Apple tree Helena

Apple tree Helena
The main characteristics of the variety:
  • Authors: Canada
  • Taste: sweet and sour, viscous spicy aftertaste
  • Fruit size: small
  • Growing regions: regions with harsh winters and lack of sun
  • Decorative: Yes
  • Height: 3-4 m
  • Crown: dense, round, spreading
  • Escapes: purple in color, later turn brown
  • Flowers: purple, simple
  • Coloration: Red
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Decorative varieties of apple trees are just beginning to gain popularity in Russia among summer residents, although they have long been used in city parks and squares. The Helena apple tree brought from Canada quickly attracted gardeners, conquering them not only with its beauty, but also with its endurance.

Description of the variety

Many gardeners prefer to plant not only varietal fruit trees, but also decorative ones on their personal plot. Helena apple tree can be a wonderful decoration of the garden.

The culture has unique decorative characteristics. She looks great all year round. The long and plentiful spring flowering period pleases with pink inflorescences. The tree then changes the color of its leaves to an amazing purple, keeping it until late autumn. In winter, the bark of a reddish hue acts as an ornament. Against the backdrop of white snow, the apple tree looks amazing.

Reaches 3-4 m in height, with a dense, rounded, spreading crown. Due to this growth, the plant looks powerful. Leaves are oval, up to 7 cm, glossy, deeply lobed, dark red when blooming, then a dark green color appears.

It grows slowly, keeping compact for quite a long time. The tree reaches its maximum growth by 10 years.

Features, pros and cons

Helena's apple tree can become a real decoration of any garden, creating a wonderful mood. The variety is successfully used in the landscape design of city parks and alleys. This decorative tree is widely used both in the creation of compositions and in a single planting.

Among the virtues of culture are:

  • high resistance to unfavorable environmental conditions, dustiness and gas pollution of megalopolises;

  • excellent indicators of winter hardiness and drought resistance;

  • compact shape and beautiful appearance;

  • unpretentious care.

The disadvantages include:

  • inedible fruits;

  • requires mandatory treatment of bark, shoots and leaves with special preparations for diseases and pests;

  • has certain requirements for the composition of the soil.

Ripening and fruiting

Yields first fruits for 2-3 years of growth. Initially, the number of ovaries is small; with each subsequent year, their number increases. Already 5-year-old specimens give abundant fruiting.

The apple tree begins to bloom profusely in late April - early May. However, vegetative terms largely depend on climatic conditions. When the weather is cool, flowering can last up to 1 month.

Yield

The variety is not planted for harvest. However, on average, up to 10 kg of small apples can be harvested from one tree.

Fruits and their taste

The apples are small, the size is slightly larger than ripe cherries, about 40 mm. Their color is bright red, with a slightly elongated shape and dense flesh. The fruits are completely unsuitable for consumption, both fresh and processed. Although they have an unusual sweet and sour taste, with a viscous spicy aftertaste.

Due to the long stalks and small size, apples can hang on the tree for quite a long time and not crumble.

To obtain a bountiful harvest of fragrant apples, the garden must be periodically renewed by planting seedlings of productive and new varieties. The choice of an apple seedling must be approached with all responsibility, because low-quality planting material at best will not take root, and at worst it will die in the prime of years after numerous investments in its health and normal formation.

Growing features

Before you start planting a plant, first select a place. Sunny, with fertile soil with a slightly acidic or neutral reaction is best suited.

If the soil is poor, a large planting pit must be prepared in advance. Its volume depends on the root system. First, the hole is filled with a fertile mixture consisting of humus, compost, peat, sand and mineral fertilizers.

It has a well-developed root system, which must be fully straightened when planting. There is no need to apply additional fertilizers for several years. For the normal development of the roots, what was introduced during planting will be enough.

After planting, the seedling must be tied to a support. It is advisable not to remove the stakes until the culture reaches 5 years of age.

In turn, watering should be abundant. So the seedling adapts faster. Timely it is necessary to carry out loosening of the earth, weeding from weeds and mulching.

You can plant a plant in spring (before bud break) or in autumn (a month before the onset of cold weather). Landing time depends largely on regional characteristics.

Planting apple trees is a very important, troublesome and responsible business. Its survival and full-fledged fruiting depends on the correct procedure. Before planting, you need to choose the right planting material, determine the location and prepare the soil.
A successful grafting helps to solve a whole range of problems, first of all: to get the varieties of interest and save space on the site. The vaccination technique itself is not so difficult and even a novice summer resident can master it. Vaccinations can be done during the entire growing season.
Along with top dressing and pruning necessary for apple trees, watering is also a significant contribution to the correct development of the culture, and therefore to a high yield. Improper watering, carried out inopportunely, without enough water, can bring great trouble to the fruit tree.

Pollination

Self-pollinated species. Most often planted to create cross-pollination with other fruit trees. It is considered an excellent honey plant.

An important point in caring for an apple tree in the open field is feeding and fertilizing. Top dressing of apple trees begins in early spring and ends in late autumn. Lack of nutrition leads not only to a decrease in the quality and quantity of the crop, but also reduces the immunity of the tree, making it more vulnerable to pests and diseases. And with the autumn procedure, the tree will be able to lay more fruit buds, which will have a positive effect on the future harvest.

Frost resistance

Canadian varieties are resistant to extreme cold temperatures. Helena easily tolerates frosts of -30 ... 35 degrees, even when they can last a month or more. Only young seedlings need to be sheltered for the winter, their immunity is not fully formed, and they can get damaged shoots.

Despite the fact that apple trees are considered quite unpretentious plants, they still need proper autumn care. Timely preparation of trees for winter makes them more resistant to winter frosts, as well as increase future yields.

Diseases and pests

Resistance to many diseases is high. However, the culture is susceptible to the same infections as ordinary apple trees. To avoid this, preventive treatment for diseases should be carried out every year. Then the decorative appearance will not be spoiled.

The apple tree is a popular fruit crop among gardeners. It can be found in many summer cottages. But at the same time, such trees are often affected by various diseases. It is very important to recognize the disease in time and carry out the necessary procedures for a speedy recovery. Otherwise, the fruits will be spoiled, and the tree itself may die altogether.

Fruiting of aging trees, as well as the quality of the harvest, decreases. Therefore, if the tree is aging and there is a need to replace it, you need to think about how to propagate the apple tree so as not to lose the variety. For reproduction of an apple tree, several methods are used: by seeds, layering, eyes and cloning (budding).
General characteristics
Authors
Canada
Decorative
Yes
Wood
Height
3-4 m
Crown
dense, rounded, spreading
Leaves
glossy, oval, deeply lobed dark red when blooming, then a dark green color appears, up to 7 cm
Escapes
purple in color, later turn brown
Flowers
purple, simple
Fruit
Coloration
Red
Fruit shape
slightly elongated
Fruit size, mm
up to 40
Fruit size
small
Taste
sweet and sour, viscous spicy aftertaste
Pulp
dense
Crumbling
No
Growing
Growing regions
regions with harsh winters and lack of sun
Frost resistance, ° C
high
The soil
fertile soils with a slightly acidic reaction
Location
illuminated
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