{"id":21434,"date":"2019-02-11T09:14:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=21434"},"modified":"2019-02-11T09:18:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:18:02","slug":"ghost-apples-were-discovered-in-a-michigan-orchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2019\/02\/11\/ghost-apples-were-discovered-in-a-michigan-orchard\/","title":{"rendered":"GHOST APPLES were discovered in a Michigan orchard!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check this out: In a West Michigan orchard, ice formed around apples rotting on the vine, then the rotting flesh of the fruit dropped to the ground and formed… GHOST APPLES!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aren’t they cool?!<\/strong><\/p>\n\"\" \"\" \"\"\n

Here’s how these\u00a0“ghost apples”<\/a> happened, as explained by the man who found them:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Sietsema sent in photos of the hollow ice apples to ReportIt late Wednesday night. He said he came across the interesting formations while pruning apple trees earlier that day.<\/p>\n

Sietsema said the freezing rain coated rotting apples, creating a solid icy shell around them. When he pruned the trees, they would shake, causing many of the frozen apples to fall off, ice and all. However with a few of them, the mush slipped out of the bottom of the ice casing, leading to a “ghost apple.”<\/p>\n

Sietsema the temperature provided the perfect recipe: it was cold enough for the ice to remain, but warm enough for the apples to turn to complete mush, since apples have a lower freezing point than water.<\/p>\n

Sietsema said Jonagolds are one of his favorite apple varieties, “but we’ll call these Jonaghosts.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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