From Fuji to Honeycrisp: Here is how different types of apples got their names TOI Lifestyle Desk / etimes.in / Jun 16, 2025, 10:30 IST ...

Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly substitutes for natural pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds—which is ...

To apple historian John Bunker, it's a treasure trove of living history. "Apple varieties that were grown commonly in Maine, 100 to 200, to 250, years ago," Bunker said.

Pune's IUCAA, founded by Jayant Narlikar, once hosted saplings from Newton's apple tree, symbolizing science's legacy. Current trees haven't borne fruit yet. Pune: In the mid-1990s, renowned ...

Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. Kobe University research not only adds a facet to possible evolutionary ...

Self-pollinating plants have male and female parts, allowing the pollen to travel from the anther in the stamen to the stigma in the pistil. These plants can be fertilized without the help of ...

There is much more to proper apple tree pruning, but these six cuts will get you started building your confidence for more sophisticated pruning techniques and will improve the health of your tree.

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 ...

There is only one late apple that I would consider for Humboldt, and that is Waltana, which I mentioned in a recent column about apple chutney ("Humboldt Apple Chutney," Oct. 31, 2024).