Apple Tree Chosen One: variety description and origin, subspecies and features with photo

Apple is not only a tasty and he althy fruit, but also a storehouse of useful elements. Vitamin C, iron, useful organic compounds - all this is present in them in huge quantities. That is why the apple tree is one of the most common fruit trees. Many varieties allow you to get delicious fruits in different regions. Today we will talk about the Chosen apple variety, one of the best creations of Russian selection.

Origin

Variety Elected was obtained in 1951. Domestic horticulture, recovering after the war, needed frost-resistant productive varieties. The progenitors of the Chosen One were Belfier Kitaika and Antonovka.

A group of Soviet breeders who worked on the basis of Moscow State University, consisting of: G.I. Limberg, V.V. Vartanetyan and S.I. Isaev, received a variety that is still popular today due to its yield and excellent taste characteristics of the fruit.

Variety description

The chosen one belongs to the varieties of autumn ripening, the apples are large - from 150 to 300 grams. The main yellow-green color of the fruit is complemented by red bottling, and the resulting tri-color color makes them bright and very noticeable against the background of green foliage.

Juicy, sweet and sour taste, fruits with slightly granular creamy flesh, retain their taste in any type of processing (drying, cooking). Apples are round, slightly ribbed, with a smooth skin.

The tree reaches 6-7 meters and belongs to medium height, with a rounded and fairly rare crown. Slowly grows in height, but gives numerous lateral shoots. Therefore, the apple tree of this variety needs systematic pruning.

The chosen one gives stable good harvests, from one apple tree you can get up to 85 kilograms of apples. According to the description and opinion of gardeners, the fruits do not shrink with high yields. Young apple trees begin to actively bear fruit at the 6th year of growth.

Subspecies

You can grow the Chosen One on a dwarf rootstock or an apple tree trunk.

Dwarf

Apple trees on a dwarf rootstock appeared relatively recently, but have already gained many supporters. Such trees have many advantages, but there are also disadvantages.

The "dwarf" usually begins to bear fruit at the age of 3, the adult apple tree, the Chosen One, will bring a full harvest in 6-7 years.
There are as many fruits on a dwarf tree as on a large one.
Dwarf apple tree - from 1.5 to 3 meters in height, which means that all work is much easier to do.
For a seedling you need up to 1.5 meters - trees in the garden are planted more often.

Disadvantages of stunted trees include:

They need extra support; the tree cannot support the weight of the fruit, the fragile branches break.
They are more attractive to pests, you have to regularly process plantings.
A dwarf apple tree lives less than a large varietal tree.
The root system of dwarf trees is located close to the surface - for the winter you will have to additionally cover the roots with sawdust, covering material.

It is better to buy dwarf trees in specialized nurseries, their price is higher compared to ordinary seedlings, and a not too experienced gardener can easily confuse young apple trees.

Early

Grafting to standard crops enables early harvesting and improves the decorative properties of the apple tree - it becomes an ornament to the summer cottage.In this case, the fruits ripen by mid-August and are even larger in size - up to 330 grams. They get sick less and are less affected by pests.

Stamp tree - up to 3 meters high, so planting care is simplified - pruning, harvesting can be done without a high ladder. The standard trees of the Chosen One have spread in the Urals and Siberia. A stem is a straight trunk of a tree from which the branches are completely cut off, then the crown is formed in the desired form, and a selected apple variety is grafted onto it. As a stem, more resistant species are usually used (for example, rose hips).

Maunzen, Hibernal are used as stapling agents for apple trees.

Advantages and disadvantages

The main advantages of the Chosen variety are the taste of the fruit, the ability to tolerate even harsh frosty winters, the average resistance to scab disease and high yields.

Disadvantage: short shelf life of ripe apples (30-40 days). That is why the fruits of the Chosen One are more often processed.

Features of ripening and fruiting

The apple tree begins to bear fruit 6-7 years after planting. The first harvest is small, but then the number of apples increases with each season.

In order for the tree not to lose its fertility, side branches should be cut regularly, forming a crown and rejuvenating the apple tree. They harvest apples at the end of August or in the first days of September. After 30 days of storage, apples quickly lose their presentation.

Diseases and pests

The chosen one is resistant to scab, all other diseases typical of fruit trees can also affect the apple tree of this variety. To prevent infection with powdery mildew, fruit rot, you need to regularly cut the tree, dig in, whitewash the trunk and remove fallen leaves.Spray with fungicides - according to the manufacturer's instructions, depending on the type of preparation, to protect against flower beetle, codling moth and leafworm.

Regions of distribution

This variety was bred for the Lower Volga region, but since the winters became milder, The chosen one took root in the gardens of the Central region, since 1999 it has been zoned for the Ural and Siberian regions. Therefore, today it grows everywhere in Russia and gives excellent yields.

There is no Russian garden without apple trees. By planting different varieties of fruit trees, the gardener will provide his family with apples from mid-summer to late autumn.