FRUIT

Harvest Time

First half of September

Fruit

Medium to large in size, spherical-flattened or spherical, and slightly ribbed. The skin is medium-thick, smooth, and shiny, with a delicate waxy coating, greenish-yellow, largely covered with an intense, dark, diffused carmine blush. The lenticels are large and light gray. The peduncle is quite long and of medium thickness. The peduncle cavity is moderately deep to deep and very wide. The calyx cavity is moderately deep, even shallow, and moderately wide, and undulating. The calyx is small, usually closed, sometimes partially open in large fruits. The sepals are medium in length. The flesh is greenish-cream, fine-grained, crisp, very juicy, tart or tart-sweet, with little aroma and flavor. The seed chambers are medium to large, closed. The seeds are few, medium-sized, elongated, and pointed.

Frost resistence

Very low

Disease resistance

Scab – high to very high, powdery mildew – low to medium, fire blight – medium, bark and wood diseases – medium, storage diseases – low

Suitability of the variety

Fresh market

Storage

Normal storage – December
Cold storage – until the end of January
Controlled atmosphere storage – until the beginning of March

TREE

Vigour

It grows vigorously, forming spreading, thickening, spherical, and large crowns with stiff, thick branches. It comes into fruition mid-early and produces moderately abundant fruit, initially annually, but in later years it tends to bear fruit alternately. It blooms mid-early;

FLOWERING

Pollinators

Beforest, Cortland, Cortland Wicki, Florina, Freedom, Golden Delicious, Golden Delicious Reinders, James Grieve, Jonathan, Lodel, Macoun, Marwit, McIntosh, Pilot, Pinova, Red Delicious, Red James Grieve, Rogers McIntosh, Spartan

Pollinated varieties

Alwa, Fuji, Jester, Katja, Ligol, Lodel, Szampion, Szampion Arno, Szampion Reno