APPLE VARIETIES WITH GREEN APPLES

My daughter loves green apples. She doesn’t need ruddy, like from a fairy tale, give her strong, crispy green ones. The neighbor also has a child with diathesis, for this reason she also decided to plant apple trees with green fruits in the garden in the hope that there would be no allergic reactions to them. So together we began to graft and test different green-fruited varieties.

THE SPECIAL CHARM OF GREEN APPLES

In general, breeders are trying to breed apple trees with beautiful fruits with a blush, large and sweet. Green apples are not in favor with them. They really are not as pleasing to the eye as brightly colored ones. The orange-red color of the skin is due to various pigments, mainly anthocyanins and carotenoids. The more of them, the more elegant the apple looks. If there is no blush or it is very weak (simply as a result of exposure to sunlight), then such apples are often considered unattractive. The lack of blush is a lack of variety. So think and breeders, and many consumers. But imagine how important green apples are for people with allergies to pigments. In addition, green apples are unusually tasty, no worse than brightly colored apples with orange barrels and red stripes.

One of the most famous green-fruited varieties is Renet Simirenko. It has been adored by gardeners for many, many years, apples of this variety are successfully sold in most supermarkets. True, Renet Simirenko has poor winter hardiness, so it can only be grown in the southern regions of Russia. I tried to graft it on winter-hardy rootstocks, but the success was not great - from time to time the vaccinations would freeze out.

Breeders based on Renet Simirenko tried to breed other varieties. One of them is a variety

Simirenkovets - obtained at a horticultural station in Ukraine. He does not have as many advantages as the parent form - Renet Simirenko, however, Simirenkovets is more winter-hardy, and this is his big plus.

With the participation of Renet Simirenko, other excellent varieties were also bred - for example, Winter Ribbed, Rossoshanskoe Lezhkoe, Winter Large. They were obtained in the Voronezh region at the Rossoshansk fruit and berry experimental station. Although the varieties are recommended for cultivation in the Central Black Earth Region, they nevertheless feel great in more northern regions, such as Ryazan and Tambov. I also tested these varieties in my suburbs. I especially liked the variety Rossoshanskoe lezhkoe. He very quickly entered into fruiting and began to give large yields. And although his apples are rather small (weighing about 100 g), they

apples are excellent, and they are stored for a very long time, until spring. He also has disadvantages - for example, low yield and personal dessert taste, juicy and at the same time with dense pulp. The coloration is greenish-yellow. Apples are stored for a very long time, until the new harvest, but they can lie longer. The variety is a real find for me. Of the minuses is that I have already had several frostbites of grafts of this variety. Nevertheless, it was bred on the basis of Renet Simirenko in the Voronezh region and is intended for the southern regions. But the Winter Ribbed showed itself in this sense from an excellent side - it is winter-hardy, it did not freeze with me.

The Babushkino variety has absolutely green fruits, and this variety is winter-hardy and grows well in the middle lane.

Low fertility. That is, the first fruiting does not happen soon - only in the 7-8th year. Nevertheless, in the northern gardens, this variety is loved and grown to this day.

Of course, one cannot do without mentioning the most famous variety Antonovka ordinary. This is perhaps the most famous green apple variety. True, its fruits taste sour, but they have a great aroma and are valued by gardeners because it is Antonovka apples that can be wetted (when soaked, they are simply great, inimitable taste). And what marmalade and jam are obtained from Antonovka - just a fairy tale! Antonovka apples contain a huge amount of pectin substances, which, as they say, help to remove radionuclides from the body. And in terms of winter hardiness, few can compare with Antonovka - it can withstand any frost and any weather changes.

I also liked the one and a half pound Antonovka with huge (up to 600 g, on average 240 g) green fruits, sweet and sour, pleasant. True, the fruits are stored less than the fruits of Antonovka vulgaris, moreover, they quickly lose useful substances and vitamins.

They love Antonovka and breeders. They use it when breeding new green-fruited varieties. For example, on the basis of Antonovka, the Pobeda variety was obtained - very early-growing, high-yielding and resistant to scab. Pobeda has very large, completely green fruits, although they become yellowish during storage, they lie until early February. The pulp is tender, crispy, juicy, sweet and sour taste.

On the basis of Antonovka, when it was crossed with the European variety Renet Landsberg, the famous variety Bogatyr was obtained. He is very fond of gardeners of the middle lane. The fruits are large, indeed, like heroes, with a green color of the skin, which can turn slightly pink where the sun shines on it. A very pleasant sweet and sour taste and firm juicy white flesh complete the fine portrait of this variety.

No less famous than Antonovka are the old varieties Pouring white and Pa-pirovka. These are summer varieties with green fruits. A lot of gardeners, like me, adore these varieties and plant them in their garden, because apples ripen very early. They are beautiful - a delicate greenish color, and the taste is simply lovely - juicy, sweet and sour, fragrant. In addition, they ripen very early, when the fruits of other varieties are still pouring. Please note that if you let the apples overripe, the pulp will become mealy. These are typical early summer varieties, the fruits of which should be eaten directly from the tree, they are practically not stored.

