Recently, Fall Creek Farm & Nursery officially launched the new product Apex 'FCM14-057' in its Fall Creek Collection series. This variety has completed long-term commercial-scale assessments and grower verifications in multiple blueberry production areas before being formally added to the Fall Creek Collection series platform. According to Fall Creek, Apex fills a gap in its product series: it is an early-midseason variety that combines quality, shelf performance, and specification consistency, meeting the current demands of blueberry export and retail channels. The Fall Creek Collection series of blueberry varieties is based on regionally adaptive genetic traits and has excellent characteristics verified through field trials. Currently, APEX has been on the market for three years under an open licensing model, available to blueberry growers in zero-chill and low-chill production areas. It is reported that the Apex variety has firm flesh, with a higher hardness than Ventura, and ...