Factor
| Injury
| Damage
| Serious damage
| Very serious damage
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Ammoniation | | Not occurring as light speck type | Scars are cracked or dark and aggregating more than a circle
3/4 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface.
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Buckskin | | Aggregating more than a circle 1
1/4 inches in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface | Aggregating more than 50 percent of the surface.
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Caked melanose | | | Aggregating more than a circle 1 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface.
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Dryness or mushy condition | | Affecting all segments more than
1/4 inch at stem end, or the equivalent of this amount, by volume, when occurring in other portions of the fruit | Affecting all segments more than
1/2 inch at stem end, or the equivalent of this amount, by volume, when occurring in other portions of the fruit | Affecting all segments more than
3/4 inch at stem end, or the equivalent of this amount, by volume, when occurring in other portions of the fruit.
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Green spots or oil spots | More than slightly affecting appearance | Aggregating more than a circle 1 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than a circle 1
1/2 inches in diameter.
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Hail | Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle
3/8 inch in diameter | Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle
1/2 inch in diameter | Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle
5/8 inch in diameter | Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle 1 inch in diameter.
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Scab | | Materially detracts from the shape or texture, or aggregating more than a circle
3/4 inch in diameter | Seriously detracts from the shape or texture, or aggregating more than a circle 1 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface.
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Scale | More than a few adjacent to the “button” at the stem end, or more than 6 scattered on other portions of the fruit | Blotch aggregating more than a circle
3/4 inch in diameter, or occurring as a ring more than a circle 1
1/4 inches in diameter | Blotch aggregating more than a circle 1 inch in diameter, or occurring as a ring more than a circle 1
1/2 inches in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface.
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Scars | Depressed, not smooth, or detracts from appearance more than the amount of discoloration permitted in the grade | Very deep or very rough aggregating more than a circle
1/2 inch in diameter; deep or rough aggregating more than 1 inch in diameter; slightly rough or of slight depth aggregating more than 10 percent of surface | Very deep or very rough aggregating more than a circle 1 inch in diameter; deep or rough aggregating more than 5 percent of the fruit surface; slight depth or slightly rough aggregating more than 15 percent of surface | Very deep or very rough or unsightly that appearance is very seriously affected.
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Skin Breakdown | | Aggregating more than a circle
3/8 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than a circle
5/8 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than a circle 1
1/4 inches in diameter.
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Sprayburn | | | Hard or aggregating more than a circle 1
1/4 inches in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface.
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Sprouting | | More than 6 seeds are sprouted, including not more than 1 sprout extending to the rind, remainder average not over
1/4 inch in length | More than 6 seeds are sprouted, including not more than 2 sprouts extending to the rind, remainder average not over
1/2 inch in length | More than 6 seeds are sprouted, including not more than 3 sprouts extending to the rind, remainder average not over
3/4 inch in length.
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Sunburn | | Skin is flattened, dry, darkened, or hard, aggregating more than 25 percent of surface | Skin is hard, fruit is decidedly one-sided, aggregating more than one-third of surface | Aggregating more than 50 percent of fruit surface.
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Thorn scratches | Not well healed, or more unsightly than discoloration permitted in the grade | Not well healed, hard concentrated thorn injury aggregating more than a circle
3/4 inch in diameter, or slight scratches aggregating more than a circle 1 inch in diameter | Not well healed, hard concentrated thorn injury aggregating more than a circle
7/8 inch in diameter, or slight scratches aggregating more than a circle 1
1/4 inches in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface. |