Apple trees are the most common fruit trees.
With proper care and compliance with the rules of planting can enjoy a rich harvest.
Varieties differ not only in taste and appearance, but also in their cultivation.
What kind is it?
Apple variety Korea refers to varieties late winter period
Korea is attractive because the fruits have long shelf life - no change in taste may lie until June, stored in paper boxes.
Pollination
This variety requires for fruiting pollinating apples of other varieties, suitable: Golden Delicious, Simirenko, Kuban or Idared.
Description of Korea
The appearance of the apple tree plays an important role, each variety has special characteristics.
Trees of Korea grow to medium size.
The branches in the lower tiers form a sharp angle with the trunk, and in the upper - a straight angle.
The length is large, have an arched shape. Bark of a tree of dark gray shade.
The shoots are straight, thick, have weak pubescence. Leaves - oval, tapering slightly to the top, have a dark green color, smooth to the touch.
The flower is usually medium in size, has the shape of a saucer, the color is pink.
Fruits often grow up to medium size.
In a form remind truncated oblong coneexpanding towards the base, there are clearly marked tubercles of the ribs around.
The fruit cover is thick, flattened, with a noticeably large number of small dots, usually white, less often brownish.
The color of apples is pale green.
Grown under good lighting fruits get an orange blush.
When ripe, the apples acquire a rich yellow color and fragrant aroma.
The flesh of the fruit is greenish, juicy, the taste may be absent when taken, or maybe sweetish. Matured, the aroma becomes perceptible melon notes. Fruit grow in groups of two or three apples.
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Breeding history
This variety was obtained by hybridization of two varieties. Comes from variety Golden delishesthat has been pollinated by grade Indo.
This variety has acquired the best taste, as well as the size of the fruit larger than the "parents".
Natural growth region
Habitat areas for growth - North Caucasus region.
Also zoned in the southern edges - Rostov Region, Krasnodar Territory and Dagestan.
For planting in these regions also suitable apple varieties: Prima, South.
Yield
This variety of apple is considered skoroplodny - begins to bear fruit already in the fifth year. Fruiting annual.
Possesses high yieldIn some cases, up to 600 centners can be collected from one hectare, usually up to 300.
You can shoot the fruit in late September and early October.
Fruit storage is possible until June. Consumption of apples is possible both in fresh and processed form.
Transportability is good, high quality marketability of fruits.
High yields are different apple varieties: Antonovka dessert, Gala, Winter Pear, Papirovka, Kuibyshev, Apple Spas, Daughter Pepinchik, Antey, Lyubava, Yandykovskoe, Welsey, Stroevskoe, Sokolovskoe.
Planting and care
This variety is considered one of the best late winter varieties if care has been provided to the fullest.
When planting, it is important to choose a favorable place for an apple tree.
Since this variety requires pollination by apple trees of other varieties, they, of course, should be planted in the area nearby.
Then high quality yields will be guaranteed.
First thing you need set the stage for the seedling. A pit is dug preferably per month before the intended planting, it is necessary so that during this time the soil is sufficiently compacted.
Usually a hole is dug deep up to 60 centimeters, and a diameter - just over a meter.
Next, the pit is buried mixed with fertilizer top layer, the excavated bottom layer is scattered around the perimeter.
You can start planting seedlings and in the autumn, and in the spring.
However, the weather should already be consistently warm.
The root neck of the tree should be at planting a few centimeters above ground level, then the roots spread on the surface and sprinkled with soil.
After planting the seedling is necessary pour three buckets of waterThis will help the soil fit more closely to the root system.
TIP: If earlier on the place where you decided to plant an apple tree, other cultures germinated, then you should not add fertilizer to the top layer of soil to avoid abundance that could cause damage.
Next to the seedling you need to install a wooden peg, to which the tree is tied with a loop of eight, so that it does not rub under the wind. When the cold comes, the soil around the trees is fertilized with humus.
If not good enough to care for Korea, then taste fruit quality is noticeably deteriorating yield is shrinking.
Basic apple care is in her pruning. Forming pruning need to do annually.
If you follow this rule, the tree will start to bear fruit earlier, yield will be increasedand the apple tree is more durable.
The first trimming trim must be in the second year after landing, in the period before the swelling of the kidneys.
The tree for some time after planting will need watering - up to four times in the summer, three or four buckets for one apple tree.
In order for the apple tree to grow normally and the fruiting not to be scarce, due attention should be paid to top dressing of a tree.
In order to avoid yellowing of leaves and poor growth, need to fertilize with nitrogen.
So that the fruit buds are well formed, and the fruits acquire the appropriate taste and external qualities, phosphorus fertilizer required.
Diseases and pests
Variety of Koreas has immunity against brown spot, but often sick with scab and powdery mildew.
It also happens that preventive measures from scab do not save. Treatment in this case is carried out with chemical preparations that destroy the causative agent of the disease - Venturia mushroom unequal.
These substances are called fungicides. It is necessary to be aware of their use in order to avoid mistakes.
It is prohibited to use the same drug every year for treatment., because the infection becomes resistant to the action of the substance due to addiction.
In the personal economy can not use drugs that are used in industry, their poison accumulates in the fruit and can be dangerous to humans.
You need to process only with the use of a special device. - sprayer, so that the substance is evenly and not abundantly distributed on the tree, without causing damage to it.
Spray the apple tree need in weather without windpreferably immediately after the rain.
It is imperative that the person conducting the treatment must use personal protective equipment.
TIP: When processing the affected fruits, leaves, bark, branches must be destroyed by burning.
Chemicals are also used in the fight against powdery mildew.
Drugs and substances that will help to heal the tree from this disease include:
- 3-5% solution of blue vitriol;
- 0.5% solution of soda ash, mixed with 0.4% of household soap;
- Drug "sulfide";
- Drug "Byleton".
If you are afraid for the safety of using chemicals, then for treatment powdery mildew An alternative is suitable - the bacterial method.
One of the options - fresh manure
For spraying need to cook special solution: One third of a bucket of fresh manure is poured with water, allowed to stand for three days, preferably stirring occasionally.
Next, the resulting solution must be passed through a dense cloth and diluted with water (one to ten relations).
Another powerful tool in the fight against powdery mildew is dairy products.
The tool is prepared using serum, which is diluted with water in the ratio of one to ten, mixing until smooth.
The resulting substance is sprayed with wood.
However, not only diseases can harm the apple trees.
The tree must be protected from dangerous rodents. - Mice and rabbits, which are very fond of apple bark.
Will help in this fir brancheswhich tie a tree - it will not attract pests.
Variety of Koreas has a lot of advantages: frost-resistant, fruiting comes quickly, and the harvest pleases with abundance.
The fruits have a sweet taste and pleasant aroma, are stored for a long time and are suitable for any method of processing.
The disadvantage is poor resistance to powdery mildew, as well as a high probability of scab.
Watch a video on how to treat apples from pests in early spring.
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