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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> Honeycrisp also stopped me in my tracks at the store, Spidra. 
> Beautiful ! I agree 100%. Who knows where they were from?
> They were shockers. Then, on a couple of occasions, I've seen a couple 
> of bins of what I thought were big ugly-duckling Mac culls, that 
> turned out to be Honeycrisps. Really strange. It may have to do with 
> trace minerals in the soil, or something like that according to a 
> Cornell paper I was reading.

I heard that Honeycrisp likes cool nights, that it might not color up 
well or have the best texture in a hotter summer area. Could that be the 
difference? I went ahead and planted one this spring, but our summers 
are hot and humid, and it often stays quite warm all night.

Bill
Lincoln, NE (Zone 5)

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