Candy apple tree: description and characteristics of the variety, cultivation and care with a photo

The Candy apple tree, like many other sweet apples for growing in temperate latitudes, was bred by biologist-breeder S. I. Isaeva. The fruit of the pollination of Korobovka with the pollen of the Papirovka variety is called the candy apple, and in some regions the nickname caramel apple tree has firmly stuck to the tree. Improved Box got more juicy pulp.

Characteristics of the variety

There are no areas favorable for growing the Candy variety, it can be grown in almost any conditions, fertilizing, pruning, planting will differ by 1-2 weeks from the recommended average period.

The apple tree stands out for its aesthetic beauty during flowering and fruiting. Apples are even, approximately the same diameter and weight, their average weight is 120-130 g. Fruiting begins depending on the chosen rootstock. For the 6th season, up to 50 kg of apples can already be obtained from a seedling. Every year the growth of fruits increases, an adult tree yields up to 100 kg.

Despite the fact that Candy is positioned as a summer variety, ripe fruits collected from an apple tree can be stored for more than 2 months.

Taste

Recognition of apple lovers does not quite coincide with the opinion of professionals, who rated the taste only 4.2 points. It is rather difficult to say exactly what the fruits of the caramel apple tree taste like. According to the description of gardeners from different regions, it has a taste of pineapple, honey, bananas, pear notes.

Resistance to low temperatures

High frost resistance went to Sotra Candy from the varieties that participated in its breeding. Just like its ancestors, Candy is well adapted to the conditions of the Moscow region, the North-Western regions, the Leningrad region. The Pskov region, Belarus and Ukraine are the best climate in which garden apple trees do not get frostbite in winter.

Positive and negative ratings

Excellent taste of fruits, quick restoration of the crown after pruning and frostbite, adaptability to different soils and weather conditions - the best qualities. The disadvantages of the Candy variety are susceptibility to scab disease during prolonged cool wet weather conditions, extremely poor resistance to damage during transportation.

Very fond of these fragrant wasp apples. Which negatively affects the presentation of fruits.

Crown settings

The height of the variety Candy is laid down when it is grafted to a stock of a certain type. The maximum height of the trunk is 5 m, while the diameter of the crown is 2.5-3 m. The layering of the crown is set when it is trimmed correctly. The formation of tiers begins from the second spring after planting due to thinning and strict monitoring of the length of skeletal branches.

Self-fertility

The variety is self-fertile, but its yield increases dramatically if varieties grow in close proximity, whose flowering coincides with Candy.

Pollinators

The best pollinating varieties for Candy in Russia and Belarus are:

Anise Pink Striped;
Bellefleur-Chinese;
M alt Bagaevsky;
Melba;
Paper;
Glory to the Winners;
Stark John Grimes;
Yandykovskoye;
White.

Flowering

Blossoming occurs in the middle - end of May, which largely depends on the onset of stable positive temperatures.
Fruiting period

Fruit ripening begins a month before Apple Spas, which is extremely rare in the central part of Russia.

Harvesting

Harvesting must be done carefully, removing the apples from the branches and carefully placing them in a storage container. Ua fallen apple can be stored for no more than 3 days, it must be processed until it becomes soft and brown inside from the bruise.

Existing subspecies

Summer Candy Apple is more resistant to scab, the description of its leaves is very similar to Korobovka, they are just as hard to the touch. Candy is similar to its ancestor in terms of apple harvesting, only the fruit pulp is more tender and juicy.

Ranet Candy

This variety has not been recorded either in the register of fruit trees or in the descriptions of amateur breeders. Apparently, someone used an old Ranet tree to grow the Candy Stem. But it looks more like a marketing ploy when distributing seedlings that do not meet all the standards of the Candy variety.

Candy-2

Apple-tree Candy-2 - an improved version of the main variety in terms of transportability and a more convenient crown for the care and collection of fruits.

Summer Candy

This is a delusion, this sort does not exist. Simply Candy, ripening well before August 19, the traditional picking date for most varieties of apples. A seller using such a name includes unjustified advertising in it.

