Aztec Fuji is a sweet, juicy apple with crisp texture. It is a blush that originated in New Zealand, and is one of the highest-coloring Fuji sports to date.
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Buckeye® Gala
This high-color sport starts to color one month earlier than its parent, Imperial Gala. It has a 100% deep-red color with a stripe. The fruit size, flavor, and quality similar to Imperial, and storage is as good as any other Gala.
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Jonastar®
(Lenz cultivar) This is an exciting new Jonagold sport discovered as a limb mutation of Rubinstar® in 2004. The fruit colors up to 100% red weeks before proper picking time, and it is usually a one-pick variety. Jonastar finishes with a nice, subtle stripe over a bright-red background and has the same true Jonagold quality, taste, and size. Jonastar ripens with other Jonagold selections.
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Royal Red Honeycrisp®
This exciting new color sport of Honeycrisp is catching attention from coast to coast. Royal Red Honeycrisp® is a blush-type selection and maintains the crisp, juicy texture of its parent. Beyond the high color factor, initial tests indicate that its improved storage characteristics may be equally important in improving pack-out. Now taking orders for spring deliveries in 2018 and beyond.
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Shlect Spur Delicious®
This variety begins to color in June and reaches full blush color by mid-August. No other early red sport colors or matures sooner or has whiter flesh. Tests indicate the Brix level allows for the earliest picking opportunities.
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September Wonder® Fuji
September Wonderful is the earliest true Fuji on the market. It has a reddish-blush skin color with creamy-white flesh. It has good size even though its growing season is six weeks shorter. USPP#11,193
Time is fleeting. Time is valuable. And it’s time to be sure all of your orchard plans have a chance to be realized.
As you know, supplies of quality fruit trees are limited and you should make your decisions as quickly as possible. However, inventories can change on a daily basis and we urge you to please give us a call and see what may be available before making final moves.
We would like to be a part of any plan you have.
For more information on these varieties, contact C&O Nursery.
Christina Herrick is former Editor of American Fruit Grower magazine and Western Fruit Grower magazine, published by Meister Media Worldwide. See all author stories here.