The heaviest apple in the world. The largest apple in the world. How to get a big apple

Kira Stoletova

In 2005, a breeder from Japan, Chisato Iwasaki, grew the largest apple in the world, weighing 1.85 kg and the size of a head! So far, no one else has been able to overcome this achievement and even repeat it.

How to get a big apple

The largest apples are in great demand in China, where they are presented to especially revered people.

To grow them, only 2 or 3 fruits are left on the tree and they are carefully monitored.

The most impressive apples are picked from 2 to 4 harvest seasons. Then they grow small and go for processing.
Known scientific fact, that for the growth of a full-fledged fruit, approximately 45 leaves are required. However, for the giants, they will need a lot more.

The technique that allows you to achieve a fabulous harvest is concluded in several points.

When choosing a tree, give preference to a young one. The younger it is, the better;
Prefer a branch with a diameter of 3 to 5 cm 4-6 years old. The terminal growth is not less than 30 cm.
Thinning buds. Giant fruits are formed from the first flower. Therefore, when the first bud has increased in size and is almost ready to open, with the help of scissors, they carefully get rid of excess buds. The first of these will be the progenitor of the most impressive size of the fruit.
Thinning of the ovaries. If the first fetus has developed earlier, then the next one is removed.
Thinning of fruits. In June, with the beginning of the moth's flight, it is urgent to thin out the fruit.
Protection from pests. Protect samples with gauze pouches.
In the summer, pinning is a must.
On such a branch next year it will not be possible to achieve exhibition specimens, but the apples will still grow more than usual.
Rejuvenating trees. When they start to give "little change", then they need to be rejuvenated - to reduce the crown by a third. The quality of the fruit on the tree will improve markedly.

The largest varieties

Jumbo Pomme

Harvest of the autumn term. This variety gives very small apples (up to 1 kg) with a great taste, scarlet, persists until the New Year and ennobles the festive table.

Bellefleur-Chinese

This is a landmark option. Fruits 600-700 g, with a red tint. The middle is sweet and sour, with an alluring smell. His genius Michurin himself advised to use it for selection.

Reneth Pizguda

Glorious for huge fruits of 500-700 g, highly dessert. Minus - the tree does not pollinate itself.

Preferred pollinators:

Kuban;
Idared;
Memory of Sergeev;
Golden.

high productivity;
delicious fruits.

Aport

Ripen in autumn. The fruits weigh about 500 g. The middle is beige, sweet and aromatic. The advantage is the special resistance to pests.

Rambour

An early winter frost-resistant variety. Fruits are green: from 500 to 700 g, similar to a flattened ball. The pulp is white, with a sweet taste. Stored until February.

Melrose

American variety. The apples are scarlet, flattened, up to 500 g and more. Gives huge yields - from 80 to 150 kg.

Qandil Sinap

The apple is large (weight about 150 g), cylindrical in shape with a burgundy hue.

Trees yield crops:

on seedlings for 6-12 years;
on rootstocks - for 5 years.

The advantages of the variety:

the pulp has an impeccable taste;
ripening occurs in late summer - early autumn;
long shelf life;
yield of the crop - up to 170 kg;
resistance to frost and various pests.

Salgir apple tree

The fruits are large, about 170 g, orange in color. Ripen after September 15th. Productivity - up to 70 kg per tree.

The downside is the obviously short shelf life (about 30 days).

Trees have an oblong crown. The apples on the rootstock will grow after a year. You can harvest regularly for 3-5 years.

Renet Champagne (Paper)

Benefits:

the apple weighs about 150 g, is flat, yellow with a scarlet shade;
the taste is delicate and juicy, but with a predominance of clearly audible sourness;
the harvest is harvested in September, it reaches 200 kg, it is stored until next June.

Trees bear fruit from the age of 4 on the rootstocks, and regularly at the age of 6.

Winter banana (Banana apple tree)

Fruit weight about 200 g, the shape is slightly flattened, yellowish with a pink tinge. Sweet and sour taste, a lot of juice;

Productivity: 250 kg per tree. Collection - in the 2nd half of September.

the species is resistant to frost, diseases and various pests;
The shelf life is impressive - until next February.

The trees have a very noticeable rare crown, similar in shape to a vase. Trees please with fruits for 4-6 years.

The largest apples in the world

Chisato Iwasaki went to the world record for 20 years, constantly working and accumulating precious knowledge and experience. As a result, he managed to grow the largest apple in the world. TRYING THE MOST EXPENSIVE APPLE IN THE WORLD / EXPENSIVE CHEAP FOOD
For the best result, the breeder leaves only 3 fruits on each such apple so that they grow as large as possible.
In Asia, they are called Buddhist, because before the sale, Buddha is painted on them. Then they are exported, mainly to China, where they are an honorary sign of attention and respect for the person being gifted.
Attention! A large apple (weighing 1 kg) costs over $ 1,000.

