Apple orchards in our country amaze with a variety of varieties. In the garden of my grandfather, the most important place was the Shtriepel variety, the neighbors called it Streyfling or the autumn striped apple tree. In the autumn, grandfather proudly served with wonderful striped apples with sprinkling juice, spicy flesh. Apple Shrifel is a native of the Baltic States.
Gardeners, conquered by a wonderful taste and always steadily high yield of the variety, gradually spread the seedlings of apple tree variety Shtrigel (Streyfling) throughout the country.
Characteristics of apple varieties Shtreyfling
Streyfling - quite old variety with autumn fruiting. The most suitable climatic latitudes for Shtriepel are moderate. The tree willingly grows and bears fruit in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other countries of the former Soviet Union.
The main advantages of Apple Shtreyfling - this is the incomparable taste of apples and its amazing cold resistance. With mature apple trees during the summer period, enough nutrients are accumulated. They help the tree to withstand 25 degrees of frost. It can only freeze the tips of young annual twigs.
Tree description
The adult apple tree Shtreyfling grows to eight meters tall. The plant has a large, spreading crown. The variety is prone to large annual growth of new branches, so the crown thickens. The tree needs annual spring pruning.
The flowering of the dresser is very beautiful, the flowers are large, white with a pink tint. Flower petals are rounded, usually five petals on a flower. Apple leaves are gray-green, rough, leaf plate is wide, rounded. The leaf sits firmly on a reddish petiole. The branches are thick, powerful buds, gray. By the age of ten, the crown of the apple tree Shtreyfling reaches eight meters in diameter.
Gardeners get their first crop of apples in the fifth or sixth year, and it may consist of several dozen apples.
Growing up, the Shtreyfling cultivar begins to produce more and more harvests, usually an adult apple tree will give birth to 300-400 kg of apples.
Quantitatively, Streifling's crops are uneven, for one year the apple tree is practically breaking from the fruit, and for another year it is empty on the branches - the tree is resting from the harvest of the previous year.
The variety loves wet soil, and when watering the garden, the apples grow larger. In arid climates, the crop is shallow.
Fruit Description
- Apples Shtriepel (Shtreyfling) have a light yellow loose flesh, sweet and sour taste and fragrant spicy smell. Apples of this variety are eaten fresh and used to make juice, jams and preserves.
- Round-shaped apples with clearly visible wavy ribs at the base of the fruit. While pouring, the apples become yellow with a green color, which, when mature, changes to a striped, yellow-red color.
- Apple fruits are large and medium. The average weight of the fetus - 60-80 grams. Apple peel is smooth, dense, with a waxy coating. Sunflower seeds brown, elongated.
Low calorie apples Autumn striped is used in the diet. Pectin in fruits reduces cholesterol levels in the blood, has a choleretic effect, helps with constipation. In apples, not a lot of calories, but a lot of vitamins and nutrients. They have almost all the vitamins, excluding only vitamin D.Apples are rich in potassium, magnesium and manganese. Apple juice contains zinc, iodine and a lot of pectin. Pectin promotes the thickening of apple jam and jelly.
Did you know? All autumnal varieties of apples are good, but it is the variety Shtriepel that is distinguished by a friable, tasty, melting in the mouth sour-sweet pulp and elegant striped color of the fruit.
The advantages and disadvantages of the variety
Shriepel (Shtreyfling) variety apples are stored for a long time, but with long shelf life they may lose their juiciness and their wonderful taste. Therefore, if the harvest is very large, most of them are trying to put it into processing until they have lost their presentation.
The undoubted advantages of the apple tree Streyfling in the description of this variety include:
- excellent yield;
- wonderful taste and aroma of fruits;
- keeping quality of fruits within two to three months;
- suitability for processing into juice and making jams;
- grade frost resistance;
- relative resistance to scab and moth infestation.
Disadvantages varieties Shtreyfling:
- late maturation of the crop;
- the alternation of the fruitful and lean year;
- fruits are not stored in storage until spring;
- variety does not tolerate prolonged drought.
Pollination of apple varieties Autumn striped
Apple tree variety Shtreyfling, another name Autumn striped, does not apply to the self-pollinating variety. Pollination of apple trees Shtreyfling occurs with the help of other varieties of apple trees. Such varieties of apple trees as Antonovka, Slavyanka, Welsey, Papirovka or Rossoshansky striped are suitable from the best pollinator assistants for Shtriepel (Shtreyfling).
