Apple tree Glory to the winners

Apple tree Glory to the winners has long been known and loved by many farmers and gardeners, mainly due to its delicious and abundant harvest. In our time, a lot of foreign novelties have appeared, which have slightly pushed this beautiful subspecies, but this does not diminish the distinctive advantages over many other varieties. He is also loved and appreciated by many gardeners in our country.

In this subspecies of the apple tree, many wonderful features and advantages are mixed that cannot be disputed. Apples of the Slava Winners variety have delicious taste characteristics, high yield and cold resistance. The subspecies has already passed enough checks and is considered quite reliable. This is what explains its popularity.

Apple tree Glory to the winners: variety description

Apples Glory to the winners: photo of the variety

Apple tree Glory to the winners appeared in 1928 in Ukraine, at the Mliyevskaya gardening station. Semirenko L.P., by crossing such varieties as Mac and Papirovka. It has another name - Glory to the Peremozhtsy. In 1954, it was zoned across the entire territory of the former Soviet Union.

A fairly widespread and well-known autumn apple variety Glory to the winners with stable and regular fruiting, a high level of productivity, a good indicator of cold tolerance, as well as an average level of immunity to diseases such as scab and powdery mildew.

Apple tree Glory to the winners belongs to the representatives of tall plants and has a pyramidal crown. The bark of the main stems is brown in color. The leaves are endowed with a pale green tint and a roundish shape. The buds of this apple tree are red in color, and the flowers are pink and saucer-shaped. Apples of the Slava Winners variety when ripe are medium and large in size, covered with a smooth skin. At the time of maturity, the fruit has a pale green color with a scarlet blush. The inside of the fruit is light in color, creamy. This pulp has a juicy structure, rather aromatic and has a sweet taste with a small amount of acidity.

Ripening of apples Glory to the winners falls on the first decade of August and until the first decade of September, it all depends on the area of ​​growth.

Apple tree Glory to the winners: characteristics and features

At the very beginning, you should tell where the name of the apple variety Glory to the winners came from. The fruits of this subspecies ripen at a time when the earliest varieties have finished fruiting, and the autumn varieties are just beginning to fill. It is at this moment, in all its superiority, that the juicy fruits of this apple tree are formed, thereby emerging as winners into the arena. Hence the name - Glory to the winners!

The apple variety Slava to the winners has its own distinctive features. Here they are:

• The flowering period of this variety is quite abundant, due to which the apple tree looks outwardly very beautiful and impressive.
• Flowers during the flowering period thin the delicate smell.
• Apples Glory to the winners when ripe have a very juicy structure.
• This subspecies is considered a fairly reliable, proven apple variety, with a regular and abundant harvest of tasty fruits.

Another distinctive feature of the Glory to the Winners apple tree is that when the fruits ripen, their seeds do not grow together with their seed chamber, but remain in a free position, and if you shake them, they rattle.

Apple tree Glory to the winners has a good level of frost resistance. Therefore, the variety can be cultivated not only in the southern regions of the country, but also in the most northern regions. Although, depending on the region of growth, the period of fruit ripening will also change.

The apple-tree of Slava to the winners is considered to be a vigorous plant.Its crown is endowed with a pyramidal shape, but it changes with the age of the tree. It can become tall, round, or tall, oval. The stems have their location at an acute angle to the trunk of the tree, while rising upward. But after the stems change their location, expanding to the sides.

The bark of the main stems of this tree has a brown tint, and the shoots are straight. Shoots at a young age have a reddish-brown tint, they are weakly genital and shiny. The leaves of this apple tree are endowed with an average size and roundish shape with pointed tips. The color of such foliage is pale green. They have a barely noticeable yellowness and slight pubescence, as well as weakly colored petioles and small stipules.

Apple tree Glory to the winners is a self-fertile plant. Like many other varieties, it cannot self-pollinate. Its yield depends entirely on the pollination of the pistil flowers of one subspecies with the pollen of another subspecies. Therefore, for this apple tree, it is necessary that other varieties of apple trees with an identical time of the beginning of fruiting grow near it (maximum 50 meters from it). When planting this variety, be sure to remember this important fact.

The period of the beginning of fruiting of this tree depends entirely on the region of growth of the apple tree, as a rule, it is medium-fruiting. When grown in more southern regions, this apple crop begins its fruiting period at 4-5 years of life, after planting. In the extreme southern regions, this period can be reduced to two years of plant life. But in the northern regions, fruiting dates come quite later. In its first years of life, the tree produces a wonderful harvest annually, but then this is replaced by some periodicity. The apple tree yield is considered to be above average. From one hectare of area, you can harvest ripe fruits of 100-200 centners. It should be noted that with a good level of yield and frost resistance, this subspecies has a low indicator of resistance to the dry season.

