Managing Honeycrisp Nutrition in 2025 Lailiang Cheng, Terence Robinson, Brian Lawrence, and Mike Basedow The following article summarizes information delivered at the Honeycrisp in-depth school held in Syracuse in March. If you would like full access to the meeting materials, you can sign up for them here. Key Takeaways: Strictly control nitrogen Read More…
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New Preplant and Maintenance Soil Preparation Recommendations for Maximum Honeycrisp Tree Performance
New Preplant and Maintenance Soil Preparation Recommendations for Maximum Honeycrisp Tree Performance (Remarks presented by Dr. Terence Robinson at the recent Honeycrisp intensive school in Syracuse). Soil targets for Honeycrisp: Soil pH Raise pH to 7.2-7.3 Soil organic matter 2-3% Organic matter Every 1% of organic matter generates about 20 lbs N per year Soils Read More…
Choosing the Right Soil for Your Honeycrisp Block
Choosing the Right Soil for Your Honeycrisp Block Which soils are the Honeycrisp soils? Those we used to call “McIntosh soils’ We know that many soils that are not perfect can be managed and modified to grow good apples. But not all those good soils are good for Honeycrisp. The best soils for Honeycrisp are Read More…
Performing Floral Bud Evaluations on Honeycrisp Ahead of Precision Pruning
Mike Basedow, CCE-ENYCHP, Northern NY I recently evaluated four Honeycrisp blocks in the Champlain Valley for their percentage of flowering buds so the growers could adjust their pruning practices. The blocks are described in the following table: Block Rootstock 2024 Crop Load Training System Soil Type 1 M.26 Heavy Vertical Axis Loamy Sand 2 Read More…
Performing Floral Bud Evaluations on Honeycrisp Ahead of Precision Pruning
Performing Floral Bud Evaluations on Honeycrisp Ahead of Precision Pruning Mike Basedow, CCE-ENYCHP, Northern NY I recently evaluated four Honeycrisp blocks in the Champlain Valley for their percentage of flowering buds so the growers could adjust their pruning practices. The blocks are described in the following table: Block Rootstock 2023 Crop Load Training System Soil Read More…
2024 Intentional Delay of Dormant Pruning for ‘Honeycrisp’ & Other Important Biennial Cultivars (Fuji)
Intentional Delay of Dormant Pruning for ‘Honeycrisp’ & Other Important Biennial Cultivars (Fuji) Mario Miranda Sazo and Terence Robinson When pruning a Honeycrisp block without knowing the floral bud percentage (% of floral buds in a 100 bud sample of spurs from randomly selected shoots in a Honeycrisp block), you are risking removing too many Read More…
Cornell University Apple Storage Workshop: Key Takeaways
This post includes a few of the key takeaways from the Cornell Storage Workshop, held by the Watkins Lab in Ithaca on August 16, 2023. Key presenters were Christopher Watkins, Yosef Al Shoffe, Jennifer DeEll, and Mike Basedow.
Tree Fruit Blog: Early Season Disease Management 2023
Līga Astra Kalniņa & Kerik Cox Cornell University Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section Assessing the upcoming 2023 apple scab season. Winter seemed to come late in early March, and only for a few weeks and with intermittent snow cover at best. Snow cover is effectively non-existent, and while it’s still cool in the evenings, Read More…
Tree Fruit Blog: Intentional Delay of Dormant Pruning for ‘Honeycrisp’ & Other Important Biennial Cultivars (Fuji)
Mario Miranda Sazo, Fruit Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Lake Ontario Fruit Program Terence Robinson, Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Horticulture Section Cornell AgriTech When pruning a Honeycrisp block without knowing the floral bud percentage (% of floral buds in a 100 bud sample of spurs from randomly selected shoots in a Honeycrisp block), you Read More…
Tree Fruit Blog: Performing Floral Bud Evaluations on Honeycrisp Ahead of Precision Pruning
Mike Basedow, Tree Fruit Extension Specialist, CCE-ENYCHP, Northern NY I recently evaluated two Honeycrisp blocks in the Champlain Valley for their percentage of flowering buds so the growers could adjust their pruning practices. The first block is a mature planting on M.26 rootstock, trained to a vertical axis system. Bloom was heavy in this block in Read More…
Tree Fruit: Apple Cold Hardiness Research Update
Jason P. Londo, Cornell University; Erica Casagrande Biasuz, Cornell University; Michael Basedow, CCE ENYCHP The goal of the Londo research program is to help adapt New York fruit crop production to climate change. As a part of that effort, we are working to understand how winter temperatures impact apple rootstocks and scions, specifically how the Read More…
Champlain Valley Passive Bitter Pit Prediction for ‘Honeycrisp’
While bitter pit can cause serious losses for ‘Honeycrisp’, there are a few tools that can help us predict the extent of bitter pit damage we might see, allowing us to make informed decisions of where to put fruit from particular blocks. One such method is the Passive Method. Three weeks before anticipated harvest, Read More…