| Variety: | KISS (Early low chill Fuji Apple mutation) | |
| Origin: | Radiation induced mutation of Fuji | |
| Breeder: | Clone Nursery, Brazil | |
| Licence Holder: | Clone Nursery, Brazil | |
| Fruit size (mm): | Mostly 75 to 90 | |
| Bloom date: | Very early (August 28 South Hemisphere) | |
| Chill Requirement: | 400-500 chill units against 1000-1150 for original Fuji | |
| Picking date: | End of February (South Hemisphere) | |
| Pollinated by: | Godiva, Glamour, Princesa | |
| Tree type: | Semi Spur | |
| Growth: | Strong | |
| Productivity: | Time to first cropping: | rapid |
| Yield: | very high | |
| Susceptibilty to alternated bearing: | not even after a heavy crop | |
| Chemical thinning: | difficult | |
| Response to Diseases: | Scab | as Fuji |
| Downy mildew | as Fuji | |
| Summer diseases | as Fuji | |
| Storage: | Cold Storage: | as Fuji |
| CA storage | ||
| Uses: | Early Fuji with very low chill requirement suitable to warm areas; suitable to areas where other high chill apples inlcuing Fuji do not performe well. | |
| Note: | Bloom 30 to 50 days earlier in places which accumulate 500 CU, so will ripe 35-45 days earlier than traditional Fuji. | |
| Fruit: | Skin: | dark red, non striped, ligher color on the hidden fruit face |
| Flesh: | as Fuji | |
| Taste: | Sweet, as Fuji | |
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