It should also be said that this apple variety has an average level of immunity to such a dangerous and widespread fungal disease as scab. When infected with this disease, the leaves of the tree become covered with specks of a dark color, then curl and dry out, after which they completely fall off. Fruits can also become stained and deformed. Therefore, it is required to monitor the state of not only the foliage, but also the fruits of the apple tree, to carry out the treatment in time with chemical agents that prevent infection with this disease.

Apples Glory to the winners are endowed with excellent taste characteristics. The inside of them is quite juicy, tender and aromatic. The color of the pulp is pale cream or yellowish white. The fruit tastes rather sweet, with a slight sourness. When tasting, these fruits received an assessment of 4.6 points out of five possible. Such fruits contain: sugar, minerals, P-active substances, vitamins C, B, E. Apples of the Slava Winners variety are consumed not only fresh, but also in a processed version. Delicious jams, juices, preserves are made from them. They are also wetted and dried.

Apple tree Glory to the winners: planting

Apples Glory to the winners: photo of the variety

Depending on the area of ​​cultivation and climatic conditions, the planting of an apple-tree seedling Slava to the winners is carried out in the spring or autumn season. The landing algorithm is as follows:

• A landing hole 70 centimeters wide and about one meter deep is dug in advance.
• A seedling of this subspecies is placed in this hole so that the root collar is not too deep.
• The root system of the seedling is carefully straightened.
• The seedling is covered with prepared soil, but it is important to keep the plant trunk in an upright position.
• The soil is carefully compacted.
• After that, water the planted seedling abundantly (with about one bucket of water).
• A peg is driven in next to the seedling, which will serve as a support for the tree. You need to tie a seedling to it.

Apple tree Glory to the winners: leaving

Apple pollinators Glory to the winners

As already noted, this subspecies is considered self-infertile. Therefore, such varieties as Borovinka, Antonovka ordinary, Delichiya, Melba, Priam, Vadimovka and James Grieve will become the best pollinators for the Slava winners apple tree.

Pruning procedure and crown formation

The crown of such a tree has strong enough branching, so it is important to monitor its condition. It is required not to allow it to thicken and thin out in time. Non-fruiting stems should be cut off, as this apple tree bears fruit on spears, ringlets and fruit twigs. It is very important to preserve this particular part of the tree crown.

Top dressing

The first feeding for this plant is applied in the month of April (root feeding). It includes fertilizers containing nitrogen. These are: urea, humus, nitrophoska and ammonium nitrate.

The next top dressing is applied during the flowering period with substances that activate the growing season: urea, chicken droppings, superphosphate, potassium sulfate.

The next top dressing occurs after the flowering period (the stage of fruit pouring): green fertilizer, nitrophoska.

And the last dressing is carried out in the summer: in the middle of summer, fertilizers based on potassium and phosphorus are applied, and in the winter they are fed with potassium-phosphorus fertilizers.

Chemical treatment

Apple tree Glory to the winners can be infected with diseases such as: milky shine, fruit rot, cytosporosis, powdery mildew and the most common scab. To combat such ailments, the apple tree is treated with such means as Topaz, Hom, Copper oxychloride and others.

Fruiting and ripening

Apple tree Glory to the winners: photo of the variety

When grown in the southern territories, the fruiting period for this apple tree begins at 4-5 years of life after planting, and when grown in the northern regions, this period comes much later.

In the first years of the plant's life, fruiting in this apple tree is regular and stable, after which it begins to bear a periodic nature. It depends on the condition of the soil.

The ripening dates for Slava Winners apples vary from the first ten days of August to the second part of September. It all depends on the area of ​​growth, from south to north. In the southern part of the country, these fruits will be able to retain all their characteristics for about 15 days, and in central Russia they will remain until December.

At a young age, an apple tree of this variety will be able to produce a yield of up to 15-20 kilograms from each tree. With age, the yield indicator will be approximately 70 kilograms, in the South, on average, this figure will be 200 kilograms per hectare. The maximum figure was recorded at 300 kilograms per hectare.

Types of rootstocks

It is quite possible to graft an apple tree of the glory to the winners on a semi-dwarf, dwarf and medium-sized stock. Which one to choose a stock for grafting depends on: the type of plantings; watering possibilities; the site of the future growth of the tree.

