Not all apple varieties can grow in unfavorable climatic conditions. Agronomists should give preference to extremely hardy and cold-tolerant species. Apple-tree Sokoye 3 is an abundantly giving birth and unpretentious variety, it was bred by Sverdlovsk breeders by crossing the apple trees Urozhainoe and Uralskoe nalivnoe. To get a good harvest, it is important to follow all agronomic rules.

Apple-tree Juice: description and characteristics

The best use of this apple tree is the production of juice. Actually, that is why it received such an unassuming name.

Apple juice has the following characteristics:

  • The variety has excellent indicators of frost resistance, as well as high scab resistance.
  • It's time to harvest in September, the fruits are consumed fresh or processed until mid-winter (subject to storage rules).
  • The trees are developing rapidly, have an average height, the height of an adult tree does not exceed 5 meters.
  • The crone is characterized by a spreading-rounded shape.
  • The leaf plates are dark green, oval, elongated.
  • Fruits are round in shape, slightly flattened on the sides. The peel is firm, colored yellow, and as it ripens, a red blush forms.
  • Small fruit size, weight - 70-120 g.
  • The pulp is moderately loose, light cream color.
  • Pollinators growing nearby are needed to form fruit.

Agricultural rules

Planting a standard seedling can be carried out in spring (northern regions) and autumn (preferable for southern ones). The best place for planting is sunny places with fertile loose soil.

Apple-tree Juice

Apple-tree Screen

Apple tree care is standard:

  • During the growing season, there should be at least four waterings (before and after flowering, during fruit ripening and in autumn).
  • Regularly apply organic and mineral fertilizers to the soil.
  • Forming and sanitary pruning (to form the correct crown shape and remove damaged / dry / non-fruiting branches).
  • During the growing season, it is necessary to carry out thinning pruning, since the variety is prone to high shoot-forming activity.
  • Mulching (straw or humus) and loosening the trunk circle.

Important! The variety is intended for growing in places with snowy winters, so it is important to prepare the tree for winter before the coming cold weather. This requires mulching the trunk circle with a thick layer of covering material. It is equally important to take care of the protection of the fruit tree from rodents.

Advantages and disadvantages

Apple Macintosh

This variety of apple trees has a fairly extensive list of advantages in comparison with disadvantages. This explains the demand for the variety in the domestic market. Let's consider the main advantages:

  • Excellent indicators of frost resistance.
  • Regular and abundant fruiting.
  • Good keeping quality subject to storage rules.
  • High resistance to scab (fungal disease).
  • Presentation of fruits.
  • Excellent taste.
  • The versatility of apples.

Varietal disadvantages include the small size of the fruit. Also, some agronomists are convinced that the taste of the fruits is inferior to other autumn varieties of apple trees.

Apple-tree Sokovoe is a good frost-resistant variety, moreover, unpretentious. Even a novice gardener can grow it, the main thing is to study the features of growing a variety.