Apple tree Calvil white summer

Apple tree Calvil white summer late summer ripening, bred by the people. Nowadays, the variety is not listed in the state register, it was excluded from there, but you can find this apple tree in old garden plots of middle Russian latitudes.

Apple tree Calvil white summer: description of the variety and characteristics

Apple tree Calvil white summer: photo of the variety

The tree of the Kalvil apple-tree variety is white summer of rather large size. The crown is in the form of a broom, when the apple tree is young, and rounded in the form of a broom, when the tree is fully fruiting, contains a large number of lush, upwardly directed main branches.

The shoots are elongated, rather plump, brown in color, there are rare, barely noticeable lentils with a slight pubescence at the top. The leaves are large, the petioles are elongated. Some of the leaves are curved in the form of a spoon.

Description of fruits

The apples of the Kalvil variety are white summer, above average, elongated, at the top in the form of a cone, greenish-white in color, there is no cover coloration. The peel is thin, smooth, very delicate, glossy, slightly covered with a waxy coating. The fruit stem is elongated, thin, greenish-brown in color. The swollen funnel, as a rule, has a juicy tubercle at the base of the fruit stem. The calyx is medium in size, closed. The saucer is narrow, deep.

The inner content of the fruit is a small grain, juicy, has a pleasant sourness and delicate aromatic properties. Fruits contain: sugars (10.2%), titratable acids (0.82%), ascorbic acid (8.6 mg per hundred grams).

In the climate of the Oryol region, you can remove the fruits in August 15-20.

The fruits of the Kalvil white summer apple variety are perfectly kept on the branches, they can be stored after harvesting for 3 weeks.

Apple tree Calvil white summer: culture features

Apple variety Calvil white summer is not fast-growing enough. Fruits with good marketable qualities give only from the eighth to tenth year after planting apple trees on a seed stock. Apple trees for 7 years on the garden plot of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fruit Crops brought only five centners of fruit per hectare, while “Grushovka Moscow" - thirty eight, "July Chernenko"- seventy-five c / ha. From ten to fifteen years, the yield of trees is good. Adult apple trees bear fruit not sharply periodically. The variety is relatively resistant to the winter season. Basically, it is less resistant to winter than Cinnamon Striped and Grushovka Moskovskaya, but more resistant to the winter season than Autumn Striped and Welsey. Scab immunity is average.

Apple tree Calvil white summer: advantages and disadvantages

Advantages: marketability of apples, good taste, fruits are well transported.

Minuses: Apple variety Calvil white summer is not self-fertile enough, there is no cover coloration of apples, although the variety is summer, but the fruits ripen late for this time.