Apple variety Fragrant gives beautiful and tasty fruits with high biological value.
Culture is not whimsical in growing and is not completely demanding to care.
This apple variety makes good homemade juices.
What kind is it?
Varieties in gardening, depending on the period of ripening of fruits, are divided into:
- summer (July-August);
- autumn (August-September);
- winter (October).
All groups, in turn, can be divided into subgroups (for example: early summer and late summer). Apple tree varieties are fragrant for winter varieties.
Apple tree Aromatnaya is considered to be medium for winter hardiness. The variety is characterized high consumer qualities and long shelf life.
Optimum temperature - 0 ° С. It is desirable that the fruits were calibrated in size. It is important not to mix them with other varieties.
Winter varieties also include: Lada, Snowdrop, Rozhdestvensky, Starkrimson, Fuji and Kurnakovsky.
Apple variety Aromatic refers to the self-fertile. This is one of the biggest advantages. Regardless of weather and climatic conditions, this variety will produce stable yields.
Description of the variety Aromatic
The appearance of an apple tree is characterized by its average height, thick bright green crown and light yellow-pink fruits.
Grow very fast, have a round, stogovidny, compact crown of medium thickness, not high (on average 2-4 m).
The branches are close to each other, but not intertwined.
The leaves are bright green, slightly curved. The bark is colored dark brownish gray.
The flowering period is late (second decade of May). Shoots are roundish with a brown tinge.
Ripening occurs in late September and stored until February. Apples are considered large. On average, 160-220 grams. Fruits are smooth, egg-shaped or flat-round.
Color - golden yellow with a brown tinge. Fragrant apple has a sweet and sour dessert taste. Pulp with not dense texture, white, with a pleasant sweet-sour taste and spicy aroma.
Excellent varieties are also able to please you varieties of apples: Orlik, Aport, Orlovsky pioneer, Ekranny and Orlinka.
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Breeding history
Apple variety Aromatnoye was bred in the All-Russian Institute of Gardening them. I.V. Michurin on the territory of present-day Russia. Aromatnoy variety quickly gained popularity for its consumer qualities.
Growing region
The region of natural growth is considered Middle Russia.
But the apple tree perfectly adapts in other regions with proper planting and care (see below).
Best of all, an apple tree grows fragrant and bears beautiful fruit if it is grown in sunny areas.
Yield
Apple variety Aromatic refers in high-yielding and precocious. Fruiting comes for 4-5 year after landing.
In practice, as a rule, it occurs earlier, but it is better not to allow this and to cut flowers during the first five years, then the apple tree, in the long run, will produce more yield.
On average, with one apple collect up to 140 kilograms. Fruiting annual, regular and abundant.
Excellent yields are demonstrated by such apple varieties: Veteran, Kuibyshev, Lyubava, Antey and Lobo.
Planting and care
When planting a tree using classic fertilizer. In the care, the apple tree is not whimsical. If you follow the elementary instructions below, apple yields. Aromatic can grow. up to 160 kilogram from one tree, and the weight of one apple will reach up to 250 grams.
Apple tree varieties "Aromatic" planted in two periods:
- autumn (late September - early October)
- spring (late April)
Aromatic - winter apple varietyand therefore it is advised to choose the autumn period for planting.
You need to choose seedlings with a developed root system.
To choose well drained areas for planting this variety.
It is recommended to use loam soil so that the tree grows strong and brings maximum yield.
Be sure to water the tree plentifully immediately after planting.
IMPORTANT!To prevent the tree from rotting, avoid planting groundwater close to the surface when planting. Otherwise, the seedling will be in the water, which will lead to the death of the tree.
The next year after landing, in the spring, it is important to form the deciduous crown of an apple tree.
It is necessary to trim the ends of each branch.
And throughout the first four or five years, do not give the apple to form fruits.
In April, 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. It is very important to water the tree heavily, especially in the summer.
Diseases and pests
The apple tree variety Aromatous is highly resistant to various diseases. Tree is considered resistant to scab. But cases of the disease are common. It is important to conduct ongoing prevention.
Highly resistant to scab have: Daughter Pepinchika, Zhigulevskoe, Bogatyr, Berkutovskoe and Aphrodite.
To avoid defeat, 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.
A feature of scab is that it primarily affects the leaves of the tree, and then moves to the fruit. The trunk remains perfectly healthy.
The cause of this fungus may be the stagnation of air inside the crown of a tree or high 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;
- crown formation;
- potash fertilizers;
- feeding with compost.
If the disease still hit the tree, you should immediately begin its treatment. The treatment is due to processing 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: urea solution (on average, 7-8 liters are needed per tree), copper oxychloride, which must be used first before flowering, and then during the first fruits, and, Bordeaux liquidwhich can easily be replaced copper sulphate.
Most often, the tree fragrant amazes tinder
It strongly affects the trunk of an apple tree, but it affects the fruit indirectly. You need such a mushroom right away to eliminate.
Daily stay of the fungus on the bark pulls a lot of strength and nutrients that are needed for apple normal existence.
If this is not done, the defeat process can be considered irretrievable.
If the mushroom has not yet become too hard, then you can use a regular garden knife to cutting down. If the fungus struck the tree badly, became very large and quite solid, 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 where she grew up needs sanitize. The main thing is that the cut is even, most often it takes place to make a couple of more cuts.
Processing should be carried out copper sulphateafter which it is desirable to paint over the treated place oil paint. If this is not done, the wound will soon become a nest for various types of pests.
Among the pests, special attention should be paid to the prevention of the appearance of the codling moth, the fruit sapwood, silkworms, haws and the mining moth.
Apple varieties Aromatnoy is considered one of the most unpretentious and undemanding varieties in the cultivation and care. A big plus is the self-cultivation of the variety. Fruits have excellent organoleptic properties and will appeal to lovers of freshly squeezed home juices.
