Apple tree Streyfling

Cultivating fruit crops on their personal plot, gardeners want not only to decorate their garden, but also to achieve a plentiful and tasty harvest of fruits. What can we say about such a fruit culture as an apple tree. It is difficult in our time to find a garden or a vegetable garden where at least one variety of this fruit tree does not grow. The fruits of this culture, juicy, tasty, beautiful and healthy, are loved by both adults and children. In this article, we will consider one subspecies of this plant, which has a late ripening of fruits and a bountiful harvest, which is called Streifling. But this variety has other names: Pruning, Autumn striped, Shtrifel (grows on a dwarf rootstock). The Streifling apple tree is quite common and famous, as it can grow in weather conditions in almost the entire territory of the former Soviet Union. Below we will take a closer look at this tree, as well as all its pros and cons, and analyze the technology of cultivation and care.

Apple tree Streyfling - description and characteristics

The tree of this apple subspecies is quite powerful and tall, can grow up to 9 meters (usually its maximum height reaches 7 years of age). The crown of a tree by 10 years of life can grow in a circle up to 8 meters. Such a dense crown often has a spreading pot-like shape. Outwardly, this tree looks like a little drooping, due to the fact that its branches form their shape at right angles.

The first fruiting period for this plant begins at 3 years of life, although it is rather scarce, but with age, this apple tree increases its harvest of ripe fruits. Fruits are formed at first on short ringlets, after which, after a while, they are formed on the tips of almost all fruit twigs.

The shoots of this plant are brownish, while the buds are endowed with a gray color. The leaves of the tree are green in color, often they are dominated by a grayish tint. These leaves do not have a bend, although there are some with a slight wrinkled structure. There is much more foliage at the top of the crown of the tree than on the lower tiers of branches.

The flowering period of this tree is accompanied by flowers of a large size and white shade, which, in addition, have a cup-shaped shape.

Apple tree Streyfling is considered a self-infertile plant, therefore, it requires finding other pollinating varieties near itself. Pollinators such as Welsey, Slavyanka and Antonovka are perfect for him. It is worth noting an important fact that for 6 such fruit trees, two other pollinating plants must grow nearby.

The fruits of this subspecies grow to a large size, each such fruit can reach a mass of 150-200 grams. The fruit has a rounded shape and its surface is waxy, covered with a very thick skin. It should also be noted that if you want to get a harvest of large apples, then you need to keep the soil in the peri-stem circle of the tree regularly moist, otherwise the fruits will ripen in a smaller size. During the ripening period, the fruits are green in color, with a yellow tint. In a mature state, the color of these fruits changes to pink-yellow with stripes. At the time of fruiting, these trees have a rather aesthetic appearance, delighting with their riot of shades. The inner part of the fruit is endowed with a pink tint under the skin itself, but in general it has a pale yellow color. This pulp has a loose structure, pleasant, delicate aroma and taste.When tasting, these fruits received an assessment of 4.5 points out of five.

An indicator of yield in the nursery was recorded from one such tree in 430 kilograms of ripe apples. In general, it must be said that this apple crop increases its yield indicator with age. So, for example, 10 years after planting, you can get 12 kilograms of fruit, after 20 years about 180 kilograms, and after 30 years the tree will give you a harvest of 330 kilograms of ripe and tasty fruits.

One of the main distinguishing features of this subspecies is its hardiness to frost, which it is not afraid of and grows well, delighting everyone with its harvest of fruits, in the territory of central Russia. This tree can easily survive the cold with an air temperature of -25 degrees, and the most underestimated temperature indicators can freeze the tips of the stems.

The Streyfling apple tree has an average level of immunity to such dangerous and common diseases as scab and powdery mildew, while the plant is endowed with good resistance to the attack of the main pest of the apple tree - the fruit moth. To avoid infection with dangerous diseases, it is required to carry out preventive measures, such as spraying the tree with Bordeaux mixture, and others.

Apple tree Streyfling: planting

The future growth, development, flowering and fruiting completely depends on the correctly carried out planting of a seedling of this subspecies.

There is an indisputable fact that the best option for planting would be a seedling that has reached the age of two years. Before purchasing such a seedling, carefully examine the root system of a young plant; there should be no traces of fungal rot and mold on it, as well as other damage. The roots of the tree should be kept moist. If you notice a particular hairiness of various lengths, then you simply need to cut the roots with pruners before planting until they are flat.

Although planting of this plant can be done both in spring and in autumn, in central Russia, planting in spring will be considered the best option, since with this planting a young plant can be protected from severe frosts, as well as provide the best adaptation during the summer season. Landing in the spring can be carried out during the descent of the snow cover and sufficiently warm soil. In the south of the country, a seedling of this subspecies is planted in the autumn, starting from the last decade of August.

It is very important to choose the right place for the future growth of the tree before planting. Be sure to remember such a fact as the spreading capacity and power of the tree at maturity. For this plant, the planting site should be with sufficient illumination, and preferably on a small hill. When planting several young trees at once, leave a distance of at least 4 meters between them, and about five meters between rows.

