Size code
Orange size 12, the cleanest break on the scale
Size 12 and size 13 share less of their range than any other pair of neighbours on the orange scale. Elsewhere two adjacent codes blur into one another across most of a band. Here they come closer to being separable than anywhere else, and a boundary drawn at this joint survives an argument.
The figures
| Size code | 12 |
|---|---|
| Diameter range | 56–63 mm |
| Varieties we pack in this size | None of ours is packed mainly in this size |
| Millimetres shared with size 13 | 56–60 mm |
What it changes on an order
You are drawing a cut off in a specification
A cut off drawn where two codes barely overlap survives measurement better than one drawn in the middle of the scale. Where the specification has to reject on size, this joint gives you the fewest arguments.
You inherited a specification you did not write
Codes chosen years ago sit wherever the first supplier suggested and are rarely revisited. Checking how much a code overlaps its neighbour is a cheap way to find out whether the number in your document is doing any work at all.
You are sizing for a wholesale market stall
A stall buys by eye and sells by the piece, so the boundary that counts is the one a customer notices. A code with a clean edge underneath it is the easiest to hold to across a season of deliveries.
What this note does not settle
- A clean boundary in the scale is not a clean boundary in a box. The size tolerance still applies on both sides of it.
- Nothing of ours is graded at either of these two codes.
- Which market pays for a size this small is not something the standard decides, and we publish no table that pretends otherwise.
The one joint that holds
Adjacent codes on this scale overlap by design, and across most of it they overlap so heavily that the boundary between them is decorative. At the bottom, the two smallest bands pull apart, and the line between them becomes something a specification rests on.
A cut off drawn where two codes barely share ground survives a measurement dispute far better than one drawn in the crowded middle. Where a document has to reject on size, this joint produces the fewest arguments per pallet.
Specifications nobody has reread
Size codes in a buying document have a habit of outliving the reason they were chosen. A supplier suggested one, it worked, and it got copied forward through every renewal since. Checking how much a code overlaps its neighbour is a quick way to learn whether the number is still doing any work.
A stall in a wholesale market sells by the piece, and the boundary that counts there is the one a customer notices. We publish no table of which market wants which size. Preference moves with the campaign and with the chain, and there is no regulation behind it to quote.
Talk to the grower
Tell us the variety, the sizes and the delivery week you need. You get a delivered price and what we can commit to in writing, from the person who picks the fruit.
The grower handles enquiries. Response times are still to be confirmed.