'Rondo' is a grower-friendly columnar variety suitable especially for private gardens as a solitaire or in hedges. Enjoy its crisp fruit or freshly squeezed juice. Along with direct consumption, this selection may be a good fit for the juice industry.
Origin: 'UEB 2345/1' x 'Tuscan' (Bolero®)
Tree: tree type columnar and compact, vigour medium, diploid
Blossom: mid-season, flowers heavily, slight tendency to alternate
Productivity: heavy cropping, thinning required to prevent biennial bearing
Diseases: monogenic resistance to scab, tolerance to powdery mildew
PVR:
Community Plant Variety Rights EU 24083 (granted 23.02.2009)
Plant Variety Rights in Switzerland CH 09.2168 (granted 31.08.2009)
Picking time: middle to end of September, about 10 days before 'Golden Delicious'
Ready to eat: directly after picking
Storability: in natural storage until January
Fruit size/shape: size medium to large, shape globose to obloid, stem medium long
Colour: ground colour yellow-green, over colour red solid flush with weakly defined stripes (on 50 - 75 % of skin), russet-free
Flesh and flavour: flesh creamy to yellowish, medium to firm, crisp, texture fine-grained, very juicy, flavour sweet-subacidic, good