Cosmic Crisp
The Next Celebrity Apple is Washington State’s Cosmic Crisp
WSU and the state's orchard industry are setting all sorts of records in getting the promising Cosmic Crisp variety to market.
This article appears in print as the cover story for the November 2017 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Washington state is widely known as one of the best places in the world to grow apples, but it isnt particularly well known for breeding them a fact that bothered growers like Robert Kershaw and…
Final Analysis: Core Competency
Will Cosmic Crisp be the next apple of our eye?
Have you heard about Cosmic Crisp? Its not a breakfast cereal. Its not related to an outfielder for the Oakland As. Its a new apple crafted by fertile minds at Washington State University. Seems they introduced a Honeycrisp to an Enterprise and, well, you get the picture. Candlelight. Merlot. Barry White on the iPod. The…