Apple tree Medunitsa - features of the variety, the basic rules of cultivation

The popular apple tree Medunitsa has been cultivated in our country for more than 70 years. She is planted on her dachas by fans of honey taste, this fruit occupies the tops of horticultural ratings. The variety is resistant to scab and rot, excellent taste qualities of fruits, which gave him the name.

Applewort - description of the cultivar

The sweet apple apple Medunitsa ripens in the summer, there is also its winter variation. She is ranked as a crop. Kind of apple Medunitsa - description:

1. The village of Medunitsa has an unadulterated pyramidal crown. Center branches from the trunk grow at a small angle and tend to skyrocket.
2. The leaves are elongated, narrow, light-grassed with even margins, bent in the center. Flowers of white color with a diameter of up to 5 cm.
3. Apples at Medunitsa averaged over 100-150 g. Their main color is straw, at the time of ripening the fruit is decorated with a purple blush. The shape of the fruit is rounded, somewhat flattened.
4. The flesh is dense and extremely juicy. Apples have a sugar-honey flavor, which distinguishes them from the others. The concentration of sugar is 14%, there is almost no acidity in the fruit. Apples are fragrant, the taste is so sweet that they can be eaten even by those who are not.

Apple tree Medunitsa summer

The apple cultivar Medunitsa was selected first, he is more famous. The tree is grown, the crown is branchy. Harvest - 80 kg from the specimen, ripens in late August - early September. However, the lush tree crown makes the process of ripening fruit multifaceted. The fruits of Medunitsa are considered to be the sweetest among the summer apple-trees, when they are laid down, their honey taste will become even more pleasant. Fruits are not stored for long, for 1.5 months, during this time they do not lose their qualities. Many varieties have gone from Medunitsy to summer, Medunitsa is more common.

Apple tree Medunitsa winter

Later, Medunitsa recovered due to crossing with Semerenko. It has an enviable frost resistance and immunity to scab. Garden apple tree Medunitsa winter - a brief description of the cultivar:

1. Outward signs of it do not differ from ancestors.
2. The fruits of the winter Medunitsa have a moderate size, weight 90-120 g, the same straw color with a purple blush.
3. The main difference is that the fruit ripens later - by the end of September. They have the same honey aroma, and are preserved until the very spring.

Characteristics of the apple tree Medunitsa

The cultivar Medunica excels among its counterparts by the mass of parameters:

1. This is a stalwart view, the 5-year-old apple tree Medunitsa tree height reaches 5 m.
2. Apples are well attached and do not fall off for a long time. Fruits can be seen for the fifth year after disembarkation.
3. Productivity - up to 80 kg of juicy fruit from a tree. Even with pollutants unfavorable for pollination, a systematic and generous collection is carried out.
4. For the first 10 years the apple tree gives the harvest constantly generously every year. Then the fruiting becomes periodic - large yields alternate with low yields.
5. The trees are frost-hardy, they tolerate severe winters with temperatures lowering to -40 ° С.
6. The variety has an enviable resistance to fruit rot and scab.
7. Sort of apple tree Medunitsa is self-fertile, for the ovary fruit on the site, pollinators should be planted. Optimal candidates - Anis Sverdlovskiy, Belfler Chinese, White pouring, Chernenko's victory.

Planting of the apple tree Medunitsa

Although the apple tree Medunitsa at the planting and care is considered unpretentious, in order to obtain a generous harvest, it is necessary to take into account certain factors of landing:

1. Culture is advised to take root in autumn in October for 2-3 weeks before frosts.
2. The distance between the specimens is not less than 4 m.
3. When planting, dig a hole 1 m deep and as much in diameter. At the bottom is laid fertile soil, mixed with humus and compost in similar doses.
4. Seedling should be placed in the center of the pit, sprinkled with earth, so that the root of the root remained 2-3 cm above the ground, rammed.
5. Then a recess is formed to water in a circle. The tree is poured with a few buckets of water and mulched.

Apple tree Medunica - care

To obtain an excellent harvest, it is important to follow the rules of care of Medunica:

1. Pruning apple trees Medunitsa occurs in the spring before pecking the kidneys. At the same time, remove dry branches, shoots near the roots. To decorate the stem on Medunica retain 5-6 powerful branches, growing in the sides.
2. Watered plantations 1 time in 2 weeks. The correct volume of water is 30-40 liters per one mature apple tree, for a one-year-old seedling, 10 liters every 3-4 days.
3. Recommended makeup: Young seedlings for nitrogen absorption are cooked with chicken litter three times per season - 1 L of strong infusion per 1 bucket of water. Urea is poured in May or June (2 liters of urea per 10 liters of water). Cultures of 4 years old, starting to form fruits, are needed:

• superphosphate - 2 tbsp. spoon on a bucket of water;
• potassium chloride - 0.5 tbsp. for 10 liters of water.
• after flowering, mature trees are not fertilized with nitrogen.

Prevention of illnesses and diseases:

1. In the early spring, the apple tree is treated with copper sulfate - 100 g per 10 liters of water.
2. It is beneficial to spray with a decoction of flowers or elder leaves. For this, 1 kg of raw material is poured into 10 liters of water and aged for 24 hours. To freshly prepared gravy add 50 grams of laundry soap.
3. For protection from scab and fruit of stem rot, the circle is treated with a 10% solution of ammonium nitrate before budding, and the tree with a 3% Bordeaux mixture.
4. After harvesting in autumn and spring, before the opening of the kidneys, the stem is bleached with lime.