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Ligolina
type: Dessert
summary: Does best in limited hobby orchards and market garden sales as a dessert apple. Tolerates cool growing conditions and is ready to be harvested mid-season.
identification: Medium tending to large. Round. The base colour is light green, blushed bright red over half to three quarters of the surface. Marked with an abundance of light coloured lenticels. The stem is long and moderately stout, set in a deep and narrow, russetted cavity. The calyx is moderately sized and closed, set in a wide, medium deep, ribbed basin.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured. Fine grained, firm and crunchy. Juicy and sweet-tart. Lightly aromatic.
origins: A cross of Linda with pollen from Golden Delicious carried out in the early 1960s at the Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture (now called the Research Institute of Horticulture) in Skierniewice (Poland). Selected in 1972. Released in 2005.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Spur bearer. Tendency to biennial cropping can be managed with cropping. Tolerant of frost.
cold storage: Will keep for five months in cold storage. Surface develops a waxy feel in storage.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab, slightly susceptible to powdery mildew, susceptible to fire blight.
harvest: Late in the fourth period, sometimes the beginning of the fifth. Can be harvested in two pickings. No pre-harvest drop.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
brix: 12
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 5
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