The Korey variety apple tree has all the necessary qualities for an amateur gardener to obtain a tasty and abundant harvest in his country house or garden. To grow apple trees, you must have knowledge about proper planting of seedlings and caring for these fruit trees. When choosing a particular variety, you must be guided by the taste characteristics and growth characteristics of this crop.
History of creation
The Korey variety owes its birth to Japanese selection, which, through hybridization Apple Golden Delicious and Inda, not only bred this species, but also awarded the fruits of these trees with excellent taste and large size.
Description of the variety
According to numerous descriptions, this type of apple tree is the best late-winter variety with an early fruiting period - five years after planting. The advantages of these apple trees include:
- high productivity;
- ability to tolerate drought;
- early dates of fruiting;
- excellent keeping quality of apples.
Disadvantages:
- insufficient immunity to scab;
- With a large harvest, the fruit may be crushed.
Trees begin to bloom in southern latitudes in April.
Important! The Korey variety is self-sterile, and therefore requires pollinators - Golden Delicious, Kuban. Idared. It is more advisable to plant the mentioned varieties near the trees described.
Korey apple trees bear fruit every year, and the harvest is carried out from September to October.
Features of the variety
The variety of apple trees is small in size, about 6-5 meters in height. The widely spreading top of the trees forms a kind of weeping crown with age. Elongated, with grayish bark, the branches have an arched shape, which grow further from the trunk at an acute angle, and the upper rows of branches - at an angle of 90 degrees.
An apple variety with strong, straight, geniculate and slightly pubescent shoots, it has a mixed type of fruiting, with group formation of fruits - 2-3 apples on two-year-olds and on last year's growths.
The trees are literally strewn with small oval-shaped leaves with slightly curled tips. The fruits of the apple tree are elongated, oblong-conical, and weigh between 100 and 200 grams. The peel of the fruit is yellow-green, and when exposed to sunlight it acquires a crimson blush.The juicy-sugar green pulp of apples, when ripe, acquires the taste of melon.
Region of natural growth
The typical area of activity of the variety is the North Caucasus region. Thanks to zoning, the Korey apple tree can grow in southern regions, such as:
- Rostov region;
- Krasnodar region;
- Dagestan.
Productivity
Thanks to the annual fruiting, the Korey apple trees produce rich harvests. From an area of one hectare you can harvest up to sixty tons of fruit. The fruits are collected at the end of September. Thanks to the keeping quality of this type, the fruits can be stored until the onset of summer.
High-quality fruits of the described apple tree variety are characterized by excellent transportability.
Diseases and pests
Korean apple trees have good immunity to the disease in the form of brown spot. However, fruit trees of this variety are completely defenseless against such diseases: scab and powdery mildew.
It even happens that no amount of prevention can prevent an apple tree from becoming infected with scab. Then the treatment of the affected tree is carried out using chemicals aimed at destroying the scab causative agent itself - the Vinturia unequal mushroom. Similar chemical components - fungicides - are indicated for the treatment of such fungal infestations.
But before using such drugs, in order to avoid mistakes, you should familiarize yourself with the proposed treatment regimens.
In addition, it is not recommended to use the same drugs to destroy the described fungus, due to the emergence of some resistance to chemicals due to addiction.
The use of industrial products is prohibited on private plots due to the accumulation of poisons in the fruits that are dangerous to human life.
The treatment must be carried out with a special device - a sprayer, for uniform spraying, without causing harm to the trees. Korey apple trees must be processed in calm, windless weather, preferably immediately after it has rained.
Important! Before spraying, parts of trees susceptible to infection must be destroyed by burning them.
To rid apple trees of powdery mildew, you can also use targeted chemicals.
Such chemicals include:
- Copper sulfate.
- Soda ash mixed with laundry soap.
- Products such as Sulfaride and Bayleton.
During the spraying process, gardeners are recommended to use special equipment for personal protection.
For amateur gardeners for whom the use of chemicals is unacceptable, methods from traditional methods of treatment are recommended in the fight against powdery mildew.
A component of this therapy is manure. For processing, a mixture is prepared from 1/3 of a bucket of manure filled with water. A similar solution is infused for about three days, with periodic stirring. Then the mixture is filtered and supplemented with water (1/10).
Important! Spraying must be carried out at sunset to avoid burns to the apple tree.
In addition to diseases, rodents pose a danger to apple trees - mice, bunnies, which love to feast on the bark of these trees. You can scare off such pests with the help of spruce branches - you simply need to surround the apple trees growing on the site with them.
The above-mentioned methods of preventing the treatment of apple trees, as well as saving them from rodents, are effective and simply necessary for the safety of the harvest and the life of fruit trees.
