Choosing apples for your garden, it makes sense to plant trees with different fruit ripening periods in order to maximize the fruit season.
Different varieties will pereopyl each other, which will ensure the formation of a large number of fruits.
Some of them will ripen only closer to the falling snow, others - in the second half of summer.
One of the best early ripe varieties is Gornist apple tree, make sure to read the description.
What kind refers
Gornist is a summer variety. Its fruits reach consumer and removable maturity at a time, starting from the twentieth of August.
They are stored for long, about three weeks, suitable for use fresh, and for any processing.
This grade belongs to the highly resistant and can be grown in the northern regions of the countrywhere winters have a very low temperature.
For frost resistance, the Gornist is not inferior to the well-known variety. Uralets.
You can also get acquainted with one more summer varieties of apple trees of Augustus and Melba.
Description variety Gornist
Consider separately the appearance of the apple and the fruit itself.
Gornist trees are enough tallat a young age they have pyramidal crown, over the years, the crown is scattered to the sides, taking wide pyramidal shape.
The bark on the branches is light, flakes off. Gornis fructifies on kolchatkah, which begin to be laid from the age of two.
The shoots and leaves are heavily pubescent, the leaves are small, on short, thick petioles with medium-sized styloid stipules, with a finely serrated margin. Their feature is an arched form along the central vein.
The flowers of this variety are large, saucer-shaped, with half-closed petals.
The fruits are bright and attractive, but smaller than medium size, weighing from 90 to 110 grams, egg-shaped with poorly pronounced ribbing.
The peel is covered with a thin waxy bloom, its main tone is creamy, over which red and orange stripes and specks are scattered.
The saucer is furrowed, narrow and shallow, the funnel is small, not rusty.
The heart of an apple is egg-shaped, the seed chambers are half-open. The pulp is hard, grainy, cream-colored.
The sugar content in the pulp of the fruit of the Mountainist reaches 14 percentand the acids in them are very few - very few varieties have a similar ratio of acids and carbohydrates.
This provides high taste qualities of apples, but at the same time they are very poor in ascorbic acid.
Breeding history
Variety Gornist bred by the breeder L. A. Kotov at the Sverdlovsk Experimental Station Horticultural Pollination Cinnamon striped a mixture of pollen taken from different flowers Ural varieties and subsequent free pollination of the resulting hybrid.
Actively distributed by nurseries to Middle Ural, in 2002, zoned.
Learn all about varieties of apple trees for the Urals.
Natural growth region
The tree is unpretentious and very hardytherefore, he will have no problems with adaptation in different regions of the country.
Resistance to fungal infection can play an important role in planting apple varieties of this variety in places with damp and cool climatewhere a variety of rot often become the scourge of fruit plants.
The apple tree of the Gorno-Altaiskaya variety is also unpretentious, it is distinguished by good winter hardiness and belongs to the summer variety of apple trees.
Yield
Gornist is not the fastest apple in development begins to bear fruit at the age of 4 to 8 years.
However, from one adult tree up to 80 kilograms of ripe fruits can be removed. The harvest from an area the size of a hectare can reach 90 centners.
Since the fruit buds at the Mining Garden are laid every year, there is no periodicity inherent in very many varieties of apple trees in fruiting - harvest tree brings steadily, and even when others practically do not give fruit, it gives the grower a lot of bright medium-sized apples.
Bugler self-infertile, as the vast majority of fruit plants, belonging to Rosaceae.
Virtually any other summer are suitable for pollination. varieties with the same flowering period.
Planting and care
Special care is not required for this variety; all that it needs for prosperity and high yield is light, fertile soil and proper crown formation.
Then the seedling will have time to take root before the snow falls, and spring will enter a phase of active growth, already tightly sitting in a new place.
Choose a territory for landing with the calculation of the large size of the future tree.
The site must be sufficiently lit, with fertile and not acidified soil, high groundwater is undesirable, as for any apple trees.
Before planting, soak the roots of seedlings in water with the addition of phytohormones, remove dead and damaged roots.
After pouring a hill of soil on the bottom of the landing pit, you need to carefully distribute the root system of the tree along it, and cover it with soil, loosening it loosely.
The soil should protrude a small hillock - after abundant watering, necessary after planting, it will settle.
It is important to remember that the penetration of the root collar can greatly harm the seedling and even destroy it.
Because of the pyramidal crown tree needs shaping pruning.
In the early stages of growth Need to remove unnecessarily thickening her skeletal branches, large females, departing at an acute angle - with a strong wind or under a load of snow, they can break off and form a deep wound on the trunk.
Also important sanitary pruning, timely removal of dried branches will help keep the tree healthy and protect from pests and infections, the source of which they may become.
Just like other apple trees, It needs a sufficiently abundant fertilizing with mineral or organic fertilizers rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
The frequency of their introduction depends on the initial fertility and the structure of the substrate - from times to three per year.
Watch a video about how to cut an apple tree in summer, if an escape began to grow again on an already cut off plot.
Diseases and pests
One of the distinguishing qualities of Gornist is his tremendous resistance to scab.
Even in adverse years, the leaves and fruits of apple trees remain intact.
However, invulnerability to the fungus does not make the tree completely protected from the problems peculiar to apple trees - it is susceptible to infection by insect pests. His most terrible enemies:
- apple sawfly,
- weevil,
- leafworm,
- flowerbed
- aphid.
Wood processing will save them complex insecticides, the use of odorous traps for the destruction of flying individuals, preventing the movement of insects along the branches of the trapping belt.
With proper care, the Gornist will provide the gardener with a large and stable harvest of fairly early fruits.
Despite the fact that they do not have a long shelf life, these apples are very good for preparing juices and compotes, which can be stored for a very long time.
