- Taste: sweet and sour
- Scent: honey
- Fruit weight, g: 150 - 200
- Fruit size: large
- Yield: high, 10-16 kg
- The beginning of fruiting varieties: for 1 - 3 years
- Ripening terms: early winter
- Removable maturity: September
- Keeping quality: until January
- Appointment: universal
Many gardeners try to plant different varieties of apple trees on their plots. Among the most popular are columnar varieties. Their advantage is in the early beginning of fruiting, after planting they begin to bear fruit already in the second or third year. One of the brightest representatives of this trend is the Green Noise apple tree.
Breeding history of the variety
Green Shum is a variety of columnar apple trees of domestic selection. Received culture in the city of Orel on the basis of VNIISPK. A synonym for the name is Zeleny Shum.
Description of the variety
This culture is light-loving, and any beginner in gardening will cope with its cultivation. The tree is low, medium-sized, grows up to 2.5 meters, with dense foliage of green saturated color. Compact crown in the form of a column, the diameter of which is about half a meter. Skeletal branches are missing. The apples are large. The apple tree has been actively bearing fruit for 15 years. Experienced gardeners renew their culture every 10 years. At the end of the productive period, the places of fruit formation dry out. However, the plant does not die, and still lives for several years.
Features, pros and cons
Like all fruit crops, the Green Shum apple variety has its own advantages and some disadvantages.
Among the advantages are:
- genetic resistance to most pests and scab;
- early ripening apple tree;
- excellent taste of fruits;
- high productivity.
Among the disadvantages is a rather short fruiting period (15 years), as well as the high price of seedlings. But all these features are typical for columns.
Ripening and fruiting
The apple tree begins to bear fruit already in the 2nd year, sometimes in the 3rd after planting in a permanent place. That is, the early maturity of the variety is quite high.
The fruit crop blooms in late May or in the first part of June, depending on climatic conditions. Ripe fruits ripen in late September.
Growing regions
Recommended for growing in the middle lane, as well as in other regions of the country.
Yield
The apple tree has a high yield, from each tree it will be possible to collect 10-16 kilograms of fruit annually. But this can be achieved only by observing all the features of care.
Fruits and their taste
The Green Noise apple tree is distinguished primarily by its fruits. Apples are large in size, conical in shape, weighing up to 200 g. In appearance, they are especially beautiful - the fruits are painted in a yellow-greenish tone, have a bright pink blush on most of the surface of the fruit. They are characterized by juicy, dense pulp. Apples taste pleasant, sweet and sour, have a honey aroma. Assessment of tasters - 4.5 points out of 5. Fruits can be used to prepare various desserts, and apples are tasty and fresh, canned food and compotes, marmalade and jam, juices, preserves are prepared from them.
Growing features
Planting a tree is carried out in the spring, before the bud swelling and before sap flow. The planting pit is being prepared in the fall. Be sure to use crushed stone drainage.Further, the earth, which was taken out of the hole, is mixed with organic fertilizers, as well as potassium-phosphorus compounds, including superphosphate, potassium sulfate and wood ash. Place the planting material carefully. Individual roots cannot be folded. The plant is half asleep, tamped, half a bucket of water at room temperature is poured. Then they wait for the moisture to be absorbed into the ground. After that, the soil is finally filled up and compacted around the trunk. The seedling is tied to a support. Next, a hole is made around the trunk, where water is added - 1-2 buckets per plant. At the end of the planting procedure, the culture should be mulched.
Pollination
Pollination of the Green Noise variety requires pollinating trees. They will have to grow close to the apple tree and bloom with it at the same time.
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.
