Apple-tree Marina

The third month of summer is the beginning of apple time, lasting until the coldest days. There are many different apple varieties growing in our region, each with its own unique characteristics. In this article, we will consider the Marina apple tree.

Apple-tree Marina: variety description

Apple Marina: photo of the variety

The Marina apple variety is an autumn variety, as a rule, apples are picked in the last autumn days, before the winter season. The variety is of great interest, since it is frost-resistant, apples and trees can easily withstand very cold winter periods.

For the winter season, on severe frosty days, the Marina apple variety is stored in boxes, you can keep fruits in the cellar. Although apples are frost-resistant, their storage in the cellar will be many times better.

Marina apples are stored for one hundred and fifty days, fruits remain ideal until the first spring month.

Pollination

Good pollination is very important for the Marina apple variety, because, thanks to it, the apples become much better, in addition, the yield indicator increases. Therefore, good pollination is provided to the Marina apple tree, otherwise the fruit may simply not appear.

During pollination, the apple tree receives pollen from another tree or crop before fertilization begins. Cross-pollination is a suitable method, often with the help of bees.

Thanks to the help of bees, pollination of an apple tree can occur even from a crop that is 2 km away. To guarantee a good yield, you need to plant apple trees at least in pairs. If your garden is located among other garden plots, even a single tree will bring a crop, but still it will be much better to plant a pair of apple trees. It is advisable to plant 2 different varieties side by side, blooming at the same time.

Different varieties bred in the Urals can coexist with the Marina apple tree variety, because the apple tree is self-fertile, any other autumn-winter apple tree can pollinate it.

Good pollinators are the majority of beautiful wild apple crops. The best cultivar for pollination is “Anis Sverdlovsky».

Apple-tree Marina: features of the variety

• Crown Marina apple-trees are round, medium-dense branches, medium-sized apple tree. The bark is gray in color, smooth, branches extend from the trunk almost perpendicularly.
• Leaflets numerous, have a bright green color, matte, have wrinkles. The leaf plate descends from top to bottom, the stalk is medium in length.
• Flowers small, in the form of a cone, rich white color, pinkish buds. Shoots are brown in color, rounded, slightly thickened, downward.
• Apples Marina varieties of medium size, weigh from ninety to one hundred and thirty grams. The fruit is almost one-dimensional, slightly flattened from the side. The apples are smooth, their skin is dry.

The color of young apples is yellow, and of more ripe ones it is red almost throughout the apple in the form of stripes. The fruits have wide, small grains.

The inner content of Marina apples is loose in structure, sour, large grain, rich white color. The taste of the fruit is sour-sweet, the pulp has a strong aroma. The fruits can be stored for a long time, eaten both fresh and processed.

A brief excursion into history

The apple tree Marina was bred on the basis of the Sverdlovsk experimental gardening station during the hybridization of the varieties "Nega" and "Samotsvety".

The apple tree Marina was zoned in the Volga-Vyatka region. Trees grow mainly in the entire Middle Urals, since it is in this area that they feel more comfortable, it is very difficult for them to adapt to other climatic conditions. The author of the variety is L. Kotov.

Apple-tree Marina: the yield of the variety

The Marina apple variety bears small fruits, but the apple tree is considered to be very fruitful. After budding, fruiting begins at the age of 5, and the stability of the yields is guaranteed.

The yield of the Marina apple variety is at a high level, because the apple tree is resistant to weather changes - the flowers are not affected by unexpected cold snaps in the spring.

Plus, the Marina apple tree is immune to scab and has a high level of field resistance in any seasons.

For example, when placing trees on a plot of three by six meters, the yield indicator will be approximately two hundred quintals per hectare.

Yablonya Marina: planting and care

Apple-tree Marina: photo of the variety

The apple tree Marina is unpretentious, but certain rules are required to ensure a good yield indicator.

