Apple Tree Excellent

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Apple-tree Excellent is a winter variety that came from America. Recommended for cultivation and widespread in the North Caucasus and Astrakhan regions.

Apple tree Excellent: variety description and characteristics

Apple tree Excellent photo

Apple tree Excellent: photo of the variety

Apple tree Excellent - strong growth, large, the crown at a young age is presented in the form of a reverse pyramid, in an adult - it is wide and rounded, lush, branches in relation to the trunk are at an acute angle, slightly bent at the base, moderately thickened, bark dark gray coloration. Fruits are formed in a mixed manner, mainly on spears and fruit twigs.

Shoots of the apple-tree Excellent - medium in length and thickness, with knees, dark red color (in the conditions of the nursery - dark brown), have a weak pubescence and numerous small and pinpoint lentils, at the base of the shoot their location is group. The leaves are wide, in the form of an oval, in rare cases - elongated, in the form of an egg, the base is rounded, the apex is moderately long, the end is oblong, the edges are in the form of a double denticle, as well as the leaves are slightly bent and folded in an average degree, collected finely in the middle. Weakly pubescent, below it is light green in color. The staining is dark green, the surface is slightly shiny. The leaf is located at an acute angle to the stem. The petiole is elongated, has a red stripe at the bottom at the base, sometimes completely colored, stipules of medium size, lanceolate.

The flowers of the excellent apple variety are large, in the form of a bowl, pink in color. Buds are red. Column of pistils elongated, pubescent, anthers higher or at the same height with stigmas.

Features of the variety

Apples of the "Excellent" variety are large, elongated, in the form of a cone, strongly ribbed over the entire surface, have 5 tubercles raised around the circumference of the saucer. The diameters in diameter are different, located below the center of the apple. The peel is rough, very dense, smooth, has large and blurred subcutaneous dots of a whitish color, as well as dots of gray color on the surface, which are noticeable on the side in the shade. The main color is light green, when the fruit is fully ripe, it turns yellow.

Apples Excellent by ½ and more are covered with streaks of red color over a slightly pink blush, when ripe it turns into a rich orange-red hue, the fruit is slightly covered with a bloom of wax. The funnel is wide in size and deepened, from the inside it is covered with a bloom of a grayish or greenish color. The fruit stem is plump and elongated, thickened at the tip. A saucer with a large fold, wide and deep. The calyx is closed or slightly opens over a wide tube in the form of a cone or funnel. The seed chambers are connected with the axial cavity with the help of narrow liquors.

The inner content of apples of the Excellent variety with removable ripeness of greenish-white coloration, during storage - creamy, with a yellow color, sweet, spicy, dense, very juicy (the quality composition is outstanding according to the international standard). However, small apples (due to the dry period, due to illiterate agricultural techniques or premature harvest) are unleavened and sweet, with bitterness. Fruits contain: dry matter (fourteen percent), sugars (eleven percent), titratable acids (0.25%), ascorbic acid (4.2 mg per hundred grams), P-active substances (one hundred and forty mg per hundred grams).

The apples of the Excellent variety are harvested in the last days of September, storage continues until the March-April days.

The excellent apple tree begins to bear fruit from the ninth to tenth year. The average yield in the center of the Kuban territory is one hundred and ninety centners per hectare, in the steppe - one hundred and thirty centners per hectare. The tree bears fruit not sharply periodically.

Apples and foliage are affected by scab.

In the course of combination breeding with the participation of the apple variety Excellent, scientists have created varieties popular on a global scale: Fuji, Jonadel,Kidds Orange Red”,“ Kinray ”,“ Medina ”,“ Melrose ”,“ Murasaki ”,“ Orleans ”; Russian varieties: "Yuzhnoe"," Sochi pineapple "," Giant ".