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Enterprise is a modern bred, late-ripening and attractive, red cultivar of domesticated apple with excellent fruit quality combined with disease resistance to scab, cedar apple rust, fire blight and some resistance to powdery mildew. The fruit is large and attractive and retains excellent fresh quality for up to six months at 1°C.
The Cosmic Crisp is a cross between Honeycrisp and Enterprise apples. It is intended to have the texture and juiciness of the Honeycrisp, and the late-ripening behavior and long storage of the Enterprise. [3] The Cosmic Crisp is characterized mainly by uniformly colored dark red skin, dense firm flesh, and an improved shelf life. [4]
EverCrisp is a late-season apple, ripening in mid-October and harvested in October to November depending on the region. On David Doud's orchard in north-central Indiana, EverCrisp is ripe between October 10 to October 15. Doud states that EverCrisp can be harvested with no complications for three weekends in October.
USA TODAY spoke with apple breeders, growers and researchers to find the secrets of one of America's most popular fruits.
Antonovka apples. Antonovka is a cultivar of vernacular selection, which began to spread from the region of Kursk in Russia during the 19th century. [4] While the fruit-bearing trees have not received a wide degree of recognition outside the former Soviet Union, many nurseries do use Antonovka rootstocks, since they impart a degree of winter-hardiness to the grafted varieties.
[8] [7] [1] The fruit keeps well in storage but bruises easily. [3] [5] It is late ripening and hangs well on the tree. [8] The tree is a reliable heavy [7] tip and spur bearer. [8] The Splendour apple is an ancestor for the Sciros apple and for the Aurora Golden Gala. [2]
It is very sweet, with an unusual flavor of sugar cane, or spicy cherry candy. The fruit can store for 5 to 8 weeks. The Sweet Sixteen is quite vigorous. The fruit may have premature drops. Sweet Sixteen usually ripens, mid- to late September. [2] The Sweet Sixteen is resistant to fire blight and scab.
It was also formerly known as Golden Winter Pearmain, [5] [1] because of its ripening period at late fall. [2] Unlike most apple cultivars it is slightly self-fertile. [3] It earned the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1993. [6] Density 0.83 g/cc; Sugar 12,5%; Acidity 7.7 g/litre; Vitamin C 15 mg/100g. [7]