ALWA
PLACE OF BREEDING:
Poland
ORIGIN:
seedling from free pollination of the Macoun cultivar
GROWTH:
dynamic; spreading and loose crown, rigid limbs with few spurs, limbs branch off from the leader at relatively wide angles and are easy to bend back
POLLINATORS:
Braeburn, Cortland, Delikates, Elise, Empire, Gala, Gloster, Golden Delicious, Idared, Jester, Ligol, Lobo, Lodel, Pinova, Prof. Sprenger, Rubin, Szampion, Witos
POLLINATED CULTIVARS:
Braeburn, Elise, Gala Must, Gloster, Golden Delicious, Mutsu, Lodel, Szampion
HARVEST MATURITY:
mid-October
STORAGE:
cold store: 4-5 months, CA cold store: 7 months
RESISTANCE TO FROST:
very high
SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISEASES:
scab – medium, powdery mildew – low, fire blight – low, bark and wood diseases – very low
FRUIT:
medium-sized, round, slightly flattened with 5 distinct ribs at the calyx which often expand onto the fruit, smooth and shiny with greenish-yellow primary colour, with aa significant part of the surface covered by camine-red blurred blush.