Apple-tree "Cherry"

Apple-tree "Vishnevaya" is an early winter variety, which was bred at the IV Michurin All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Industry by combining such varieties of apples as "ordinary Antonovka" and "saffron pepin".

The Vishnevaya apple tree is considered new, it has received the best features and qualities from the parent varieties. Thanks to the "ordinary Antonovka" variety, this variety can boast of a large amount of yield and a good level of resistance to some diseases, and thanks to the "saffron pepin" variety, it boasts a harvesting process every year and a rather long fruit keeping time.

This variety of apples is recommended for cultivation in the Central Black Earth region and is widespread in Voronezh and Tambov.

Apple-tree "Cherry": advantages and disadvantages

The advantages of this variety of apples:

• the harvesting process takes place every year.
• the amount of the crop is stable.
• good presentation of fruits.
• good taste.
• satisfactory level of resistance to fungal diseases.
• good possibility of transporting fruits over long distances.

Disadvantages of this variety of apples:

• low level of resistance to cold and frost.
• short time content of the crop.
• the smell of the fruit is not pronounced.

Apple-tree "Cherry" - description

• Fruit tree dimensions

This fruit tree grows of ordinary size, the shape of the crown is a regular flat circle or a volumetric circle, the density of the crown is assessed as good.

• Branches

Branches recede from the trunk at an angle of about ninety degrees, there is a tendency to thicken. The bark and rather thick branches of the fruit tree have a red and cherry color at the same time.

• Escapes

Regular size, straight up, cherry color.

• Sheet plates

The leaf plates do not have any irregularities, the shape resembles an egg, along the edges of the foliage it has small serrated serrations.

• Harvest

The shape of all fruits is regular, round or slightly elongated round, most often the mass of one fruit reaches one hundred and twenty grams. The skin is thin, rather delicate, there is a bloom of wax. The color of the fruit in technical ripeness is yellow and green at the same time, as it fully ripens, a bright pinkish tint is formed. In a particularly sunny and hot season, all fruits acquire a beautiful dark cherry color.

The pulp is snow-white, the grain is small, the taste is sour and sweet at the same time, all the notes are in harmony with each other. The fruits contain:

• sugar - ten and a half percent.
• titratable acids - one-fifth of a percent.

The dots located under the skin are quite large and in sufficient quantity.

• The opinion of the tasters

The tasters rated the taste of fresh fruits at four points and three to five tenths on a five-point scale. The appearance was rated four point five points on a five point scale.

• Harvesting time

It is worth removing fruits from the tree during the first two weeks of the first autumn month.

• Fruit keeping time

You can store the crop until the third winter month.

• Harvest amount

The amount of harvest is ordinary, it is possible to collect up to one hundred and forty kilograms from each adult fruit tree. The tree brings harvest annually, without periodicity.

• Early maturity of the variety

The early maturity of the variety is assessed as ordinary, the apple tree begins to bear crops when it reaches the age of five to six years immediately after planting in the garden.

• Cold resistance level

The level of resistance to cold is ordinary; in especially cold winter seasons, annual branches can freeze.

Fruit buds of this fruit tree can also freeze during the spring cold and frost.

• The level of resistance to various diseases

The level of resistance to various diseases is satisfactory, the apple tree is exposed to fungus in especially wet seasons.

Varieties that pollinate the tree

It is recommended to plant nearby apple varieties that pollinate your tree:

• - "ordinary Antonovka".
• - "saffron pepin".
• - "north synap".

Apple-tree "Cherry": reviews

Anastasia, city of Saratov:

“I got this sort of apple trees because before that I saw a photo on the Internet, and on it there is a magnificent tree and red apples. However, in life everything is different than in the pictures. In the first winter season, the apple tree froze, the root system and trunk were not damaged. True, my fault, I didn’t know that this variety is not grown in our town, I advise you to reread more carefully the characteristics of fruit crops ”.

Victor Sergeevich, city of Krasnodar:

“This fruit tree has been growing on my site outside the city for about four years. And here's what I can tell you about her: the fruits are really with a beautiful presentation, there are sour notes in the taste. To be honest, the amount of the harvest is quite ordinary, I have collected about five buckets of apples. It grows usually, the annual growth is about forty - forty-five centimeters. At the beginning of the spring season, I bring in humus, in the summer and autumn seasons, I treat it with fungicidal preparations to prevent scab. "

Nadezhda Anatolyevna, city of Vladimir:

“My sister sent a photo of this apple tree to the social network, and I, in turn, read the description, and the next day I went to the nursery for a seedling. And in general, everything suits me. There are more advantages than disadvantages, the fruits are delicious, the apple tree is compact, it is ill infrequently, unpretentious. Of the shortcomings, I noticed an overly dense crown, which needs to be thinned. "

Antonina, city of Pskov:

“The apple tree of this variety liked the market and I decided to buy it. A year later, she was already blooming, four fruits were laid. I plucked two so as not to overload the apple tree, and I did not touch two. The fruits were sweet and juicy. "

Apple-tree "Cherry": planting

• Time

A fruit tree is planted at the beginning of the spring season or at the end of the fall season, during vegetative calm. If the planting material is put up for sale with a covered root system, then the seedling is allowed to plant in the summer season, regularly moisturizing and covering from direct sunlight.

For planting a fruit tree, an area with a sufficient amount of sunlight and no drafts is suitable.

Recommendation! A fruit tree should not be planted in lowlands or wetlands.

