Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ripe apples hanging in a tree - Luis Alvarez/Getty Images After months of watering, pruning, and watching your apple tree fill up ...

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Dear Dr. Universe: Why do some apple trees produce more apples than others? Some produce almost none! – Alyssa, 11, Washington state I can never turn down a juicy apple. I asked my friend Kate Evans ...

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The Boulder Apple Tree Project is committed to studying the age, health, history, and genetics of Boulder’s apple trees. In the late 1800s, much of the land in the city of Boulder was planted for ...

The Malus coronaria learned to fight frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated varieties of apples like Honeycrisp or Red Delicious. A key to protecting apples ...