Fießer's first fruit
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| Art | Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ) |
| origin | Baden-Baden |
| breeder | GH Fießer |
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Fießers debut is a variety of culture apple ( Malus domestica ). There are few varieties that are so early and richly productive and are also so well suited for rough locations . Even in years with little fruit, you can see the trees of the 'Fießers Erstling' variety from a distance with their full hangings . However, the incisive acidity makes the apple unsuitable for direct consumption.
history
The breeder GH Fießer, grand ducal court gardener to Friedrich II in Baden-Baden, noticed that the mother tree was already showing the first flower buds as a four-year-old seedling on the seedbed . The variety was brought onto the market around 1880 and is known for its high fertility and winter hardiness . The variety 'Fießers Erstling' is currently on the Red List of endangered native crops in Germany . This red list includes all species groups of indigenous useful plants and their varieties, local varieties and varieties that were adapted to local conditions in Germany and were of importance.
description
Fruit properties
The fruit of 'Fießers Erstling' is large to very large (82 millimeters wide, 66 to 70 millimeters high) and tall, spherical, with a medium bulge.
The calyx is large, half-open or open, the sepals are erect and green wooly. The depression in the cup is not deep, but it is bulging and wrinkled. The fruit stalk is very short and woody to fleshy. The stem cavity is not deep, but narrow, wrinkled and green with slight russeting .
The skin is smooth, shiny and pliable. At the beginning, the apple from 'Fießer's Erstling' has a green base color, later changing to yellow. On the sunny side with a reddish tinge in which carmine-red stripes appear. The shell points are only slightly visible.
The pulp is white, fluffy and very juicy. The taste of 'Fießers Erstling' is peculiarly spicy and strongly sour. The core is hollow, the compartments are spacious with many long, pointed, black-brown seeds.
The big fruits of 'Fießer's Erstling' are often thrown off by storms in autumn.
use
In autumn, the 'Fießers Erstling' variety is used as an industrial or cider apple and in spring, after the acidity has decreased, as a table apple .
The picking time of 'Fießers debut' has been reached in October, but the apple to March and longer edible .
Cultivation
Fertilization relationships
The variety 'Fießers Erstling' is a good pollen producer , early and long-flowering and insensitive.
Properties of the tree
The tree of 'Fießers Erstling' is vigorous when young and extremely early and richly bearing. Later it forms a highly spherical tree crown , has large, perfectly healthy foliage, copes well in the roughest locations and is particularly suitable for agricultural fruit growing.
The best growing forms for 'Fießers debut' are the high and Half standard and the bush tree . It would also be suitable for small forms (example: slim spindle ), but its fruits are not valuable enough.
The demands on the soil are low, but it should not be too poor and not too dry.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Fießer's debut Without author: color plates from the supplement to the weekly illustrated newspaper Nach der Arbeit , 1935–1956, plate no. 184; PDF, accessed on: December 25, 2017
- ↑ Red List of the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food , accessed on April 28, 2016
