USA TODAY spoke with apple breeders, growers and researchers to find the secrets of one of America's most popular fruits.

The Honeycrisp he sampled as a test crop was so different from the Red Delicious apples he ... you won’t grow a tree that produces Gala apples. (Brown’s favorite apple: “SnapDragon, without ...

Do you count down the days until seeing that luscious red fruit ... Related: 40 Delicious Apple Desserts That Will Dazzle This Fall Yes, in theory, you can grow apple trees from seed.

Just don't expect it to be a quick process. Planting an apple tree from seed can take up to ten years from that first sprout until you have a delicious red apple sitting in your hand.

Today's apples ... Red Delicious, Golden Delicious and Granny Smiths. “It was red, yellow and green. That was it,” said Carolina Torres, a professor and chair in tree fruit post harvest ...

What's your favorite apple? Maybe it's the crowd-pleasing Honeycrisp, the tart Granny Smith or the infamous Red Delicious.