Most of my apples have sooty blotch or CAR for the most part. I ate a very ugly golden delicious and a pink lady today. Ants were starting to work on the bird holes. I have never asked myself ‘is this safe to eat’ because its ugly. I just eat around the imperfections as they are mostly not fully mature trees yet anyways.
Some of my favorite apples are in a bin at my local feed store ‘horse apples’. Mostly Golden Delicous and Fuji I think. They dont spray them. A local farmer just grows them for ‘horse apples’ and makes a few bucks rather than dealing with the perfectionists at the farmers markets.
So yeah i will probably mostly grow Horse apples myself. As long as they taste good im good. The chickens will get whatever doesnt make my cut.
Im totally fine with these results myself
