Chinook is a small to medium sized apple that has an extensive pinkish red blush on 80 to 90% of the surface. It is very firm and somewhat juicy, but the appearance is not distinctive from many other apples. It is a grower-friendly tree with spreading flat branches, spurry, and quite precocious. It has potential for several month in regular air storage. Photo courtesy of Cheryl Hampson, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, BC.

Creston originated in British Columbia. Frequently Creston is compared with Jonagold, a variety with which it shares many characteristics including large fruit size, only moderately good color, firmness, time of ripening, and fruit quality. Fruit are medium to large, crisp and juicy, pleasant, and refreshing, with a good sugar-to-acid ratio. It lacks good red color and can be stored for 3 to 4 months. It can be considered an alternative to Jonagold with a different and pleasant taste.

Crimson Crisp is a newly named variety that originated from the Purdue-Rutgers-Illinois apple disease-resistance breeding program. It was tested as Coop 39. Color is a very attractive, with bright red blush on over 90% of the surface. Fruit are medium in size and flesh is white and very firm. The flavor is pleasant and mild. It is highly resistant to apple scab.

Daybreak Fuji. This strain of Fuji is a limb sport of Yataka Fuji, and it ripens fully 3 to 4 weeks earlier than the nonmutated Fuji strains. Color is pinkish red and not as intense as later maturing Fuji strains that have been selected for, among other things, red color. Firmness and storage potential are less than for regular Fuji, however, it looks and taste like a Fuji, and this stain provides an opportunity to market Fuji well in advance of the regular Fuji that ripens much later in October.