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Hoover
type: Culinary, Dessert, Sauce
synonyms: Baltimore Red (also used as a synonym for Ben Davis ), Baltimore Red Streak, Black Ann, Black Coal (also a synonym for Cranberry Pippin ), Black Hoover, Cranberry Pippin (there is also a cultivar by this name, see Cranberry Pippin ), Thunderbolt, Watauga, Wattauga, Welcome (there is also a cultivar from New Zealand by name of Welcome ).
summary: Mostly considered an eating apple but and makes excellent baked goods, also cooks to an flavourful and sweet apple sauce.
identification: Medium to large fruit, round tending to round conic. Yellow base colour over which are deep red, almost black flushes and stripes. Small, light-coloured russetted lenticels. Splashes of russetting are common, espcially around the stem cavity. The stem is short and set in a shallow, open cavity.
characteristics: Creamy-white flesh is firm and coarse-grained. Juicy and sweet-tart.
origins: This apple was found as a chance seedling during the first half of the 1800s by Johnson Hoover of Barnwell, South Carolina (U.S.A.). When it started to produce fruit, it was introduced to William Summer, a noted American pomologist and owner of the Pomaria Nurseries situated in Edisto, South Carolina. Summer was so impressed with the apple that he included it in his 1856 catalogue. It subsequently became a popular eating apple throughout the southeastern United States and as far north as Maryland.
cultivation: Very vigorous, upright tree. Slow to start bearing fruit and has a tendency to produce best every other year.
cold storage: Keeps well for five months and can be stored for many weeks even without refrigeration.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to fire blight
harvest: Ready for harvest late in the fourth period and into the fifth.
notes: In the early 1900s, this apple was frequently sold to travellers at train stations during the autumn throughout the United States.
pollination peak: 1
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
brix: 12
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 5
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