Samoplodny apple variety - Bryansk Golden

Apple varieties Bryansk gold favorably with its taste from others.

Honey-sweet spicy fruit is perfect for drying, and when fresh, these apples have no equal at all.

What kind is it?

Apple variety "Bryansk Golden" refers to late winter view. It is characterized by high resistance to fungal diseases.

Winter hardiness is lowand therefore due attention should be paid to the storage of apples in the winter. This should be done in refrigerators (or refrigerator) when temperature 0 ° C.

Calibrated by size apples are best placed in wooden containers (boxes, containers or racks). Subject to such conditions, apples can store until May.

For winter varieties of apple trees also include: Amazing, Gift of the Count, Lada, Venyaminovskiy and Spartan.

Pollination

Apple tree refers to the self-fertile. This means that regardless of the weather and climatic conditions, such a variety will produce stable yields.

Description variety Bryansk Golden

The appearance of an apple tree is characterized by its average height, thick bright green crown and light yellow-pink fruits.

Medium-growing and low growth. The krone is well leafy, of medium thickness, bright and dark green. The curved branches almost at a right angle away from the trunk.

The bark is colored dark brownish gray. Pubescent, thin shoots of brown hue placed compactly. Fruiting - mixed.

Fruits are enough large, their average weight is from 180 to 220 grams. There are fruit and up to 270 grams. As a rule, apples of approximately the same size grow on the tree.

Lack of rust. Apples have a shallow, narrow saucer and a short stem of medium thickness. The skin is smooth and shiny.

The color is golden yellow. It has a large number of large and small subcutaneous points of different colors. The flesh is very juicy, grainy creamy white.

The taste is very harmonious - dessert, sweet and sour. The aroma of the apple is mild.

The following varieties can also boast great taste: Orlovsky pioneer, Bolshaya Narodnoe, Ekrannyy, Orlinka and Aromatny.

On average, the fruit contains:

Compositionamount
Sakharov8,5%
Sour0,36%
Vitamin C14 mg / 100 g

Breeding history

Apple variety Bryansk Golden was bred Astakhov A.I. in the Research Institute of Lupine, the city of Bryansk due to the crossing Antonovka ordinary with Golden Delicious. The fruit of the cultivated variety is very similar in appearance to the Golden Delicious apple.

Place of growth and distribution

The area of ​​natural growth of the Bryansk Golden apple tree is the area close to the place of its selection.

Zoned variety in Central Russia.

However, with proper care and proper planting (see below), the apple tree gets on well in other regions.

The following varieties have also proven excellent in the central zone: Volzhanka, Petrova Dessert, Cinnamon New, Ouspensky, and Freshness.

Yield

According to the literature, the onset of fruiting begins for 5-6 year after planting a tree. But in practice it comes already for 4 year.

Maturation occurs at the end of September. Yields are average, but regular. Variety is considered to be the annual yield, but indicators sometimes fluctuate.

TIP: As long as possible to delay the beginning of the fruiting tree. It is advisable to give the fruit ripen no earlier than 5 year after landing. And before that, strongly it is recommended to cut off all flowers. This will allow you to harvest more in the future.

If during the harvest does not collect the fruits are not showered. The average yield is from 270 to 350 centners per hectare and sometimes up to 600 c / ha.

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Planting and care

From care directly depends on the yield of apple. Apple Bryansk golden unpretentious care. When planting a tree using classic fertilizer.

Bryansk golden - late winter type of apple.

Planting this variety is desirable in one of two periods: spring (late April) or autumn (end of September - beginning of October)

However, for this variety is recommended all the same autumn.

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.

Tips for planting apple varieties Bryansk Golden:

  • you need to choose seedlings with a developed root system and purchase them in a zone with the same climatic conditions;
    the territory should be sunny;
  • choose the best young, then he adapts more quickly to the soil on the plot where he is grown;
    planting areas should be well drained;
  • to make the tree grow strong and bring the maximum yield, it is recommended to use loam soil;
  • plant trees at a distance of 3-4 m one from another;
  • properly prepare the landing hole.
TIP: If there is no loam, you can dig a hole 1 meter deep and, with the same diameter, fill it sand, compost and peat chips. Planting in this way will create even better conditions for seedling germination. Be sure to water the tree plentifully immediately after planting.

The next year after landing, in the spring, it is important to foliar crown apple trees.

It is necessary to trim the ends of each branch.

It is desirable for the first four to five years not to give an apple tree to form fruits.

In the first year in April, it is necessary to irrigate trees with mixtures.protecting against pests.

This procedure should be performed twice: when buds began to swell on the branches and before budding.

Then the tree no longer needs to be fertilized for a year until next April.

Every spring, the Bryansk golden apple must be given a special care:

  • plentiful watering to continue all summer;
  • fertilizer;
  • irrigation with special mixtures.

Diseases and pests

Apple tree varieties Bryansk golden high resistance to various diseases. But cases of scab damage, unfortunately, are common.

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To avoid damage, it is important to isolate the apple tree from other crops in the garden, carefully monitor the plant and constantly disinfect and fertilize the soil.

The reason for the appearance of this fungus can be stagnation of air inside the crown of the tree or increased humidity.

The first signs of 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.

To prevent this disease, it is important to carry out prevention, which consists of:

  • soil ash;
  • feed with potash fertilizers;
  • feeding with compost;
  • early crown formation.

If the disease still hit the tree, you should immediately begin its treatment. Treatment takes place by tilling the soil around the crop and spraying the tree with various mixtures.

As a rule, this is a universal set of measures, which is the prevention and treatment of virtually all diseases of the garden tree.

The best treatments are: a solution of urea (on average, 7-8 liters is needed per tree), copper oxychloride, which must be used first before flowering, and then during the appearance of the first fruits, and Bordeaux liquid, which can be easily replaced with copper sulphate.

Also sometimes there is a defeat apple Bryansk golden tinder mushroom.

It strongly affects the trunk of an apple tree, but has practically no effect on the fruit.

Need such a mushroom immediately eliminate. If this is not done, the defeat process can be considered irretrievable.

Daily stay of the fungus on the bark pulls a lot of strength and nutrients that are needed for apple normal existence.

If the mushroom has not yet become too hard, then you can use a regular garden knife to cut it. Otherwise you will have to use an ax.

Healthy wood will naturally suffer. It is important to destroy the fungus at its very roots. Otherwise, after some time, the mushroom “settles” again in the same place.

After removing the infection, the place in which she grew need to be sanitized. Processing should be carried out copper sulphate, after which it is desirable paint over the treated area with oil paint.

If this is not done, the wound will soon become a nest for various types of pests. The most dangerous of them are the codling moth, mining moth, fruit sapwood, hawthorn, silkworms. What measures against them are the most effective, read in separate articles of our site.

Apple Bryansk golden is very popular among gardeners and consumers, as it is not picky in the care and at the same time gives a wonderful, juicy fruits. A very important advantage is the self-fertility of the tree and its resistance to various diseases.