The document discusses several commercial varieties of apples grown around the world and in India. It describes the key characteristics of popular varieties such as Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, McIntosh, Fuji, and Ambri. It also covers newer spur varieties, early coloring strains of Delicious, and pollinizers. Recommended varieties for different seasons in states like Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Uttaranchal are provided.
6. DELICIOUS
Chance seedling
Most widely grown and studied cultivar
Fruit – conical, protuberance near calyx
Flesh – firm, sweet & juicy
Alternate bearing
Maximum storage life – 180 days
Susceptible to apple scab
Resistant to powdery mildew
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7. Red Delicious
Most popular variety of India
Fruit:Long,conical with protuberance near the
calyx,skin yellow with red stripes not all over the
surface
Flesh:Firm,sweet and juicy
Does not develop superior red colour until fully
mature but by that time apple losses its crispness
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8. Royal Delicious
Syn. Starking Delicious
A bud sport branch developed on a Delicious tree
Early colouring than Red Delicious
Fruits:Large,conical,yellow skin covered with red
stripes all over the surface
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9. Rich-a-Red
Bud sport of Red Delicious
Fruit: Large,conical,skin with red blush
Colours earlier than Delicious but later than
Starking.
More completely coloured than Delicious
Flesh – sweet, very juicy & of excellent flavour
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10. Red Gold
Fruits round to slightly oblong,skin highly red
blushed,waxy and glossy.
Flesh white with pinkish tint near the surface
Regular and heavy bearing variety
Used as pollinizer for Red Delicious and Starking
Delicious
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11. Golden Delicious
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Commercial variety of USA and Europe
Used as pollinizer for Delicious
Fruit: Round,conical to oblongn and golden yellow
colour
Cream, fine textured, crisp and juicy flesh with
conspicuous pleasant flavour
Suitable for processing
12. McIntosh
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Leading variety of Canada
Medium season variety
Fruit: Small to medium,round,yellowish green with
red blush
Greenish,juicy and fairly sweet pulp
Grown in Kulu and Kashmir
13. Baldwin
Large sized fruits with reddish colour and roundto
conical in shape
Sour in taste
Very good keeping quality
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14. Fuji
Evolved in Japan
Ralls Janet x Delicious
Tree – large vigorous spreading
Most promising late variety
Colour resembles delicious
Flesh- not attractive, very firm slightly coarse,very juicy,
aromatic and sub acid
Excellent for dessert
15. Early Colouring Strains of Delicious
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Standard Types
Vance Delicious
Bud mutant of Delicious
Fruit: Conical,solid red skin
Colours two weeks earlier to Red Delicious
Top Red
Bud sport of Delicious
Fruit:Long with red streaks
Matures three weeks before Starking Delicious
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Skyline Supreme Delicious
Bud mutant of Starking Delicious
Fruit shape and colour are similar to Delicious
Hardeyman
Similar to Starking Delicious
Tree is vigorous in growth
17. New Spur Types
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Starkrimson Delicious
Dwarf trees
Fruit:Oblong,medium sized,deep red in colour,hard in
texture, sweet and juicy
Suitable for mid-hills
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Oregan Spur
Bud sport of Delicious
Fruits are similar to Delicious in size and shape
Pulp is light yellow,crunchy and sweet but a bit hard
Red Chief
Bud sport of Delicious
Fruits are similar to Delicious
Gold Spur Delicious
Bud mutant of Golden Delicious
Pollinizer for all spur types
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Stark Spur Golden Delicious
Bears fruits similar to Golden Spur in shape,colour
and appearance
Red Spur Delicious
Resembles to well coloured Rich-a-Red
Tree with close internodal growth
Grows to two-third size of standard trees
20. New Pollinizers
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Tydeman’s Early Worcestor
One of the earliest variety which matures in mid-July
Popular in mid-hills
Used as pollinizer for Delicious varieties
Lord Lambourne
James Greeves x Worcestor Peerman
Regular bearer
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Granny Smith
Mostly grown in Argentina,Australia and New
Zealand
Fruit takes 6-7 months to mature
Fruits: Medium sized,round,skin grass green with
whitish dots,subacid and not rich flavoured
Suitable for processing
Pollinizer for commercial varieties in India
24. Ambri
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Only indigenous variety grown commercially in India
Originated in Kashmir as chance seedling
Fruit – medium to large, oblong in shape
Red streaks over a greenish yellow back ground
Pulp – white, crisp & sweet
Late season apple (ripening – Sept-Oct)
Good keeping quality ( 4-5 months in ordinary condition
and10 months in cold storage)
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Lal Ambri (Red Delicious x Ambri)
Sunehari (Ambri x Golden Delicious)
Chaubattia Princess (Early Shanburry x Red
Delicious)
Chaubattia Anupam (Early Shanburry x Red
Delicious)
Ambred (Red Delicious x Ambri)
Ambrich (Rich-a-Red x Ambri)
Ambroyal (Starking Delicious x Ambri)
29. Low-chilling Varieties
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Chilling period: less than 800hrs below 7⁰ C
Poor in dessert quality and shelf-life
Michal Schlomit Anna Neomi
Tropical Beauty Parlin’s Beauty
30. Recommended Varieties of Apple in Different
States
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Season Himachal
Pradesh
Jammu and
Kashmir
Uttaranchal
Early Season Tydeman’s Early*
Michael,Molies
Delicious,Schlomit
Irish
Peach,Benoni
Starkrimson
Early Shanburry*
Fenny Benoni
Chaubattia
Mid Season Royal
Delicious,Red
Delicious,Richare
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Vance Delicious
Top Red,Oregon
Spur
American Mother
Jonathan
Cox’s Orange
Pippin*,Red
Gold*
Red Delicious
Starking Delicious
McIntosh*,Golden
Delicious*
Late Season Golden
Delicious*,Yellow
Newton*,Winter
Banana,Granny
Smith*
Ambri,Baldwin,
Golden
Delicious*
Red Delicious
Sunhari
Rymer
Buckingham
* Pollinizer
