Apple tree Glory to the winners: the benefits of the variety, planting and care

Apple tree Glory to the winners gives a good harvest in late summer and early autumn, and is one of the most sought after varieties. This variety is well suited for growing hobby gardeners as time-tested and reliable.

Content:

• Description of the apple tree variety
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Reproduction
• Care
• Pruning
• Diseases and pests

Description of the apple tree variety

Apple tree Glory to the winners - a vigorous tree with a voluminous spreading cone-shaped crown in young seedlings and oval or round in adult apple trees. Straight skeletal branches are located at an acute angle to the trunk. The bark of the shoots is brown.

The Slava Winners variety is distinguished by the formation of a large number of shoots. Fruiting in this variety is of a mixed type, but mainly the fruits are formed on ringlets and spears, sometimes on fruit twigs. The ripening period of the fruit varies depending on the region: August or September.

Apple trees Glory to the winners begin to bear fruit for 4 years, when grown in the northern regions - later.

Yield one tree - about 75 kilograms, starting from the age of ten - up to 100 kilograms. The weight of one apple is about 140 grams, with proper care, on good soil and with vegetation in the trunk circle, the weight of the fruit can reach 180 grams. The leaves are small, rounded, light green with a yellowish tint, with a flat, smooth surface.

Flowers of a beautiful bowl-shaped pink color with red stamens at the base. The buds are red. Apples Slava Winners are characterized by a delicate sweet and sour taste, soft and juicy pulp. The color of the fruit is light green with a reddish blush, usually covering the whole apple. Shelf life in the cellar - 1.5 months, in the refrigerator - 3.5 months.

Advantages and disadvantages

The Slava Winners variety is suitable for growing in almost any garden area where space permits.

Benefits:

• Stability and regularity of the harvest
• High winter hardiness of seedlings
• Good yield
• Fruits of high quality and attractive appearance

Disadvantages:

• Ripe apples fall off quickly, and it is necessary to correctly determine the time of harvest
• Drought intolerant
• Due to the high shoot formation, it requires careful leaving
• Self-infertility - require pollination with pollen from apple trees of other varieties

Glory to the winners should be planted next to such varieties of apple trees as:

• Antonovka
• Melba
• Priam
• Borovinka

Apple trees of these varieties are the best pollinators for Glory to the winners.

Reproduction

The apple tree Glory to the winners is propagated in the following ways: fromemenami, herenki, eyes and layering. Seed propagation - used mainly only by breeders to obtain new varieties. To obtain seeds, pollen from a tree of one variety is artificially transferred to a tree of another variety. The result of planting such a hybrid will be Apple tree, which has properties (not all!) of both varieties. The procedure is quite laborious, since it is almost impossible to get the desired tree the first time.

Reproduction by cuttings is more common:

• You must first prepare rootstock, as which any Apple tree, which was grown from seeds, or even wild (it is more hardy and frost-hardy).
• For cuttings, annual shoots are chosen, they are prepared on the day of vaccination in the morning.
• Cuttings should be taken small with the number of buds no more than five. A cut is made under the lower kidney for stalk.
• On the cut, the shoot should be greenish-white, if the cut is yellow or brown, this shoot is not suitable for reproduction.
• Cuttings are harvested in February or March before the tree awakens and the sap begins to move actively.
• The lower part of the cutting must be cleaned of leaves and half of the upper ones removed.
• After planting the cutting (engraftment on the root system of the rootstock), the grafting site should not be heavily sprinkled with soil, otherwise the lower buds may give roots.

Reproduction of Glory to the winners of layering is a fairly simple way to get good strong seedlings. In the fall, plant a one-year-old apple tree in a pre-prepared area. The trunk of the tree must be installed at an angle to avoid bending the apple tree when the shoots grow back and need to be pinned to the ground. For this purpose, choose only shoots from that part of the tree that is cultivated.

In spring, shoots appear on branches attached to the ground. They need to be covered with earth at the base, leaving 40 centimeters above the surface. It is important to regularly water and loosen the soil around the backfill.

Over the summer, the sprinkled shoots will grow roots. To protect them from winter frosts, they need to be covered: cover the soil over the formed roots of the needles, sawdust or fallen leaves.

