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Mayo Apple
type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Eating, Juice, Ornamental, Pollinization, Sauce
synonyms: Known as Franklin, Frank's Seed, Frank's Seedling, Franklin Apple, Franklin Cider Apple, Stark's Franklin Cider Apple. Known as the @Newton Pippin, it prevailed as Benjamin Franklin's (@one of the American Founding Fathers) favourite fresh-eating apple. Another apple known as Franklin Cider Apple was developed at the Ohio Agriculture Research and Development Center and released in 2017. Please see Franklin .
summary: This chance seedling tree was found growing in Vermont State of the northeastern United States during the early 2000s. It produces abundant harvests of sweet-tart fruit for making hard cider.
identification: Round to round-conic. The base colour is yellow, marked with russet patches and sometimes blushed red on the sun-exposed face. Scattered lenticels are tan-coloured and raised. The stem is long and slender, set in a narrow and somewhat deep cavity. The calyx is small and closed, set in a somewhat shallow and wide basin.
characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp. Juicy and sweet, with high acidity and tannins. Best used to make blended ciders. Useful for amending the pH and tannin levels in the must.
origins: Found as a wilding apple tree growing in Bill and Susan Mayo's Sandy Bay Orchard near Franklin, Vermont (U.S.A.) during the early 2000s. Rather than let the fruit of the half-century-old tree go to waste, Bill Mayo blended some of the fruit into the apple juice he sold at the Franklin General Store which he and is wife also owned. Motivated by the growing popularity of the blend, he experimented with the sweet-tart, tannic fruit as a major ingredient in the production of hard cider. In 2008, he began to promote graft bud wood to promote the variety, especially in cooler climates where varietals such as the Kingston Black can be difficult to grow. The parentage of this apple is not known; the orchard in which it developed was devoted primarily to MN 1711 . The apple was also marketed as Stark's Franklin Cider Apple by Stark Brother's Nursery of Louisiana, Missouri (U.S.A.)
cultivation: Vigorous, upright-spreading, reaching a total height of seven to eight metres on its own roots. Produces fruit on tips and spurs. Bears fruit annually. Blooms mid-season. Cold hardy and easier to grow that the majority of cider apples.
cold storage: Keeps up to 30 days in cold storage.
vulnerabilities: Sweet bitter-sharp cider apple with scab and cedar apple rust resistance.
harvest: During the middle of the fifth period. Fruit drops when ripe.
notes: Fruit is midsize, tending to small, generally conical. The over-colour carmine red with yellow base colour. The flesh is crisp, juicy and mild.
juice_classification: Bitter-sharp
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 15
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
brix: 6
harvest period: 5
hardiness: 4
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