Apple tree Williams Pride: variety description, ripening and fruiting with photo

Fruit trees that bear fruit during the summer months are not very popular with amateur gardeners. But experienced farmers pay much more attention to them. They know that such varieties produce valuable fruits that are distinguished by a high concentration of useful trace elements and rich flavors.

Williams Pride apple tree is a bright representative of an early ripe species. Her unpretentiousness and the sweet taste of apples have earned her the fame of a plant that can decorate any garden.

Variety description

Williams Pride apple tree is a varietal tree and the result of painstaking work of American breeders. To obtain a culture with the necessary set of properties, they successively crossed 8 popular types of apple trees. The result of such labor is a new look.

The following is important to describe it:

Produces a rich harvest of high quality fruits.
Not afraid of typical "apple" diseases and pests.
Early ripening, bearing fruit annually, albeit with varying intensity.

The hallmark of the Williams Pride variety was its fruits themselves, and specifically their color. Rich cherry, almost purple, with a slight silver coating, they transform any garden and any table with their appearance!

This type of apples can not only be eaten in the summer season, replenishing the supply of useful trace elements in the body.They are also suitable for home or industrial cooking! Due to the structure of the pulp of the fruit, they are used to make jams, jams and compotes, and also harvested in dried form.

Pros and cons

Like any product of genealogical work, the Williams Pride apple tree got the right to exist due to its positive qualities. Although she has some shortcomings.

Virtues of Williams Pride

Gives a bountiful harvest that ripens in stages. This allows you to remove all the fruits in the best possible way.
Resistant to typical diseases of its species. Completely immune to fungi that cause powdery mildew and Porsche.
Fruits have a dense structure and strong skin. Thanks to these properties, they retain an attractive appearance for a long time.

Weaknesses

Apple fruits are poorly stored. In a month and a half, they must be recycled.
Trees grow up to 5 meters tall and have a wide, spreading crown, making it difficult to pick fruit.

Key Features

Williams Pride apple tree is one of the most popular crops of its kind. The reason for the high demand she enjoys lies in her personal qualities.

Sizes

There are two types of this tree:

Medium height. As an adult, its height reaches 5 meters.
Dwarf. The trunk grows up to 3 meters in height.

The size of a fully formed crown reaches 4-5 meters in width.

Yields

Williams Pride is a high-yielding apple variety. An adult tree of 5-7 years per season produces up to 70 kilograms of fruit. In the future, this figure increases. But how much depends on how high-quality care the culture receives.

Frequency of fruiting

The tree bears fruit every year, which is inherent in its genealogical structure. As for the timing of fruiting: since the variety was bred recently, this issue has not been studied enough.

Winter hardiness

Apple variety Williams Pride was originally conceived as winter-hardy. Therefore, only those species of trees that have taken root well in the northern and central regions of the United States were used to breed it.

As a result, the new species inherited the ability to tolerate low temperatures without negative consequences.

Disease resistance

Culture not only inherited from its "ancestors" the ability to resist parasites and various diseases, but also developed it. As a result, she was immune to common diseases such as:

powdery mildew;
porsha;
cancer.

Fruit evaluation

The taste of apples of this variety can be described as sweet, vinous, with a slight sourness. On a 5-point system, it is estimated at 4.7. At the same time, the beneficial properties of the fruit are also taken into account.

Maturation and fruiting

Williams Pride apple tree begins to bear fruit at 3-4 years of age and reaches its peak by 10 years. It is at this age that the tree enters its most productive phase.

The apple tree blooms early, which in many regions of the central strip of Russia is an obstacle to its cultivation. At this time, there are still spring frosts that can ruin the entire crop.

Apples ripen in July-August, at the same time as the no less popular White Filling variety. The fruiting period lasts about one and a half months. During this time, fruit is removed 2-3 times.

Regions of distribution

Culture bred by breeders for cultivation in the middle zone of the USA and Eurasia. Due to its high frost resistance, it can be successfully cultivated in the northern regions of central Russia: Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov regions.

Williams Pride apple tree also feels comfortable in more southern areas. Although in less humid climates and on dry soils, it needs additional nutrition and watering.