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Hauer Pippin
type: Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce
synonyms: Moonglow, Christmas Apple.
identification: Large, round tending to flat-round. The base colour is green over which is a wine-red blush on the sun-exposed face. Large, light-coloured lenticels are abundantly scattered across the skin which tends to develop a blueish bloom as it matures. The skin is quite thick and tough.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, firm, and crunchy. Juicy, sweet tart and spicy with a hint of cloves.
uses: Desert apple, but also makes good apple sauce and apple butter. Keeps its shape for tarts and pies. Can be used in cider to provide tartness and flavour.
origins: Discovered as a chance seedling by Peter Hauer in 1890 growing in his orchard in Santa Cruz County, California (USA) and assumed to a cross between Cox’s Orange Pippin and Yellow Bellflower since it was found growing among these. However, there is some question whether Yellow Bellflower was indeed the pollen donor and both Mammoth Black Twig and Winesap are suggested as being the more likely candidates. It was originally called Moonglow by Hauer.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright tree. Slow to start bearing fruit. Grows into a large tree on its own roots. Best suited to warm climates and requires a long growing season to ripen fully.
cold storage: Keeps keeps three months in storage and reaches its prime after about five to six weeks in storage.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab, midlew. Seems to be resistant to codling moth attacks.
harvest: Ready for harvest starting in the middle of the fourth period but the flavour improves when left hanging well into fifth period. Tends to cling to tree beyond maturity.
notes: Resembles a Cox's Orange Pippin, but the colouring is blushed rather than striped and the shape is flatter.
pollination group: F
pollination peak: 20
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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