The Streyfling apple tree is a rather unpretentious plant, but such a tree prefers to grow on moist loamy soil. If your site is dominated by clay soil, then you should dilute it with compost and sand. Humus and peat are introduced into the sandy soil for a better soil structure.

The landing hole should be prepared in advance, approximately one week before the planned landing date. The hole must be about 70 centimeters deep and at least 100 centimeters wide. When digging up this hole, the top fertile layer should be set aside. The lower layer in the hole needs to be well loosened and one second of the fertile soil of the upper layer should be added, then fertilizers such as compost or humus, superphosphate and wood ash should be added, all this should be thoroughly mixed with the soil in the hole. Such a fertile soil mixture should occupy approximately half of the total volume of the planting hole.

7 days after you have prepared the planting hole, you should place a seedling in its center, gently spreading its roots. A peg must be driven in near the seedling, which will serve as a support for the plant in the future. A young plant should be tied to this peg and sprinkled with soil. Moreover, do this in such a way that the root collar of the plant is about 8 centimeters above the soil surface. Then gently tamp and water the planted seedling liberally. Then you need to make a layer of mulch from straw or spruce branches.

Apple tree Streyfling: care

To obtain a tasty, abundant and high-quality harvest, as well as to keep the tree healthy, it is required to provide it with proper and timely care.

Watering

As mentioned above, this fruit tree is quite demanding on the irrigation procedure in order to produce a larger fruit size. Watering should be carried out:

• - The first time during the planting of a seedling.
• - After that, during the flowering period, in the month of May.
• - The next watering is done during the ripening period, in the last decade of June.
• - Further before wintering - the second decade of October.

At a young age, the plant should be watered in the volume of five buckets, and this procedure must be performed with settled water. In adulthood, when the tree is actively bearing fruit, about 10 buckets of water should be consumed. With proper watering, the soil layer should be moistened to a depth of about 80 centimeters. This is required for such a powerful rhizome of this fruit tree. It is worth saying that watering often enough, but with a small amount of water, is not only useless, but, on the contrary, can harm the bark of the plant.

Pruning

Due to the fact that the crown of this fruit tree is spreading, a timely pruning procedure for it is considered a mandatory event. In the spring, dry and old stems should be removed. In the autumn, you need to remove all branches with signs of damage, disease infection. Pruning in time helps young shoots to have good development.

Top dressing

This variety of apple crop needs to be fed three times in one season. This is:

• - In the month of May, before the beginning of the flowering period, or during the blooming of the buds. At this time, a urea solution is introduced (for one bucket of water, half a glass of the drug).
• - The first ten days of June. Top dressing is carried out with a solution of copper sulfate (2 grams of substance per bucket of water) and boric acid (0.5 grams of substance per bucket of water).
• - In the last decade of August, before the upcoming wintering, the tree is fed with complex mineral fertilizers.

It will still be nice to feed the plant in the month of July, in the periosteal circle. As a top dressing, green manures are used, after which they dig up the green mass after a month and a half, as introduced organic matter.

Apple tree Streyfling: reproduction

A large number of farmers and gardeners want to grow more wonderful fruitful apple trees and propagate them on their own. This can be done in several ways, such as:

• - Sowing seeds.
• - Lateral layers with pinning to the soil.
• - Air layering.
• - On a dwarf rootstock, due to which there will be an advantage in the smallest growth and in the earliest harvest of fruits.
• - By cuttings without vaccination.
• - Excretion by eyes.
• - Breeding with a broken branch.
• - Cutting with young green branches.

Transplant features

The apple culture of this subspecies is allowed to be transplanted to another place of growth until the 20th age, since after this age the tree's ability to adapt and root to a new place is sharply reduced. The best period for transplanting is the time after leaf fall, that is, the middle of the autumn period.This plant should not be transplanted at the time of active foliage growth, abundant flowering in May and during the ripening period.

In early spring, a transplant is allowed to be performed if cold weather sets in rather early in the autumn. In the summer period of the year, this plant should not be transplanted, only in case of emergency. The transplant of this fruit tree should be carried out in a place with a previously prepared, fertile soil layer, having previously dug a hole about 30 days before transplanting, in order for the groundwater to move away. The hole is prepared approximately 7 days before disembarkation in this way:

• - The fossa should have the following dimensions: exceed the size of the rhizome not less than one and a half times.
• - Crushed stone or broken brick is poured at the bottom of the hole.
• - After that, a layer of humus or compost mixed with the soil is laid.
• - Superphosphate and wood ash are added.
• - The fossa is abundantly moisturized and left alone for about a week.

Apple tree Streyfling is transplanted in the same location to the cardinal points as it grew before. Repotting is required with a lump of soil in which it grew up to this point. The technology of this planting is completely identical as when planting a seedling. It is very important to correctly calculate the size of the rhizome for digging out the soil lump. Alone, it will turn out to transplant a tree with an age of 2-3 years, since the rhizome, suppose a plant is five years old, will have a diameter of more than one meter.