A good level of resistance to frost and drought, as well as immunity to viral diseases, is observed in pome rootstocks. But vegetative rootstocks, otherwise clonal ones, have the same qualities: M9 (dwarf rootstock) and MM106 (semi-dwarf rootstock), and others. They are also endowed with excellent compatibility with the subspecies that are grafted onto them.

It should be noted that this stock has a restraining effect on the grafted subspecies, is characterized by a remarkable survival rate, because the rhizome formed by the stock is fibrous and branched.

The grafted apple crop begins to bear fruit faster than rootstocks grown from seeds.In the southern regions, on vegetative low-growing rootstocks, these fruit trees begin their fruiting period at 4-5 years of life after planting, and in the most northern regions much later.

Plus, the productivity of the subspecies is much higher, up to about 300 centners per hectare. This is due to the densest landings and the improvement in the condition of the soil.

It should be noted that the use of common apple crops as rootstocks for columnar crops is not permissible.

Growing regions

Apple tree Glory to the winners: video about the variety

The timing of the ripening of the harvest of the fruits of this subspecies directly depends on the growing area. This period begins in the first ten days of August in the southern territories and in the second half of September in the northernmost regions of the country. But it is also worth knowing that when grown in the most southern regions, the fruits have a shorter shelf life than fruits grown in the northern territories.

Apple variety Glory to the winners will also behave differently, depending on climatic conditions.

Due to its hardiness to frost, this subspecies takes root well and adapts in almost every region of the former Soviet Union. That is why there is an opinion that in fact there is no plot where the variety grows in a natural way.

This apple subspecies is suitable for cultivation both in the south and in the northern territories, where the coldest climate prevails.

Although, depending on the region of cultivation, the fertility of this tree also changes. While in Ukraine this apple tree is considered late summer, in Central Russia it is autumn. It should also be noted that in the Moscow region this plant bears fruit every two seasons. Autumn subspecies in this region produce crops from September to November.

It is quite difficult to cultivate these fruit trees in the North-West region, since low air temperatures prevail there in winter and a rather poor soil composition. The fertile layer is thin. Often these are peat bogs, sands and loams.

This apple crop grows well in Belarus, in the North Caucasus and in Ukraine.

Frequently asked Questions

- Where to get it?

These seedlings can be purchased not only in garden nurseries, but also through shops on the Internet.

- What kind of processing is it suitable for?

Apples Slava Winners, which have excellent taste and aroma, have a good storage feature. They should be stored in refrigerated cellars at a temperature of 5-0 degrees, before placing them in containers or baskets.

They are very good for making stewed fruit, juices, jams and marmalades. They are also often dried.

Apple tree Glory to the winners: reviews

Of all the splendor of the various fruits that nature gives us, apples are one of the most common, favorite and healthy fruits. And the flowering apple trees in the garden will not leave anyone indifferent. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that now it is impossible to imagine a single garden or personal plot where at least one apple tree does not grow, while giving delicious and wonderful apples. And, having made your choice in favor of this subspecies of the fruit tree, you will be satisfied.

Such a famous and widespread variety has a great many reviews. Here are some of them:

• Having read the features and characteristics of the apple tree variety Slava Winners for the first time, as well as having seen a photo of this apple tree, I acquired its seedling at the age of two. In the third year after planting, we have already received the first harvest. The fruits ripened delicious, juicy and tasty. At the time when the tree began to bloom, the weather was not entirely warm, and there were few bees flying. Therefore, we took the apple tree flowers from a neighboring garden and decided to pollinate the apple tree Glory to the winners. And it worked out.And most importantly, the pests did not attack our tree, while the neighboring apple tree was badly damaged.

Irina, 52 years old

• Our family is delighted with the Slava Winners apples. Almost all are eaten fresh. And with them, strudels and pies are excellent.

Daria, 38 years old

• I take good care of my garden, I do pruning, I try to keep the branches of pears and apple trees in order. Apple variety Glory to the winners also requires care. It is imperative to carry out the pruning procedure and scab treatment. I really like the apple tree itself. Its fruits are quite aromatic and very tasty.

Andrey, 61 years old

• It is very interesting to read about caring for the apple tree Glory to the winners. We have it growing for a long time, an old subspecies, was acquired by the parents. The tree bears fruit well, the fruits are very tasty. We love our tree very much and are proud of it. Now we have learned that a mandatory pruning is needed so that the crown does not become thickened, and also that it is required to spray from pests and scab.

Olga, 45 years old