Season of Use: Mid Sept-Dec
 

Use: Fresh eating, pie, sauce 
 

Characteristics: The Sweet Sixteen is a rosy red, smooth finish, fine-textured, crisp, high sugar, moderate acid apple with a unique pleasing flavor. The fruits are medium to large sized, normally fully colored by both stripes and a solid wash of rosy red. The flesh is fine-textured and crisp and it has high sugar and moderate acid. It has good storage, handling, and culinary properties.
 

Sweet Sixteen was selected from a cross of MN 447 X Northern Spy and introduced by the University of Minnesota's Horticulture Center in 1978. The trees are moderately resistant to fireblight and have a normal susceptibility to apple scab and cedar-apple rust.
 

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Bushel & Peck
35878 Highway 61
Lake City, Minnesota  55041