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Pewaukee
synonyms: Peewaukee
identification: Medium size tending to large. The skin is smooth, thin and greenish yellow marked with flushes of orange red and carmine stripes. The eye is small and open, set in a somewhat shallow basin surrounded by a faintly knobbed crown. The stem is very short and stout, arising out of a fleshy swelling. There is no stem cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm and coarse?grained. Sweet
origins: In the mid?1800’s, George P. Peffer of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, crossed Duchess of Oldenburg with Northern Spy to produce Pewaukee —Duchess of Oldenburg, x Northern Spy George F. Peffer, PewaEnglandee, Wisconsin, USA, recorded, 1870
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Precocious.
cold storage: Keeps two months in cold storage.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to canker.
harvest: In the first half of the fourth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 9
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C Day 9
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 4
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