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Mollie’s Delicious
type: Dessert, Eating, Sauce
synonyms: Mollie, Molly’s Delicious. Developed under test code NJ 28.
identification: Large tending to very large. Conic shape and angular. The skin base colour is pale yellow which is washed red over about half the surface. Indistinct moderately large, cream-coloured lenticels. The calyx is large and closed or partly open, set in a shallow basin which is surrounded by a pronounced, knobbed crown. The stem is long, slender and set in a deep and funnel-shaped cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, soft. Juicy and very sweet, somewhat aromatic.
uses: Intended as a fresh-eating apple, but also makes sweet jellies and apple sauce.
origins: Developed by G.W. Schneider at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in New Brunswick, New Jersey (U.S.A.) in 1948 from a cross of ( Golden Delicious x Edgewood ) (flower) with pollen from ( Red Gravenstein x Close ) and released in 1966.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Young tree tends to produce fruit after six or more years and has a tendency to bear heavy crops every other year.
cold storage: Keeps a month in storage.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to scab. Somewhat susceptible to fire blight. Resistant to rust.
harvest: Ripens in the last half of the third period and into the start of the fourth,
notes: Similar to Golden Delicious in shape, colour and flavours.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 16
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 4
harvest period: 3
hardiness: 5
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