Decorative robin - a tree widely used in landscape planning and ornamental gardening.
The tree looks especially beautiful during its ripening.
What kind is it?
Apple Robin refers to the decorative types of trees. Externally similar to sakura. It is considered an autumn variety. Winter-hardy enough. Fruits, though small, but edible (used in the preparation of compotes), are characterized by long shelf life.
To further extend the time it is necessary to follow simple rules:
- optimal - zero temperature;
- storage in wooden containers (racks, containers, boxes);
- dark room with low humidity;
- preliminary calibration by the size of fruits;
- Each variety is stored in separate containers.
Pollination
Since it is a self-infertile cultivar, pollination occurs due to pollen of apple flowers of another variety.
This variety participates actively in the processes of cross-pollination.
Ideally, plant strips of two different varieties at a distance of five meters from one another.
Description of the variety "Robin decorative"
The appearance of the apple tree is characterized by an average height, thick bright green crown and bright red fruits.
Trees
Luxurious, medium size with beautiful, thick pink-red flowers. Crohn dense, rounded shape with dark, raised branches.
The tree contrasts beautifully with bright green leaves with straw-red fruits. An apple tree in summer changes its color palette several times.
Shoots brown-reddish, large. The barrel is usually bent.
The leaves are wide and large up to ten centimeters long, almost round shape.
During blooming purple, and after it becomes green with a reddish tinge. Petioles are short, because the leaves sit almost at the base of the branches.
The average tree height is from four to six meters.
Fruit
Small (about three cm in diameter), on a tree they grow in large numbers, irregularly shaped, with distinct ribs and a non-falling cup.
Color - bright maroon. The skin is smooth with a waxy bloom. The flesh is white and dense enough.
A photo
In the photo is a decorative robin apple tree:
Breeding history
The apple-tree variety Robin decorative is obtained by crossing two varieties: Nedzvetskogo and Siberian apple berry.
However, in literature the term "national selection" is used.
This means that pollination occurred under natural conditions, and, most likely, several more varieties were mixed in with it.
Growing region
Originally a sort of apple Robin decorative of the Baltic countries. It is also found in central Russia. It takes root on any well-fertilized soil.
The tree is not considered to be particularly capricious, but elementary rules of care cannot be avoided (see below).
Yield
Apple trees ripen in September. The fruits are stored until October.
Since this is a decorative crop, the yield is weak, fruits are very small on the other hand, ripen in large quantities.
Well used for compotes.They give a pleasant aroma and mild acidity.
The tree begins to bear fruit in the fourth year after planting.
Planting and care
When planting a tree using classic fertilizer. In the care of apple tree unpretentious. Ornamental apple trees are good in a solitary planting.
Care, planting and cultivation of ornamental apple is not much different from the care and planting of ordinary apple crops.
First of all, you need to choose a place for landing, it should be:
- on a sunny territory;
- away from groundwater;
- with fertile soil;
- well drained areas with a pH of 5.5-6.5.
Landing should be carried out during the following seasons:
- spring (late April);
- autumn (late September - early October).
TIP: Like any other apple tree, it's better to plant in the autumn.
When choosing a seedling, it is important to consider the following:
- you need to choose seedlings with a developed root system and purchase them in a zone with the same climatic conditions;
- It is better to choose a sapling young, then it adapts more quickly to the soil on the plot where it is grown.
IMPORTANT: Plants with exposed roots should be placed in water for an hour before planting.
Next, you need to prepare landing pits. This is best done a month before planting. The optimal parameters of the pit for planting an ornamental apple: 1x1x0.7m.
The upper layer of the excavated earth is mixed with the lower layer and the following fertilizers are introduced:
- 18-20 kg of manure;
- 250 grams of wood ash;
- 250 g of superphosphate;
- 100 grams of potassium sulfate.
The pit is filled with a mixture of earth with fertilizer for 2/3. From above they pour fertile soil without fertilizers. Pit watered and again fill the layer of fertile soil.
REFERENCE: American gardeners advise not to harvest landing pits in advance, but to dig it on the day of planting. Then no mixtures and fertilizers should be used. It is necessary to lay layers of fertile soil alternating with excavated soil in layers of 15 centimeters. The top layer must be fertile.
The first two years it is important that the apple tree was tied to a wooden peg (it is better to use a linden or hazel tree).
Basic care during the first five years after planting:
- tying trees to protect against rodents and hares (material - parchment, lapnik);
- mulching with humus pristvolnyh circles;
- hilling ground to a height of twenty centimeters.
In the second year after planting, in the spring, they form the deciduous crown of an apple tree. Apple variety Robin decorative does not need a strong pruning. It is only necessary to cut dry, overlapping, broken and inward-moving branches.
Also, the first two years are recommended to pluck all the flowers.
Diseases and pests
Decorative apple trees, as well as fruit trees, are subject to various diseases and pests.
Most often it is:
- powdery mildew;
- scab;
- burn.
Burn caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora. The infected trees cannot be cured, unfortunately.
They need to be destroyed as soon as possible so that they do not infect nearby growing varieties.
The causative agent is a quarantine object.
Mealy dew - This is a fungal disease. A characteristic sign of the disease is the appearance of the mycelium fungus in the form of white bloom on the leaves of trees.
Most often, the disease manifests itself after heavy rains. Infection occurs on the tree from the bottom up, until it completely attacks the tree.
The best way to fight this disease is to prevent it, which consists of:
- the use of varieties with high resistance to the disease;
- destruction of the affected elements (pruning);
- fertilization of potash and phosphorus type;
- pollination of colloidal sulfur and copper compounds.
The scab feature is that in the first place it strikes the leaves of the tree, and then moves to the fruit. The trunk remains perfectly healthy.
The cause of this fungus can be air stagnation inside the crown of the tree or high humidity.
The first signs of scab are the appearance of green-brown spots on the leaves, also in a large number of small brown, forming a crust, spots on the fruit.
To avoid scab damage, it is important Isolate the apple tree from other crops in the garden, carefully monitor the plant and constantly disinfect and fertilize the soil.
Scab prevention:
- the introduction of ash into the soil;
- crown formation;
- feed with potash fertilizers;
- feeding with compost.
Apple Robin decorative is used in most cases as a decorative culture.
Fruits brings small, but with a spicy, pronounced raspberry flavor.
Widely used in the preparation of compotes.
