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Rudenis


In Lithuania – autumn cultivar.

Fruits medium large (124 g), globose conical. Skin glossy, waxy, ground colour orange yellow, over-colour blushed red, with brigth stripes.

Harvest: the begining of September.

Stores: 2 months in cool storage.


Stalk

long or medium long, thin, base of stalk often thick


Stalk cavity : deep, narrow or medium narrow, regular funnel shape, greenish

Calyx

semi open


Sepals : wide, greenish, hairy


Eye basin : medium deep and wide, ribbed

Flesh

yellowish, soft, juicy


Brix : 12.7%


Seeds : medium large, thick, acute


Flavour : subacid, good


Firmness : 47 N/cm²


Seed locules : open, wide or very wide


Skin firmness : 214 N/cm²


Titrable acids : 0.7 %

About the cultivar

Origin: Lithuania. Breeders: B. Gelvonauskis, D. Gelvonauskienė, A. Sasnauskas.

Cross combination: ‘Katja’ × ‘Prima’.

Owner – Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute of Horticulture (Babtai), 2013.


Use : dessert


Tree : vigorous, suitable to grow on roostocks B.396, P 60, M.9, P 14, M.26.


Winter hardiness : good in Lithuania


Type of production : early, productive, annual bearing.


Resistance to diseases : resistant to scab (Vf/Rvi6), apple blotch. Suitable for organic gardening.