In the spring, shoots are separated and transplanted as an independent tree.

To propagate the apple tree Glory to the winners, make an incision in the T-shape with eyes on the bark of the stock. Insert a previously prepared stalk with a 1.5 cm petiole and part of the bark into the hole. Press the bark firmly against the kidney and tie it carefully with a damp washcloth, without covering the kidney itself. This procedure should be carried out in dry, calm weather. After fourteen days, check the survival rate of the eye: it should be greenish in color.

Care

Apple tree Glory to the winners needs to thrive in the sun, and it needs a lot of space to grow well. Based on this, select the correct landing site in advance.

Glory to the winners does not tolerate flooding, so if such a danger exists, it is better to plant a tree on a hill. The peculiarity of cultivating the Slava Winners variety is that in order to obtain a good harvest, vegetation in the near-stem circle is necessary.

Variety Glory to the winners does not tolerate drought, so the soil under the tree must be moistened.

Watering is necessary at the rate of 30 liters per tree once a week. If the summer is dry, watering is increased. In hot weather, it is useful to make rain for the apple tree. In the year of planting, Glory to the winners practically does not require top dressing... From the second year, fertilizers need to be applied to the near-stem circle, on an area with a diameter 1.5 times the diameter of the crown.

Top dressing can be done according to the following scheme:

• Every 2 years, dig a trench 40 cm wide and about 50 cm deep around the tree.
• Mix the soil extracted from the trench with fertilizers.
• Fill the trench with this mixture.
• After the next 2 years, dig a trench outside the previous one.
• Potash and phosphorus fertilizers are used in autumn, nitrogen fertilizers - in spring and summer.

For one square meter of soil under the apple tree every year it is recommended to make:

• Overripe manure - 3.5 kg
• Potassium chloride - 25 gr
• Superphosphate - 40 gr

Top dressing with liquid manure, bird droppings is carried out in the spring and in July.

Pruning

When pruning Glory to the winners should not be afraid to cut off the excess. Since this variety is characterized by high shoot formation, it is important to ensure that there is no thickening. crowns... Numerous shoots consume the lion's share of nutrients, causing the apples to grind and ultimately reduce the quality harvest.

When pruning a one-year-old seedling for the first time, you need to trim the top by 12 centimeters, leaving five to seven buds above the stem to form skeletal shoots.

When forming the crown, it is important to follow the rule: shoots should not grow opposite each other and should not be longer than the branches located below.

Try to place the skeletal branches at a distance from each other so that they firmly hold on to the guide and develop well. Always form a guide above the skeletal branches, cut off shoots of higher orders shorter than shoots of lower orders. Skeletal shoots are cut to the outer kidney, the rest - to the outer one from the axis.

Diseases and pests

The main diseases that affect the Slava Winners variety:

• Powdery mildew... Powdery mildew is characterized by a white bloom on the foliage, which at the beginning diseases it is easily rubbed off, with the progression of the disease it becomes brown. The leaves covered with bloom dry up, the tree stops bearing fruit. After flowering treat the wood with copper chloride. Can be used drug "Strobi".
• Cytosporosis. It infects the bark of a tree, which subsequently dries up and falls off. Treat by spraying with Hom.
• Scab. When an apple tree is damaged by scab, dirty brown spots appear on the fruits, the leaves curl and dry. To combat the disease, spraying with "Hom" is effective.
• Fruit rot - Coats apples with dark brown spots, the fruit rot and become unusable. Treatment is carried out with special means: for example, all the same "Hom", "Strobi".
• Milky shine. The fight against milky shine is quite difficult. This disease is manifested by the appearance of blisters on the leaves, after which the disease affects the wood with ulcers. Milky shine is treated with a complex of drugs and the affected areas on the wood are treated with special glue.

To kill insect pests, use insecticides:

• A 0.3% solution of karbofos is suitable for the destruction of apple aphids, red apple mites, lice.
• 0.8% chlorophos solution - for the destruction of apple moth and leafworm.
• 0.2% zolone solution - against apple moth.

It is important to remember that the date of the last processing drugs against diseases and pests should be no later than 40 days before harvest.

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