Apple varieties Beauty of Sverdlovsk known and amateur gardeners, and those professionals who have devoted to the cultivation of fruit trees for life.
Apple tree is quite unpretentious, gives abundant yields and high-quality fruits, capable of long-term storage. Description of the variety and photos further in the article.
What kind is it?
Apple variety Krasa Sverdlovsk refers to winter varieties ripening period.
Apples have a long storage period without damage, they remain usable. from October (that is, the time of collection) to the beginning of May.
Have a good transportability and attractive appearance.
It is recommended to store fruits in the places protected from bright light (cellars, cellars) where sharp differences of temperatures are not observed.
The average temperature should be 0-7 degrees Celsius.
If you store apples in places where the temperature may fall below zero, it is recommended to warm the fruit containers.
Check out other winter apple varieties: Lada, Cliff, Rennet Simirenko, Snowdrop, Gift of Count, Persianka, Northern Sinap, Rozhdestvenskoe, Spartan, Starkrimson, Fuji.
Pollination
The variety is self-productive, for a bountiful harvest pollinator is required. Almost all common apple varieties in the Ural region are suitable as a pollinator tree.
Description of the variety Krasa Sverdlovsk
The apple tree is medium layer, with the fruits exceeding the average size. Consider more.
Apple tree has growth slightly above averagecrown density is abundant, moderate roundness.
The main branches are directed from the trunk at an angle of 90%, painted brown, slightly bent.
Fruiting is carried out on kolchatka, and also on fruit twigs.
The foliage is dark green, with light wrinkles and flat, the base is heart-shaped.
During flowering, gives large buds that are white with a pink tint.
Like wood, they slightly exceed standard sizes, sometimes they reach large mass (up to 240 g). Quite similar to each other, the correct wide-round shape.
Most fruits mimic slightly conical shapes at the top. The skin is dry and smooth, ribbing barely noticeable.
During the period of ripening they have a greenish-yellow color; after long-term storage, the color becomes creamy with red and red blush.
Pulp also creamy, strong and dense, the structure has a medium grain, has a harmonious sweet-sour taste with some unobtrusive spiciness and light aroma.
It is also worth noting that the increased content of vitamin C.
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Breeding history
Apple Krasa Sverdlovsk was bred more than a quarter of a century ago thanks to the interbreeding through sowing of varieties that are prone to setting large fruits.
Created a variety of employees Sverdlovsk Experimental Station Gardening, namely: L.A. Kotov, L.G. Vegerova, P.A. Dibrova.
Zoned for South and Middle Urals.
Natural growth region
Actively spread apple variety The beauty of Sverdlovsk in the Southern Urals, the Upper Volga and the Middle Urals.
It is promising for landing and distribution in central regions.
Also, according to forecasts of experienced gardeners, in stlant culture will remarkably take root in Altai region and in Western Siberia.
Learn about the varieties suitable for planting these regions: Pepin Saffron, Gift to gardeners, Silver hoof, Sokolovskoye, Uralets, Phoenix of Altai, Daughter Pepinchik, Lyubava.
Yield
Apple varieties Krasa Sverdlovsk enters fruiting 6-7 year after disembarkation. It does not need rest between the productive periods, therefore fruiting is regular.
Harvest in adulthood from one tree reaches 70-100 kg. In nurseries from one hectare of land planted with this variety, collect 100-200 centners of fruit. The variety is moderately resistant to severe frosts.
Planting and care
Beauty of Sverdlovsk is standard in planting and care. Important is the first year of life, pruning, fertilizer and watering.
Planting apple varieties Krasa Sverdlovsk is recommended in two rows at a distance 6 meters from each other.
The optimal time for planting apple trees: autumn (but not later than two weeks before the onset of frost) and spring (April-early June).
Growing must be done on the elevated elements of the relief in order to protect the tree from strong winds.
Choose a place with the most fertile soil.
When you start digging a landing pit, separate the top layer of earth and the bottom.
The top, as the most fertile, layer will fall asleep in the lower part of the pit to support the seedling.
