New varieties aren’t the only things on growers’ minds. They are also thinking about upgrading their Honeycrisp to one of the sports that are all the rage. “What happens with the great majority of very popular varieties is that a round of red mutations soon follows. That’s what most sports are: mutations that are redder than the original,” said David Bedford, apple breeder and senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota Horticultural Research Center. As the one of the developers of the original Honeycrisp, he is familiar with some of these newer, shinier models. A big advantage of a […]