One of the trees I grow has some shade and gets less of the rot than one that gets full sun in the middle of the day. Fruit quality is a bit better also. The article mentions this method as a way to get better quality in the high sun environment of Washington State, however. The grower who does this is afraid that other growers in the area will not go to this much expense to keep the quality up and will instead market cheaper, poor quality Honeycrisps and destroy his investment by making it impossible for him to realize adequate profit for his product.

Thank you for such a wonderful article. I am new to this plant and never knew they existed before a month ago. I was given a flowering one with a rather large baby on it. I also just recently aquired three seedlings and have ordered three seeds. I guess you could say I'm hooked.

"Hmmm. "The cage is about 2 steps above just letting the thing sprawl." I don't think so. :)" Yeah, I saw that too, I think I ignored it because it wasn't backed up with anything and overall the descriptions were fairly spot-on otherwise. It's a step up in effort over letting them sprawl, since you do need to put the cages in to begin with and, occasionally, you'll need to pull the plants back inside the cages, but honestly, that's hardly "work." It's mostly just walking through the garden looking the plants over, which I'd want to do anyways... There's a hidden benefit too, no matter how much I wash my hands after handling the plants, I smell like tomatoes for the next few hours, lol. My dad always used to talk about the scent of tomato plants, he wished he could "bottle it" and would joke about making cologne from it, lol.

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