Screen apple tree: variety description and features, tasting assessment with photo

Ekrannoye hybrid variety apple tree is famous for its high yield, attractive appearance and noble taste of its apples. In addition, it is unpretentious, resistant to diseases, and apples can be stored without problems for up to 5 months and, at the same time, do not lose their properties.

That's why it is gaining more and more popularity not only in the Urals, especially for the inhabitants of which this variety was bred, but also beyond its borders. If you chose Screen apple trees for your garden, be sure to get acquainted with their main characteristics, recommendations for planting and further care.

Description and features

Apple variety Screen bred in Sverdlovsk, at the breeding station. Although this hybrid is self-fertile, it is perfectly pollinated by apple trees of other varieties growing nearby.

Apples of this variety are subject to any processing and are easily transported.

If apples are to be stored for a long time, they should be picked when they are ripe. And then you can easily save them for up to 5 months, without losing their taste, by placing them in a cellar, a refrigerator, or even on a balcony. They will keep well. If they are packed and stored in a pit, the apples will start to rot from the inside.

Overripe Screen flesh has a "starchy" texture and is not stored for a long time.

When describing a tree, it is necessary to mark it:

rapid growth;
smooth bark;
spreading rounded crown;
medium sized fruits.

Characteristics of the apple tree Display

To learn more about this fruit crop, you need to consider the characteristics of the variety.

Tree dimensions

Apple-tree Screen is considered medium-sized and fast-growing. An adult tree grows up to 3 meters in height. And every year it becomes 12 centimeters higher, or even more.

Fruiting and productivity

On the 5th year after budding, the tree begins to bear fruit. It blooms and bears fruit with enviable regularity. The yield of this apple tree is very high: the average for 6 years reaches 116 centners per hectare, the maximum is fixed at 200 centners per hectare.

Fruit tasting evaluation

Apples - below average size, no more than 60-80 grams in weight, have a shiny smooth surface. They are not very fragrant, they taste sweet and sour.

The taste qualities of OSKrannoye apples are estimated at 4.3-4.5 points on a 5-point scale.

Apple frost resistance

This fruit tree is quite hardy. It calmly endures sudden changes in temperature, and feels great at -28 ℃.

Disease resistance

The apple tree has good immunity to scab - and this will please many gardeners. But this does not mean that the tree will not be able to get infectious diseases. This happens quite rarely and more often when the year is characterized by high humidity.

So precautions still have to be taken. In early spring, for the purpose of prevention, use copper oxychloride, Bordeaux mixture or copper sulfate.

Must be treated against fungal diseases and insects. For these purposes, the drug Hom or a specialized solution is used.

Processing must be done before the buds begin to bloom - the solution can burn them.

Prevention is also carried out in the fall, after the entire crop of apples is harvested, but before leaf fall. Trees are sprayed with a 5% urea solution.

What are the varieties?

Screen does not require special conditions. They are grafted onto other varieties, and semi-cultivated apple trees are also grown in the standard way, as separate trees.

Stamp

Sometimes, when there is not enough space on the site, the screen apple tree can be grafted to columnar varieties. The tree must have a strong trunk, like a column, overgrown with ringlets. The standard apple tree usually bears fruit in the first year after planting.There are few fruits at first, but the figure grows over the years.

Semiculture

When the temperature in the region drops to -47 ℃, gardeners are looking for a way to grow an apple tree of this hybrid variety - this is a graft to a wild ranetka. As a result, the tree is much less affected by severe frosts, and begins to bear fruit in the 3rd year. True, the fruits are smaller - 50-70 grams. And the adult semi-culture itself is not higher than 2 meters.

Growing regions

Sverdlovsk breeders bred this hybrid in order to distribute it in the Ural region. Unpretentiousness and frost resistance allowed him to easily adapt to other regions. Many gardeners are happy to admit that this variety, specially bred for growing in the harsh climate of the Middle Urals, takes root even better in areas with a milder climate.

In the middle lane.

Planting an apple tree seedling Screen in the last days of September allows the tree to successfully adapt in the Moscow region: take root before the first frosts.

In Siberia.

Siberian winters have little snow. We'll have to take care that the apple tree does not freeze. Gardeners recommend preparing it for winter in the fall. For this you need:

whitewash the trunk;
cover the soil near the tree with compost;
cover the apple tree with material.

In the Urals.

The apple tree was originally adapted to the climate of the Ural region. In order for it to grow rapidly from year to year, to form fruit branches, moisture and top dressing are required in sufficient quantities.In the first year, the apple tree should be watered regularly, and after two years, it can be fed.

Ekrannoye apple tree is the best fruit crop for the Urals, and it also takes root well in other Russian regions. Only one seedling grown in the garden, with proper care, will please the gardener with excellent yields. And what to say when there are several of them.