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Prem1A
type: Dessert
synonyms: This is the same apple as PremA280 . Both are listed under U.S. Plant Patent #19762 and both are marketed as "Sweetie." It is referred to by its developers Prevar and the New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research by the cultivar variety name "Prem1A" and also sometimes called "Var-One." It has apparently also been grown under the name "Longwei' during the 2010s in Yunnan Province, China.
summary: Marketed as Sweetie, this apple from New Zealand is very similar to Gala, its pollen parent, in both appearance and flavour.
identification: Medium tending to large. Long conic, often lopsided. The base colour is yellow, over which is a red blush covering one third to one half of the surface.The remaining faces are sparingly streaked red. Marked with small, yellowish lenticels. A long and moderately slender, greenish yellow stem is set in a funnel-shaped cavity, raising well clear of the weak crown; the calyx is small and closed, set in a narrow and somewhat shallow basin.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, coarse-grained, moderately firm and crisp. Very juicy and moderately sweet, low acidity, very mildly flavoured.
origins: A Braeburn x Tenroy Gala cross, bred by The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Introduced in 2005 by Prevar. It was subsequently introduced in Washington State in the northwestern U.S.A.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading tree with wide branch angles.
cold storage: Keeps up to four months in commercial cold storage.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the second half of the fourth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
brix: 15.4
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 6
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