When laying the garden you need to take into account the planting of pollinating varieties.
Did you know? At 10 apple varieties Autumn striped (Shtreyfling) requires planting three or four apple trees, suitable for pollination varieties.
Features planting apple seedlings varieties Shtreyfling
The autumn striped apple tree is a powerful tree, and planting and caring for it should take into account its features. Among apple trees such large trees are not often found, so seedlings of this variety are planted from each other at a considerable distance in order for the mature trees to have enough light and living space in the future.
Important! Saplings of two-year-olds take root best. Before planting, you need to carefully examine the roots of the seedling. Do not allow mold on them. The roots should not be dry, live at the cut, lush. If the roots of a seedling are of different lengths, trim them with a garden shear before planting.
Landing dates and site selection
Young apple trees are planted in spring and autumn. Terms of planting seedlings are determined by the climate zone, the area where the future garden is laid.
Apple seedlings are planted in the soil from which the snow has just melted, and it is slightly warmed up. Spring planting of apple trees differs from autumn one in more frequent and abundant watering of the seedling.
In the northern regions of Russia, in the Urals, in Belarus, it is preferable to plant an apple tree Autumn striped in autumn. Apple trees planted in August and early September have the best survival rate as soon as the summer heat recedes a bit. In Ukraine, apple trees, planted in late September - early October, take root well.
Autumn is good for planting seedlings because it is rich in moisture, and this is one of the most important conditions for the normal development of the root system of a fruit seedling. Before the depressing young plants of the summer heat, the seedling will grow and develop for almost nine months.
Preparatory work before landing
Before planting an apple you need to choose a place for future planting. When choosing a site, it is advisable to avoid places where fruit trees have already grown.
Gardeners recommend preparing a pit for planting an apple a week before the intended planting (the ground in the pit should settle a little):
- Carefully remove the top, fertile soil layer and turf. Putting aside.
- Digging further to a depth of 30 cm, the pit deepens as needed and leveled.
- Ready landing pit to a depth of 50 cm, in diameter - not more than a meter. The bottom of the finished pit is dug deep into the spade bayonet.
- At the excavated bottom of the finished pit is formed previously selected turf. Sod should be laid up roots, grass down. The rotted grass will serve as an additional fertilizer seedling.
- On top of the turf they pour humus from a mullein or horse manure (up to 3 buckets). Not only bird droppings. A pair of liters of wood ash and a bucket of half-ripe leaves, a glass of superphosphate and 3 tbsp. spoons of potassium sulfate. Everything mixes well, supplying the injected mixture with oxygen and contributing to the looseness of the composition.
- At the end of the work, the upper fertile soil layer, removed during digging, is placed in the pit.
If the garden has clay soil, the planting pit digs at least 1.5 meters wide. This is done so that in the heavy soil the roots of the seedling have room to grow and spread out.
At the bottom of the clay landing pit lay expanded clay (fragments of bricks, river pebbles) and river sand for drainage.
Such a drained planting pit will help avoid root rot in the rainy season.
Did you know? Carefully equipped planting pit will give impetus to the growth and healthy development of apple seedlings.
Planting scheme of young seedlings
Apple trees are tall trees with a lush crown, and you need to plant them apart at a distance of at least 4-5 meters. Aisle in the garden do not less than five meters. If the planting thickens, the grown trees will compete with each other for nutrients and moisture in the soil, for better lighting. In such a garden, several trees will be depressed and will be stunted. Fruits from apple trees in a dense garden get a few years later, and they are smaller.
An apple-tree seedling is set exactly in the center of the planting pit, a stick is stuck next to it, which will keep the tree from the curvature by the winds. The pit is filled up until a mound of soil forms above it. The root neck of the tree is not buried during planting. It should be 3-4 cm higher than the soil level. At the end of the planting, the ground around the apple seedling is lightly trampled and watered well.
Features care for apple varieties Shtreyfling
These apples are unpretentious to the conditions of cultivation, but still you must follow some rules in caring for them.
The variety loves abundant watering, trees need treatment from pests, timely pruning of crown growth.
