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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 …