Key distinctive quality Quinty apple varieties is the high nutritional, biological and chemical value of its fruits.
Organoleptic properties are also high.
At the same time apple not whimsical in care and cultivation.
What kind is it?
Depending on the ripening period of fruits, varieties in industrial gardening are divided into: autumn (August-September), winter (October), summer (July-August).
Each group, in turn, can be divided into subgroups (for example: early summer and late summer).
Quinty apple tree variety refers to summer sight and table varieties. Characterized by high mildew resistance. Heat resistant and drought resistant variety.
Quinty winter hardy enough Apple tree.
That is why it is very important to properly store its fruits for the winter. This should be done at zero temperature in wooden containers (containers, shelves or boxes).
Apples should not be mixed with other varieties and calibrated in size.
Even under these conditions, the fruit of the Quinti stored relatively long (up to 1 month).
The summer varieties include apple trees: Red Early, Summer Striped, Korobovka, Silver Hoof, Shinyanets Solntsedara, Solntsedar, Glory to the Winner, Terentyevka, Wonderful, Hero of the Day.
Pollination
This variety of apple refers to the samobesplodnom mind. This means that pollination occurs due to the pollen of apple flowers of the self-fertile variety. Ideally, plant lanes of two varieties at a distance of 5 meters from one another.
The best pollinators: Vista Bella, Juleredde, Papirovka, Stark Erliest.
Kvinti variety description
The appearance of the apple tree is characterized by an average height, thick bright green crown and bright red fruits.
Sredneroslye. The crown is quite rare but densely leafy, round and sprawling.
Skeletal branches, depart from the pillar, practically, at an angle of 90 degrees.
The bark is brown-green. Fruiting on kolchatka.
The shoots are curved, dark green in color, medium in size, almost bare.
The leaf of Quinti variety is large, wide at the base, dark green.
It has a wide oval shape. The flowers are white and fairly large.
Usually, medium sized (maximum weight up to 125 g), but if the harvest is not high, then the apples will be large (up to 175 g).
On one tree grow fruits of the same size. The form - elongated conicalThe surface is smooth. The color of the fruit is half green-yellow and half crimson-red. The skin is smooth with a slight waxy coating.
The flesh is creamy and juicy, creamy or white in color, granular. The taste of the fruit is sweet and sour with a pronounced aroma.
The distinctive characteristic of the Quinty apple is a very high amount of vitamin C.
The chemical composition of an apple:
| Component | amount |
|---|---|
| Ascorbic acid | 8.4 mg / 100 g (max 11.2) |
| Dry matter | 15.9% (max 16.8%) |
| Titrated acids | 0.53% (max. 0.6%) |
| Amount of sugars | 10.3% (max 11.2%) |
| Sugar to acid ratio | 21,1 (35,6) |
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Breeding history
The apple tree variety Quinti was born subsequently crossing two varieties: Crimson Beauty and Red Melba. Selection took place in Canada.
Variety began to spread since 1986. In the same period was made to The State Register of the Central Black Earth Zone, the Caucasus and the territory of the Lower Volga region.
Natural growth region
The region of natural growth are the following areas of today's Russia: Lipetsk, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov, Volgograd, Astrakhan.
And Krasnodar region, North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.
Apple varieties are also suitable for planting in these regions: Idared, Golden Delicious, Lobo, Apple Spas, Belayfleur Kitayka, Yandykovskoe, Fuji, Sunny, Prima, Rennet Simirenko, Yuzhny, Korea.
Yield
Trees bear fruit early enough, approximately for 3-4 year after landing.
Fruiting regular, annual. Removable maturity coincides with consumer maturity and occurs rather early. (mid July).
Average from one tree removed from 100 to 120 kilograms of apples and 86 centners per hectare. Sort shows average yield results.
Planting and care
When planting a tree using classic fertilizer. In the care of an apple tree is not whimsical.
According to the comments and advice of experts, apple seedlings of the Quinti variety are the best. planted in the ground before winter.
But no later than a month of the onset of these colds.
The best months for planting Quinty seedlings are september or october (depending on weather and climatic conditions).
To make the tree grow strong and bring maximum yield, it is recommended to use soil loam.
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.
The main tips for planting an apple sort of Quinty:
- it is better to choose a young sapling, then it adapts more quickly to the soil on the plot where it is grown;
- 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.
How to prepare the landing pit:
It is better to prepare the pit seven days before landing.
Need to dig pit depth and diameter of 2 by 2 meters, cover it with layers of sand, compost and peat crumb.
This will create even better conditions for the germination of seedlings.
Be sure to water the tree heavily immediately after landing.
The next year after landing, in the spring, it is important to shape the foliage of the apple. It is necessary to trim the ends of each branch.
In April, it is necessary to irrigate trees with mixturesprotecting against pests.
This procedure should be performed twice:
- when buds began to swell on branches;
- before the buds bloom.
After that, the tree no longer needs to be fertilized for a year. Very important plenty of water tree, especially in summer.
Diseases and pests
Quinty Apple one of the most poorly resistant to scab varieties.
Therefore, caring for an apple tree should be fully focused on the prevention of this disease.
To prevent this disease, it is important to carry out prevention, which consists of: soil application of ash, crown formation, feeding with compost and feeding with potash fertilizers.
If the disease still hit the tree, you should immediately begin its treatment. 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 can be air stagnation inside the crown of the 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.
Treatment takes place by tilling the soil around the crop and spraying wood 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);
- oxychloride copper, which must be used first before flowering, and then during the appearance of the first fruits;
- Bordeaux liquid, which can easily be replaced with blue vitriol.
Quinty apple variety belongs to the early summer species. This is one of its key advantages - the fruits ripen early, and sometimes it is possible to harvest several times over the summer period.
In the care of the tree, quite unpretentious, however, is characterized by weak resistance to scab. The fruits are beautiful, great taste, but at room temperature are stored no more than twelve days.
Watch a video on how to make Bordeaux liquid.
