Apple varieties Memory of a warrior brings delicious fruit with high biological value.
Culture is perfect not whimsical in cultivation and absolutely not demanding to care.
The variety is excellent for drying and cooking compotes. Apple-tree Memory of the Warrior is an excellent winter variety, its description and photo you can read and see further article.
Species
Winter apple variety The memory of a warrior is considered high-yielding. Winter hardiness is average. Fruit storage periods also have an average.
However, in order to increase these periods, it is necessary to provide them with proper storage for the winter:
- optimal temperature is zero;
- storage in wooden boxes or containers;
- relative humidity 90-95%;
- fruit size calibration;
- sorting apples by grade.
To the winter varieties of apple trees also belong Aport, April, Youth, Orlovskoe Polesie and Moscow Late.
Pollination
Since this is a self-infertile cultivar, it is important for pollination that there are other varieties of apple trees in the garden. Planting two varieties ideally make at a distance of five meters.
In the role of pollinators best perform the following varieties: Antonovka, Minsk, Shrefling, Welsey.
Description of the Warrior's Memory Variety
The appearance of an apple tree is characterized by an average height, a dark green crown of medium thickness and golden yellow fruits.
High-growing, overall. Crohn middle density, rounded, spherical. Skeletal branches grow at an angle of 50-70 degrees.
Shoots are red-brown in color, dense, upright. Conical buds.
The leaf is narrowed at the base, slightly elongated, dark green, glossy with a pointed end.
The scape is long and thick. The flowers are pale pink in color, large, flattened.
Medium in size (100-120 g), light. The shape of the apple is correct, the ribs are not pronounced. Peel with a slight waxy bloom, rather dry and rather strong without rust. The main color is golden yellow.
Cover blotches beet-red hue. On the apple you can see a large number of almost imperceptible light gray subcutaneous spots. The stem can be of different lengths. Calyx large, closed.
The flesh is white-green in color with a scarlet layer, juicy, grainy consistency. Taste is traditional sweet and sour without additional shades. The average organoleptic score is 4.5.
Similar flavors also have the following flavors: Aromatny, Berkutovsky, Zavetny, Zhigulevskiy and Imrus.
The chemical composition of the apple Memory of a warrior:
| Composition | amount |
|---|---|
| Titrated acids | 0,49% |
| Ascorbic to-that | 8.4 mg per 100 g |
| Maltose, fructose, sucrose | 11% |
| R-active islands | 154 mg per 100 g |
| The presence of pectin substances | to 10% |
A photo
Breeding history
Apple tree variety All-Russian Research Institute of fruit crops breeding in 1959. Breeder E.N. Sedov received this variety by crossing Antonovka ordinary with Welsey.
Growing region
The first test landings of the Memory Warrior variety took place in central Russia in 1979. The zone of natural growth is considered Central Black Earth Region.
The variety showed the greatest productivity the territories of three regions of Russia: Moscow, Tula, Oryol.
Since this variety is not demanding in cultivation, it gets on well and produces beautiful fruits in other regions. What is important is only constant control over the apple tree, pest disinfection and fertilizer.
For planting in the specified region also suitable varieties: Anis Scarlet, Summer Arcade, Berkutovsky, Borovinka and Venyaminovsky.
Yield
Fruits ripen under favorable climatic conditions in the twenties of September. Consumption period begins in October and lasts until February. Yield high, annual.
The only drawback of an apple tree is that a full-fledged harvest from an apple tree of the Memory of a Warrior variety can only be removed. in the seventh year after landing.
High yields can also boast varieties: Augustus, Gala, Papirovka, Lyubava and Apple Spas.
Planting and care
The memory of a warrior is a sort of unpretentious care. When planting a tree using classic fertilizer and pollinators.
Winter and late winter varieties of apple trees are planted in two periods:autumn (late September - early October) or spring (late April).
However, experienced gardeners are advised to choose a soldier for planting the Memory of a Soldier autumn season.
Due attention should be paid to the process of acquiring seedlings. You need to choose seedlings with a developed root system.
It is advisable to choose a sapling as young as possible, then it adapts more quickly to the soil in the area where it is grown.
IMPORTANT: When planting, avoid places where groundwater is located close to the surface. Otherwise, the seedling will be in the water, and the tree will rot.
When planting a tree, you must observe the following guidelines:
- The landing area must be sunny;
- planting areas should be well drained;
- plant trees at a distance of 3-4 m one from another;
- properly prepare the landing pit;
To make the tree grow strong and bring maximum yield, it is recommended to use loam soil.
In the second year after landing, in the spring, it is important to foliar crown apple trees.
It is necessary to trim the ends of each branch. And for the first five or six years, do not give the apple of the variety Memory of a Warrior to produce fruit.
If the soil is fertile, then the apple tree variety practically does not need additional fertilizer. Feed her once a year will be quite enough.
For this it is better to use:
- manure humus;
- a mixture of trace elements (N, Se, B, P);
- 0.5% urea;
- calcium salts (calcium chloride).
Every year in the middle of spring it is necessary to irrigate trees with mixtures that protect against pests.
This procedure should be performed twice:
- when buds began to swell on branches;
- before blooming buds.
Then the tree no longer needs to be fertilized for a year. Apple variety The memory of a warrior does not really need water. That is why it is possible to do without abundant watering.
Diseases and pests
Apple varieties Memory Warrior is characterized highly resistant to scab.
However, it is still subject to attack by pests and the onset of various diseases. Do not neglect the prevention of the appearance on the site of apple podozhorok, fruit sapwood, silkworms, haws and mining moths.
It is important that due to diseases and pests, the entire harvest of apple trees may deteriorate, the fruits lose their presentation and biological value. The peculiarity of scab, for example, is that, first of all, it infects the leaves of a tree, and then moves to the fruit.
The barrel looks completely healthy. First signs scab are the appearance of green-brown spots on the leaves, also in a large number of small brown, forming a crust, spots on the fruit.
The cause of this fungus is most often air stagnation inside the crown of the tree or high humidity. To avoid damage, it is important to isolate the apple tree from other crops in the garden, carefully monitor the plant and constantly carry out prevention.
Bitter pimples most often develops due to an insufficient amount of calcium in the soil, excessive doses of nitrogen fertilizers, high humidity, late harvest time, and improper storage conditions.
The disease manifests itself in the form of dark brown depressed spots and affects the fruit in two ways - when the fruit is still on the tree and during storage.
Ways to prevent bitter pitting are quite simple:
- Calcium chloride spraying during the growing season;
- timely harvest;
- proper storage of apples.
Also a frequent pest of the memory tree variety is a warrior tinder mushroom. It strongly affects the trunk of an apple tree, but has practically no effect on the fruit. It is necessary to eliminate such a fungus immediately.
If this is not done, the defeat process can be considered irretrievable. Daily fungus stay on the bark pulls a lot of strength and nutrientsthat are needed for an apple tree to live normally.
Choose a tool depending on the size of the affected area. If the mushroom has not grown much, then you can do with a garden knife, neatly cutting wood. When the zone is too large, will have to resort to an ax.
Healthy wood will naturally suffer. It is necessary to destroy the mushroom at its very roots. If this is not done over time, the fungus is formed again in the same place.
After removing the infection, the place in which she grew need to be sanitized. The main thing is that the cut is even, most often it takes place to make a couple of more cuts.
Apple varieties of Memory Warrior are popular with consumers due to good resistance to scab, high yield and quality of fruits, long shelf life, as well as their chemical nutritional and biological value.
