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| Apple Spartan | |||||
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| Summary | Attractive, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, and with the characteristic delicate wine-like "vinous" flavor of the McIntosh family of apples. | ||||
Identification | Spartan | ||||
| Fruit colour | Red | ||||
| Flesh colour | White | ||||
| Fruit size | Small | ||||
| Fruit shape | Flat-round | ||||
Using | Spartan | ||||
| Flavor | Good | ||||
| Flavour style | Sweeter | ||||
| Ripening period | |||||
| Use/Keeping | 1 week | ||||
| Cooking result | |||||
Growing | Spartan | ||||
| Picking | |||||
| Cropping | Heavy | ||||
| Vigour | Average growth | ||||
| Pollination | Flowering group 3 Partially self-fertile Blossom frost-resistance | ||||
| Gardening skill | Very easy | ||||
| Problems | Canker - Some susceptibility Scab - Some susceptibility Mildew - Some resistance Fireblight - Some resistance Cedar apple rust - Some resistance Bitter pit - Very resistant | ||||
Other | Spartan | ||||
| Country of origin | Canada | ||||
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