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Geneva Early
type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie, Sauce
summary: An excellent summer eating apple developed at the Geneva Agricultural Experiment Station in New York.
identification: Medium size tending to large, round to flat round. Cream-coloured base over which is a bright red wash, sometimes with a pattern of close stripes that covers all sun exposed surfaces. The stem is moderately short and stout, set in a deep and moderately narrow cavity.
characteristics: Flesh is cream-coloured, but stained red close to the skin on fully ripened fruit. Fine-grained, tender and somewhat soft. prone to bruising. Juicy and sweet.
origins: Developed in 1964 at the New York State Experimental Station in Geneva, New York (U.S.A.) by crossing Quinte with July Red and selected in 1973 from among the seedlings grown. Tested as NY444 and released in 1982 with a prior limited release between 1978 and 1981 to growers by the New York State Fruit Testing Association.
cultivation: Vigorous. Best used for small plantings, summer markets, farm-gate sales and u-pick operations. Some tendency to preharvest fruit drop. Early to mid-season bloomer.
cold storage: Keeps less than a week after harvest.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to fire blight, cedar apple rust and scab.
harvest: Ready to start harvesting in the first half of the third period, sometimes earlier. Fruit tends to fall when ripe.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 7
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 3
hardiness: 4
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