Growers Tips

Pruning

Winter Pruning

• Pruning MAIA1 (Evercrisp®) on G935
• Pruning MAIA1 (Evercrisp®) on G11
• Pruning MAIA-L (Ludacrisp®) on B9
• Pruning MAIA1 (Evercrisp®) on B9
• MAIA1 – results of winter pruning in growing season

Summer Pruning

• Bill Dodd and Bill Pitts Video
• Bill Pitts – summer pruning of MAIA1 for improved color

Thinning

• Thinning recommendations for MAIA varieties
• Crop load management with Equidisk, from Penn State Extension – Dr. James Schupp

Pollination

• Cross pollination guidelines for MAIA varieties

Improving Color

• Affect of Rootstock, summer pruning and Mylar® on Evercrisp®
• Reflective material trials
• Tom DeMarree explaining Extenday usage
• Preparing rolls of Extenday (reflective material)
• Row placement – Extenday
• Reflective film improves apple coloring in Cornell trial – Oct. 2020 issue of Goodfruit Grower by Matt Mikovich

Harvest & Maturity

• MAIA1 (EverCrisp®) fruit quality affected by rootstock, summer pruning and reflective film applications

Storage

• Preliminary Observations on Storage of MAIA-1 (EverCrisp®) Yosef Al Shoffe and Chris B. Watkins; as reported in the NY State Horticulture Society’s Fruit Quarterly SUMMER 2023

Miscellaneous

• Bill Pitts – Developing fruit buds on blind-wood. (Trees are 2nd leaf MAIA-L Ludacrisp®)