The secrets of the record holders' success come down to careful tree care. Required:
regular feeding;
maintaining optimal temperature and soil moisture;
the implementation of vaccinations and the necessary crossing;
getting rid of extra ovaries.

Many people strive to grow a huge fruit and get into the Guinness Book. However, this requires years of hard work and an irrepressible desire to win.
And if you suddenly succeed, do not forget to immediately register your achievement - learn from the mistakes of Chisato Iwasagi. Obtain a patent, choose a name and trademark that will give long-term rights to this apple variety.

What varieties of apples are worth planting on your site, so that ripe fruits are in no way inferior in size and taste to those sold in the store?

Will homemade apples turn out large and sweet in the Russian climate? These questions worry many novice gardeners, because you do not want to spend several years growing a fruit-bearing tree from a seedling, and find that ripening apples do not meet your expectations at all.

We watch the most popular apple trees with large fruits

Fuji apple variety.

The Japanese Fuji apples are very popular all over the world. This late-ripening variety is appreciated for its excellent taste: the crunchy, firm pulp of the fruit has a fragrant aroma and a rich sweet harmonious taste. The apples acquire syrupy sweetness without sourness a month after storage. The harvest is harvested at the end of October, and the fruits are stored until next summer.

More than Fuji apples, the Gala apple variety is valued, which has become popular in the world market only in the last fifteen years. It is difficult to confuse with other varieties of Gala apples: their crisp flesh remains snow-white for much longer than other varieties; the taste is rich, sour-sweet; bright aroma is an amazing combination of freshness, caramel and nuts; the color of the fruit ranges from pink-orange stripes on a yellow background to a solid red coating.

The ripeness of apples comes by the end of September, and the fruits reach their best taste by November. Gala apples can be stored in the refrigerator for six months. An additional plus of the variety - apple trees are almost not affected by scab, but just in case, it is worthwhile to spend a couple of sprays with fungicides during the season.

Bred in the late 1860s in Australia Granny apples Smith, first conquered New Zealand, Great Britain, and then other countries. Our Granny apples are considered worthy alternative Simirinki. Round large fruits with dense skin have a bright green color, well-pronounced acidity and aroma of flowers with greenery.

Granny apples are great thirst quenchers with juicy pulp and sour fresh taste, and are great for baking pies. However, it is worth noting that the Granny variety ripens slowly, it requires less winter days so these apple trees are best suited for temperate latitudes. In addition, Granny Smith apple trees are susceptible to rust, powdery mildew and scabs.

On the territory of Russia, a good harvest brings Lobo apple variety, bred in Canada. The fruits ripen quite large size, have a bright red blush, under which the main yellowish-green background is almost invisible, the wax coating is quite pronounced.

The flesh of Lobo apples is fine-grained, tender, white, with pleasant aroma and excellent taste with noticeable sourness. The fruits ripen in September, but they are not very suitable for long-term storage.

Advantages of the variety: resistance to dry weather, early maturity, consistently high yield, large fruits with good taste... Disadvantages include susceptibility to rot, powdery mildew and scab.

Delicious apples in the middle lane manage to get from Melba apple trees... This early summer variety was bred from the Mekintosh variety in Canada and quickly spread widely in many regions of Russia.

Melba is a variety of apples with an original wine-sweet taste, candy aroma and juicy, delicate pulp. Ripe fruits have a rounded-conical slightly ribbed shape, half of the surface of a light green color is filled with an intense striped blush.

Apple trees of the Melba variety are distinguished by good consumer qualities and presentation of fruits, high early maturity, productivity, resistance of flower buds to frost, and relative resistance to pests. But winter hardiness in Melba medium, with age the tree bears fruit irregularly, and the fruits are often affected by scab.

Many domestic gardeners invariably give preference to the proven grade White filling. The variety is valued for its resistance to fungal diseases, early maturity (already in early August, the fruits reach removable maturity), high winter hardiness, for a delicate sweet and sour taste and coarse-grained juicy pulp of apples.

Disadvantages of White filling also enough: apple trees bear fruit irregularly, the fruits are stored for only two to three weeks, apples have a very thin skin without a cover color - from a light blow or even pressure under the skin, spots immediately appear, therefore transportation for apples of the White filling variety is undesirable.

Pay attention to this:

There is hardly a person today who has never heard of an apple, because this fruit is widespread almost throughout the entire globe. Its popularity is evidenced by the fact that there are several thousand varieties in the world and almost half of the garden trees are apple trees. By the way, the world's largest apple was also grown in the garden.

