Apple Horticultural Topics

Virginia and Mid-Atlantic Region

• Apple production budget - Penn State,
  
• Apple Grades (USDA Standards)
• Apples for Processing
• Apple fruit thinning, using two approaches:
 
• Discussion of history and factors affecting thinning, with VA-WV recommendations
• Thinning based on fruit size estimated from average weight
• Apple bud stages in color, from University of Vermont
• Fruit Times, from Penn State
• NC-140 Rootstock Evaluation
• Fruit maturity testing (PSU)
• Home Fruit Production (PSU)
• Fruit Notes, a fruit newsletter from Dr. Rich Marini of the Department of Horticulture at Virginia Tech

Web Sites Outside the Mid-Atlantic Region

• International Dwarf Fruit Tree Association
• Virtual Orchard page on Cider topics
• Fruit Maturity testing (from University of Vermont)
• Tree Fruit Growth Regulators (Washington State University)
• On-line edition of Fruit Growers News
• North Carolina State University Fruit Newsletter
• Information of Scab Resistant Cultivars (SRC's) (from New York)
• Scald Prediction for Delicious apples, from UMass
• Identification of Apple Varieties
  
• USDA Hardiness Zones.