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As those needs are met, the buds enlarge, drop their protective outer scales, bloom and form embryonic fruitlets.

After three years, they manually harvest the palm bunches, which can each weigh up to 55 pounds and yield 3,000 fruitlets.

Skin defects in apples and pears are likely to include a browning in colour, or "russet", and marks caused by rain and by fruitlets being knocked together during high winds.

The subsequent freeze then killed vulnerable fruitlets, and Carr suffered 87 percent losses.