Apple tree Seedling Kravchenko
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The apple tree Seianets Kravchenko is a variety "from the people", selected by MG Kravchenko in Minusinsk from seedlings obtained by free pollination of a variety that remained unknown, around 1910. The apple varieties Seyanets Kravchenko have been recommended for cultivation since 1947 in Eastern Siberia. It was well cultivated in the garden plots of the population. It is not in novosadki.
Apple tree Seedling Kravchenko: variety description
Apple tree Seedling Kravchenko: photo of the variety
Apple tree Seedling Kravchenko of medium growth, its crown is wide, in the form of an oval, medium dense. Fruits are formed mainly on ringlets and fruit twigs.
Shoots are abundantly covered with pubescence. The leaves are almost round or wide in the form of an oval, their end is pointed and small in size, rolled to the side, the edges are in the form of denticles, the leaves are grayish-green, covered with pubescence from below. The petiole is thin, medium in length, the stipules are elongated, lanceolate.
Features of the variety
Apples of the Seyanets Kravchenko variety are small (weighing twelve grams), flattened and round. The main color is yellow, the cover color is dark red, blurred over the entire surface of the fruit. The rind is covered with a rich bluish bloom. The fruit stem is medium in length and has pubescence. The calyx is large, half open, the sepals are wide, covered with pubescence.
The inner content of the apple-tree seedling Kravchenko seedling is cream-colored, sometimes has streaks of red color, sweet-sour, slightly bitter, taste is mediocre. Fruits contain: sugars (13.3%, eleven and a half to fifteen), titratable acids (two percent, 1.97-2.12), tannins (three hundred nine mg per hundred grams), ascorbic acid (48.2 mg per hundred grams, 27-68.2) , P-active substances (six hundred fifty-nine mg per hundred grams, six hundred forty-six hundred seventy eight).
The moment of picking apples falls on the last August-first September days, fruits are stored for up to forty days. The yield indicator is average. The apple variety Seedling Kravchenko bears fruit irregularly. Resistance to the winter season is at a high level; in severe frosts, there is a slight freezing of apple trees. The variety is drought tolerant. Immunity to scab is weak.
Apple tree Seedling Kravchenko: advantages and disadvantages
Advantages: high level of winter resistance and drought resistance.
Minuses: very small fruits, mediocre taste, weak immunity to scab.
The apple variety Seyanets Kravchenko was used to develop new varieties, with his participation the Doctor Kunovsky apple tree, containing a large amount of pectin substances, was obtained on the basis of NIISS.
