Having your own apple tree would be incredible if you love this fruit, but if you save an apple seed to grow a tree, the results may be disappointing.

During a sparse-fruit year, the tree re-energizes and prepares for a heavy crop the next year. This every-other-year cycle continues. Some varieties tend to do this more than others. The up-and ...

Dwarf varieties of apple trees should be no more than 20 feet away ... which means that they complete their life cycle in one season. Some of these vegetables may reseed themselves (think tomatoes ...

reducing the tendency of some apple types to have boom-or-bust apple harvest cycles, where trees bear heavily one year, followed by no apples the next, referred to as biennial bearing. When is the ...

Researchers analyzed over 40 years of climate conditions that impact the growth cycle of apple trees from bud break and flowering through fruit development, maturation and color development.

with a complex life cycle that involves both junipers and apple trees. “We’re seeing a lot of it this year because we’ve had so much rain,” she said. The fungus that causes cedar-apple ...

The fruits on the apple and pear trees were not very pretty ... came from my big mulberry tree near the driveway. So trees have a life cycle. And I can identify most of my trees by the shape ...

“Changing climate conditions over multiple parts of the growth cycle pose potentially compounding ... more complex is the fact that apple trees are perennials — meaning, they bear fruit ...