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Quinte
type: Dessert, Eating
synonyms: Quinty
identification: Medium size tending to large. Round, sometimes more conic. The skin base colour is green maturing to yellow over which is a dark red to maroon wash that covers more than three quarters of the surface. Light coloured lenticels are abundant against the red wash. The eye is small and closed, set in a shallow, puckered basin. The stem is short to medium length and medium thick, set in a medium deep and funnel shaped cavity which is lightly russeted. The fruit is usually covered with a blueish bloom.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and tender. Sweet and aromatic.
uses: Fresh eating and baking.
origins: Developed by L.P.S. Spangelo at the Federal Agriculture Research Station in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) by crossing Crimson Beauty with Red Melba. Introduced in 1964. Crimson Beauty (Early Red Bird) X Red Melba.
cultivation: Vigorous, tree. Tends to bear fruit every other year and requires thinning to manage the fruit size. The fruit has a tendency to drop when it ripens.
cold storage: Does not keep well.
harvest: Starting in the early part of the third period and ripens progressively, requiring several pickings over the course of about four weeks.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 8
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 3
hardiness: 3
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