Washing off sooty blotch

It's that time of the year, where I wish:

1. I would have done summer pruning.
2. I would have bought a small washing machine for my apples.

Basically most of my apples from my older trees have a lot of FlySpeck and Soothy Blotch, even though if I spray a few times for it....We sell to 5-7 stores in the area and few more in NYC, so we need to clean the apples!!
So my question is, for an orchard my size(800-1000 trees), what would be the best move going forward? small washing machine(where to buy it?) or is there an economical labor way to clean apples manually?

Thank you.
Fabio

Westwind Orchard
Zone 5b in New York



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/2013 04:10AM by Michael Phillips.

Dear Fabio,

I saw one of these at a local ag show an oesco apple washer new they go for $3k-$4k but you might be able to find one used...good luck

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