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Wayne
type: Cooking, Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce
identification: Large. Yellow base colour and extensively blushed light red on the sun-exposed face. The calyx is small and partly open, set in a deep and narrow basin. The stem is short to medium and slender, set in a deep and narrow, lightly russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, soft and tender. Juicy, sweet with some tartness, with a pronounced strawberry flavour.
uses: Fresh eating, baking and sauces.
origins: Developed from a cross of Northwest Greening and Red Spy at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York (U.S.A.). Selected in 1951 and introduced 1962.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading tree. Starts to produce fruit quite young and will yield commercially viable crops within five years.
cold storage: Keeps about a month.
vulnerabilities: Highly susceptible to blight. Susceptible to scab, rust and mildew.
harvest: Late in the third period.
cold storage weeks: 4
brix: 11.3
acidity: 3.9
harvest period: 3
sg: 1.0454
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