Red meat apples are not sold for customers to taste.

Original title: planting red apples attracts golden Phoenix

Red apple has antioxidant function.

The red apple is big and dignified and beautiful in appearance.

People are very familiar with red apples, some people even eat one every day, nutrition and health care, but when it comes to red meat apples, not so many people know. In Yanjin County, an ordinary farmer wrote an article on red meat apples, but a closer look revealed that he was not as ordinary as he seemed.

Take a plane to get grafted

Shen Yanbing was born in Shenwan Village, Wanglou Township, Yanjin County. he has had an apple orchard since he was a child. In his memory, his father was always busy in the orchard. In 1993, his father arranged for him to go to Yangling, Shaanxi Province, to join a relative. The relative works as a technician in the fruit tree base of Northwestern University of Agriculture and Forestry, where his father hopes that Shen Yanbing can learn solid planting skills and have a better way out. Over the past three years, Shen Yanbing has accumulated very valuable experience in fruit tree management by eating, living and working with relatives.

In 1996, Shen Yanbing returned home and took over the apple orchard from his father. After becoming the master of his own house, he immediately transformed his family's apple orchard, eliminated the old varieties such as Guoguang and Hongyu, and introduced Jonagin, Shouhong and other varieties from Zhengzhou fruit trees. However, the variety has been updated, and the market situation of Apple has not been good for several years.

Around 2000, Shen Yanbing heard that Yanjin County Forestry Institute was promoting greenhouse apricots, so he rented a greenhouse and began to plant greenhouse apricots. Over the past two years, the apricot tree was growing well, and just as he was preparing to usher in the first bucket of gold in his life, the fruit was stolen clean.

Even so, Shen Yanbing did not give up planting fruit trees. In 2006, he introduced Ukrainian cherry from Taiyuan Fruit Tree Institute in Shanxi Province. Who thought this variety was not suitable for the saline-alkali land of Yanjin? once watered, the cherry tree died.

For a period of time after that, Shen Yanbing was under a lot of pressure. He didn't make any money, and he was often said to be "messing around." On the surface, Shen Yanbing, who honestly went home for farming, was not "honest" in his heart. In 2011, he heard that the market of colorful leaf trees was very good, and he could not help it.

After several visits to other places, Shen Yanbing did not hesitate to spend tens of thousands of yuan to buy back some scions of colored-leaf poplars, and then devoted himself to the seedling grafting of colored-leaf poplars. When people were grafted in summer, it was too hot for people to sit in air-conditioned rooms, but Shen Yanbing squatted in the field all day, sweating and mosquito bites were not a problem for him.

The painstaking efforts were not in vain. The colored leaf poplar cultivated by Shen Yanbing bought a good price, and the reputation of the "color leaf poplar expert" also spread like wildfire. At that time, a customer in Chongqing invited him to do technical guidance, not only booking a high-end hotel, but also providing round-trip air tickets, which was "the first time in his life" for him.

Red meat apples are popular.

The market is unpredictable, and the market of Caiye Poplar has not been able to go up all the way, so Shen Yanbing began to look for other ways to get rich. By chance, a friend said that there was a kind of red meat apple in Shandong. Shen Yanbing, who was very sensitive to this, immediately got to the bottom of the matter and had a strong interest.

After many inquiries, Shen Yanbing bought some red meat apple seedlings from a place in Shandong. After planting, he began to hope that this new breed would open up a new situation for his career. The next year, the fruit trees bear fruit, but it is only as big as Hawthorn, the flesh is sour but not sweet, and only slightly red in the heart. Obviously, I bought a fake seedling.

Isn't there a real red meat apple? Shen Yanbing was not reconciled to it and still asked around. In 2012, I finally bought a batch of red meat apple seedlings from a foreign trade company in Shandong province through acquaintances. The apple, called Red Love, is a new variety developed by Swiss horticulturists.

At that time, Shen Yanbing had already transferred more than 200 mu of land and planted many fruit trees at the same time, including red pears introduced from Zhengzhou fruit trees, grapes from Changli, Hebei Province, and peaches from Zibo, Shandong Province. but he took the red flesh apple seedlings he just bought as a key protection object and began to study and trial planting. According to the cultivation experience accumulated for many years, Shen Yanbing adopted the management mode of non-pruning and indefinite stem. The fruit trees have no main branches, and all the medium and short fruit branches extracted from the trunk can bear fruit. With new varieties and new management techniques, fruit trees can bear fruit in the second year and prolific in the third year. According to Shen Yanbing, this management model can also be applied to ordinary apple and pear trees, allowing fruit trees to enter the high-yield period as soon as possible.

In 2013, the planting of red love began to hang fruit, this kind of apple not only the leaves are red, the skin is red, even the flesh is red, cut, will not oxidize brown like ordinary apples, but also taste very good. According to Shen Yanbing, Red Love is the name of a variety. In fact, this series includes six varieties, not only in taste but also in maturity. The earliest varieties matured in mid-August. Since then, one variety has matured every 20 days and can last until National Day at the latest. This combination of early, middle and late maturity is more conducive to occupy the market and obtain better returns.

Do not relax by delving into the technology.

In addition to the management model mentioned above, Shen Yanbing's breeding skills are also excellent.

Han Shouwei is a retired senior engineer of the Yuanyang County Forestry Bureau. According to Han Shouwei, Shen Yanbing is not only very sensitive to new varieties, but also very persistent in technical research. For example, in the conventional breeding of apple trees, as rootstocks, begonia seeds should be stored in sand for 100,120 days, emerge in spring, grafted from July to August, cut off from the grafting place in the following spring, and wait for the seedlings to grow for another year before they can come out of the nursery. The seedling technology now used by Shen Yanbing is considered "unconventional". Here, begonia seeds are sown in March, grafted in June, and the seedlings grow to October.

This kind of seedling, which was sown in that year, grafted in that year, and came out of the nursery in the same year, is called "Sandang seedling" in the industry. Han Shouwei said that in other places, some people may be able to achieve this effect by using facilities such as greenhouses, while Shen Yanbing achieved it without any facilities, which is very rare. In this way, the seedlings can come out of the nursery a year ahead of schedule, and the breeding speed will be much faster.

As early as planting apricots in the greenhouse, Shen Yanbing became acquainted with Wang Baoyu, chairman of the Yanjin County Association of Science and Technology. Over the years, when he encountered problems in his development, Shen Yanbing always liked to chat with Wang Baoyu, who had a background in agriculture. Wang Baoyu recommended products such as biological pesticides and microbial fertilizers to him, which were soon applied to production. therefore, the fruits produced by the cooperative have reached the standard of pollution-free products. Last year, the cooperative was appraised as the provincial science popularization demonstration base, and in the second half of the year, under the recommendation of the county science association, it was selected to participate in the evaluation of the national science popularization demonstration base. I have to say that this is the result of Shen Yanbing's emphasis on agricultural science and technology.

Zhang Jidong of Liyuan Village, Shipogu Township, Yanjin County, bought 8 mu of pear saplings from Shen Yanbing in 2008. From the fourth year, the income per mu of land can reach 10,000 yuan. Today, a young man of 8 mu can earn more than 100,000 yuan. Speaking of this, Zhang Jidong admired Shen Yanbing unceasingly, and said that he planned to plant several mu of red meat apples this year. "with the technical guidance of Yan Bing, I am very relieved."