Tree care

Spraying with "Fluazinam" before the leaves begin to peck is one of the reliable ways to protect a tree from scab. Autumn mulching of the near-trunk zone, above the roots of the apple tree, and the winter increase near the trunk of a snowdrift help the tree to overwinter in a comfortable microclimate, which will affect the size and quality of the crop.

Fertilizing the soil

The first stage of feeding a tree is done when it is planted, when the enriched soil is placed directly into the planting hole. In the spring, traditionally, dry fertilizers are scattered before watering on the soil loosened above the roots. With irrigation, nitrogen fertilizer is applied before flowering and the period of ovary formation, it is necessary for the entire crop to ripen on the branches.

Irrigation

Watering when making root dressings and after the distribution of foliar fertilizers is mandatory, just like when planting a seedling.Watering or not watering an apple tree in the process of ripening apples will have to be decided independently, based on soil moisture. The abundance of watering depends on what air temperatures.

Attention! Plants are never watered during the daytime when the sun is at its zenith. Watering is done early in the morning or late in the evening, when the foliage does not get sunburn.

Pruning for sanitary purposes

For sanitary purposes, pruning can be done at any time of the year. If this is due to breakage of branches or infection of a tree, then cut off the affected areas and destroy them in a fire immediately. Thinning and crown formation is carried out in late autumn or early spring, while tree sap flows slowly.

Whitewashing the barrel

The trunk is covered with lime mortar in both spring and autumn. Additives in the form of copper-containing components provide additional protection against fungal infections, and lime itself insulates the tree trunk and prevents insects from settling under the bark.

Main rootstocks

Amateur gardeners, when self-grafting seedlings to old boles of fruit trees, do not particularly think about what result awaits them in 10-15 years. From nurseries, seedlings arrive with strict parameters that can be predicted even before planting.

Semi-dwarf

Candy apple tree on this rootstock is more common in southern regions. It does not tolerate cold climates as well as seed.

Dwarf

The height of the trunk barely reaches 170 cm, while the weight of each fruit is almost 200 g. In the second season, up to 35 kg of apples can be obtained from this small tree.

Candy columnar

Columnar apple trees Candy variety not registered. A species corresponding to apple trees on similar rootstocks is given by dwarf and semi-dwarf boles.

Disembarkation dates

Depending on the climate of the region where the apple tree is planted, the exact planting dates are determined.

Autumn landing

The period in which the apple tree should be in the ground in a new place is limited to when the average daily air temperature drops below +10 °C, but frost has not yet come.

Spring Landing

Planting seedlings is done after the outside day and night for more than 10 days only positive temperature. It is necessary to have time to plant a tree during the period until the buds on other trees began to swell and open intensively.

Growing trees in different climatic zones

In addition to the timing of planting, pruning, top dressing, there are other features for the Candy variety of apple trees in each climatic zone.

Moscow Region

For stable fruiting, the plant needs a lot of sunlight, this must be taken into account when choosing a planting site. There should not be tall trees, walls and high monolithic fences near the seedling. When planting, it is necessary to lay a drainage layer of 10-20 cm in the hole.

Primorye

Planting in Primorsky Krai is done in the spring, which involves preparing the hole in about six months - from the fall. Given the characteristics of the soil, it must be flavored with compost, s altpeter, superphosphate, nitroammophos. This is based on the fact that mineral additives carry away melt water through light soils. From the trunk during heavy rains, which is not uncommon in the Primorsky Territory, it is necessary to remove excess moisture, for which drainage grooves are laid.

Ural

Heterogeneous soils in the Urals, some of them are too loose, which requires constant replenishment of nutrients in the soil, the other part does not allow water and air to reach the roots in the proper amount.As a result of the fact that water lingers on the surface, a beneficial atmosphere is formed for pathogenic microflora, which provokes diseases.

Such soil must be loosened by introducing sand, ash, peat into it when digging. Ash reduces the acidity of the soil, which is also good for fruit trees.

Siberia

when digging, organic matter is introduced into the soil - manure or humus.

Northwest region

Loamy and sandy soils, peatlands are the main soils of the northwestern regions. They have a drawback - they are not rich in all the elements necessary for fertility. Systematic fertilizing with organic and inorganic complex fertilizers is a must.