, these apples have a short stallk, this can be tricky as where you have two or three apples touching, if you twist one, the other 2 can fall off. Ideally use both hands to stop this. The classic picking technique is to palm the apple and gently lift or lever away from the angle its growing at, the stalk shjoudl separate withouit pulling off the rest of the fruit spur, whcih is bad as it can destroy next year's fruit bud (remember the apple pickers in the film of 'The Cider House Rules?'

many authorities say you should handle apples like eggs. Bruised apples will not store.

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[tylay100]

apple picking is the most shit job in the world u

[stephenhayesuk]

I have read Felicity Lawrence's book 'Not on the Label-what really goes into the food on your plate'. It is a very thorough exposure of bad conditions in the global food industry. I know that many agricultural labourers world wide are exploited-but since we all have to eat, this ought not to be so.

Thankfully, I am my own boss, I chose to plant this orchard, and although growing apples can be tough work, I enjoy it as a break from the mental and emotional pain of my office based job.

[stephenhayesuk]

Dear sir, I have visited your channel and note that you have no subscribers or videos of your own.

I welcome honest criticism but I'm sorry that you chose to post this profane and ugly comment.

[AntiVaccine2]

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Verry good fresh apples I wish to pick this year btw!

[HareKrishnaForever5]

@stephenhayesuk don't listen to such people. you're awesome. so is video.

[ibtheomar]

came across this looking for a robert frost poem but ended up watching this whole video. looks very peaceful and calming to pick apples :)

[leonid1995]

You guys are really mean.

Saddened really that he only receives troll comments. Have some dignity people. :/

[KayakFisher01]

@applepicker684 Your family has to fight over a ginger chew, whatever that is, and yet ...... you have internet service? I would say you need to re-examine your priorities.

[bigwally2]

apple picker,you job conditions will surely never change if you continue to alienate and demonize people who are not the oppressors,perhaps it would be better for this man to abandon his orchard and take up with the industrial machine,the monkey on your back...there are people in india who could call you spoiled and fortunate,so which perspective is it,looking up,looking down ,or looking around?....and yeah,i cant imagine but it must really suck

[LecheL0ver]

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[who885]

@stephenhayesuk insed of throwing those apples away make a compost heat =D

[DiabeticChicken]

THATS FUCKING UNREAL!

[MadBadVoodo]

Five Stars!!