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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kidds" data-source="post: 7835101" data-attributes="member: 5589">I have twice as many trees as you and less than half as many varieties, I have too many varieties.My three year old orchard cropped well this year (on 106) so would expect a crop from yours sooner than you suggest. The older orchards cropped well enough, Cox especially well. Last year I lost about 90% to late frosts in May.The plan was to juice all the apples but there is more money to be had by selling the fruit to shops etc, even more money if you have your own shop but I don't want to do that at the mo. That said, there's not a right lot of money to be made and if you are organic then even less crop. Juice sales seem to be very variable, I understand the weather effecting sales but mix in Covid and it gets very confusing. A big advantage for me is local sales are boosted by not having much competition, I expect the same would be said about your location.</blockquote>