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Yellow Pitcher
type: Cider, Dessert
identification: Medium tending to large. Round, sometimes oblong. The skin base colour is yellow, often with a pale pink or brownish blush on the sun exposed face. Russet lenticels and veins. The eye is medium size and closed, set in a medium deep and wide, slightly ribbed basin. The stem is very short and set in a medium deep and wide basin.
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Juicy and very sweet.
uses: Dessert apple, also used for cider.
origins: Sligo Ireland. described in 1951
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Tip bearer.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
harvest: In the latter half of the third period. Problems:
pollination group: F
pollination peak: 21
ploidism: Self sterile. Group F Day 21
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 3
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