'Rubinola' - the favourite of hobby gardeners
'Rubinola' is a robust late dessert variety with attractive bright red fruit. This earlier-bred apple owes its enduring popularity especially with hobby gardeners to its very good taste, resistance to diseases and low growing requirements.
Parents
'Prima' × 'Rubín'
Plant variety rights
Community Plant Variety Rights EU 5824 (granted 06.03.2000)
Health
monogenic resistance to scab, tolerance to powdery mildew
Growth
habit ramified, spreading, growth vigorous to very vigorous, produces fruiting spurs moderately, bears also on terminals of young wood, a weak rootstock is required for early bearing
Blossom
mid-season, regular
Ripening
about 10 days before 'Golden Delicious'
Fruit size & shape
size medium to large, shape round-conical, stem medium to long
Fruit colour
yellow-orange ground colour with flushed bright red over colour on 75 % of the skin, some russet in the stem cavity
Fruit quality & taste
flesh yellow, firm with fine texture, juicy, taste sweet to slightly tart, very good
Productivity
rather slow starter in bearing, matured trees crop well and regularly, no need for fruit thinning
Storability
in natural storage until March
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