Tip: It is advisable to prepare the landing pit a month before disembarking.
Before planting the seedling, carefully inspect the root system, carefully remove the diseased and broken roots, and cover the cuts with garden broth.
It is impossible to plant a sapling that has become covered with the first foliage or in which the buds have already swelled - it will not take root.
Pit for planting should be from 50 to 60 centimeters deep.
Topsoil is mixed with fertilizer, It is recommended to put 1 bucket of humus, 800 g of ash and 1 kg of mineral fertilizer into the pit.
The resulting mixture is poured to the bottom of the planting hole, forming a mound.
After which a layer 5-6 cm fall asleep without fertilizer.
Important: there must be a distance between the roots and the fertilizer, since direct contact with the fertilizer mixture can cause a root burn in the seedling.
The root system of the seedling must be carefully straightened. A tree is placed on a hillock, a peg is slaughtered next to which an apple tree is tied up. After that, the soil is filled up without fertilizer.
Tip: cover the soil gradually, gently shaking the seedling so that the ground is evenly distributed in the hollow places between the roots.
You can not fall asleep root neck of a seedling, otherwise rotting may begin. After landing fill the planting hole with 2-3 buckets of water.
Crop. The main process of caring for an apple tree is pruning. If your tree is young, the crown will have to be formed annually.
The first pruning passes before the buds swell in spring, in the second year of the sapling's life.
Vertical shoots are pruned, limiting the growth of the tree in height and avoiding the appearance of side shoots.
Every spring it is necessary to cut the shoots by 1/3, which appeared in the previous year, it contributes to the appearance of fruit branches and accelerates growth.
Pruning ovaries and fruits is also an important condition for keeping a tree.
It is necessary to remove the middle fruit from each inflorescence and cut the fruit with obvious flaws and altered shape. Watering in first the year the trees live up to 4 times in one hot period at 3-4 buckets on one sapling.
After you have watered, fertilize the soil with loose soil or humus. Apple trees should also be watered approximately a month before the end of flowering and again a month before harvest.
Apple trees require spreading of manure and various types of compost on an annual basis. It is necessary to alternate these fertilizers with mineral dressings.
Diseases and pests
Apple Tree Beauty of Sverdlovsk is prone to three major diseases of these fruit trees: scab, powdery mildew, and apple cancer. Consider apple treatment methods for these diseases.
Scab
Scab is a fungal disease that develops with an excess of moisture, winters on foliage that is not harvested in the fall. Manifested by green-brown spots on the inside of the sheet, on the fruits - a few brown heels. With scab, the fruit is unusable.
Treatment: The tree needs to be treated in the spring and autumn with a 5% urea solution. On one tree will need about 5 liters. Early vein is treated with copper oxychloride before flowering and after fruit set. And also acceptable treatment Bordeaux liquid and copper sulphate.
Mealy dew
It affects all parts of the tree, it appears as a white bloom, resembling dust. At defeat leaves dry up and fall down. With no treatment, black dots begin to appear.
Treatment: Spray a tree of gray colloid (80 g per 10 liters of water) in the springtime.
Apple crab
One of the most serious diseases that arises due to circumstances beyond the control of the owners of the tree: excessive temperature drops are to blame. Cancer manifests itself either in ulcers or in growths of black and brown. In the affected areas, the bark exfoliates and disappears.
Treatment: With proper care of the tree, it is easy to avoid serious consequences. First you need to remove all the branches that were struck by the disease, the affected bark is also trimmed. At the same time it is necessary to seize the healthy part of a centimeter by 2-3. Wood is treated with antiseptic, wounds - garden decoction.
If you decide to plant in your garden an apple tree of the Krasa Sverdlovsk variety, you can be calm - she will not bring you trouble.
In spite of the fact that the apple tree needs a tree-pollinator to set fruit, it is easily pollinated by most varieties.
Beauty of Sverdlovsk is sufficiently resistant to scab, but is not always frost resistant, so wood will have to be warmed annually. But the amount of the harvest will justify all your efforts.
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