apples

Redspur Delicious

English

It has a nice, pungent taste; and the fruit flesh is brittle and watery. Its fruits are good-sized; and it is a variety vulnerable to blackspot bruising and resistant to fire blight. Harvest time is late September and early October. Its pollinators are Golden Delicious, Mondial Gala and Fuji. Plant spacing should be 4x5m if grafted on seedling; and 1.5x4m if grafted on MM106 or M7.

Mondial Gala

English

It has New Zealand origin. Its trees grow strong and have an easy-to-manage tree structure. When dwarf trees are used, its strong growth can be controlled. It has continuous and high crop productivity. Thinning is required for ideal fruit quality. Fruit flesh is yellowish, watery, hard, sweet and flavoured. Fruit has red top colour on yellow background. Harvest time is late August and early September. It is self-compatible and a good pollinator.

Braeburn

English

Its seedling was coincidentally discovered in New Zealand in 1952. Its trees grow weak. It is a spur type. It blossoms early; it bears fruit early. Its fruit yield is abundant. It requires thinning. It is medium-vulnerable to fire blight disease. It is self-compatible. It is tolerant to blackspot bruising. Its fruit is sweet; it has a very good aroma and a brittle and tempting taste.

Red Jonaprince

English

It is an apple first discovered in Holland in 1994. Its mutant is Jonagold. It is called “the prince of apples” in Europe.
Red Jonaprince is watery and hard; it tastes slightly pungent and its inner colour is creamy yellowish.
Its outer rind colour is red and gets red very early. Harvest time is the middle of September and October. This apple can be stored very well. Its speciality is that it is a high nutritional value type of apple. One single Jonaprince apple can meet half of the daily Vitamin C need.

Camspur

English

It is a mutant Starking Delicious and one of the spur varieties. It has two types: Redchiefmercier and redchiefcample (camspur). Fruits are good-sized and resemble Starkrimson Delicious. It is recommended for regions where optimum colour is not achieved in Starking. Harvest time is the end of September. Starkspur Golden and Golden Delicious are used as pollinators.

Topred

English

It is a mutant of Starking Delicious. It grows stronger than Redchief; but weaker than Starking Delicious. Fruit flesh is sweet, watery and brittle. Fruits gets fully red. Harvest time is late October and early September. Its pollinators are Golden Delicious, Mondial Gala and Fuji.Plant spacing should be 7x7m if grafted on seedling; 1x3m or 1x3.5m if grafted on M9; and 2.5x4m if grafted on MM106 or M7.

Summerred

English

Its origin is Summer Land BC 1964. Growth of the trees are at medium-strength and they grow wide-angled branches. They are very productive; and bear fruits at early ages. Fruit flesh is in creamy white colour; is watery brittle; medium-hard; and slightly acidic. It has a sweet aroma. Its fruit is red with white dots on it. Fruit size ranges between medium and big. Growth of the trees are at medium-strength and they grow wide-angled branches. They are very productive; and bear fruits at early ages.

Granny Smith

English

The tree grows strong end erect and is difficult to train. It yields crops regularly. It is prone to dead-eye formation. Therefore; it should not grow strong stools and dead-eye formation should be prevented by cutting the ends of branches. Its fruits are good-sized and round and have a green, oily rind. They are watery; brittle; of high eating quality; slightly acidic; slightly pungent and has a good, specific aroma. Convenient harvest time is 180-185 days after full blooming. When M9 is grafted on it; it must be covered by a net as it is affected by sunlight.

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