Wheat front yellow (apricot)

The short-branch type extra-large yellow apricot before wheat is a new short-branch type early maturing apricot variety selected from the rich apricot variety resources in Weinan area of Shaanxi Province in 1992. Its comprehensive characters are superior to those cultivated in production at present. The existing demonstration garden is 6.3 mu. Through nearly 4 years of cultivation observation, professional evaluation and market reflection, its outstanding characteristics are:

1. Especially early listing, high market price

The flowering period of field cultivation is March 23 - 25, the flowering period is March 30, and the fruit development period is about 60 - 65 days. The maturity period of origin is May 25 - 27, which is about 4 - 7 days earlier than that of Dragon Boat Festival yellow and Kate apricot. Before and after May 20, the fruit surface can be sold on the market with yellow color. Due to the absolute advantage of maturity, the wholesale price of orchard for several consecutive years is 5.6 yuan per kilogram, and the average selling price of each apricot is 0.6 yuan. In 1999, Taiyuan market prices were mostly 8 - 10 yuan per kilogram, and commodity prices were 12% higher than Kate apricot.

2. The fruit is very large, beautiful, and the meat is crisp and sweet.

Under thinning condition, the fruit is 5.8 cm in longitudinal diameter, 5.9 cm in transverse diameter and 6.2 cm in lateral diameter. The average fruit weight is 125 g and the maximum is 153 g. Fruit nearly round. The pericarp has a yellow background and red ring-like spots on the sunny side of the fruit. Flesh thickness 2.5 cm, edible rate 97.25%, crisp sweet slightly sour, semi-nuclear, sweet kernel.

3. Frost-resistant flowering, high and stable yield.

In the third year of cultivation, the fruit was set (the early-fruiting character was slightly inferior to Kate and Golden Sun), the plant yield in the fourth year was 45 kg, and in the fifth year was 75 kg. The florescence of apricot was snowed heavily in 1999, and other apricots were seriously frozen, but this apricot was basically unaffected, and the plant yield still reached 100 kg, and 125 kg in 2000. From March 5 to 6, 2001, the variety suffered a rare frost before flowering, which showed that it had a certain frost resistance and high and stable yield.

4. No fruit drop before harvest, no fruit cracking, long soft dissolution cycle

This variety does not drop fruit after ripening, the harvest period without cracking fruit can last 10--15 days, and the natural storage can last 6--8 days after yellow ripening. The commodity fruit rate of orchard is as high as 98%. It is conducive to long-distance transportation, supply of field markets and rural scale development.

5. Short branches, three-dimensional fruit performance is good.

The author observed that the trees were dwarfed and the branches were short and dense after grafting 4-year-old trees from demonstration garden. 1/2 lower than the control tree, 13-year-old mother tree, tree height 4.4 meters, 2-year-old branches and perennial branches with short branches on the back and on both sides, branches bearing fruit, and bearing fruit year after year, mainly in bouquet fruit bearing branches and short fruit branches, self-flower bearing rate is high, which is conducive to dense planting and facility cultivation, can improve the utilization rate of greenhouse land, and basically does not need pruning.