Crop Nutrition Experts Offer Advice on Bitter Pit

To help address concerns about and demystify bitter pit and calcium delivery, we reached out to experts from crop input companies.

Beleaguered by bitter pit, ‘Honeycrisp’ growers again scrutinize their Calcium treatment levels and distribution.

Myriad solutions being tried by growers of the popular apple variety to prevent bitter pit.

While there is no simple solution to improving uptake of the nutrient, ‘Honeycrisp’ growers have various options.

Study indicates rootstocks matter — some more than others, like B.10 rootstock — in the control of troublesome disorder.

Rising fertilizer costs and increased incidence of bitter pit topped the list of 2022 production challenges.

The compounds create new xylem; calcium deficiencies offset.

Root-2-Fruit researchers identify the ideal rootstocks for the bitter pit-prone variety.

Studies at Michigan State University seek to find out.

And because rootstocks vary in shoot length and other factors, some fare better than others at preventing the disorder in popular apple variety.

This harvest season, Pennsylvania ‘Honeycrisp’ growers will test a new model developed by Penn State researchers.

Research team unlocks relationship between bitter pit, minerals, and shoot lengths.

Promising research shows the link between transpiration and calcium uptake and how abscisic acid may help reduce calcium disorders in ‘Honeycrisp.’

‘Everything’s different’ in this world of 150 million 40-pound box world of apple growing.

Growers say there’s a love-hate relationship with America’s darling apple.