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Fallawater
type: Cooking, Sauce
synonyms: Brubaker, Falwalder, Fallenwalder, Formwalder, Fornwalder, Green Mountain Pippin, Kelly, Molly Whopper, Mollywopper, Mountain Pippin, Pfarrer Walter, Pound, Prim's Beauty, Prim's Beauty of the West, Talpahawkins, Tulpahocken, Winter Blush
summary: These cooking apples grow big. Sometimes as big as 15 centimetres in diameter.
identification: Large to very large size and round tending to conic. The skin is tough and smooth with a waxy feel. Background colour is dull green, flushed with bronze. Russet lenticels tend to be light coloured, medium size and somewhat sparse. The stem is short and medium stout, set in a deep and moderately wide cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse-grained, tender and very juicy. Moderately sweet and mild flavoured.
uses: Cooking apple. Makes a delicious, tart apple sauce. Good for dried apple rings.
origins: Likely originated in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) during the early 1800s, possibly from pippins brought from Europe by the Pennsylvania Dutch settlers who colonized the central eastern seaboard. Listed by Andrew J. Downing in 1845 in his "Fruits and Fruit Trees of American" where he states "This native of Pennsylvania was first brought into notice by Mr. Garber of Columbia, PA. It is a very good and productive apple, with a rich flavour."
cultivation: Vigorous, upright. Spur bearer. Slow growing but develops into a large, imposing tree. Bears good crops, but has a tendency to become biennial unless thinned.
cold storage: Keeps up to six months in cold storage.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to collar rot and cedar rust.
harvest: Ready for harvest during the first three weeks of the fifth period.
ploidism: Triploid. Produces no viable pollen for itself nor neighbouring apple trees.
cold storage weeks: 24
harvest period: 5
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