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.