Apple record holder

The distant ancestors of modern apples, given their dwarf size, could not claim to be champions among fruits. Until now, in our forests you can find wild apple trees with small fruits and a tart-sour taste. More than one millennium has passed until mankind, through selection, has learned to breed large varieties.

True, in order to grow the world's largest apple, you need not only to choose the right variety, but also to know how to achieve it. So does the Japanese gardener Chisato Iwasaki, who is dedicated to growing giant fruits, many of which are exported.

The "apple" business is a profitable business in Asia, since large fruits are presented as a gift to highly respected people. The price of a fragrant fruit weighing one kilogram can reach $ 1000.

The Japanese Ch. Iwasaki, having been gardening for more than one year, knows how to care for an apple tree so that it bears large fruits. Proof of this is the world's largest apple, weighing 1,849 kg, which he plucked from a branch in October 2005.

On the scales and without them

Of course, the usual apples on our counters have a very modest weight in comparison with the Japanese giant. If the diameter of the latter was equal to the girth of an adult's head, then an apple bought on the market weighs on average 180 grams. This is if with the peel, and without it, 40 grams less.

Most of all, fruit weight is of interest to those who seek to count calories. Weighing an apple every time is a tedious task, so for ease of calculation, you can estimate by eye.

For example, if a fruit is placed in a ring formed by the middle and thumb, then its weight is approximately 200 grams. A small apple with a diameter of Matchbox weighs about 80 grams. A medium-sized fruit that fits in the ring between the index and thumb is 130 gr.

Of course, there are also giant fruits. The weight of an apple primarily depends on the variety, as well as on the care. An experienced gardener from the Khabarovsk Territory, Vladimir Zangiev, collects fruits weighing up to 350 grams from a dwarf Japanese apple tree.

In the world of giants

The apple is undoubtedly a very popular fruit since antiquity. Let us recall at least the apple of discord that led to the Trojan War, and the phrase itself has long become a household name. In modern Great Britain, even a holiday dedicated to the fragrant fruit has been established.

Is it any wonder then to learn that in many countries there are sculptures that personify giant apples. In the USA, for example, in addition to the crystal apple located at the entrance to the store of the famous Apple brand, in different time several more monuments have been erected in honor of the country's favorite fruit.

In Russia, apples are also in high esteem. One of the sculptures is located in the center of Kursk as a tribute to the local variety Antonovka, which was delivered from here to the table of Catherine the Great. The weight of the monument is 150 kg, perhaps, this is not the largest apple in the world among sculptural images, but, you see, it is also impressive.

What varieties should be chosen and how to care for the tree, so that the result will impress and arouse the envy of experienced gardeners. Who grows the largest and largest apples in the world? And how much do the "champions" weigh.

Largest apples

The largest apples, as a rule, are obtained from young apple trees, but not in the first year of fruiting, but only from the second to the fourth years. After that, the fruits become smaller and, over time, completely turn into peas, small, nondescript, which can only be used for processing.

Tsar-apples are obtained from the whole tree or from a specific branch, say experienced gardeners. The latter is preferable, since otherwise negatively affects the harvest of the entire tree.

Fruit scientists have done a lot of research to determine the amount of leaves that is required for a single giant fruit to grow. It turned out that for a regular apple you need at least 40 leaves. But for a record holder, there should certainly be much more. However, some other factors of development and growth also play a role. For example, the number of branches and buds on one branch.

The largest apple variety

One of the most popular varieties of apples from which you can get giant fruits is Qandil Sinap. Apples grow one-dimensional, elongated-cylindrical, with a dark reddish blush. Such fruits weigh up to 150 grams. Gardeners say that the pulp of this type of apple is very tasty. Fruits ripen in late August - early September. And, most importantly, they are stored for quite a long time - until December.

The Kandil synap trees themselves are vigorous and with a pyramidal crown. Apple trees begin to bear fruit quite late: on seedlings and dusen in the sixth or twelfth year, on weak rootstocks - in the fifth year. Moreover, the tree bears fruit strictly periodically. But the yield is up to 170 kilograms from an apple tree. By the way, gardeners note the resistance of the kidneys to spring frosts, diseases and pests.

Large apples can also be obtained from the Salgir apple tree. The fruits grow up to 170 grams on it, but, unlike the previous ones, they are flattened or round-ribbed orange-red in color. You can pick and consume such apples already in the second decade of September. It is noteworthy that the fruits are stored for up to one month, that is, not very long.

Trees are distinguished by a rounded-oblong crown and bear fruit on ringlets. The first apples on low-growing rootstocks will appear in a year, on others, especially young ones, they appear annually. Well, the Salgir apple tree can bear fruit already in the third or fifth year after planting. Gardeners harvest 60 kilograms from a tree.

