More On WA 38 Apple

More On WA 38 Apple. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

Yesterday the registration process opened for a chance to purchase WSU’s new WA 38 apple rootstocks. Dr. Jim Moyer, Associate Dean of Research at WSU describes the new apple variety.

MOYER: It’s a red apple wit a little yellow in it. It’s a sweet, tart taste. It’s very crisp and it maintains that crispness in storage extremely well. It’ll store for a year and not appreciably lose any of that crispness. The other thing is it doesn’t turn brown very fast. It’s excellent flavor. The color is appealing

Moyer says they are gearing up for a massive drawing to help distribute the new rootstocks.

MOYER: We were faced with a situation of getting to the point of where we had enough trees to produce enough apples to make a market. The process and the concern over the process comes from the fact that we had a couple of apple varieties that we released that were excellent apples but they just failed in the marketplace and it was because in today’s market in apples and some other crops as well, there’s a lot of competition from a variety of people that manage their varieties for success in the marketplace.

For more information on the drawing and the new variety visit the website wa38.wsu.edu.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.