Hello from South West of France Some personal thoughts on this variety. This is an interesting story in France, since the rights are owned by a grower organisation in an attempt to keep added value closer from the growers. I think this is the first time that a club organisation is held without the leadership of a nursery organisation. We had this fall the first advertisements at a big scale on medias. It seems to be a success in terms of commercial returns and acreage increase.
Technically for me, this is not an easy variety, but I don't know if this is linked with the variety that would not be, here (too warm climate), in its comfort area (as stated in the Chicago Tribune). In brief in our conditions, alternate bearing, colour difficult to come, and honey flavour not so easy to detect, big size and bitter pit... Of course we all know that a technically difficult variety can draw a commercial success, but in this particular case, in my humble opinion, to get comfortable money, candidates to plantings must check trials very near to their situation in order to know if the variety is in its comfort heaven. End of harvest here with the first pick of Pink Lady, We lost part of the initial precocity as said by Con for Ireland... Best regards Jean Marc Jourdain Ctifl -----Message d'origine----- De : Jon Clements [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 19 octobre 2007 01:37 À : Apple-Crop Objet : Apple-Crop: One sexy apple "Honeycrisp apples are a hit around the world, thanks to the efforts of two Minnesota breeders and one very persistent grower." http://www.latimes.com/features/food/foodanddrink/sns-fdcook3- wk4,0,3673895.story Jon Clements Extension Tree Fruit Specialist UMass Cold Spring Orchard 393 Sabin Street Belchertown, MA 01007 VOICE 413.478.7219 FAX 413.323.0382 IM mrhoneycrisp Skype Name mrhoneycrisp --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'Apple-Crop' LISTSERV is sponsored by the Virtual Orchard <http://www.virtualorchard.net> and managed by Win Cowgill and Jon Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Apple-Crop is not moderated. Therefore, the statements do not represent "official" opinions and the Virtual Orchard takes no responsibility for the content. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'Apple-Crop' LISTSERV is sponsored by the Virtual Orchard <http://www.virtualorchard.net> and managed by Win Cowgill and Jon Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Apple-Crop is not moderated. Therefore, the statements do not represent "official" opinions and the Virtual Orchard takes no responsibility for the content.
