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Arends
type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie, Sauce
synonyms: Marketed as Paulared and Paula Red. Sometimes called Early Mac but that name refers to Early McIntosh .
summary: An early-ripening, multipurpose apple for cooking and fresh eating, wonderful apple sauce, flavourful pies. Not viable for commercial production because of a short keeping period.
identification: Medium size and round. The yellow base colour is almost entirely covered by a bright red wash and marked with abundant, large, light-coloured lenticels. The stem is long and slender, set in a shallow, wide cavity which is sometimes russetted. The calyx is small, closed an set in a rippled, shallow and wide basin.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, medium-grained, crisp and firm. Juicy, sweet-tart, winey and strawberry flavours.
origins: A chance seedling found in 1960 by Lewis Arends of Sparta, Michigan (U.S.A.) at the perimeter of an orchard of McIntosh apples. Named for his wife, Pauline, and released in 1968.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, compact tree. Partial tip bearer. Biennial. Fruit set needs to be thinned to encourage annual crops and for size.
mutations: PV 1027
cold storage: Does not store well.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to rust and mildew, susceptible to scab and very susceptible to fireblight.
harvest: Ready for harvest during the last half of the third period. Hangs well on the tree when mature. Firm when first harvested, turns soft soon after and becomes mealy within two weeks.
notes: Similar in appearance and flavours to Tydeman's Early Worcester which is also a progeny of McIntosh.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 9
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
brix: 9
harvest period: 3
hardiness: 4
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