Apple Pervinka

Autumn variety with the Vm gene from the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fruit Crop Selection (VNIISPK). Obtained in 1976 by pollinating the Antonovka Krasnobocha variety with SR 0523 pollen. Breeders: E. N. Sedov, Z. M. Serova, V. V. Zhdanov. The variety has been undergoing state testing since 1989.

Medium-sized tree with a rounded, moderately dense crown. Main branches curve away from the trunk at nearly straight angles, with tips pointing upward. Bark on the trunk and main branches is flaking with a greenish tint. Predominant fruiting types are simple and compound clusters.

Shoots are straight, round in cross-section, brownish-brown. Buds are small, conical, smooth. Leaves are egg-shaped, short-pointed, with a spiral tip, green with a yellowish tinge, wrinkled, glossy, with delicate venation. Leaf blade is concave, weakly pubescent. Leaf margin is finely toothed and wavy. Petiole is unpubescent, colored pink. Stipules are small and awl-shaped.

Flowers are medium-sized, cup-shaped, light pink, white-pink in buds, petals closed, stigma level with or below the anthers.

Fruits are medium to above-medium size, medium uniformity, pungent, conical, broad-ribbed. Skin is smooth, oily, glossy. Main fruit color is greenish-yellow at harvest and whitish-yellow at consumer maturity. Cover color covers most of the fruit surface as a cherry-red blush, along with red stripes and spots. Subcutaneous spots are large, green, few, and clearly visible. Peduncle is short, thick, curved, oblique. Bore is deep, acute-conical, slightly rusted. Calyx is closed. Receptacle is deep, wide, grooved. Heart is medium-sized, onion-shaped. Seed chambers are closed. Subcalyx tube is bowl-shaped. Seeds are conical, dark brown.

Fruit flesh is greenish, juicy. Fruits are rated 4.4 points for their attractive appearance and 4.3 points for taste. Chemical composition of fruits: total sugars — 9.5%, titratable acids — 0.62%, ascorbic acid — 5.3 mg/100g, P-active substances — 317 mg/100g.

Harvesting in the Oryol region occurs in the last decade of August or early September. Consumer period lasts from early September to late October.

The variety consistently yields high commercial fruit production. In terms of winter hardiness, it does not fall short of Autumn Striped. Artificial climate chamber freezing tests (S. V. Rezvyakova) showed only slight wood damage (1.0–1.5 points) at -40ºC. The presence of the Vm gene conferring resistance to four races of scab results in relatively low disease incidence.

Advantages of the variety: resistance to scab, high yield, dessert fruit flavor.

Disadvantages of the variety: short consumer period.