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Brown skin navel orange in Australia

 
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pagnr
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Joined: 23 Aug 2008
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Location: Australia

Posted: Mon 30 Sep, 2013 9:51 am

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Scott_6B
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Joined: 11 Oct 2011
Posts: 251
Location: North Shore Massachusetts

Posted: Mon 30 Sep, 2013 11:52 am

Very informative video.
The brown skin navel looks to be more brown/green to me. It will certainly be interesting to see if consumers will be interested in it.
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Millet
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Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 6657
Location: Colorado

Posted: Mon 30 Sep, 2013 11:56 am

Will be a hard sell to shoppers as the fruit has an unripe even spoiled look. Many shoppers go through fruit hand picking out only the freshest best looking fruit now. A brown fruit would be passed over quickly, and left behind, as it dosen't look very appetizing.. - Millet
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buddinman
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Joined: 15 Nov 2005
Posts: 342
Location: Lumberton Texas zone 8

Posted: Mon 30 Sep, 2013 3:03 pm

Why does one have orange fruit and the other brown. Could it be infested with rust mites?
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pagnr
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Joined: 23 Aug 2008
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Location: Australia

Posted: Mon 30 Sep, 2013 6:45 pm

I think it is a genuine brown skin, as far as I know brown capsicum and chili and also brown tomato types develop red pigments, and continue to retain chlorophyll (green), so the combination causes brown colour to appear.
Something similar going on here ?
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