Apple-tree Altai crimson

If you want to plant this type of apples on your summer cottage, suburban or personal plot, you need to find out the specifics of planting a fruit tree, as well as agricultural technology for an apple tree to collect an amazing harvest, especially if you live in Siberia, since the Altai crimson apple tree is very peculiar.

Apple-tree Altai crimson: description of the variety

Apple-tree Altai crimson: photo of the variety

The Altai crimson apple tree was obtained by breeding specialists in 1963 by crossing pollen mixtures of such varieties as Ranetki Yermolaev, Pepina Lithuanian, Pepina Chernenko and Pepina Saffron.

The author of the Altayskoe crimson apple variety is M.A.Lisavenko, as well as a group of breeding specialists from NIISS in the city of Barnaul.

The fruit tree has shoots of brown and greenish color at the same time, it grows drooping.

Leaf plates of a dark emerald color, ordinary dimensions, have an elongated edge with a certain sharpening, matte, there is pubescence at the bottom. At the edges, the leaf plates are slightly wavy, crenate. The crop is formed on the ringlets and the tips of annual shoots.

The mass of one fruit of the Altai crimson apple most often reaches twenty five to thirty grams. The shape of the fruit is regular, round or conical; all apples have identical dimensions and shape.

Basically, the color of the fruits is golden, the integumentary color is dark reddish, cherry, is pronounced on fruits growing in a shaded place, however, the main color is noticeable almost throughout the fruit, there is also a large bloom of blue color, and a large number of small grayish dots located under the skin.

The pulp is white or cream in color, the veins are red, filled with juice, the taste is sweet and sour at the same time.

Apple tree Altai crimson: advantages and disadvantages

Advantages and disadvantages of this variety of apples

Disadvantage apple varieties Altai crimson are considered to be small in size, about thirty grams.

The merits apple trees of the Altai crimson variety are: the fruit tree begins to form a crop when it reaches the age of four years immediately after planting the planting material, this indicates the early maturity of this variety.

Apple-tree Altai crimson: characteristic of the variety

Apple-tree Altai crimson: photo of the variety

• Has a good level of resistance to cold and frost.
• Possesses a high level of resistance to various diseases, for example, scab.
• Regardless of the small size of the crop, it has a good appearance and the ability to transport fruits over long distances.

• Dimensions of the fruit tree at the age, seasonal changes

The Altai crimson apple tree grows of ordinary size, about two hundred and fifty centimeters up, has a crown in the form of a regular wide oval, the density is estimated as average.

The branches grow at an angle of ninety degrees from the trunk, rather accelerated.

• Harvest amount, time of fruit bearing

Regardless of the small size of the harvest, this variety of apples brings a large amount of harvest, when you reach the age of six years, you can collect up to thirty kilograms of fruits, and in subsequent years the number of fruits and their weight only increases.it is possible to get up to thirty-five kilograms from each fruit tree. The apple tree bears a harvest every year.

As a result, it is possible to get from eleven to nineteen tons per hectare.

• Tasters' opinions

The crop is sweet enough, but it also has a certain sour taste.

The fruits of the Altai Crimson apple-tree contain:

• sugar - fourteen percent.
• acids - one and a half percent.
• ascorbic acid - sixteen and a half milligrams per hundred grams of raw product.
• P-active compounds - two hundred thirty-seven milligrams per hundred grams of raw product.
• tannins - one hundred sixty-eight milligrams per hundred grams of raw product.
• pectin substances - one percent.

The tasters rated the palatability of the Altayskoye crimson apple-tree at four point and two tenth points on a five-point scale.

• Cold resistance level

The Altai crimson apple tree has a good level of resistance to cold and frost up to minus forty degrees. Thanks to this quality, this variety of apples is used as a scion and for the manufacture of new varieties with a high level of cold resistance.

• The level of resistance to various diseases

The apple tree of the Altai Crimson variety has a high level of resistance to certain diseases, for example, to scab, but the list does not end there.

Apple-tree Altai crimson: planting varieties

Apple-tree Altai crimson: photo of the variety

• Landing time and pattern

The Altai crimson apple variety is planted at the beginning of the spring season before the start of sap flow, pay attention to the thawed soil, about one or two bayonets. This planting provides the tree with time to adapt.

For landing, make landing holes located at a distance of two hundred to two hundred and fifty centimeters from each other. The diameter of the landing holes should be seventy to eighty centimeters, and the depth should be seventy to sixty centimeters.

The planting holes must be dug in such a way that their walls are vertical, in this case the access of air and liquid will be normal. Pour on the bottom of the planting holes:

• two containers of humus.
• soil from the first layer.
• turf mixture.
• ash capacity.

