Apple tree "Red Delicious": description, caloric content and cultivation of the variety

Almost every gardener has at least one fruit tree in his garden. Apple trees are unpretentious crops that give people great harvests and juicy, healthy fruits.Some can not decide on what sort should be selected for planting. Red Delicious is an extremely popular and worthy variety of fruit trees.

The variety "Red Delicious" is very popular in America. There are many subspecies of the plant. Culture is extremely unpretentious, can grow and develop rapidly in absolutely any climate conditions, as well as on any soil. But experienced gardeners know that she is more comfortable in a dry climate, when the temperature is cool at night and warm during the day. The tree will feel best on the territory of the Moscow region. Trees do not grow too large, their height is rather average. They look quite impressive, especially in the period when the flowers begin to open.

Young plants have a crown resembling an oval shape. Sometimes there are crowns with a pyramidal shape. When the period of fruiting begins, the crown turns into a rounded, most often wide. It is formed from branches, which are medium in power, and having a large number of uneven-aged annuli with ovaries.

Trees have small shoots. They are strongly pubescent, straight, weakly bent in places. The sheet plates are small, the shape is oblong, resembles an oval, the base is rounded, and the top is slightly elongated. They are green, glossy, there are notches on the edges. The variety “Delishes” differs from the classical apple tree in that the lower part of its petioles is colored red, with the help of the veins the color reaches the middle of the leaf. Skoroplodnost average.

The main advantage of this variety is a high indicator of commercial as well as consumer qualities of apples. But there is also a minus - the fruits are able to be affected by bitter spot during storage. In addition, they are very unstable to diseases of fruit crops and may not adapt well in a new place.

Harvest is necessary since September. You can finish the collection in October. It should be remembered that the taste of fruits and their volume may depend on climate conditions. The gardener will be able to collect the maximum yield only if the climate is dry enough. The skin of apples is dense, so if properly laid for storage, the fruits can be stored without any problems until mid-spring, without losing the presentation and taste.

Apples can be eaten fresh, as well as cook a variety of dishes from them. The variety is ideal for canning and storage.

If you store the fruit correctly, can lie for quite some time. Calorie apples - 80 kilocalories.

On the Internet there are a large number of reviews from those who grow this variety. From them it can be understood that the yield and health of the variety depends on how the plants are grown. The fruits will be incredibly tasty, strong and large, if the owners of the trees will comply with the necessary rules for planting young seedlings, as well as follow the recommendations for caring for them.

It is necessary to take into account the fact that the plant is not too cold resistant. To get a lot of fruit in the future, you should choose a place for planting an apple tree that would be protected from cold winds. It is better if it is located on any elevation. The plant does not like the increased humidity, so it is necessary to choose the area near which the groundwater does not occur.

Before planting a sapling, one should dig up the ground in the place where it will live, and then add five to six kilograms of humus or rotted manure. It is also worth adding five hundred grams of ash and a little nitroammofoski.It is important to ensure that the dimensions of the hole dug in advance for planting match the size of the roots of the plant.

Most often for the saplings of this variety are dug pits, the depth of which is 80 centimeters, and the width - 70 centimeters. At the bottom you need to put broken bricks, pebbles, expanded clay or something else. Next, pour a layer of humus, peat or river sand. This will help the culture to produce nutrients for proper development.

Landing steps:

• the fossa is prepared, a plant is placed in it;
• the roots must be straightened to make them comfortable;
• the root system is filled with dry soil;
• the seedling should be shaken two or three times so that voids do not form in the roots;
• after the plant has been planted, it must be ensured that the root neck is three to four centimeters above the ground level;
• a planted tree is watered with several buckets of water;
• the ground around the tree is mulched with peat or humus (two to three centimeters).

To get a good harvest, a gardener must carefully follow the rules of care. They not only help the tree grow well, but also protect against diseases.

• It is necessary to loosen the soil in time to provide access to oxygen. Mulch soil should be only organic materials. This will help rid the land of drying out and the emergence of a variety of weeds. When the tree becomes strong (a few years after planting), you can mow the grass around the trunk.
• It is important to remember about proper watering. It is necessary to water a tree five - six times a season. One plant takes two to three buckets of water. The process is an extremely important factor in the dry season and in the springtime, when the plant tries to grow shoots, and ovaries begin to form.
• For proper and active development of this variety requires a variety of feeding. Plant should be fed two - three times per season. You can use mineral fertilizers. In spring, experienced gardeners get a nitroammofosk for feeding (a tablespoon of the means under the tree root) when the culture starts to bloom - use ash (three hundred grams per tree trunk), when the fruits start to mature - potash salt and superphosphate (dilute the agent in water, water the tree ). In the fall, organic fertilizers are most often applied.

• Each gardener should regularly trim off excess areas of the fruit tree. In the variety "Red Delicious" should be removed shoots that grow deep into from 4 years of age. It is also important to thin out the crown, get rid of dry and infected branches. Branches affected by a disease must be burned outside the garden, so that other plants cannot become infected.
• It is necessary to take preventive measures so that the apple trees do not get sick with scab, rot and other dangerous diseases.which are able to destroy a tree or make its yield lower. It is necessary to spray the plant before they begin to bloom, because if you do it during flowering or after it, the fruit cannot be eaten.
• It is important to remember that This variety does not tolerate high temperatures. That is why you should warm the plants before December.

Many experienced gardeners say in their comments that if Red Delicious is planted on a variety with high winter hardiness, it will not be so afraid of frost and frost. Usually trees bear fruit in the fourth - fifth year, they delight the owners with juicy and tasty apples that exude an incredible aroma. They are happy to eat fresh, and also make jams, jellies, compotes from them, canned and baked.

Some believe that this variety is highly resistant to various diseases and parasites.But this is possible only with careful and stable care, constant preventive measures. Unfortunately, such an apple tree is prone to quickly catch diseases. This factor causes many gardeners to abandon its cultivation.

Based on the opinion of summer residents, if one treats care of a plant carelessly and does not make sure that it does not get sick, it will cease to develop and bear fruit. It is impossible to store fruit for too long, since during long-term storage the flesh becomes dry, cotton and loses its taste. Fresh apples look attractive, appetizing. Virtually every owner of the variety is pleased that he once chose him. The general opinion is: to get a good harvest, you must first take care of the tree.

See the following video for tips on caring for an apple tree.