Michurin's Seedless Apple

Autumn variety selected by I. V. Michurin, obtained by crossing Skryzhapelya with Seedless Komsin. Widely cultivated in both commercial plantations and amateur gardening, it has been officially registered in the Northwest, Central, Central Chernozem, and East Siberian regions.

Tree of above-average size, with an oval crown in its youth, later becoming broadly rounded, formed by strong, few branches, on which the fruit is mainly produced.

Shoots are short, thick, light-brown, almost hairless. Leaves are large, dark green, wrinkled, with curled-up, serrated edges. Petioles have small lanceolate stipules.

Fruits (see illustration) are above-average and medium-sized, flattened-round, symmetrical, with weakly visible ridges. Surface is smooth. Main color is yellow-green, with a bright red blush on the sunny side, transitioning into striped patterns on the rest of the fruit. Has a waxy coating. Pedicel is short and thick. Receptacle is very large, closed, covered by a wide, funnel-shaped calyx tube. Seed cavity is large, bulbous in shape, with closed chambers, often seedless or with rudiments. Rarely contains 1-2 seeds, which are large, broad, with blunt tips. No central cavity.

Flesh is creamy, juicy, with excellent wine-sweet-tart dessert flavor and pleasant aroma. Chemical composition of fruits: total sugars — 11.2%, titratable acids — 0.69%, dry matter — 14.2% on fresh weight, ascorbic acid — 21.3 mg/100g, P-active catechins — 229.3 mg/100g.

Fruits ripen in autumn, and in storage facilities they can be kept for 108 days (average multi-year data), possessing high commercial quality.

Fruit production begins on the 5th–7th year. Yields are abundant and regular.

Trees are relatively winter-hardy. Resistance to scab is high.

Advantages of the variety: high ecological adaptability, high annual yield, high fruit commercial quality.

Disadvantages of the variety: fruit drop.

The variety is used in breeding to obtain highly adaptive varieties with high-quality fruits.

Using Michurin's Seedless Apple, 12 varieties have been developed, including already registered new varieties: Orlik and Orlovskoye Ploskatoye (both Welles x Michurin's Seedless Apple) from VNIISPK; Studencheskoye (Welsh x Michurin's Seedless Apple) from Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov, as well as scab-resistant varieties Skala and Uspenskoye (both Prima x Michurin's Seedless Apple) from VNIIGiSPR named after I. V. Michurin.