Apple tree "Augusta"

Apple-tree "Augusta" has fruits with amazing taste.

Having planted this variety of apples in his backyard, summer cottage or country territory, he will reward you with a wonderful fragrant harvest in the summer season.

Nowadays, it is impossible to find at least one person who does not hear about this fruit crop.

This fruit tree is widespread all over the world, it is easy to go to any supermarket and find tasty and healthy apples on the shelf.

However, it should be understood that the apple is not the apple.

Apples bought in the supermarket, of course, look great, thanks to their wonderful commercial qualities, but thanks are due to the chemicals with which the fruits of this fruit crop are processed. Removing apples from the actually grown tree, you can be one hundred percent sure of their benefits.

Apple tree "Augusta" - characteristics

This variety of apples is a late-ripening variety in terms of fruit ripening time.

The apple tree "Augusta" was obtained relatively recently, namely in 1982 at the All-Russian Research Institute of Horticulture and Horticulture Breeding, when combining such varieties of apples as "tetraploid papirovka" and "orlik". Thanks to the work of a group of specialists in breeding, namely E. N. Sedov, E. A. Dolmatov, Z. M. Serov and G. A. Sedyshev, this apple variety appeared.

This variety of apples has passed state tests and was added to the state register in 2002, is intended for cultivation in all regions of our country, Ukraine, Belarus and Bashkiria.

In order not to confuse this variety of apples with other varieties, it is worth getting to know it more consciously, as well as finding out an additional description.

Apple tree "Augusta": advantages and disadvantages

Advantages and disadvantages of this variety of apples

• A special quality of this summer apple variety is the high level of cold resistance.

Additional advantages of this variety of apples include:

• large amount of harvest.
• beautiful appearance of the crop.
• high level of resistance to certain diseases.

The disadvantage is the short crop maintenance time.

Apple tree "Augusta" - description

• Aged tree dimensions

Skeletal shoots recede from the stem at an angle of approximately ninety degrees, the space between each other is large.

This fruit tree has a wide crown, rather spreading, but not thickened, about two hundred and fifty to three hundred centimeters wide. An aged fruit tree grows four to four hundred and fifty centimeters up.

• Color and dimensions of sheet plates

• The petioles of this fruit tree are of ordinary size, grow with a downward slope.
• Light green leaf plates, uneven, large, regular oval shape. Large crenate along the edge.
• The plates are concave and grow with a downward slope.

• Increasing the tree every year

This variety of apples is developing quite rapidly. Each fruit tree grows annually, by about seven to ten centimeters.

• Frequency in the fruit-bearing process

Regardless of the dry summer seasons and cold winter seasons, the harvesting process for fruit trees is stable, there is no periodicity.

• Harvest amount

• - Apples are greenish in color, with a clearly visible pinkish tint.
• - With an elongated shape, beveled at the edges.
• - The weight of each apple reaches one hundred sixty - two hundred and ten grams.
• - This variety of apples boasts a large harvest. An aged fruit tree can yield up to two hundred and twenty kilograms of harvest.

• The opinion of tasters about this variety of apples

This variety of apples has an excellent presentation, as well as with amazing taste:

• - apple pulp is filled with juice, quite dense, common graininess, light green color, dessert taste, sour and sweet at the same time.
• - the tasters rated the taste of fresh apples at four point and five tenths on a five-point scale.

• Cold resistance level

In the winter season, at temperatures of minus thirty-five degrees, the crown and root system of a fruit tree rarely freezes.

Due to its high level of resistance to cold winter seasons, this apple variety is gaining great popularity in the northern parts of our country.

Worth knowing! With rootstocks for winter varieties of apples of this variety, it can endure temperature indicators of minus forty-three degrees.

• The level of resistance to various diseases

The apple tree "Augusta" is highly immune to some common diseases, such as powdery mildew and scab.

However, there are cases of serious diseases of the apple tree. Fungi of parasitic formation, infect the bark of a fruit tree.

Such diseases appear, most often with poor soil and neglect of the moisturizing procedure.

