Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Mutsu, also known as Crispin, produces very large green to yellow apples with sweet, juicy and aromatic flesh. They are excellent for fresh eating, juice and cooking, retaining their shape particularly well when heated. This late cultivar can become biennial under heavy cropping. As a triploid and poor pollinator, it requires two other compatible apple varieties nearby.

Mutsu

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Mutsu is a high quality dual-purpose apple from Japan, with a good flavour for eating fresh, and also sharp enough for cooking.

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SKU: 4325 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Mutsu is an unusually versatile apple. Its large size and juicy acidity make it an excellent apple for the kitchen. Slices keep their shape when baked, but it can also be cooked for apple sauce, and slices can be dried too.

Its Golden Delicious parentage also lends it an excellent sweet flavor for eating fresh, particularly if you like sharper apples. In a good year from a good tree, Mutsu’s crisp sharp-sweet flavour can be very good indeed.

There are many good dual-purpose apples but most of them are better at cooking than for eating fresh or vice versa. Mutsu is equally good in both roles.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Japanese variety from the Aomori station, from the cross Golden Delicious × Indo, distributed in the West under the name Crispin.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

3 month

Use

Cooking, Fresh eating, Juice

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Golden Delicious × Indo

Synonyms

Crispin

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Vigorous, spreading habit, spur-bearing, heavy production but biennial if overloaded

Disease behaviour

Scab

Very susceptible

Powdery mildew

Susceptible

Canker

Susceptible

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 3 - mid season.

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Harvest calendar

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Additional variety information for Mutsu is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.