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 or light colored and aggregating more than a circle 1
1/4 inches in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface.
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Buckskin | | Aggregating more than a circle 1 inch 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
3/4 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface.
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Creasing | | Materially weakens the skin, or extends over more than one-third of the surface | Seriously weakens the skin, or extends over more than one-half of the surface | Very seriously weakens the skin, or is distributed over practically the entire 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
7/8 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than a circle 1
1/4 inches in diameter.
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Hail | Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle
1/4 inch in diameter | 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
3/4 inch in diameter.
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Scab | | Materially detracts from the shape or texture, or aggregating more than a circle
5/8 inch in diameter | Seriously detracts from the shape or texture, or aggregating more than a circle
3/4 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 | Aggregating more than a circle
5/8 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than a circle
3/4 inch 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 | Deep, rough or hard aggregating more than a circle
1/4 inch in diameter; slightly rough with slight depth aggregating more than a circle
7/8 inch in diameter; smooth or fairly smooth with slight depth aggregating more than a circle 1
1/4 inches in diameter | Deep, rough aggregating more than a circle
1/2 inch in diameter; slightly rough with slight depth aggregating more than a circle 1
1/4 inches in diameter | Deep, rough or unsightly that appearance is very seriously affected.
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Skin breakdown | | Aggregating more than a circle
1/4 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than a circle
5/8 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface.
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Sunburn | | Skin is flattened, dry, darkened or hard, aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface | Affecting more than one-third of the surface, hard, decidedly one-sided, or light brown and aggregating more than a circle 1
1/4 inches in diameter | Aggregating more than 50 percent of the surface.
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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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Split, rough or protruding navels | Split is unhealed; navel protrudes beyond general contour; opening is so wide, growth so folded and ridged that it detracts noticeably from appearance | Split is unhealed, or more than
1/4 inch in length, or more than 3 well healed splits, or navel protrudes beyond the general contour, and opening is so wide, folded or ridged that it detracts materially from appearance | Split is unhealed, or more than
1/2 inch in length, or aggregate length of all splits exceed 1 inch, or navel protrudes beyond general contour, and opening is so wide, folded and ridged that it seriously detracts from appearance | Split is unhealed or fruit is seriously weakened.
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Thorn scratches | Not slight, not well healed, or more unsightly than discoloration permitted in the grade | Not well healed, or hard concentrated thorn injury aggregating more than a circle
5/8 inch in diameter | Not well healed, or hard concentrated thorn injury aggregating more than a circle
3/4 inch in diameter | Aggregating more than 25 percent of the surface. |