Same story here on the east coast of Canada maybe it is the climate in
which it is grown. HoneyCrisp tastes horrible!!
George Brinson
From: David Doud
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:35 PM
To: Apple-crop discussion list
Subject: Re: [apple-crop] honeycrisp prices
how did
Back when I grew apples in North Central Washington they always said you
couldn't grow good apples down south in the Columbia Basin so hardly anyone
did. Then someone came up with idea of overhead cooling during the hottest
days, the Gala and Honeycrisp planting boom started. Huge plantings in
We first planted Honeycrisp trees at our research lab in 1995, and we’ve added
more HC in various plantings over the years. From my perspective, we are a bit
too far south (90 miles north of Manhattan) to get consistently high quality
with Honeycrisp. Some years they color well and taste
Most pertinent is Terrence Robinson's discussion in Jan 15/2014 Good
Fruit Grower on longevity of HC prices.
The U.S. apple industry would benefit greatly if we could recapture
what is now a predominately imported juice market (why not: "made in
USA, arsenic-free!"
Bill,
On elevation - I was talking to a big name guy in apple research when I
attended the hort show and Honeycrisp Experience in Washington recently.
I asked him about our elevation here in Montana (3500') and the effect of
temperature drops of 40-50 degrees every night in the summer. His
