Apple tree Imant

Apple trees are a popular crop, because they are easy to grow in personal plots. They produce yields of delicious fruit and do not require any special care. Breeders are developing many new varieties with different fruits and characteristics. Imant is a novelty that is unpretentious to care for, has good frost resistance and gives gardeners delicious apples.

Trees have an oval crown, which over time transforms into a spherical or wider one. They are not too large, do not have a strong growth rate (height about 2-3 m). The fruits are found both on young annual branches and on spears and ringlets.

Of the advantages of the variety, a number of characteristics can be distinguished.

• Good frost resistance, allowing to grow the variety in the European part of the Russian Federation. The trees are able to withstand extreme cold, their buds do not suffer from frost in the spring.

• Immunity to certain diseases. When the summer is too cool and there is a lot of rainfall, the trees are often attacked with scab, which damages them and reduces their yield. Imant fights the fungus with dignity and does not allow it to harm and spread. And also the variety is resistant to bacterial cancer, cracking of the bark and practically does not undergo gum flow.

• Apple trees are fast-growing, which allows gardeners to harvest fruits as early as 3 years after planting seedlings in the soil.

• Trees take root well.

• Due to the compactness and non-thickening of the crown, pruning can be easily done, as well as prevention against various insects and collection of fruits.

• The fruits have an attractive and unusual appearance, large size.

• Good transportability and keeping quality, can be grown for both personal and industrial purposes.

The variety has no serious flaws, sometimes too dark skin and dense flesh are noted, but these characteristics are a matter of personal taste. They also note the fact that with irregular and poor watering in hot periods, the fruits can vary too much in shape and size.

The winter variety always bears fruit on time and every year. On a dwarf rootstock, it gives the first harvest for 2-3 years of life. Abundant fruiting begins after a few more years. The fruits can be harvested at the end of September, as at this time they will already be ripe. But it must be remembered that it depends on the climatic conditions. You should focus on the appearance of the fruit. The duration of the fruit consumption period is from February to April.

It is recommended to grow trees in the Central region of Russia. But this does not mean that apple trees are not grown in other areas as well. Most often, you can see the variety in the Volga region, Moscow region, the Black Sea region and in the North-West region. Apple trees are extremely popular among gardeners in Ukraine and Moldova.

Imant gives a good harvest.Apple trees at the age of 5 are capable of producing up to 25 kg of apples, at 8 years - 18 t / ha. The trees themselves are small, but every fall they are lushly overlaid with large fruits.

The main color of apples is green, the skin color is dark red and blurred for most of the fruit. Fruits are round, blunt-conical, have a noticeable ribbing. Weigh about 180-200 g.

The fruit is very crispy, juicy and sour-sweet, with a tasting score of 4.2 points. The pulp has a pleasant vanilla-cream color, not too dense and fine-grained. The aroma is weak, unobtrusive. The taste is fully revealed in December or at the end of winter, as the fruits ripen during the keeping period. In the cellar, fruits can be kept fresh until the end of April. If stored in the refrigerator, they can remain fresh until late March or early June.

Imant is valuable for gardeners due to its unpretentious care, because even if you devote a minimum of time and effort to growing a variety, you can achieve a stable and large harvest. It is necessary to plant the plant on fertile soil without groundwater. You should choose a place in which there would be light and partial shade. Landing distance - 5x3 m.

The variety is not self-pollinated, so other plants must be planted next to it. There are no specific varieties of apple trees, any trees blooming during the same period can be used.

If you prepare the planting hole properly, there is no need to fertilize the seedling for the next season. Top dressing should be applied from the second spring. When the soil thaws, it must be thoroughly loosened, embedding humus or compost in it. After 7 days, nitrogen-containing fertilizers, mineral or natural, are applied. The best options are urea, ammonium sulfate, fresh cow dung, and poultry manure. Later, this substance is not needed by the apple tree, since it will stimulate it to excessive growth of leaves to the detriment of the formation of fruits.

During the flowering period, it is necessary to feed the trees with phosphorus and potassium. Plants are watered with superphosphate (50-70 g per 10 l of water) and potassium nitrate (25-30 g per 10 l). you can also use an infusion of nettle, dandelion and other weeds.

A few weeks after the buds have fallen off, you need to spray the plants with complex fertilizer, which can be purchased at the store. The last feeding is carried out before the cold weather. Fresh manure and nitrogen fertilizers must not be used. The best option is a complex product that contains phosphorus and potassium.

The variety has a high frost resistance, but it is recommended to play it safe and prepare the plant for the winter cold, since the climatic conditions of Russia are unpredictable.

First, you need to clean the trunk circle, after which you should fill it with peat or humus. The thickness of the fill should be about 10 cm.

At the trunk, a hill is formed twice as high. The stem and the lower part of the skeletal shoots are whitened with an ordinary aqueous solution of quicklime with copper sulfate, powdered clay or office glue.

The barrel is neatly wrapped with several layers of material that allows air to pass through. Burlap is an excellent option. When snow falls, you should form a 0.5 m snowdrift around the apple tree.

Disease resistance is high, the variety is not affected by scab. In order to protect the plant well, it is better to carry out preventive procedures.

The culture is quite often affected by the leafworm. To prevent this from happening, you need to maintain cleanliness in the trunk circle and regularly inspect the apple tree for damage. If symptoms of damage are found on the leaves or fruits, the plant should be rid of the affected areas.