NOVAMAC
| Origin | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Kentville, Nova Scotia, 1978. |
| Parentage | McIntosh x complex parentage. See comments section below. |
| Availability | Early mid September on from selected outlets. |
| Source | Several nurseries. |
| Quality | Mild aromatic, sub-acid, sweet, juicy, crisp, moderately firm. Fairly similar to McIntosh. |
| Fruit: |
| Size | Medium, may be somewhat small. |
| Surface | Smooth and glossy. |
| Ground Colour | Greenish cream to cream. |
| Over Colour | 40-75% medium red to dark red on exposed cheek. |
| Flesh Colour | Cream to creamy white. |
| Harvest Season | Late September, a week before McIntosh. |
| Storage | Stores well. |
| Strains | None known. |
| Tree: |
| Vigour | Moderately vigourous. |
| Habit | Upright spreading to spreading. Thinner wood than McIntosh; often has split terminals (bifurcations) which need corrective pruning. Limb breakage due to brittle wood occurs more frequently than with most cultivars. |
| Precocity | Very good. |
| Fruit Placement | On laterals and spurs. |
| Bloom Period | Medium to late. |
| Pollination | Other diploids in the same bloom season. Usually sets well but does not set heavy clusters. |
| Nutrition | Normal as for McIntosh. |
| Crop | Heavy cropper. Appears to be more annual than biennial. |
| Synchrony | Usually can be harvested in a single picking. Very prone to pre-harvest drop, as is McIntosh. |
| Adaptation | Seems suited to Nova Scotia type climate. Somewhat sensitive to pre-bloom spring frost. |
| Disease Reaction | Immune to scab. Resistant to cedar apple rust. Somewhat susceptible to quince rust and frog eye leaf spot. |
| Insect Reaction | No special reactions noted. |
| Rootstock | Has performed well on all the stocks tested. |
| Comments: |
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Novamac is a scab resistant cultivar with many similarities to McIntosh. Fruit size is not quite as large as McIntosh and may be under 2½" from unthinned and unpruned older trees.
Parentage: McIntosh x (NJ 24 x PRI 47-147) NJ 24 = [Melba x (Wealthy x Starr)] x (Red Rome x Melba) PRI 47-147 = Jonathan x [(Rome Beauty x OP) x (Rome Beauty x M. floribunda 821)] 1/2 McIntosh, 1/8 Jonathan, 2/16 Melba, 1/16 Red Rome, 2/32 Rome Beauty, 1/32 Wealthy, 1/32 Starr, 1/32 M. floribunda, 1/32 unknown |
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