Red Chiff - dreams of apples

Among the wide variety of existing varieties of apples, the late-winter variety of apples Red Chic - the representative of American breeding, which is the result of crossing the varieties Jonathan and Wagner - is distinguished by excellent taste characteristics and attractive appearance.

Apple Red Cat: description

Apples of the Red Chif variety are medium-sized, have an oval or back-pyramidal crown, which, by the beginning of fruiting, changes the shape to a round one due to the branches with a large number of uneven aged annuli. Shoots slightly curved or straight, reddish-brown, strongly pubescent. The leaves are medium in size, oval-oblong, with a rounded base and slightly elongated apex. Being a clone of the Delicious variety, the Red Chiff differs from it with petioles, which in the lower part are colored red, spreading through the veins to the middle of the leaves. Apple Red Cat is a fast-growing variety and the first harvest pleases in 2 years from the time of planting to a permanent growth site.

Characteristics of fruits

Red Chif - apples, attractive both externally and taste characteristics. Pleasant aroma, sweet taste, estimated by a tasting scale of 4.8 points, a beautiful commercial appearance, keeping quality almost to spring - the grade optimally absorbed exactly those qualities that are most appreciated by the consumer.

Fruits are truncated-conical, somewhat elongated, rather large: the weight of one varies from 200 to 400 grams. A distinctive feature of the variety is the presence on the top of the fruit 5 hills like bulges. The skin is richly red, covered with a wax translucent coating. Apples Red Chif, the description of which is familiar to many consumers, has a light creamy flesh, dense and medium in degree of juiciness.

Commodity attractiveness of fruit and a high index of transportability make it possible to use the variety as a commercial variety among other varieties of the Delicious group, to which it refers. Demountable maturity comes relatively late: at the end of October, consumer - in December. Red Chif - apples, having a somewhat mealy flesh structure. This circumstance makes it possible to use fruits as a nutritional ingredient for salads and fruit snacks.

Advantages and disadvantages of Red Chif

Red Chif are apples with a high degree of popularity in America, where they are grown on private property and on an industrial scale. The undeniable advantages of this variety are:

• Its wide distribution;
• Excellent commodity and consumer qualities of fruits;
• Resistance to mechanical damage;
• Long-term storage of fruits (without the use of special equipment - until mid-February);
• Mean winter hardiness.

Among the shortcomings, we can designate a weak resistance to diseases such as scab, rot, vitreous flesh, bitter spot. Quality care and preventive measures will reduce the risk of contracting these diseases to a minimum.

Peculiarities of growing

Trees are unpretentious in cultivation and can take root practically in any climatic conditions on any soils. It is recommended to make a landing on a permanent growth site in a well-lit and draft-protected place. Due to the compactness, trees can be planted in rows, close to each other.

Care for this variety is a constant watering, timely fertilizing, pruning the crown, loosening the trunks, mulching them in preparation for the winter. The variety is self-fertile, so it needs pollinators. Most of all, Elstar, Golden Delicious, Gloucester, which are recommended to be planted near the Red Chif variety, are suitable in this quality. Apples loved by a consumer grade on the tree look no less appetizing and attractive than in photographs.