How To Grow Apple In India | Soil Nature And Caring Tips
Welcome to another post of GardenOnTop.com, In the post, we will know deep detail about Apple and know healthiest benefits
- About apple
- How to grow apple at home & garden
- How to care apple in home
- Caring of apple tree with these compost
- Best time for harvesting apple
- Top benefits and why it is most popular fruits
Apple – Most Popular Fruit
One of the healthiest fruits in the world and there are 7k+ cultivars are growing apples. Apple is a fleeting tree that produces apples annually. Blooming are in the autumn season and blooms pink flowers. There are many verities according to US Apple Organization like Gala, Fuji, Honeycrisp, Pink lady, and Granny Smith. These verities are most popular in the world and there are lots of benefits of Apples and different types of products are made by Apple (Apple cider…etc.) as well as apple leaves, branches, and root systems.
The mature size of the apple is 4 to 5 inches with a round shape and look rough and brown. Apple tree grows upto 8 to 15 feet tall and spread upto 20 feet wide. In wild areas, apple trees grow upto 30 feet wide. Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir are the most cultivated states in India.
How to Grow Apple Seeds
We need these components like small flowerpots, vermicompost and perlite, apple seeds, garden soil, soft paper and water. Seeds are easily grown in USDA hardiness zone 3 to 5. Apple seeds are easily available in online stores and nearby nurseries or you can also get seeds from apples. Pot should have drainage holes.
Getting Seeds from Apple: Cut out the apple and remove all seeds. Seeds are shiny dark red to light black and sizes are 5 to 8 mm long with spikes.
- Take out the seeds and cover with soft paper or tissue paper and spray water.
- Keep the seeds in the refrigerator for upto 2 days.
- Take out the seeds after 2 days and see if the seeds have sprouted or not. If the seeds are germinated then we need to plant them otherwise keep them in the refrigerator.
- Keep the seeds in vermicompost with perlite and spray some water.
- New shoots and leaves emerge from the seeds in 10 to 12 days.
- Keep the plants in the same pot until plants grow upto 3 to 4 inches long with new leaves.
How to Transplant Apple Plants: Repotting are so simple only follow these steps
- Remove all the plants from the old pot. Remove carefully.
- Make soil potting with garden soil (30%), vermicompost (50%), and perlite (20%). Soil should be well-drained.
- Take a small flowerpot (Clay pots) and fill it will soil potting and dig a hole 1 inches and keep the plants in this flowerpot and cover the rooting system with the same soil potting.
- Spray some water and keep the plants in a semi-shaded location (for 4 to 6 days only).
- For consistent results, transplantation is necessary after 2 years and so on.
How to Care Apple Tree & Plants
Best Caring of Apple Plants: We need to care apple plants too much because apple plants are grown in the best USDA hardiness zone in 3 to 5 and other zones, we have to care a lot. Below are the common tips and tricks to get consistent results.
- Watering: Watering is one of the most popular factors in maintaining healthy and fresh apple plants and trees. In apple plants watering is depends on the USDA zones like USDA 3 to 5 you can give water 2 to 3 times in small plants of the top layer of soil is dried. Common tips, check out the top layer of soil if moisture is available then don’t need to give water. While the fruiting time you have to pour water daily. Avoid watering while rainy seasons.
- Trimming: Trimming are mandatory if you want your plants to become healthy and fresh. Trimming is a process to cut out the faded flowers, branches and unwanted/dry leaves and weeds near the roots. Most of the leaves fall off in the fall so you can store them and make your leaf mold compost. While trimming, check your cutting tool. Best cutting tools Draw Cut or Scissor-Action Pruners, Snap cut, Hedge shears.
- Composting and Organic Matter: Composting makes your plants healthy and gives you stunning results. Add 2 layers of composting with mulching in 5 to 6 feet plants and so on. In small plants like 4 to 6 inches then add 100gm compost with good quality of mulching. In the market, many types of compost are available but you can add these compost, John Innes no-3, vermicompost, perlite (for flowering) and any vegetable compost or you can consultant with planters. Small plants prefer compost after 30 to 45 days and large trees after 3 to 4 months.
- Diseases & Solution: Common diseases like root rots, fungus and different types of attacking insects. If any types of insects attack the plants, then you can use neem oil or pesticide liquid or use fungicide pests while rooting diseases. Add 4 to 5 ml with 1 litre of water (fungicide liquid). For fungicide, add 100ml in 2-to-3-litre water then spray it.
- Temperature or Humidity: Apple plants prefer full sunlight while growing season or you can maintain the temperature between 15°C to 20°C (Common tips). Below 15C small plants are wilted or attacked by diseases. So always prefer the best location with coming good sunlight.
Best Time for Harvesting Apple: Mostly, apple plants grow slowly. It takes 5 to 6 years for apple plants to grow 5 to 15 feet. After full blooming, plants start to germinate small apples. These fruits ripen within 3 to 4 months and you can harvest them if you are satisfied with the size of the apple.
Top Benefits and Why it is Most Popular Fruits: Apple fruits are most popular because apple contains many types of vitamins and proteins like Vitamin C, Iron, Vitamin B6, Magnesium, Potassium, Sodium, Carbohydrate…Etc. Below are the top benefits for your health.
- Enhance your energy and stamina.
- Eating an apple every day, boost your eyesight.
- It maintains blood pressure and improves the digene system.
- Fight against cancer.
- Improves your heart health and diseases free.
- It improves brain health and skin health.
- Makes your skin acne-free.
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