Red Delicious – King Roat ®
Red Delicious is the iconic red apple. This dark red and sweet apple is still in the top 5 most popular apple varieties worldwide.
Breed Description
Origin: mutation of Red Delicious Hapke, Italy.
License: KIKU GmbH
Fruit
Color: Dark red with small lenticels.
Staining: Uniform staining all over the fruit surface. This mutation is a blush type.
Size: 65/85 mm
Flesh: White and juicy.
Storage: Store well until February in mechanical refrigeration and until the end of June in CA.
Taste
Aroma: No aroma but mainly a sweet taste
Acids: few to none.
Texture: hard to soft but not really crispy.
Tree
Flowering: Medium
Picking time: Period golden delicious
Hardness: 7 kg/cm²
Pollinators: Idared, Gala, Golden, ...
Tree type: Semi spur type.
Growing Power: Strong.
Production: Very productive, early and good yield.
Picking time:
Brustem industrial park
Lichtenberglaan2050
3800 Sint-Truiden
Belgium