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Apple variety Mantet will soon celebrate its centenary. He began his triumphal journey in 1928 in Canada. He quickly came to Our Country, his ancestral home, as he was bred on the basis of a native apple variety: Moscow Grushovka. The Mantet apple tree has become popular due to the early ripening of its beautiful pouring apples. Its area has stepped far enough even to the north of the middle climatic zone, as far as a tree of average winter hardiness, like the Mantet apple tree, can withstand frost.
The Mantet apple tree is quite unpretentious not only to the climate, but also to the soil. It is grown with love by amateur gardeners, according to their reviews, they highly appreciate the irreplaceable qualities of fragrant and sweet fruits. Mantet apples are like a bright flying star: they amaze with their magnificent appearance, delicate taste and leave a pleasant memory of tidbits. They are stored for only a week or two, but are suitable for all kinds of blanks. An important advantage of the Mantet apple variety is that it is not only fast-growing, but also that after planting, the tree begins to quickly produce a crop – in the third or fourth year.
Variety description
Varietal characteristics of apple trees of the Mantet variety are visible in the structure of the silhouette of the tree and the crown, the shape of the leaves, and the color of the flowers. Features of the fruit tree variety are manifested by the characteristics of the fruit.
tree appearance
The Mantet apple tree has a crown of medium height, not dense. It is charmingly beautiful in spring when flowering, gives a pleasant coolness in summer in the shade of powerful skeletal branches. The leaves are oval, longish, with elongated tips. Young annual stems of uniform thickness of medium vigor.
The apple tree of this variety is characterized by the fact that the fruits are mainly formed on the annelids. The buds of the predominant white-pink background are shaded with purple. Opened, slightly elongated light pink petals form a large saucer-shaped flower.
Fruit Properties
At the end of summer, a young tree generously shares picturesque, appetizing apples, each weighing up to 180 g. In older trees, the fruits of the Mantet apple variety can be smaller, as well as smaller yields. Round-oblong greenish-yellow apples slightly ribbed upwards. The outer color of the delicate skin of the fruits of this variety is a bright red blush, striped, with specks of a more saturated shade. It is, as clearly seen in the photo, often set against a bright orange-red background. To the touch, the apple is not rough, with a delicate cover, fully corresponds to its description.
The main advantage of summer apples of the Mantet variety is exceptional sweetness, perhaps with the slightest hint of sourness. These are excellent dessert sweet apples with delicate white flesh and unsurpassed aroma. According to the chemical composition of the fruits of the Mantet variety, the sum of sugars is 10,4%, 12,4% – pectin, 100 g of pulp contains 11,2 mg of ascorbic acid.
Features of fruiting
The fast-growing apple variety Mantet fell in love with gardeners because of the early ripening period. Under favorable weather conditions, apples begin to ripen from the end of July. True, their “reserves” on the tree run out quite quickly – by the middle of next month. And if the ripening is delayed, then they feast on the sweet fruits of the Mantet variety until the end of August. Unfortunately, fragrant fruits are not at all subject to long-term transportation and storage.
Among the relative disadvantages of Mantet apple trees, one of the main ones is that the tree is susceptible to scab pathogens. More often this disease threatens in years abundant in rains and gloomy summer days.
Planting and care
Particular attention is paid to planting Mantet trees. Deciding in the fall that this tree will be planted in the garden in the spring, you need to prepare a place for it and dig a hole right away. In six to seven months, the earth condenses and accumulates moisture. This is the difference between the Mantet apple tree. For most other varieties, holes can be prepared even a week before, in other cases, a month before planting.
Proper tree planting
It is advisable to purchase 1-3-year-old seedlings of apple trees of the Mantet variety. These are the trees that do best.
- The apple tree loves a sunny location, suffers from cold air flow and drafts;
- Mantet apple trees should be planted in spring, in more northern regions – at the end of April. In the south, landing is carried out until mid-October, starting from the third decade of September;
- Apple tree Mantet prefers loamy soils. This is the most suitable soil for her, but she grows on others, provided she is well cared for;
- If several trees are planted, the minimum distance between them is four meters. A hole with a diameter of 50 cm to 1 m is dug at least 70 cm deep, nut shells are laid down;
- During planting, fertile soil is first covered, then a layer in which humus, compost or peat is mixed. Add sand to clay soil. If the soil is acidic – up to one kilogram of lime. A mound is made from this mixture, where the seedling is placed, gently straightening the roots on the sides. Sprinkle with the same composition;
- Addition of mineral fertilizers: 35–45 g of potassium sulfate, 30–40 g of potassium salt, 80–100 g of superphosphate;
- The earth is well tamped, two buckets of water are poured near the trunk and two buckets of water are poured. Then mulch with leaves or humus.
The main stages of caring for an apple tree
Good care will significantly improve the formation of a tree from a very young age and increase its yield. The tree will gratefully respond to the care of its condition, and it is quite simple.
- You need to water the Mantet apple tree every seven days. The volume of water for one tree is from 20 to 40 liters, depending on the weather;
- After watering, a weak loosening of the near-stem circle is obligatory;
- Although the crown of the Mantet apple tree variety is rare, but autumn pruning of branches that grow inward, as well as damaged and annual ones, will only increase the yield of the tree;
- Given the high yield of the variety, it will not be superfluous to tie branches with fruits. Otherwise, the branch may break off, not only the fruit will suffer, but the tree itself;
- In the spring, hunting belts are put on the trunk. They will protect the tree from the apple beetle and ants.
Chemistry helps: how to deal with scab and other diseases
From diseases and harmful insects, the tree is sprayed with appropriate preparations. There are many chemicals on the market today. You just need to carefully follow the instructions when using them. They will come to help to preserve the crop and natural compounds. Since the Mantet apple tree is threatened by a fungal disease, it is treated with effective mixtures.
- A solution is prepared: 2 liters of hot water and two hundred to three hundred grams of chopped garlic are infused for 24 hours. Filter, add 30 g of grated laundry soap and 8 liters of water;
- In the spring they treat with Bordeaux liquid (9 liters of water, 300 g of copper sulfate, 400 g of quicklime): 6 liters will be spent on a young tree up to 2 years old, up to 10 liters on an older one;
- Horus and Strobi fungicides are widely used. The first – for the prevention of spotting, scab and moniliosis is applied twice: when the flower buds have not blossomed and at the end of flowering. The second fights with soot fungus and powdery mildew, spraying is carried out 3 times.
In almost every area, whether it is a peasant farm or a summer cottage, you can find seedlings of various apple trees. Hundreds of new varieties have been developed. But long-standing successful varieties do not want to be forgotten because of their wonderful fruits.