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Collet
type: Culinary, Dessert, Pollinization, Sauce
synonyms: Hardy Collet
summary: Similar to McIntosh, this hardy apple is both flavourful and juicy, it ripens fairly early and stores well. Good for fresh-eating and makes excellent pies.
identification: Medium size. Round-conic. The skin base colour is cream, streaked bright red on all surfaces, becoming more pink as it matures.
characteristics: The flesh is white. Fine-grained, firm and very juicy with well-balanced taste. Tart if harvested early, sweetens with ripeness. Best sweetness develops when exposed to a frost. Turns brown slowly once exposed to air.
origins: One of a bag of 300 pips collected by V.G. Collet from miscellaneous apples growing at the Dominion Research Station at Morden, Manitoba (Canada) and planted in 1934 at Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes in Manitoba (Canada). Parentage unknown. Released in 1948.
cultivation: Vigorous, hardy tree, moderately vigorous and spreading. Produces good crops annually.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab. Slightly susceptible to fire blight.
harvest: Ready to be picked early in the fourth period. Fruit holds well past maturity. Cold weather will promote sugar content.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 16
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 3
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