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6 Fruit Seeds You Should Save And Plant To Grow Your Own Tree
For example, if you plant a Honeycrisp apple seed, you will get an apple tree, but not a Honeycrisp apple. Most fruit trees are cross-pollinated and produce seeds with a mix of genetics from two ...
This native Michigan apple tree could hold the key to saving apples from climate change
The Malus coronaria learned to fight frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated ...
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Planting Apple Trees on the North Coast
Apples are the most accommodating and long lived of fruit trees, and they cope with our wet climate quite well. There are ...
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Plant an espalier tree
The term espalier refers to the way fruit trees are trained to grow against a wall. It makes the tree easier to prune and the fruit easier to pick. This decorative method was often used ...
MSU researchers use Michigan tree to save apples from cold weather
A team of researchers from Michigan State University discovered a native tree unlocking the secret to protecting apples from cold weather damage. Steve van Nocker, a ...
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Researchers study how to protect apple trees from climate change
That will allow them to grow into trees which are identical to the original. However, the goal is not to replace popular varieties like Fuji or Honeycrisp with Malus coronaria apples, since the ...
A key to protecting apples from climate change might be hiding in Michigan’s forests
In the quest to make apple trees more resilient in a warming climate, some researchers in Michigan are looking for a late ...
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Key to protecting apples may be hiding in Michigan
In the quest to make apple trees more resilient in a warming climate, some Michigan researchers are looking for a late ...