"Southern Apple" is planted in Guiyang, Hunan.

Apple, a fruit suitable for growing in the north, is on the market every October. But on July 11, the reporter walked into Maxiang Village, Fangyuan Town, Guiyang County and saw ripe red apples all over the mountains. This is the "southern apple." Yuan Guangming, a big grower in the village, said that their apples have been on the market for a week, more than three months ahead of the northern apples.

"I didn't expect that apples could also be grown in the south!" At the apple research base in the south of Maxiang Village, Mr. Zhong, a tourist, ate crispy and sweet apples with a look of surprise.

"planting in one year, hanging fruit in two years, early listing, large market space, low supply, and good price." Yuan Guangming, who is promoting Southern Apple to customers, has sold 160000 Southern Apple seedlings at a price of 15 yuan each this year, which has been exported to Hubei, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Yunnan, Fujian, Chongqing, Jiangxi and other places.

Yuan Guangming said that he first introduced apples in 1998, but after a few years of planting, there were only a few bad "bitter fruits" on the trees, and his family and friends advised him to "cut down and plant other crops."

But Yuan Guangming was born not to admit defeat. He bought books on apple cultivation, studied hard and drilled hard, went to Luochuan in Shaanxi Province and Linqu in Shanxi Province to learn planting techniques, and groped in practice. After more than 10 years, he finally mastered a set of scientific methods in fruit tree cultivation, pruning, grafting, pest control and so on. The output of his 50 mu of southern apples will reach more than 5000 kilograms this year, with a price of about 20 yuan per kilogram.