Lubee brings a nice boost to yellow apples / The products
A brand new yellow Lubee variety was presented by Innatis at Fruit Attraction in Madrid. “ Today we have already planted about twenty hectares, of which almost half are in the third leaf, says Marc Rauffet, President of Innatis. 300 to 500 tonnes are expected this season. »
Within five years, this exclusively organic variety is intended to be planted on 200 hectares. ” It is a very firm apple, containing a lot of dry matter, with a rather rustic skin, supports Marc Rauffet. She has very good storage capacities, like Juliette who, in bio, is a model of her kind”. Even better, it would benefit from a particularly sweet taste: “Lubee can certainly promise 15 to 16° brix, and even reach 18° brix, indeed supports Innatis. Its taste and the intensity of its aromas make it possible to energize the organic yellow apple segment, represented mainly today by the golden ones. »
Tolerant to scab, this variety is harvested a few days after golden, probably from the second half of September. Some producers work the variety in a “double arch”: the trunk of the apple trees splits in two and leaves in a V about twenty centimeters from the ground, so as to facilitate the harvest but also more resilient cultivation techniques, less water-intensive. .