• Process

1. Make a hole for planting with dimensions of about seventy centimeters by seventy centimeters for virgin soil or difficult soil, fifty centimeters by fifty centimeters for ordinary soil. Loosen the bottom of the planting hole with a shovel.
2. Place a powerful stake in the middle of the landing hole.
3. Place the planting material so that the root collar is located five to seven centimeters higher than the soil. Spread out the root system so that the roots are facing in different directions.
4. Carefully cover the root system with soil, tamp, moisten with two containers of liquid.
5. Tie the planting material to the stake, trim the branch to one third of the entire length.

Note! All kinds of top dressing should not be placed under the root system of the tree. It is necessary to place them in liquid or place them in the soil ten to fifteen centimeters lower than the root system.

Apple tree "Cherry": care

• Agricultural technology for young planting material

Agricultural technology for this variety of apples includes moistening, loosening the soil near the trunk and shelter from parasites. To accelerate the growth of branches in the spring season or in the first week of the summer season, the apple tree is purchased with fertilizers with a high nitrogen content.

• Pruning and shaping the crown

An exceptional feature of the fruit tree is its dense crown, which needs thinning. Pruning is carried out at the beginning of the spring season before the buds open or just before the winter season before the arrival of persistent frost.

• When pruning, the following is removed:

• - tops, or branches that grow straight up and do not bear fruit.
• - infected, broken by cold or parasites.
• - branches growing close to each other.

Pruning must be carried out with disinfected and washed equipment. Immediately after pruning the infected apple tree, the entire equipment is disinfected and cleaned.

Note! The infected parts of the fruit tree must be removed from their territory, we recommend that they be completely destroyed.

• Distinctive features of ripening and fruit-bearing

For an excellent harvest of this variety of apple trees, pollinating varieties are needed. We recommend paying attention to the following:

• - "ordinary Antonovka".
• - "saffron pepin".
• - "north synap".

The aforementioned fruit trees produce the flowering process at the same time as this variety, namely in the second week of the last spring month.

The flowers of the fruit tree are cream or snow-white in color, ordinary in size, and have a pleasant smell.

Note! Most remedies for diseases and parasites of the fruit tree are harmful to insects, namely bees. If they use the apple tree in the flowering process, then the bees will not pollinate the tree properly, most of the fruits will be lost.

The harvesting process takes place every year, for older trees as well. Upon reaching the age of five to six years, immediately after planting, the tree begins to produce crops. Fruits are laid on small and elongated fruit branches and spears.

Fruit picking time comes in the first week of the fall season. With a rainy summer season, harvesting occurs later, approximately in the second - third week of the first autumn month. Consumer ripeness comes fourteen days later than their removal. During these periods, the fruits lose their sour taste, so it becomes harmonious.

Fruits are contained until the second week of the last winter month, without losing their consumer properties. The crop is well transported over long distances in boxes and crates. This variety of apples is perfect for consumption raw and after undergoing thermal processing.

Columnar variety

This type of columnar apple has not yet been invented. Next, we will talk about the general type of columnar fruit trees.

This type of fruit tree is widely known for its compactness and accelerated onset of fruit bearing. Such planting material can be planted with a space of about fifty centimeters from each other.

The flowering process in this type occurs when it reaches the age of two years immediately after planting on its site, in landscape design, which is for its own site, which is a huge advantage for industrial.

A fruit tree of this type grows no more than two hundred and fifty centimeters upward and will be able to form small branches growing on the sides. This is due to the fact that the upper part of the planting material freezes, and in the spring season, the trunk forms two branches. With this option, the weaker shoot is removed.

Without pruning, this type of apple tree will be able to change into a small pyramid-shaped tree with a crown, approximately seventy centimeters - ninety centimeters in diameter.

Note! A fruit tree of this type should be cultivated exclusively in warm countries or create a similar climate in our country.

This type also needs pollinating varieties.

Distinctive features of cultivation in Central Russia and the Moscow region

This variety of apples is advised to be cultivated in the Central Black Earth Region. This variety does not differ in a specific level of resistance to cold and frost and does not always feel great on the territory of Moscow and the Moscow region. This is due to the fact that the flower buds of this variety do not have a sufficient level of resistance to spring frosts and cold weather. Young branches are quite sensitive to our winter seasons with cold winds and sharp temperature changes.

This type of apple is not recommended for cultivation in areas with unstable weather conditions.

The fruit tree will be able to tolerate cold temperatures up to minus twenty-seven degrees without problems. At lower temperatures, annual branches freeze. In the winter season of 1978-1979, while the temperature regime reached minus thirty-seven degrees, the number of damaged specimens was one point and three tenths, usually the indicators did not exceed four tenths, one point.

This variety of apples most likely will not grow normally in the Urals. We recommend paying attention to varieties with a high level of cold resistance.

Recommendation! In the Moscow region, the fruit tree must be covered for the winter season for the first two to three years immediately after planting.

This apple variety is perfectly grown in the middle lane of our country, but it can freeze a little during especially cold winter seasons.

Recommendations from professionals

• If the fruit tree is exposed to cold weather, then in the spring season, trim the infected branches and fertilize the apple tree with a weak fast-acting fertilizing preparation, you can use ammonia or nitrophos, one tablespoon per container of liquid.
• For long-term preservation of fruits, place fruits in boxes or boxes, cover a new level with cardboard and move to a cold room.
• With an overly sunny spring season, the bark of a fruit tree can be attacked by burns. To eliminate or prevent it, it is worth whitening all the apple trees on the site.
• All summer residents have had cases when cutting apple trees began to wither or dry out after certain procedures, for example, fertilizers, pruning, and searching for parasites. We recommend using the traditional method: dig out the trunk from either side and drive a large nail into the root collar. How this helps is not clear, but this is the main thing.