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Golden Sentinel
type: Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce
summary: A Golden-style, fresh-eating apple with columnar growth habit, bred at Canada's Summerland Research Station in the late 1900s.
identification: Medium size tending to large, round to round-flattened and there may be weak ribbing on the sides. The base colour is yellow at maturity, marked with small, thinly scattered lenticels. There is little or no over-colour. The calyx is small and partly to fully open, set in a moderately shallow and moderately deep basin. The stem is short to medium length set in a deep, funnel-shaped cavity. A weak bloom may cover the surface when the fruit ripens, but there should not be any russet.
characteristics: The flesh is pale greenish, coarse- to medium coarse-grained. Moderately juicy. Turns brown slowly when exposed to air.
origins: Developed by David Lane in 1986 at the Summerland Research Station in Summerland, British Columbia (Canada) by crossing Discovery with 8C-17-36 (a cross of Wijcik Spur McIntosh and Stark Delicious ). Evaluated from 1987 to 1995 and released in 1997. It shares the same genetics as Scarlet Sentinel .
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Upright, compact, columnar growth habit but often bears fruit on short branches. Spur bearer. Produces annual crops. Apples develop in clusters. Precocious. Can be container grown.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months in cold storage.
harvest: Ready for harvest late in the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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