Since apple trees cannot self-pollinate, the pollen from other apple varieties is necessary for fruit to grow. Orchard owners often plant crab apple trees amongst high-value apples such as Honeycrisp, ...

Or plant 'Fuji' or 'Rev. Morgan,' both self-fruitful apples. Well-maintained apple trees can set more fruit ... soil are important in successfully growing apples. So are pollination and proper ...

Fuji. Like Gala, Fuji has some natural disease resistance, ... Most apple trees require cross-pollination from a compatible variety in order to bear fruit—and that variety must be nearby.

The trees often produce fruit in their first year and they can grow to be about 15 feet tall. And the apple twist has one more incentive -- the pollination naturally attracts honey bees.

The reason for this is that apples have a highly diverse gene pool due to their tendency to be self-sterile, meaning they require cross-pollination — a bee landing on a flower of a Fuji tree ...

An apple tree in flower. The anther is the yellow section at the tip of the flower's stamens. Scientists like Susan Brown collect pollen from the anther and use it to cross-pollinate with other trees.

In response to the pollination crisis In April this year, XAG Japan hosted a demonstration to test the competency of XAG R150 using its on-board JetSprayer system to pollinate apple trees. The field ...