Apple tree "Delight": features of the variety, planting and care

Uslada apple tree is an ideal option for those who need a tree that has a beautiful, dense crown, high yield and juicy, large fruits with a pleasant aroma.This variety easily transfers even the coldest winter. He has many advantages for which experienced gardeners appreciate.

“Uslada” is a fast-growing, fruitful tree that regularly bears fruit and delights many people with its fruits. Fruits appear in the fourth or fifth year after planting the seedling. Fruits finally ripen from late summer to early autumn. From one plant gardeners receive from sixty to eighty pounds of fragrant fruit. The variety is self-productive, therefore it needs neighbors - other varieties of apple trees. The most suitable pollinators for “Uslady”: “President”, “Bogatyr”, “Papirovka”.

The plant has an average height, if the stock is dwarf, it has a height of three meters, if the seed - three and a half or four meters. At first the crown is round, but over time its shape begins to resemble an oval. It is extremely thick, so you should prune every year. Plant shafts - dark gray. The growth of skeletal branches is vertical, but heavy fruits cause them to slope to right angles. Other branches are gray in color. Shoots are not too long, brown, not thick, rounded, there is a slight pubescence.

The color of the kidneys is reddish-brown, there is pubescence, close to the shoots. The shape of the leaves is ovoid, the leaf plates themselves are rather large, their edges are crested. On the tips of the leaves are pointed. The lower part has an edge, the upper side is glossy and smooth. There are thin, short stalks.

Ripe apples weigh from one hundred to one hundred thirty grams, sometimes their weight reaches two hundred grams. The apples are round, can be oval, smooth, do not have ribs. The skin is thin, elastic. The fruits are colored green-yellow, sometimes there are crimson-red shades. On some apples, you can see weak stripes and a pronounced blush. Under the skin there are small bright dots.

Sweet-sour fruits have a slight taste and aroma of raspberries. The flesh is white, in some fruits pale pink, non-granular, juicy and dense, fragrant. When the fruits fully ripen, they do not fall on the soil, but are on the branches, as they have strong cuttings. If you harvest an unripe crop, you can save it until the middle of winter. It is necessary to sort it out in order to get rid of spoiled fruits. Then the fruit is placed in boxes and cleaned in a dry room, which is often ventilated. It should be cool (not more than seven degrees of heat).

Overripe and ripe fruits must be eaten or processed within 30 days, otherwise they may deteriorate.

It is better to choose a plot with black soil for planting sapling. It should be bright, not dim. Since the variety is hardy, it can adapt to any other soil. The main rule - the landing place should not be where there is a cold north wind. The apple tree is planted in the middle of spring or early autumn.

It is necessary to plant trees in such a way that there are gaps of four or five meters between them. The pit for planting the plant is prepared 6–11 days before the start of the process and should have a depth of seventy centimeters. The bottom of the pit should be carefully loosened, then fertilizer should be added to it (two buckets of rotted humus, five kilograms of peat, twenty-five grams of superphosphate, fifteen grams of nitrogen fertilizers and the same amount of potash fertilizers). To make the tree more stable, a peg should be placed in the hole.

It is better to acquire a young tree right before it is planted. If the gardener decided to buy it in advance, you should choose a tree with closed roots.It is necessary to pay attention to strong and healthy apples that can grow properly. It is important to check the root system. It will be better if it is wet and elastic.

Before starting the process, warm water (one bucket) must be poured into the pit. A seedling is placed on the fertilizer, the roots are covered with soil. Soil should be a little tamped. After that, it is watered with settled water. The ground around the tree should be covered with a layer of moss, peat, humus or crushed hay. After a week, water the sapling again.

For the "delight" is extremely easy to care for. If the gardener treats the plant carelessly, he will not get a good harvest. It is worth adhering to some recommendations from experienced gardeners.

• It is important to ensure that watering the plant was regular and correct. Once in 14 days it is worth watering the tree and checking the soil. If it is loose and wet, then the apple tree is all right. If the tree is young, you need two buckets of not too cold distilled water. An adult plant needs three buckets. In dry summer, the volume of water increases. If weeds have appeared near the crop, they should be disposed of as soon as possible. It is better not to loosen the soil, and cover it with mulch, which will help to preserve the porosity of the soil and moisture.
• It is necessary to feed the variety mineral and organic fertilizers. It is important to respect the right proportions: one square. m plot around the plant should be five kilograms of rotted cow dung or eight kilograms of precast compost. It is necessary to feed the culture annually in September.
• When the apple tree begins to bloom, she especially needs nutrientstherefore, the grower must use liquid feedings. Around the plant you need to make a small trench (thirty centimeters). Fertilizers are applied to it. You can use solutions of slurry or chicken droppings. In spring and summer, experienced gardeners use nitrogen fertilizers. Potash phosphate supplements should be made in the fall.
• The most important and responsible process is pruning plants. It should be produced before the sap flow begins. It is better not to do the procedure in the fall. Branches should be cut to the ring, leaving no hemp. Dried branches are cut in such a way as to capture and living tissue. The cut must be cleaned with a sharp knife and then covered with garden pitch. Pruning the crown is done so that the sun's rays easily penetrate inside.
• At the beginning of winter follows cover up the bridge with the help of paws of spruce or pine. You can replace legs with roofing felt, roofing felt or mesh, which will help protect the plant from mice that can chew bark. If you can not find covering materials, you can use lime or mothballs. If you use whitewash, the tree will not be able to suffer from pests and sunburn.

Variety "Uslada" has good resistance to diseases and parasites. To rid yourself of the problems associated with pests and diseases, you need to carry out routine preventive treatment using chemical means. When the kidneys are not open yet, a solution of Bordeaux liquid can be used. It is necessary to process the crown and shtamb plants with a solution, including lime and copper sulfate. After the buds bloom, you can use "Nurell D", "Insegar", "Voliam", "Targa".

There are a lot of positive reviews about the Uslada apple tree on the Internet, which deserves the praise of gardeners from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Summer residents believe that the main advantage of the variety is the wonderful taste of fruit. Good reviews of the owners of fruit crops deserve negligence to care.Many summer residents believe that it is extremely easy and simple to grow a variety and get huge yields from it, which can be done by anyone, even an inexperienced person.

“Pleasure” is praised not only by amateurs who grow fruits for their families, but also farmers who use fruits for commercial purposes. From some reviews, you can find out that if you store the fruit incorrectly, they will not be able to stay fresh for a long time. If you take care of the tree incorrectly, the yield may decrease, the fruits will become small and deformed.

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