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PremA129
type: Dessert
synonyms: Marketed as Dazzle.
summary: A fairly large and bright red and sweet apple developed in New Zealand for the supermarket trade.
identification: Medium size, conic shape. Base colour is greenish yellow, over which is an intense, red wash that covers almost the entire surface. Smooth, glossy skin is usually lightly bloomed skin as it matures, no russet. The stem is somewhat long and moderately stout, set in a wide and shallow cavity. The calyx is large and set in a medium deep and wide basin. Scattered, small, tan lenticels.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, firm, fine-grained. Moderately juicy and slightly tangy.
origins: Developed in 1997 by Allan White from a cross of Scired with Prem1A at the Institute for Plant and Food Research in Hawkes Bay (New Zealand).
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright and semi-spreading growth habit. Bears fruit on spurs.
cold storage: Keeps about a week at room temperature, two months in refrigerated facilities.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to scab and powdery mildew.
harvest: During the second half of the fourth period.
pollination peak: 1
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
brix: 12.5
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 5
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