Mutsu

The Best Apple You’ll Ever Eat

            [Acid-medium/low; Sugar-medium/high; Tannin-low]

Fresh, Culinary, Cider

Sweet, Refreshing, Honeyed

Physical Attributes:

• Shape: Very large, round
• Skin: Green-yellow, blushes with orange when ripe. Some scabbing and russeting at the top. Can also be very pale.
• Flesh: White-yellowish, juicy and crisp when fresh.

Flavour:

          Light, refreshing, lime peel, zingy when picked early. Spiced honey flavours after a couple months in storage.

Neat History:

            First bred Aomori Research Station in 1937-9 as a cross of Golden Delicious x Indo, released 1948. They are also commonly given as a gift to employers – bigger is better in that way. One apple can be a meal on its own

Growing Attributes:

• Precocity: Average
• Vigour: Above average, spreading
• Disease Tolerance: Poor
• Zone Hardiness: 4 (Map Link)
• Pollination Group: III (Chart) (Triploid)
• Cropping: Biennial tendency, heavy crops
• Picking Season: Early October
• Storage: 3-6 months. Smaller apples will store better.
• Special Care: Spur-bearing. Can be encouraged to grow very large fruit.

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