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Minneiska
type: Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie
synonyms: MN1914. Trademarked and marketed under the name SweeTango.
summary: Developed from a cross between Honeycrisp and Zestar apples. Bears heavy crops once mature and the fruit is considered excellent for fresh eating and also favoured for making highly flavoured cider.
identification: Medium to large size, conic with one side often higher than the other. Weakly ribbed. Blushed red over a yellow background and faintly striped with darker red. Abundantly marked with medium, pale yellow lenticels. A light bloom is present at maturity. The stem is medium to long and slender, set in an open, funnel shaped cavity which is usually russetted.
characteristics: Creamy yellow flesh, coarse textured. Juicy and wonderfully sweet-tart. Slight spiciness. Crunchy like its Honeycrisp parent. The flesh tends to brown when exposed to air.
uses: Intended as a fresh eating apple like its predecessor, the Honeycrisp. However it also makes excellent juice and cider.
origins: Developed by David Scott Bedford and James J. Luby in 1988 at the Horticultural Research Center near Victoria, Minnesota (U.S.A.) by the University of Minnesota by crossing Honeycrisp and Minnewashta , both of which were earlier U of M releases. Pepin Heights Orchard was awarded licence by the university's Patent and Technology Licensing Office in 2005 to commercialize and market the variety. Pepin Heights subsequently created a growers cooperative under the name Next Big Thing and received licence to market the variety throughout North America. A limited release of the cultivar took place in 2009.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright trees, somewhat spreading. Bears fruit on both spurs and shoots. Bears moderately heavy, annual crops.
cold storage: Keeps for three months in cold storage.
vulnerabilities: Some susceptibility to scab and fire blight.
harvest: Ready for harvest at the start of the fourth period. No tendency to drop fruit when ripe.
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
brix: 14.8
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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