All apple trees can grow in a shaded place, but at the same time they are photophilous, and apple trees also like when they are illuminated by the sun's rays. Plants should not be planted in low-lying places, because they can be exposed to cold snaps, in addition, planting should not be carried out near the surface passage of groundwater.

If the soil is alkaline or acidic, then reclamation is required, best of all the apple tree will grow on gray, forest and soddy-podzolic chernozem soil with a weak level of acidity. In general, the Marina apple variety can be cultivated on any soil.

Plants do not need to be looked after because they are undemanding to care for. It is important to protect the trunks from harmful insects and rodents during the winter season.

It is recommended to plant the Marina apple tree early in the spring, before the buds bloom, or in the fall season, before the severe frosty temperatures set in. The variety can grow on its own if there are crops for pollination in other areas.

But it is better not to let things go by chance, and plant an apple tree near other fruit crops bred in the Urals, and then the harvest is definitely guaranteed.

Diseases and harmful insects

Even if your Marina apple trees are consistently bearing fruit, then this may also be threatened with changes if the plant is affected by a disease or harmful insects.

Below are the common diseases.

• Powdery mildew - fungal infection. Harmful to shoots and foliage, leaves dry and shoots stop growing. To fight the disease, in the spring time of the year it is required to process the apple tree with "Topaz" or "Skor" (solutions). They continue to heal after the flowering period - the plants are treated with copper oxychloride.
• Fruit rot... On apples of the Marina variety, brown spots appear, and mold appears on them. These fruits should not be eaten. To get rid of rot, forty grams of "Homa" are diluted in a bucket of water, then the apple trees are sprayed. 1 time when leaves appear, 1 time - after the tree has faded.
• Bacterial burn. The onset of the disease can occur when planting an apple tree, this is a disease of young apple trees. Blackening and deterioration of foliage, a change in the shape of leaves, and deterioration of apples are observed. To destroy the disease, it is necessary to eliminate the focus and close up the wounds with garden pitch. After that, the plant is disinfected with copper sulfate.
• Black cancer. Dangerous disease of bark and foliage. If you do not start doing something in a timely manner, the tree may die.Spots of black color appear on the leaves, constantly growing. To fight the disease, infected branches are chopped off, then the trunk and leafy part are treated with Bordeaux liquid in a dissolved form.

Harmful insects with great danger.

• Green aphid. The main parasite, spreads almost everywhere. The pest devours the leaves, damages the leafy part. The best remedy to get rid of aphids is a ladybug. If there are no ladybirds, then the foliage is treated with tobacco and soap solutions.
• Red tick... The pest tolerates wintering well in the bark, with each appearance of new fruits, it damages them. The parasite sucks the juices out of the apples, which makes the fruit dry. For preventive purposes, the bark is removed and burned. In addition, plants can be sprayed with Dicofol.
• Apple moth... The pest hibernates in the bark, then settles on the foliage, and begins to eat it at a fast pace. Moreover, the reproduction of caterpillars is fast, this harms the apple tree most of all. Spray the foliage with a solution of the "Chlorophos" preparation, and the parasites will not get even a step closer to the apple tree.
• Moth... This pest can carry over wintering both in the ground and in the bark. Parasites overwinter in a cocoon, when buds are born, the caterpillar pupates, then eggs are laid on leaves and young apples. Fourteen days later, the caterpillars eat up the fruit, get to the very grains. The fight against this pest is difficult, for this purpose, all infected fruits are removed and taken out to hell, the old bark is destroyed, in addition, the carrion is collected in time. The plant can be disinfected with a solution of the drug "Karbofos".

Do not forget that preventing the occurrence of harmful insects is easier than getting rid of them. If you regularly disinfect the trees, then you can detect the problem in time and avoid damage to the fruits or diseases of the apple tree.

The apple-tree Marina does not require care and creation of special conditions for it, and the tree has a good yield. Permanent Benefits: immunity to scab, resistance to frost periods, as well as the fruits are stored for a long time. Minus - Marina apples are loose.