Bittenfelder
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| Art | Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ) |
| origin | Waiblingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg |
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The Bittenfeld , also known as the Bittenfeld seedling , is one of the many varieties of the cultivated apple .
The Bittenfelder is a random seedling from Waiblingen , Baden-Württemberg and is named after the Waiblingen suburb of Bittenfeld . It is one of the best types for fermented and sweet must, as the juicy fruits have a high sugar and acid content.
properties
The variety is characterized by robust and long-lived trees that have a high resistance to disease and frost. The Bittenfeld is therefore well suited for cultivation on orchards . The originally southern German variety does not form a trunk until after three years, but then grows relatively strongly. This makes it suitable as a base for grafting , and it accepts all varieties well.
The fruits are usually small to medium-sized at the most, initially colored light green with a dull, non-fatty skin, but with increasing ripeness they change color to lemon yellow with a red-orange covering color towards the sun. The meat is very firm with, despite the high sugar content, clearly protruding acidity, which some lovers of sour fruits ascribe, but, coupled with the mostly very small size, prevents the general recommendation as a table apple. The apples inside the crown, which are not exposed to direct sunlight, often stay green, are smaller and taste significantly more sour and bitter.
The very strong growth of the tree in old age makes annual clearing and maintenance pruning necessary, otherwise the crown will quickly become too dense.
particularities
The apples ripen from late October to mid-November and can be stored until March. Since the fruits hang very tightly on the tree and ripen so late, the fruits sometimes decorate the tree even after the first snowfall. Apples that have fallen to the ground before they are ripe for picking rot very slowly compared to many other varieties, which makes it easier to pick them up by hand.
Since the Bittenfelder is one of the few self-fertile apple varieties, its seedlings are all quite similar. In this way, a uniform quality can be achieved during rearing and the variety is therefore preferably used as a base for the refinement of half and long trunks .
literature
- Walter Hartmann (Ed.): Color Atlas of Old Fruit Types. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2000.
- Martin Stangl: Fruit from your own garden. Munich 2000.
Web links
- Bittenfelder , data sheet of the fruit growing consultancy Baden-Württemberg , Association of employees for fruit growing, horticultural and state maintenance in Baden-Württemberg (VBOGL) eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Krüssmann: The tree nursery; Page 400; Paul Parey Publishing House; Berlin; 1949