Apple variety Krasa Sverdlovsk
This promising winter variety was bred by a group of Sverdlovsk breeders: L. A. Kotov, P. A. Dibrova and L. G. Vengerov.
Growing areas
The most favorable areas for growing this apple tree are the Middle and South Urals, the Upper Volga region and central regions of Russia. Even the gardeners of the southern territories have come to love this variety. The beauty of Sverdlovsk grows well and bears fruit in Western Siberia and in Altai, where stanza culture is used.
Plant characteristic
The beauty of Sverdlovsk is a self-fertile variety. To ensure cross-pollination, it is placed among other apple trees.
The tree is medium-sized with a rounded crown. The main branches are crooked, the bark is brown, located almost at right angles to the trunk. Fruits are formed on fruit twigs and ringlets.
Quite thick shoots, also covered with brown bark, geniculate, pubescent, with subtle edges. Dark green large leaves with a shiny wrinkled surface and serrated serrated edges are heart-shaped.
In spring, the apple tree is decorated with large pinkish-white flowers with long stamens and a slightly longer pistil. This is one of the few cultivated apple trees with burgundy buds.
Fruiting and productivity
Regular full fruiting can be expected 6 to 7 years after budding. With proper care, productivity reaches 200 centners per hectare.
Fruits are smooth, round-conical, large, weight ranges from 160 to 250 g. The pulp is of a delicate creamy color, juicy, dense, fine-grained structure, of a chipping type. The taste is excellent. The apples are resistant to dropping until ripening.
Experts and amateur gardeners consider the Krasa Sverdlovsk apple tree one of the best in the world. Harmonious sweet and sour taste, aroma, high shelf life and transportability, beautiful color and shape of the fruit make this variety profitable for commercial cultivation.
The chemical composition of apples
sugar - up to 15.1%;
ascorbic acid - from 18 to 31 mg per 100 g of pulp;
dry soluble substances - up to 18.9%;
catechins - from 301 to 406 mg per 100 g.
These apples are an effective remedy for vitamin deficiencies and are useful for hypertensive patients. Fresh fruits are most useful, but they are also suitable for processing.
Harvest time and storage conditions
Harvest time is September. The beauty of Sverdlovsk belongs to winter varieties, apples are stored from October to May, without losing marketability and nutritional value.
For storage, unripe fruits of a greenish-yellow color are laid, still tough and sour, when starch is felt in the taste. During storage, the fruits ripen: the fiber softens, the sugar content rises, the apples acquire a creamy color and a bright crimson-red blush, and a delicate aroma appears.
The optimum storage temperature is from 0 to + 4 ° C. Temperature fluctuations from +2 to +6 ° C are permissible. The air humidity in the storages is maintained at the level of 75 - 80%.
Features of agricultural technology of the apple tree
The beauty of Sverdlovsk is a variety of average winter hardiness. Therefore, the landing site must be chosen elevated, but protected from the winds.
Care is primarily determined by the cultivation region. For example, in the Ural gardens it is necessary to tie the trunk and base of the branches of the first order to prevent freezing. In the regions of Siberia, the Perm and Sverdlovsk regions, it is important to correctly form the crown. It should be of the stale type so that the plant is completely covered with a layer of snow in winter.
Important! When cultivating this culture, you need to know that the buds do not awaken well on the growths. Therefore, already on the youngest seedlings for several years, it is necessary in the spring to cut off last year's growths.In summer, it is useful to pinch new side branches over 3 - 5 leaves. This allows you to create a compact and very productive crown for several years.
Advantages of the variety
high taste and marketability of fruits;
good keeping quality;
one-dimensionality;
apples hold well on branches until harvest;
good safety during transportation;
relatively good disease resistance.
The main disadvantage of the variety
- its average winter hardiness.
Appreciated apple tree
According to the results of many years of variety trials, the specialists of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy named the Krasa Sverdlovsk variety the best in the group of mid-winter Sverdlovsk apple varieties.
