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Honeycrisp will not come true when grown from seed. Trees grown from the seeds of Honeycrisp apples will be hybrids of Honeycrisp and the pollenizer. [1] Young trees typically have a lower density of large, well-colored fruit, while mature trees have higher fruit density of fruit with diminished size and color quality. [15]
The variety was first planted for commercial use in spring 2017, with twelve million trees pre-ordered by Washington state orchards. [12] Interest in the cultivar was so high, the trees initially had to be distributed to apple farmers in a lottery held in 2014—WSU had planned to provide 300,000 saplings but were met with requests for four million.
Mitch Lynd of Lynd Fruit Farms in Pataskala, Ohio developed MAIA-1 during 1998 and 1999. [4] Lynd pollinated and collected the pioneer seeds, Honeycrisp and Fuji, in 1998, germinated the first seedlings in 1998–1999, and carried out much of the organisational work that enabled the seedlings to be disseminated to farmers for experimental cultivation and development. [4]
The tree produces spiky green fruits about the size of a golf ball, which turn brown and drop off the tree over an extended period beginning in fall and continuing over the winter.
1. Cosmic Crisp. The largest apple launch in American history, Cosmic Crisp took over 20 years to develop and was reportedly marketed with a $10 million budget before it hit supermarkets in 2019.
The MN55 cultivar apple developed by David Bedford, a senior researcher and research pomologist at the University of Minnesota's apple-breeding program, and James Luby, PhD, professor, Department of Horticultural Sciences, Horticultural Research Center, is a cross between Honeycrisp and MonArk (AA44), a non-patented apple variety grown in Arkansas.