There's probably not much worse for an apple grower than putting a fine-looking crop of Honeycrisp into storage, only to find it so riddled with bitter pit a couple of months later that it can’t be sold.Honeycrisp is notorious for its bitter pit problems but is too profitable for growers to give up. They need an accurate way to predict which blocks will yield unacceptable levels of bitter pit, so they can make their storage and marketing decisions accordingly.
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