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[Michael Nave <jmichaelnave@yahoo.com>]

They have been showing up at groceries here in
Sacramento California for the last couple of weeks. I
don't know where they are being grown but I'm sure
it's on the west coast. It may even be here in
California.


--- Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net> wrote:

> It's not supposed to work, but I've grown some of
> the best Honeycrisps I've ever eaten in hot, humid
> North Carolina (Zone 8).  It was hardly a controlled
> experiment, because I only had one tree (hurricane
> blew it down & my new one hasn't fruited yet) but
> the fruit was just as crisp and perhaps sweeter than
> any I've purchased from anywhere.
> 
> I read that Honeycrisp translocates calcium poorly,
> so I babied those fruit by foliar feeding the tree
> and its young apples every other week with calcium
> acetate sprays.  I stopped about two weeks before
> ripening.  Maybe that helped.  I really don't know. 
> All I know is that everyone I gave Honeycrisp apples
> to from that tree exclaimed about their crispness
> and quality and Piedmont North Carolina is not
> generally considered Honeycrisp territory.
> 
> Best of luck.
> 
> Anton
> Zone 8 (82 degrees F today) 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: "Richard J.Ossolinski" <ossoeo@verizon.net>
> >Sent: Sep 29, 2007 2:13 PM
> >To: North American Fruit Explorers
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> >Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Growing Honeycrisp apples in
> warmer climate
> >
> >Deb,
> >Excellent apple as grown here in coastal ME, Zone
> 5.
> >Richard
> >Gouldsboro, ME
> >On Sep 29, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Deb Schneider wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>  
> >> I am thinking of trying to grow Honeycrisp in SE
> Ohio (zone 5 or 6 
> >> depending on the map).  I know it was developed
> for Minnesota 
> >> climate...anyone having success growing it in
> warmer climes?  Do the 
> >> apples get the same crispness and flavor?
> >
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