Adjust Honeycrisp crop EARLY

摘要

Overcropping Honeycrisp will result in poorly colored, poor-storing, and poor-tasting fruit.Because of Honeycrisp's tendency to fruit prolif-ically, growers are advised to start adjusting the crop load during winter pruning. "This variety has too many flower buds in the on year," Dr. Terence Robinson told participants at a Washington State University Honeycrisp Fruit School last December.Anything that can be done to reduce the bud load will help avoid biennial bearing and improve fruit quality, he said. When the crop load is too high, the tree cannot pump enough carbohydrates into the fruit, and it will lack color and the ability to resist storage rots.