Protection against diseases and pests
After the early spring pruning of the apple tree, it is necessary to take measures to protect the apple autumn striped from pests.
The first treatment is carried out before the leaves swell. Apple trees are treated with these drugs:
- A solution of copper oxychloride with water, diluting 40 g of copper oxychloride in 10 liters of water. This amount of solution will help the grower handle two or three trees.
- The drug "Inta-vir", at the rate of one tablet of the drug per 10 liters of water. With the help of "Inta-Vira", the pest larvae that have overwintered in the bark of the apple tree are destroyed.
In September-October, it is advisable to carry out the discharge of the tree trunk circle with humus, the layer of humus is poured up to 20 cm in height. This will serve as a top dressing of the apple tree, and will save its roots from freezing in the harsh winter.
Watering apple trees
Apple trees Shtreyfling varieties are very demanding for watering. The abundance of water received by the apple is directly related to the quantity, size and quality of the fruit. During the season, conduct several mandatory irrigations:
- The first watering of apple trees is carried out in May, when the tree begins to bloom.
- The second watering is done at the beginning of July, when the tied apples begin to actively increase the mass.
- Autumn water-charging irrigation is carried out before the onset of the first frost, in late October.
Apple trees are harmful surface and frequent watering, you need to water so that the soil was wet more than a meter deep into the soil. For such irrigation, a hose is placed near the apple tree and the water is allowed to flow from it in a very thin stream. During the day a sufficient amount of moisture goes under the tree.
When and how to feed
- In May, as soon as the apple tree blossoms, they feed the tree with urea. The amount of fertilizer needed is calculated as follows: a solution of 10 liters of water and half a glass of urea is taken for every meter of the circle around the barrel.
- The June dressing consists in adding trace elements to the soil: 2 grams of copper sulphate and 0.5 grams of boric acid are added to 10 liters of water. The solution is poured over the soil and, after being absorbed, is dug up half a spit on the shovel. The seeds of siderats (lupine, rye, or mustard) are sown on the excavated land.
- In July, the grown grass siderats are dug up along with pristvolnom ground. Being rotten, they will enrich the soil with natural nitrogen and will become an excellent fertilizer for the apple autumn striped.
- At the end of August, apple trees are fed with such a mixture: 20 g of superphosphate and 35 g of calcium chloride are applied to every meter of soil around the trunk circle. This top dressing is enough to invigorate a tree weakened by harvesting and help it survive the winter safely.
How to prune
Streyfling - a variety with a spreading crown and a high trunk. Therefore, pruning the apple tree and its shaping begins from the first or second year after planting. With directed formation, after three to five years, you can get a well-branched crown, with branches that do not obscure each other and do not interfere with fruiting.
Annual pruning can be done both in spring and in autumn. Thanks to the rejuvenating pruning, it is possible to prolong the fruiting of apple trees by five to ten years.
A frozen apple tree can be saved by partial pruning of damaged branches. 
Terms of ripening and storage of the crop of apple varieties Autumn striped
Harvesting apple varieties Shtreyfling begin when the apples ripen. Usually this period comes in the beginning - the middle of September. Although the variety is not prone to shattering fruits, but not taken on time, overripe apples are stored worse in the future.
A good harvest will delight the grower only in the 12th year after planting an apple tree. A ten-year-old tree will produce up to five buckets of fruit; a twelve-year-old apple tree will increase its harvest to almost 100 kilograms of apples. Yield of an apple tree Autumn striped thirty years old reaches 300-400 kg.
Filmed apples are stored in a ventilated cool room in a wooden or plastic trellised container. The temperature in the storage is maintained between +2 and +5 ° ะก.
Shriepel (Shtreyfling) grade apples are rather a table variety, and its storage periods are not long. After 2.5-3 months of storage, apples lose turgor, start to wither. Taking into account the short-term preservation, they are trying to implement them long before the expiration of the storage period or to process them into jams and preserves. 
Important! Storing apples for the winter at home can be done a little longer in time, if you wrap each apple in paper before laying it in the basement.
Apple trees Shtreyfling have excellent yields and great taste of apples. Therefore, before planting a sapling you need to familiarize yourself with the rules of planting and caring for them. Compliance with all the subtleties in the care of the apple tree guarantees abundant apple yields in your garden.
