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Ananas Berżenicki
type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Jelly, Juice
synonyms: Berżenicki ananasas, Berzininky Pineapple, Hrebnicki Reinette
identification: Large tending to very large, round conic, faintly ribbed. The base colour is greenish-yellow maturing to yellow with a faint orange blush on the sun-exposed face. Red lenticels. The calyx is small and closed, set in a wide, shallow, puckered basin. The stem is short and slender, set in a narrow and somewhat deep, irregular cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellowish, firm. Juicy with a good, sweet-tart balance and a wine flavour.
uses: Primarily used as a fresh-eating summer apple, but also makes good jelly, juice and cider.
origins: Found as a wild seedling in the Vilnius region of eastern Lithuania, in the early 1886 by Dr. Adam Hrebnicki, a noted pomologist and professor at the Forestry Institute of St. Petersburg (Russia). Parentage of the cultivar is not known.
cultivation: Very vigorous, best managed with dwarfing rootstock. High, spreading crown, with branched tending to bend without breaking under crop load. Produces first fruit after almost 10 growing cycles. Biennial. Winter hardy.
cold storage: Keeps for about a month.
vulnerabilities: High resistance to scab.
harvest: Ready for harvest starting late in the third period and continuing for about three weeks. Once ripe, the fruit tends to drop off.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 8
ploidism: Self fertile, but produces best crops in the presence of a compatible pollinator.
cold storage weeks: 4
harvest period: 3
hardiness: 3
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