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Peter Lock
type: Dessert, Sauce
identification: Large. Round flattened often with angular sides. The base colour is green, flushed bright red and marked with darker red stripes on the sun exposed face. The eye is medium large and closed, set in a shallow and wide basin. The stem is short to medium and somewhat slender, set in a deep and funnel shaped, russeted cavvity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, coarse?grained, soft. Sweet and aromatic.
uses: Dessert and makes an excellent sweet and golden apple sauce.
origins: Devon UK 1800 Found as a wild seedling by Peter Lock in the early 1800s in Dean Woods, Buckfastleigh, Devon
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Ready for harvest in the middle of the second periond
cold storage: Keeps four months.
vulnerabilities: Very resistant to scab.
harvest: In the middle of the fourth period.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 6
ploidism: Self sterile. Group B. Day 6,
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 4
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