Apple tree Ranetka purple

In this article, we will consider the purple Ranetka apple tree. In the Siberian region (in the city of Minusinsk), the culture was brought from the north of China by M.G. Nikiforov in 1892. The apple variety Ranetka purple has become widespread in the garden plots of the Siberian and Far Eastern regions. Siberian breeders used the apple tree as a donor of winter resistance when developing new varieties. The variety is the main seed stock in the Siberian region. It is used as a skeleton builder, resistant to the winter season. Recommended for cultivation in 1947 in Western and Eastern Siberia. The apple variety Ranetka purple does not appear in the novosadki.

Apple-tree Ranetka purple: variety description and characteristics

Apple-tree Ranetka purple: photo of the variety

Apple-tree Ranetka purple is a tree of strong growth, the crown is wide, in the form of an oval, formed by strong main branches that extend from the trunk at an acute angle and perpendicularly and have many annelids and fruit twigs.

Shoots are brown-red, not pubescent. The leaves are medium in size, wide, in the form of an egg, the base is rounded, the end is elongated and wide, the leaves are smooth, glossy, dark green in color, not pubescent below, their edges are in the form of small teeth. The petiole is shortened, thin, stipules of small size, in the form of a sickle.

Fruits are small (weighing eight to ten grams), flattened and flattened round, dark red in color. The fruit stem is thin, elongated. The cup falls off. The dish is wide, smooth.

The inner content of the apple tree Ranetka is purple yellow with streaks of red color, plump, juicy, sour, with astringency, has poor taste. Apples contain: sugars (12.8%, 9.1-16.6), titratable acids (2.47%, 0.68-3.47), tannins (five hundred fifty-four mg per hundred grams, three hundred sixty-one thousand two hundred forty five), ascorbic acid (twenty eight mg per hundred grams, 12.5-42.7), P-active compounds (eight hundred sixty-six mg per hundred grams, six hundred forty-four-one thousand six hundred fifty two), pectin substances (7.69% on dry weight).

Features of culture

Removable ripeness falls on 1 half of the first autumn month, fruits are stored for up to thirty days. The variety has been widely used in the preparation of wines. Fruiting begins at the age of 3 years. The yield indicator for the Ranetka purple apple tree is high, but not stable. Resistance to the winter season is at a high level. Immunity to scab is weak.

Apple-tree Ranetka purple: advantages and disadvantages

Photo of the apple variety Ranetka purple

Advantages: high level of resistance to the winter season, fast-growing variety, high yield.

Minuses: small fruit with poor taste, weak immunity to scab.

The Ranetka purple apple tree has been widely used by Siberian breeders as a donor of winter resistance and early fruiting. With his participation, we have created such varieties as: “Gornoaltaiskoe"," Pepinka Altayskaya "," Altai Dove "," Ranetka Ermolaeva "," Ulan-Udenskoye "," Komsomolets of Buryatia ".