Diseases and pests

- Aphids

If you notice leaves curled down on your tree, which eventually turn black and dry, while becoming covered with a sticky substance, then this means that your plant has been attacked by a harmful small insect aphid. The difficulty lies in the fact that the tree of this subspecies is tall, and the aphid usually attacks from above, which is very difficult to notice in time.

- Leaf Roller

This pest is a rather small butterfly, a maximum of two centimeters in size. It causes serious harm to the plant during the period when it is a caterpillar. During this period, she looks like a larva with a dark head color and a brown body. This larva devours the vegetative parts of the plant, eventually reaching the fruits of the apple tree.

- Fruit moth

As noted above, this subspecies is resistant to this dangerous and harmful insect. But still it is worth knowing that when you notice the summer of gray-colored butterflies, their larvae, which have a light-colored body and a dark head, can make 80 percent of the fruits of the total volume wormy.

- Methods of dealing with harmful insects

It should be said right away that the treatment with chemical preparations from the pests of this tree is allowed in the spring period twice: before the budding, in the month of April, and the second time after the flowering period. To combat, spraying the plant with Bordeaux liquid is used, which quite well helps to fight not only harmful insects, but also some diseases and infections. They also spray the fruit tree with systemic insecticides, for example, Decis. A good option would be to use folk methods of struggle, such as: Processing with infusion of dill or wormwood, decoction of garlic and onion husks. In the autumn period of the year, you should collect all the fallen leaves and dispose of them by burning, then dig up the near-stem circle of the tree and spill it with insecticides. Such actions will help in the fight against harmful larvae that hibernate in the soil.

- Scab

This is a dangerous fungal disease, which makes itself felt on the following grounds: first, dark green spots appear on the foliage, after which they darken to black. The disease affects all vegetative parts of the plant, even the fruits. This disease often develops in the month of May, during humid and warm weather.For prevention, it is required in the autumn to collect and burn all fallen leaves and fruits, as well as cut off damaged and dried stems, whitewash the tree trunk. In the spring, before the flower buds bloom, the tree should be sprayed with the Bordeaux mixture. After the flowering period, it is worth spraying a second time. Pre-check the concentration of the solution on a pair of stems with leaves, so that you do not burn the entire crown of the tree. To treat the disease, use fungicides, strictly following the instructions.

- Black cancer

This fungal disease affects the apple tree in such a way that it looks charred outwardly, as a result of which the tree dies within 3 years. It is quite difficult to treat this disease, the positive effect is often achieved only at the very beginning of infection. That is why it is very important to carry out preventive measures: in the autumn and spring periods, you should clean off the bark with special iron brushes, after which everything cleaned off is burned. Damaged and dried branches and twigs must be pruned. It is very important to control harmful insects. You should also whitewash the trunk.

- Fruit rot

Disease of a fungal nature. It is characterized by the formation of brown spots, which eventually cover the entire fruit. Approximately 7-9 days after infection, yellowish formations form on the surface of the affected fruit - fungal spores. In the initial manifestations of the disease, treatment is carried out with fungicides, strictly following the instructions. It is imperative to carry out preventive measures, including: seasonal pruning procedures, harvesting all fruits on which there are signs of rotting, plant feeding.

Actions in the absence of color and fruiting

The most important reason for the lack of color and fruiting in this subspecies of apple culture is the inability to self-pollination. Therefore, it is required to plant other pollinator varieties near this tree, or at least to graft a stalk of another tree of this culture to the crown of the subspecies in question. You should also take into account the following reasons:

• - A rather young or too old plant.
• - Failure to comply with the landing rules (which can lead to drying out or decay of the apple tree).
• - Incorrectly performed pruning procedure, removal of a sufficiently large number of fruit-bearing shoots and horizontal stems.
• - Insect pests that feed on flowers.
• - The fertilizing of fertilizers containing nitrogen was incorrectly applied, or fertilizers were applied in the second part of the summer season, or their excess during application.

Apple tree Streyfling: reviews

In the end, I would like to note that you should not neglect the recommendations and advice on the care and cultivation of this tree as a whole, and then this apple tree will delight you with a wonderful, abundant and tasty harvest of ripe fruits for more than a dozen years.

Apple tree Streifling is considered a rather old subspecies, time-tested, and there are quite enough reviews on its account. Here are some of them:

- I am delighted with this apple tree, and I recommend it to everyone! The fruit tastes great, and it survives the winter period just fine. There are no problems with her. In addition to taste, the apples are also quite large, juicy and beautiful, I grew up to 300 grams in weight.

Anna, Ryazan

- Subtracted that this tree should be pruned. I can argue with that. This apple tree has been growing on my site for several decades, even my father planted it. Quite tall, spreading, in general, just huge! It bears excellent fruit, and most importantly produces very large and tasty fruits. The pruning procedure was never performed, only when my father was still sawing the lower branches, I remember that. Very demanding for watering. Overall an excellent variety.

Vitaly, Adygea