Reneth champagne or paper reneth. This is another large apple variety. The fruits grow up to 150 grams in weight. Each is semi-flat or flat, light yellow in color with a red blush. But the taste of such apples is mediocre, for an amateur, connoisseurs say, but tender and juicy, with a predominance of acid.

Champagne is removed from the tree in early September. And store right up to May-June next year. Trees are distinguished by their higher average vigor, rounded-up and back-pyramidal shape. Apple trees begin to bear fruit in the fourth year on low-growing rootstocks, and on seedlings and dusen at the sixth or eighth year. Fruiting periodically, each harvest can reach 200 kilograms.

Winter banana (or Banana apple tree) can give huge fruits. Apples weigh up to 200 grams. Each is flat-round or conical in shape, light yellow in color and pinkish blurred blush. The winter banana tastes sweet and sour and quite juicy.

The fruits are removed from the apple tree in the second half of September, apples are able to maintain their beneficial features until January-February next year.

By the way, apples look quite original: they have a vase-shaped and rare crown. Trees in ringlets bear fruit; they appear only on biennial increments. Apples appear in the third or fourth year, sometimes in the fourth or sixth year of life. And, unlike many fruit trees, the banana apple tree bears fruit regularly, and in a year you can harvest up to 250 kilograms from the tree. The variety is very resistant to spring frosts, moreover, it easily tolerates diseases and any pests.

Who grew the biggest apples

Engineers and agronomists from Japan were able to grow the largest apple in the world. And it happened thanks to modern technologies, as well as great hard work. A Japanese man named Chisato Iwasagi came out with an almost two-kilogram apple in his garden. Its record-breaking fruit weighed 1 kilogram and 849 grams. By the way, the gardener went to such a result for a long time and persistently. Iwasagi, 35, from Hirosaki, has been growing giant fruits for over twenty years. The last result of his labors, the largest two-kilogram apple, was picked and weighed on October 24, 2005.

And this is not the first successful result of Iwasagi's gardening activities. Chisato has already put the "production" of abnormal apples on stream. The man says he takes care of his trees like little kids. Regularly measures soil temperature, humidity, prepares all kinds of fertilizing for apple trees, inoculates and crosses. Well, for better results the gardener leaves only a few fruits on one apple tree.

By the way, in Asia, huge apples are called Buddhist. This is because before the sale, breeders put the image of the Buddha on them. Only after that the fruits are sent to China for export. However, compotes are not cooked from these and they are not eaten for dessert. In the Middle Kingdom, the Buddhist apple is considered an excellent gift that is presented to respected people. And the record here is not only the weight of the apple, but also its cost. A kilogram of fruit sometimes costs more than a thousand dollars.

The largest apple in the world

Chisato Iwasaki's apple was successfully eaten after numerous filming and screenings. But the record is still held in Japan and no one can beat it. By the way, they say that Chisato did not record his leadership, so the record is officially assigned to a completely different person.

A resident of England Alain Smith (the city of Linton) in the natural environment managed to grow a giant apple: its weight was 1.67 kilograms. In the Guinness Book of Records, the name of the British gardener and the weight of his huge fruit are still under the inscription "the largest apple".

According to the site, not only apples are giant, but also other fruits. For example, in the UK, they managed to grow potatoes weighing 8 kg. But there were even more potatoes. You can read more about the largest potato.
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Apple record holder

The distant ancestors of modern apples, given their dwarf size, could not claim to be champions among fruits. Until now, in our forests can be found with small fruits and a tart-sour taste. More than one millennium has passed until mankind, through selection, has learned to breed large varieties.

The "apple" business is a profitable business in Asia, since large fruits are presented as a gift to highly respected people. The price of a fragrant fruit weighing one kilogram can reach $ 1000.

On the scales and without them

Most of all, fruit weight is of interest to those who seek to count calories. Weighing an apple every time is a tedious task, so for ease of calculation, you can estimate by eye.

For example, if a fruit is placed in a ring formed by the middle and thumb, then its weight is approximately 200 grams. A small apple with a diameter of a matchbox weighs about 80 grams. A medium-sized fruit that fits in the ring between the index and thumb is 130 gr.

In the world of giants

The apple is undoubtedly a very popular fruit since antiquity. Let us recall at least the one that led to the Trojan War, and the phrase itself has long become a household name. In modern Great Britain, even a holiday dedicated to the fragrant fruit has been established.

Is it any wonder then to learn that in many countries there are sculptures that personify giant apples. In the United States, for example, in addition to the crystal apple located at the entrance to the store of the famous Apple brand, several other monuments have been erected at different times in honor of the country's favorite fruit.