Payette
type: Cooking, Sauce
identification: Large, oblate. The smooth skin is greenish yellow, flushed red on the sun exposed face and marked with small white dot. The eye is small and partly open, set in a medium deep and funnel shaped basin. The stem is medium long and slender, set in a russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is fine?grained and firm. Moderately sweet and tart.
uses: Cooking. Makes a flavourful, cream coloured apple sauce.
origins: — Ben Davis x Wagener, L. Verner, Agriculture Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA, introduced, 1944 NFC Raised in 1936 by Leif Verner at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho, USA. Introduced in 1944. Ben Davies (female) ? Wagener (male)
cultivation: Vigorous.
cold storage: Keeps up to five months.
harvest: In the middle of the fourth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 9
ploidism: Triploid. Group C. Day 9
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 4
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