Apple tree "Augusta": reviews

Nikolay, Moscow region:

“Autumn, winter and summer varieties of apples grow in my suburban area. Among the summer varieties, the most fruitful is the selection variety "August". From each tree I collect about eighty kilograms I block. The fruits are of excellent presentation, and consumer qualities are not inferior to him. Together with my family, I sell to my friends and acquaintances about thirty kilograms of fruits, and those that remain are used for preserves, juices and jams. "

Nadezhda, St. Petersburg:

“Since I already have experience in gardening, I can safely say that this variety is the most productive. This fruit crop annually brings a large amount of harvest. The fruit tree cannot be called capricious in agricultural technology. It has good immunity to diseases and parasites. True, of the minuses, there is a short crop maintenance time. "

Alena, city of Cheboksary:

“Among other varieties of apples growing in my country house, I consider this variety to be average. Of the advantages, it is impossible not to single out the good taste of the fruits and a large amount of the harvest, which, unfortunately, decreases over time, and I do not see any more advantages. In the winter season, the fruit tree freezes, and in the summer season it needs regular moisture. Leaf plates regularly get scab, it takes a lot of time. The harvest is really tasty, but it is impossible to store it for a long time. Immediately before selecting the planting material, I recommend that you talk to the seller, see photos and videos on the Internet, and then decide whether you need to purchase it. "

Apple tree "Augusta": planting

In order for this fruit tree to adapt and develop correctly, the planting site is selected with a sufficient amount of sunlight, and the groundwater must adjoin at least three hundred centimeters.

• Time

Planting material should be planted in the first weeks of March and before the buds open.

Note! If the fruit tree was purchased from September to November, then the fruit tree should be slightly dug, planting should be carried out from March to May.

• Faithful disembarkation process

1. In a correctly selected area, make holes for planting, and a depth of about forty centimeters. The diameter should be about fifty centimeters.
2. Sand is poured on the bottom and the material is placed under the planting, the root system is carefully straightened and the earth is poured.
3. It is worth remembering that the root collar does not deepen; the root collar should be located three centimeters higher than the soil level.
4. Immediately after the procedures, tamp the area near the trunk and moisten with two buckets of liquid.

• Space

A fruit tree needs a sufficient amount of sunlight, if this moment is neglected, the amount of harvest will be reduced significantly.

To prevent a reduction in yield, it is worth monitoring the space between fruit crops when planting.

A distance of four hundred centimeters should be observed between fruit trees, and about five hundred centimeters between rows.

• Cultivation of this variety of apples

In order for the fruit tree to develop correctly, during summer droughts, it is necessary to produce abundant watering. In the case of a rainy summer season, the soil near the trunk must be loosened, this will allow the root system to stock up on oxygen to the fullest.

Apple tree "Augusta": leaving

Timely application of fertilizers helps to increase the size of the tree and its yield.

In the first years after planting planting material in the spring, they acquire fertilizing with nitrogen.

After two years, it is worth purchasing fertilizers with potassium and phosphorus.

• Pruning and shaping the crown

Correct shaping of the crown will contribute to an accelerated harvest.

The first pruning is carried out immediately after planting, and the top of the planting material is pruned, the size of the tree should not be more than one hundred centimeters. Because of this, the branches growing on the sides begin to grow rapidly and lay fruit branches.

Then, annually in the spring, all weak and rotten shoots are pruned near the fruit tree.

• Varieties that pollinate this apple variety

In order for a fruit tree to have a good harvest, cross-pollination is necessary. You can buy any summer variety, the main thing is that the duration of the flowering procedure is the same.

• The specifics of ripening and the process of harvesting

In distinguishing features of the description of this variety of apple trees, it is necessary to mention the time of the harvest, as well as the ripening and content of the harvest.

Harvesting process

• The beginning of the harvesting process

The first harvest of this variety of apple trees occurs when they reach the age of five to six years immediately after planting.

However, with the correct pruning of the crown and shaping it, you can take the first crop at the age of four.

• The specifics of the harvest process

This variety of apple trees has a large amount of harvest, for the first time it is possible to collect twenty-five kilograms from each tree.

The specificity of the fruit tree is considered to be an increase in the amount of harvest annually.

• Time

Ripening of the crop

The climate of the regions directly affects the ripening time of the crop. Usually, the fruits are removed in the second - last week at the end of the summer season.

Harvest content

You can consume the crop raw, but the shelf life is short. Thirty days after removing the fruits, they change shape and lose their qualities.

Recommended! Due to the large amount of harvest, it is worth immediately processing it to prevent the apples from rotting.

Summing up

The apple tree "Augusta" has a short harvest time, but before that, the process of bringing fruits allows you to enjoy sweet, healthy apples already in the summer season.

Thanks to the beneficial substances and vitamins contained in fruits, fruits are in demand in many parts of our country.

If you follow all the recommendations for planting and agricultural technology, cultivating a fruit tree in your suburban area will not be difficult even for people who have no experience in gardening.