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Pirja
type: Dessert
summary: A sweet and juicy fresh-eating apple best consumed shortly after harvest. Developed in Finland.
identification: Small tending to medium size. The base colour is pale green over which is a dense pattern of red striping, predominantly on the sun-exposed faces. The calyx is large and partly open, set in a moderately deep and wide basin. The stem is long and somewhat slender.
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellowish, fine-grained, crisp mildly aromatic
origins: A cross of Huvitus with pollen from Melba . Developed in 1961 at the Institute of Horticultural and Agricultural Research Centre, Piikkiö (Finland). Released in 1980.
cultivation: Small and spreading.
cold storage: Keeps less than a month after harvest.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab and powdery mildew.
harvest: In the middle of the third period.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 3
harvest period: 3
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