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Minnewashta
type: Dessert
synonyms: Marketed under the name Zestar!, but also still known by its original marketing name, Zesta. Also known in Europe as Flavar.
summary: A good early fresh-eating apple. Intended as a supermarket variety.
identification: Medium to large size. Round and often lopsided. The base colour is green maturing to yellow over which are red blushes covering 50 to 70% of the surface on the sun-exposed side with some darker streaking. Large lenticels are prominent across the surface. Some waxiness and a slight bloom develops on the smooth skin at maturity. Often russetted at the stem cavity, sometimes extending over the shoulder. The lenticels are also russet. The stem is thin and short, set in a shallow, funnel shaped cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and fine-grained. Juicy and not as crisp as its Honeycrisp parent. Good sugar-acid balance with a distinct flavour of brown sugar.
origins: Developed by James Luby in 1972 at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum's Horticultural Resource Center for the University of Minnesota's apple breeding program by crossing State Fair with MN 1691 and planted as Tree 132 at the university's Horticulture Research Center in Carver County, Minnesota (U.S.A.) in 1974. It was selected for additional testing in 1986 and introduced in 1998.
cultivation: Very vigorous as a young tree and moderately vigorous once it matures. Upright. Spur bearing. Produces annual crops.
cold storage: Keeps up to seven weeks in cold storage.
vulnerabilities: Somewhat susceptible to scab, black rot, and mildly so to blight. Blight spot can be a problem.
harvest: Ready for harvest at the end of the third period and the first part of the fourth period. Prone to preharvest drop.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 8
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 7
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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