A horticultural farm near Tambov reported on the expected apple harvest after the May frosts
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 6:29 am
Orthodox believers celebrate Apple Savior. Traditionally, this is the time of farewell to summer and the beginning of the fresh apple harvest.
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Orthodox believers celebrate Apple Savior. Traditionally, this is the time to bid farewell to summer and begin harvesting fresh apples. On this occasion, our film crew went to one of the horticultural farms in Pritambovye to find out what fruits this year brings to farmers.
Apple Savior in the gardens of the village of Kuksovo, in Pritambovye, could have been celebrated by picking the early and, perhaps, the sweetest fruits – apples of the “Konfetnoye” variety. The weather let us down. In contrast to the hot middle of August, this May presented gardeners with an unpleasant surprise: night frosts. Thermometers here showed up to -9 degrees – and this was just at the time when the gardens were actively blooming. It is believed that the barely set fruits can withstand a maximum of 2.5 degrees of frost.
Sergey Chuksin, agronomist at Tambovskoye Yabloko LLC: “Despite the expected harvest of 30-35 tons, which should be calculated this year on trees of this age, we will get a minimum. We can see single fruits on the tree. This is the car owner database result, the consequence of the spring frosts that we had in the region, not only in ours, but also in the entire Central Black Earth Region, the orchards were very badly damaged. - Well, at first glance, such large ones hang, pleasing to the eye. But this is still far from what we initially wanted to see? - Of course, of course. There should have been a fruit wall here, completely hung with apples, like a Christmas tree, hung with balls.”
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Orthodox believers celebrate Apple Savior. Traditionally, this is the time to bid farewell to summer and begin harvesting fresh apples. On this occasion, our film crew went to one of the horticultural farms in Pritambovye to find out what fruits this year brings to farmers.
Apple Savior in the gardens of the village of Kuksovo, in Pritambovye, could have been celebrated by picking the early and, perhaps, the sweetest fruits – apples of the “Konfetnoye” variety. The weather let us down. In contrast to the hot middle of August, this May presented gardeners with an unpleasant surprise: night frosts. Thermometers here showed up to -9 degrees – and this was just at the time when the gardens were actively blooming. It is believed that the barely set fruits can withstand a maximum of 2.5 degrees of frost.
Sergey Chuksin, agronomist at Tambovskoye Yabloko LLC: “Despite the expected harvest of 30-35 tons, which should be calculated this year on trees of this age, we will get a minimum. We can see single fruits on the tree. This is the car owner database result, the consequence of the spring frosts that we had in the region, not only in ours, but also in the entire Central Black Earth Region, the orchards were very badly damaged. - Well, at first glance, such large ones hang, pleasing to the eye. But this is still far from what we initially wanted to see? - Of course, of course. There should have been a fruit wall here, completely hung with apples, like a Christmas tree, hung with balls.”