What are the varieties of Yantai apples? When is the picking season?

Yantai City is not only the earliest area of apple planting in China, but also the area with the largest planting area and the largest yield. Yantai apple, with excellent variety and unique flavor, is very popular and is known as the "queen" of Jiaodong fruit family. So when is the apple picking season in Yantai?

The picking season of Yantai apples should be specific to what varieties can be determined. The following are the main apple varieties in Yantai and their mature picking season.

1. Red Fuji

Red Fuji is the general name of coloring Fuji. In the process of popularization and cultivation of Fuji, because of its active genetic variation, many variant lines with good fruit coloring emerged in various parts of Japan, with a total of more than 100. The main lines introduced and cultivated in Yantai are 2001 Fuji, Yanfu 3, Qiufu 1, Changfu 2, Changfu 6, Yanfu 10, Zaosheng Fuji and so on.

The fruit of Red Fuji is very resistant to storage and can be stored in semi-underground cellar until May of the following year and in cold air storage until July of the following year. After storage, the aroma is stronger and the flavor is better. The fruit development period is 170-180 days, and it is picked in the middle and late October. The physiological and pre-harvest fruit drop is very light, and there is no fruit cracking before ripening.

two。 Gala.

Mature picking in early September. In the process of cultivation and breeding of Gala, the two excellent individual plants provided by Qixia were tested and evaluated in Yantai City, ranking first among all superior lines, named as Yanga No. 1 and No.2. Its comprehensive character is better than Xingala, bright red color, beautiful appearance, the average single fruit weight is about 200 grams, maturing from late August to early September, it is the representative strain of Gala apple and has a bright future.

3. Sansa.

Also known as Shanxia, mature and picked in late August, the fruit is conical or oblate, and the single fruit weighs about 230 grams; the background is yellow-green, the sunny side is thick pink, the shady side is pink, the wax is thick, and the skin is thin and beautiful; the flesh is yellow-white, crisp and refreshing, sweet and juicy, with the aroma of flowers and red fruits, and the soluble solids content is about 13%, which is more resistant to storage. It is a mid-early maturing variety with great development prospects.

4. General Hong

Mature picking in mid-September, maturing more than 30 days earlier than Fuji; strong storability, not easy to hair, natural storage can be until the Spring Festival. Red General Apple can be listed before the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, which has a broad market prospect. Qixia has been cultivated on a large scale.

5. Golden crown

Also known as Jin Shuai, Yellow Banana. The fruit is large, generally weighing more than 200 grams per fruit, the fruit growth period is 140 days, it is ripe and picked in mid-late September, it does not drop fruit after full maturity, the flesh of late-harvested fruit is yellowish, and the flavor of raw food is excellent. The fruit can be stored until February to March of the following year, but the pericarp is easy to wrinkle when the environmental humidity is low.

6. Red Star-Snake Fruit

The fruit growth period is about 145 days, and the fruit is ripe and picked in the middle of September, which is more resistant to storage. the best edible period is 1-2 months after postharvest storage.

7. Red jade

The fruit development period is 120 days, and it is ripe and picked in the first and middle of September. It is a good variety for both raw food and processing, and the fruit is very suitable for processing fruit juice, preserved fruit and so on.

8. Jonah King

The fruit growth period is about 155 days, and there is a phenomenon of fruit drop before harvest. The young trees bear fruit early, the fruit setting rate is high, and the fruit is ripe and picked in the first and middle of October. Later harvest, the stem depression is easy to crack, the fruit surface is easy to "return sugar", the storage period is easy to secrete waxy substances.

9. Xiao Guoguang

Mature picking from late October to early November, a single fruit weighs about 120 grams, up to 200 grams, oblate, bluish yellow, in good light conditions, the sunny side can be flushed. Less aroma, medium or high quality, its fruit is extremely resistant to storage and transportation, can be stored at room temperature until May of the following year, it has the phenomenon of fruit cracking and high yield.