Before the 1980s, there were usually three varieties of apples available: red, yellow and green. Growing up, Bedford mostly ...

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

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 ...

Among the rows of Spartan, Honeycrisp, Empire and McIntosh apple trees on Cricklewood Farm are a few lesser-known varieties — Crimson Crisp, Mollie’s Delicious, Evangeline, Silken — and doze ...

You know that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and that your ... Pie ...

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 ...