Mix all ingredients well together.

If you are planting a fruit tree in Siberia, then it would be wiser to plant an apple tree on bulk mounds. In the climate of Siberia, thaws in the spring season and cold weather are considered the most harmful for trees. This means that when landing on hills, the trees will not be in an excessive amount of water in the spring season, when the snow melts, the root collar will not rot like that.

With this option, in the autumn season, they dig up the soil, make gentle hills, approximately thirty to forty centimeters high and one hundred centimeters wide. The mounds should be two hundred to two hundred and fifty centimeters apart.

At the beginning of the spring season, when the soil thaws, pour one or two buckets of humus, a glass of ash on the mound, mix well and plant the apple trees.

• Correct planting process

Immediately before planting the Altai crimson apple variety, consider the planting material, remove the damaged root system. Place the planting material with the root system in the liquid for five to ten hours.

Then place the planting material in the hole, straighten the root system. Set the stake on the north side of the trunk. Pour the soil in layers and press lightly to compact the tree into the ground.

Note! Tie the planting material to the stake. Otherwise, the stem may grow crooked and not yield crops.

Every week and a half, immediately after planting, water the tree with two to three buckets of liquids. Make a roller of earth near the trunk for better absorption of liquids by the tree.

Apple-tree Altai crimson: variety care

For the first twenty-four months of the growth of planting material, carefully and shallowly dig up the ground near the trunk, remove weeds, tear off all the flowers to give the tree more strength and energy for further growth.

If the soil is fairly poor, then feed four times in three months. In the spring season, add top dressing as the snow melts and the earth thaws, however, until the branches start to grow.

Spread the top dressing all over the soil near the trunk and deepen it ten to twelve centimeters into the soil.

If the soil is fertile, then you can apply top dressing once every two to three years.

Moisturize regularly. When fruit trees begin to bear crops, they need to be moistened:

• In the spring season, when the buds open.
• Twenty-one days immediately after the blooming of the buds.
• A month before the removal of the fruit.
• Immediately after removing the fruits, when the foliage falls off, they produce moisture-charging moistening.

It is necessary that, when moistened, the soil is wet by sixty centimeters.

Recommended! For the winter season, wrap the trunk with spruce branches or parchment in order to protect the tree from rodents.

The fruit tree growing on the territory of Siberia lives for about fifty years, but it bears more fruits in the period of six to twelve years. Because of this, apple trees aged fifteen and older are removed from the site.

• Pruning and shaping the crown

A fruit tree is pruned on the territory of Siberia annually so that all branches have a sufficient amount of lighting and the crown has the necessary density.

Branches growing horizontally produce significantly more yield than branches growing vertically. Because of this, when shaping the crown, branches that grow vertically are pruned.

• Varieties that pollinate this variety

It is recommended to plant these pollinating varieties nearby:

• - “a gift for gardeners”.
• - "Firebird".
• - "cherished".
• - Altai ruddy ".

However, do not forget that the distance from this variety of apples should not be less than three hundred centimeters.

• The specifics of ripening and the process of bearing fruit

The Altai crimson apple tree bears fruit when it reaches the age of four years.

The apple tree produces the flowering process at the end of the spring season or the beginning of the summer season, and the harvest ripens for the fall season, approximately at the end of the third summer month. The fruits are stored for up to ninety days.

Cultivation

In 1988, the Altai crimson apple tree was added to the state register. Due to the amazing level of cold resistance of this apple variety, cultivation is possible in Siberia. However, trees are widespread in Altai. Apple trees are planted in our country, in Ukraine and in Belarus.

Summing up

The Altai crimson apple tree is perfect for cultivation in colder regions, due to its high level of resistance to cold and various diseases.

Apple-tree Altai crimson: reviews of gardeners

Elena, St. Petersburg:

“I admired the photos and characteristics of the Altayskoye crimson apple tree on social networks and thought about planting it. The tree began to bear fruit upon reaching the age of three after landing in the country, I received three apples. The apples are filled with sweet juice, very tasty, slightly elongated, and the flesh is not friable. "

Anatoly, Moscow region:

“The fruits of the Altai crimson apple variety are rather small. However, these are the sweetest ones I've tasted in my entire life. The fruits that my wife and I have harvested this season were slightly crooked, thanks to the prolonged sediment. "

Peter, the city of Arkhangelsk:

“Apple harvest Altai Scarlet is famous for its high sugar content.The fruits contain many P-active substances, they also increase immunity, kill viruses and microbes, increase the elasticity of capillary vessels, remove toxins and toxins from the body. "