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Shinsei Apple Scionwood (Spring 2023)


A sweet, aromatic dessert apple from Japan.

This is a vigorous and productive tree, upright and spreading. Shinsei is moderately susceptible to fireblight, but it has no other known susceptibilities.

The fruit, ripening about a week after McIntosh, is medium-small, with a green-yellow skin blushed pink. The flesh is white, firm (more so than its parent Golden Delicious), fine grained, crisp, and juicy. Shinsei is exclusively a dessert apple, and it has the sweetness typical of Japanese cultivars, but its flavor is also delicate and aromatic.

Shinsei was developed at the Aomori Research Station in Japan, crossed in 1930 and named in 1948. The Aomori Station also produced Mutsu (Crispin) and Tsugaru.

Volume Pricing

Premiums are included in the following prices if applicable. These prices are for regular scion. Add $1 for clean scion.

Quantity Shinsei Apple Scion
1 $12.00
2-5 $7.00
6-10 $6.00
11-99 $5.00
100+ $4.00

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$13.00 ea.

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Clean vs. Regular

Our clean scion is harvested from trees grown on G.16, which is extremely sensitive to viruses. These trees would not have survived if the scion contained viruses. Our clean wood has not been lab tested. Regular = may contain one of the common latent viruses; this is not usually a problem and can be used with most rootstocks.

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This is a vigorous and productive tree, upright and spreading. Shinsei is moderately susceptible to fireblight, but it has no other known susceptibilities.

The fruit, ripening about a week after McIntosh, is medium-small, with a green-yellow skin blushed pink. The flesh is white, firm (more so than its parent Golden Delicious), fine grained, crisp, and juicy. Shinsei is exclusively a dessert apple, and it has the sweetness typical of Japanese cultivars, but its flavor is also delicate and aromatic.

Shinsei was developed at the Aomori Research Station in Japan, crossed in 1930 and named in 1948. The Aomori Station also produced Mutsu (Crispin) and Tsugaru.


The Fruit

Fruit Type

Category: Apple
Subcategory:

Fruit Uses & Storage

Uses: fresh eating
Storage duration: one to three months (approximate, depending on storage conditions)

Fruit Appearance

Skin color: yellow
Flesh color: white

Fruit Origins

Parentage: Golden Delicious x Early McIntosh
Origin: Japan
Introduced in: 1948
Introduced by: Aomori Research Station

The Environment

Calendar & Geography

USDA zones: 5 - 9
Chill hours: Not yet determined
Ripening date: Sep 22 (approximate, in New York State) + 7 days after McIntosh

Diseases & Pests

Fireblight: Susceptible

Pollination

Pollination Factors

Bloom group: 4
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y
Ploidy: Diploid

Pollination Partners

This table shows the first few results from a full search for pollenizers of Shinsei Apple. Please see our Pollenizer Search to run other queries and read how the application uses various factors. Also read more about fruit tree pollination.

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