Not only young children, but also many adults love apples, especially if they very sweet.
In some cases their must be consumed for medical reasons.
Nowadays, gardeners who welcome such varieties of apples, not rarely and with great pleasure speak about Boxing - once a very popular variety of favorite fruits.
What he is and why he is so loved and continued to love? Description varieties, photos and images in the article.
What kind is it?
Korobovka is known both to professional gardeners, and amateurs, and simple owners of personal plots, and townspeople for several decades.
In the people you can hear other names of this variety - Medunichka, Honey, Medovka.
This is an old summer variety apples of national selection, all the names of which are directly related to honey.
This feature is due to the fact that in fruits at all the presence of acid is not feltBecause of this, they are considered edible almost immediately after the ovary.
Also, summer apple varieties include: Apple Spas, Yandykovskoe, Yubilyar, Malinovka, Melba, Gorno-Altaisky, Gornist, Red Early, Summer Striped, Solntsedar.
Pollination
A variety like Korobovka is self-infertile. Therefore, in order for pollination to occur, trees must be planted not alone, but close to other varieties of apples. Otherwise, the harvest can not wait.
The following species are considered to be one of the best pollinators: Papirovka and White Pour, Cinnamon striped with Suislepsky, and Kitaika Saninskaya.
Korobovka different average duration of the flowering period. It enters fructification rather late - not earlier than in the sixth year of life.
Small and small fruits ripen early.
So, you can already harvest at the beginning of August. Fruits are stored throughout the month, sometimes a little longer.
It should be borne in mind that the longer the apples are stored, the more deteriorating their taste.
Keep the harvest should be in a cool place.
The cellar or basement is well suited for this.
Fruits are carefully sorted, put in boxes or boxes and put in a pre-prepared place.
Description of the variety Korobovka
Korobovku recommend planted mainly in the garden plots. It is argued that the weight of one apple of this variety is usually does not exceed 40 grams.
It is for such a feature that the brand got its name, as they were usually sold in boxes. However, despite small size, the price for them was not the lowest, because many pastry chefs used apples as glazed fruit.
Box Tree represents medium-growth, durable, winter-hardy plant.
Crohn characterized broom shape.
On shoots of dark-brown color, slightly curved and rounded-elliptic leaflets of medium size are placed.
They can be almost unfolded, and slightly raised along the edges.
To the touch dark green leaves Korobki leathery and fairly dense.
They are slightly pubescent, slightly wrinkled and shiny. The edges of the sheets are smooth and have large teeth, and the bases are rounded.
The tree has fine petioles, as well as small and narrow, lanceolate stipules.
As for the fruits themselves, first of all, it should be noted that the box of apples is fruit with pronounced aroma. They small, flat-rounded and in most cases unequally.
Apples are tinged with a greenish-yellow tint and have dull cherry-red stripes. The skin on them is rather dense, thin, smooth and moderately oily.
The variety is characterized by an orzhavlennoy funnel, a wide saucer, having noticeably swollen tubercles at the base of the sepal, a disproportionately large calyx relative to the size of apples.
Fruits Boxes with yellowish pulp, in which practically no acid. So they taste a little remind honey. Apples are juicy, and there are even not fully ripe fruits.
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Breeding history
Variety of apples Korobovka, which gained immense popularity due to its taste, was bred S.I. Isaev in the process of working with M. P. Maximova.
He managed to get as a result of crossing Cinnamon striped with wesley.
Korobovka known as one of very old early summer varieties apples, widely used in folk breeding.
For the first time the fruits were scientifically described in 1855
They allegedly got their name because in those days they were not sold on the markets by the piece and not by weight, but by boxes, like various berries, because of too small sizes.
On the territory of Russia, as well as some other states of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, this variety of apples has long been excluded from zoning.
This decision was due to small children.
Despite this, many breeders appreciate Korobovka for their ability to transmit all hereditary traits to their offspring.
Thanks to these qualities, trees can be used as a mother form in the work on the creation of other early, tasty and frost-resistant varieties of apples.
In Poland The box was included in the collection collected in Warsaw Biological Reserve. It is appreciated and in Estonia - Included in the list of old types of apple trees.
Natural growth region
This early summer variety of sweet and fragrant apples today excluded from zoning.
But, nevertheless, it is often found in old gardens, where you can still see several Korobovka trees.
It is considered to be quite a promising variety for breeding in amateur gardening in settlements of the middle belt.
Medunitsa is very widespread in Eastern European countries: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic countries.
The grades are highly frost resistant: Yantar, Onscreen, Uralets, The Wonderful, Lada, Aelita, Antey, Flashlight.
Yield
Korobovka enter into fruiting apple trees only 5-7 year of life. Bring trees to harvest throughout ten or even fifteen yearsduring which they retain annual, but not high yield.
A characteristic feature of Korobovka is that at an older age (after twenty years of life), the amount of harvest may increase markedly, however, in this case, there is not only a sharp periodicity of yield, but also a decrease in the size of the fruits themselves.
Usually, full ripening apples have at the end of July - beginning of August. The fruits keep well on the branches of the tree, and only those that have been affected by the pinworm fall to the ground. Productivity is moderate.
And you can collect fruit not less than fifty years. In this case, with one tree, you can collect several boxes of apples.
The main difference is slow accumulation of yield.
Thus, mature trees give about 70 kilograms of apples, which is much more compared to younger plants.
As a rule, they form a very large number of fruits, but they are light and small in sizetherefore, the total weight is relatively small.
Planting and care
Knowing all the secrets of planting and caring for an apple tree will make life easier for a gardener.
Planting Korobovka, like other trees, is recommended in autumn or early spring. Due to its unpretentiousness to environmental conditions and soils, you can choose almost any place. However, it is necessary that nearby were pollinators, because this variety belongs to the self-fruit trees.
Despite the simplicity of apple trees, they should also be looked after. So, the seedling needs to be watered regularly so that it will take root.
In addition, in some cases it is fertilized with fertilizers. This is especially necessary if the earth is poor in nutrients and microcomponents.
It is recommended to wrap a tree trunk for winter.to avoid the occurrence of frost.
In the autumn, the trunk and branches should be carefully and thoroughly cleaned from the traces of a particular disease, as well as the activity of pests.
In early spring The process of treating apple trees with special substancesthat do not allow pests to multiply and spread to microorganisms, resulting in damage to trees and fruits.
Diseases and pests
The old Russian variety of apples is distributed almost everywhere. It is valued by gardeners and breeders as for excellent tasteso for unpretentiousness to growing conditions and high cold resistance.
In areas of industrial gardens Korobovka is very rare in our time, but it continues to be planted in household plots, and also these trees can be seen in old gardens.
So, on the forks, skeletal branches with stems, there are practically no signs of sunburn. Not seen in the trees and frost.
However, this variety suffers greatly from moths and scabs. The latter should be feared mainly during much rainy seasons.
In order to protect the trees and maintain their yield, it is necessary to closely monitor the condition of the plants, especially during the period of fruit ripening, because the moth is most active at this time.
In addition, early spring trees are recommended. process with special solutions, protect against pests and various diseases.
To prevent the formation of frost on the trunk of an apple tree, it should be well wrapped for the winter.
Before this, the trunk must be cleaned from the traces left after any disease.
Korobovka is an early variety of apples that brings pleasure to both children and adults for more than a dozen years.
She is appreciated for unpretentiousness and pronounced honey taste.
Small fruits are especially popular with housewives and confectioners for the opportunity to glaze and use them in the preparation of a variety of dishes.
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