Bashkir Summer

Early-season variety. Developed at the Bashkir Research Institute of Agriculture by crossing the varieties Polya and Bergamot Summer. Breeders: R.I. Bolotina, G.A. Mansurov.

Included in the State Register of the Republic of Bashkortostan (1979) and Udmurtia (1998). Cultivated in the republics of Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Mari El, Udmurtia, Kirov, and Orenburg regions.

Medium-growing tree. Crown is rounded-pyramidal, compact, medium density. Main branches emerge at nearly straight angles with strong unions. Bark on the trunk and main branches is flaking and gray. Bears fruit on ring buds, spur shoots, and fruiting twigs.

Shoots are brown, straight, long, thick, without pubescence, medium internodes, medium leaflet count, located at surface level, medium size. Buds are angled, conical, outer scales brown. Leaves are directed sideways, medium, elongated, blunt-tipped, finely toothed, green. Leaf blade is downwardly curved, leathery, smooth, without pubescence, glossy, with delicate venation, medium thickness. Petiole is medium in length and thickness. Stipules are few, small, narrow.

Flowers are medium, white, aromatic, deep-cup-shaped. Flowering period is medium, stigma column medium, no pubescence, stigma higher than anthers.

Fruits are below average size (70-80 g), bergamot-shaped, smooth, regular, one-dimensional. Peel is rough, smooth, oily. Numerous small greenish lenticels. Color at harvest is greenish-yellow; at consumer ripeness, light yellow; no covering. Peduncle is medium in length and thickness, straight, slightly angled. No depression, calyx half-open, non-deciduous, small plate. Chambers are closed, medium; seeds are medium, narrow, conical, dark brown. Subcalyx tube is short, narrow, conical, no axial cavity.

Flesh is white, medium density, tender, fine-grained, juicy, aromatic, with a slightly sweet-sour flavor. Taste rating 4.0, appearance rating 4.3. Chemical composition of fruits: dry matter — 16.4%, sugars — 7.9%, titratable acids — 0.48%, ascorbic acid — 5.3 mg/100g.

Fruits store for 15 days, medium quality, poorly transportable, for general use.

Enters fruiting at 6 years, yield 9-16 t/ha, regular fruiting, medium fruit drop.

Highly winter-hardy, drought-resistant, highly resistant to scab. High regeneration capacity. After winter freezing in 1968-1969 (2.7-3.5 points), trees recovered within 3 years.