The Golden Autumn variety was obtained from the famous variety of I. V. Michurin Belfleur-Chinese. True, Bellefleur-Chinese has fruits with a bright blush, while Golden Autumn has fruits of a light yellow color, similar to the color of Antonovka. Apples are delicious, with a pleasant refreshing sweet and sour taste and very tender and juicy pulp, as well as thin skin. This is an autumn variety, and the fruits can be stored and consumed until the end of October.

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I cannot but mention the varieties with not quite green, but with golden apples. For example, I liked the rather old and famous variety Arkad yellow. It has a very high winter hardiness, while the apples are sweet, small in size, light yellow, with yellowish flesh, taste very sweet, almost without acid, and juicy. It ripens very early - simultaneously with the White filling.

Another super-early variety is Kitayka golden early. The fruits can be eaten from mid-July. Small apples are yellow in color and have juicy sweet and sour flesh with a very pleasant taste. I tried to eat it fresh, and besides, make jam, make juices. These blanks are one of the most delicious in my cellar.

And here are some green-fruited varieties that are on my wish list, and this spring I plan to try some of them.

Narodnoe is a late-summer variety obtained by crossing Breading with Chinese Bellefleur. The fruits are small (1 10-130 g), greenish-yellow without a blush. The flesh is greenish, juicy, refreshing sweet and sour taste. Their taste is better than that of Panirovka, and the period of consumption is longer. That's what they say, but I'll definitely check it out.

Moscow later - late winter variety. The fruits are large, greenish-yellow, sometimes with pink barrels if the sun shines on them. Very juicy, sweet and sour with a spicy aftertaste, the pulp does not leave indifferent. In addition, apples can be eaten immediately after picking, they are still tasty, although in many winter varieties they should gain flavor in the process of maturation. And apples can lie until May. True, the tree is vigorous, but I will try to graft a branch into the crown.

Daughter of Antonovka (Snowball) is an early autumn variety that, in my opinion, can be planted instead of Antonovka in the event that the real Antonovka cannot be found. The fruits are large (160 - 180 g), greenish when removed, turn white during storage. The pulp is juicy, tender, sweet and sour, semi-oily. The aroma is stronger than that of Antonovka. The fruits hang for a long time and do not fall off, so there is no carrion, which is also a big plus.

Rossiyanka is a late winter variety obtained by crossing Antonovka and Babushkino varieties - A highly winter-resistant variety immune to scab. The fruits are large (110-120 g), with golden yellow skin, sweet and sour, juicy, fragrant. Keep until spring.

Slavyanka is an old variety, but gardeners still adore it. It has a very high winter hardiness, pollinators are not needed. The fruits are very tasty and fragrant, lie until spring, however, medium-sized (80-120 g). The skin is green, sometimes with a blush on the sunny side. The pulp is crispy, dense, juicy, sweet with sourness. The taste is estimated at 4 points.

IT IS INTERESTING

There is an opinion that White filling and Polishing are the same variety of apples, only common in our country under different names. By the middle of the XIX century. White filling was already a fairly common variety in Russia. In Poland and Lithuania, it was called Olive (Oliwka Inflancka - pol., Aiyvinis - lit.) or Paper (Papierdwka - pol., Popierinis - lit.). The Russian name Panirovka is apparently borrowed from the Polish Papierdwka. From this we can assume that the Polishing variety or its name came to Russia not from the territory of the Baltic states, as is commonly believed, but from the territory of modern Poland or Belarus.

It can be assumed that in Russia for almost two centuries there have been many varieties or forms with similar morphological prienaks, which in different areas were called differently and, probably, very conditionally - White filling, Pudolshchina, Alabaster, Paper, Polishing, etc. P.

At present, the originator, one might say, the custodian of the Naliv white variety is VNIISPK, but it is not clear whether it has anything to do with the variety that was distributed in the past in the Volga region and Central Russia.

In addition, the State Register of Breeding Achievements contains both White Filling and Polishing, which completely confuses the situation. However, from the foregoing, we can conclude that White filling and Polishing is a variety type or rather a collective image that includes many varieties, forms and clones, and not one variety.

V. BRYKIN Republic of Bashkortostan

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See also: Are there absolutely white and black apples? (Names of varieties)

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RARE "GREEN" AND "GOLDEN" APPLE VARIETIES. WE RECOMMEND TO TEST IN THE MOSCOW REGION

Varieties Papiroyantarnoe, Memory Lavrik (the fruits are very tasty, there is a frequency of fruiting), novelty - Antonovka gold (very similar to the usual Antonovka, but with yellow fruits), Riga dove, Renet Chernenko (Renet Kichunova) - sometimes apples have a blush, Kushnarenkovskoe autumn , Birskoye pear (the taste is excellent, 4 points), there is a blush from the sunny side, Koilelya (Polish sugar) is an old variety, but very widespread in Belarus under the second name, with very sweet fruits, Moscow green.

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Dessert Kichiny - the variety is included in the State Register for the Central Region. Late summer. Dessert. The fruits are large (weighing 150 g), oblong, light yellow. The pulp is white, medium density, tender, fine-grained, juicy.

The taste is sweet and sour, with a slight aroma. Tasting score - 4, 7 points. Winter hardiness, drought resistance and heat resistance are average. Resistant to scab and aphids.

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Reference by topic: Is it true that green apples do not cause allergies?

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