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.