Ask your friends if they like plums.
Every second, if not even every first answer you yes. And no wonder. Plums - delicious, large, sweet and juicy fruits.
Elegant delicacy, wonderful dessert or snack.
And most importantly, the plant that gives these wonderful fruits can be planted in their summer cottage.
The nearest crop of plums will be a very nice addition to the diet. After all plums have not only tempting taste, but also many useful properties.
What sort to choose for planting in his country? With this information will help to understand the different varieties of plums. This article highlights all the characteristics of the variety Bogatyrskaya plums.
Description of plum Bogatyrskaya
Trees grow as tall before fruiting begins. After the start of fruiting, trees become medium stout.
Crohn for density - medium, for configuration - spreading. Around the trunk and central branches of the bark has a gray color and as if peeling. A sharp corner is created between the branches and the trunk.
The branches are also pale, twisted. Gray shoots have a lot of lentils. Themselves shoots of medium length and thickness, but quite strong. Buds are brown, are on shoots at an acute angle, about 45 degrees. Kidneys of small size, have a conical shape.
Leaves have a slightly different color above and below. From above they are dark green in color, from the bottom a bit lighter. The leaves are obovate. The base of the leaf is sharp. Edge frayed.
Fruits considerable, the mass of one fruit reaches 40 grams. Plums have a dark purple color, elongated oval shape. There is wax on the fruit. The abdominal suture is easily distinguishable.
You can make various compotes, cakes, and other desserts from plums.
The flesh has a greenish-yellow color. She is tender, juicy, has a glorious sweet and sour taste. The stone inside has standard dimensions, oval. Bone mass takes about 8% of the total weight of the fruit.
The juice inside the fruit does not have any color.
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Breeding history
The Bogatyrskaya plum variety is bred by breeding two varieties: the Giant and the Hungarian, local. Its authors R.V. Korneev and V.A. Korneev derived it in the Lower Volga Research Institute of Agriculture. The variety came to the state registry in 1987
Characteristics of a variety
Bogatyrskaya plum stands out significant and constant yield. With age, the tree goes and the increase in the number of crops. So five or six year-old trees can produce 50-70 kg of fruit.
Mature trees produce 60-80 kg of plums. At the same time during the period of fruiting plum enters the 4-5 year following the landing at one-year age. The term of formation is late. The fruits are fully poured in the second half of August.
Variety is great stable to frost.
Meet the winter-hardy varieties of plums: Renklod collective farm, Renklod Soviet, Stanley, Egg blue, Sketch, Alenushka, Yellow Hopty, Skoroplodnaya.
From the pulp of the bone are disconnected with little effort. There is a flaw: the tree can be overloaded with a crop, from which the branches break.
Fruit is well survived transportation. Variety Bogatyrskaya samoplodny, which is an advantage for planting in areas with adverse climatic conditions. Fruits of a tree are suitable for the fresh use and for processing.
Planting and care
The variety does not differ from other varieties by special planting conditions or special care. It should be only annually pruned branches of trees.
Since the variety is self-fertile, it is not necessary to plant other pollinating varieties with it. But if you plant them, you can increase the already large harvest of plums Bogatyrskaya.
Also with the help of rootstocks can potentially increase the life of plants. On average he is from 15 to 30 years.
Diseases and pests
Variety plum Bogatyrskaya though poorly prone to disease and pests, but he has a chance to get sick. So you need to talk about each disease and about each pest. And describe, with the help of which you can completely save the tree from infecting them.
Perforated spotting - a fungal disease, due to which holes appear on the leaves or fruits. The spread of the disease is favored by rain and wet weather. In order to avoid contamination should collect and burn fallen leaves.
Comedication - gum appears on sections of branches and cracks in the bark. Subsequently, the branches wither. As a preventive measure for this disease, you only need to prevent mechanical damage to the tree.
Coccomycosis - affects the leaves and fruits. They start to get stained. And then they dry up. As a disease prevention, you can plant varieties that are highly resistant to this disease.
Fruit Rot - appears during the ripening of fruits in the form of a gray spot on the fruit. May be blown by other fruits. If the plum is infected with this disease, then you need to destroy all infected fruit.
Black fungus - shows itself to be a black bloom on the leaves. Against its appearance, it is necessary to moisten the soil in moderation and to thin out the crown in a timely manner.
Gray rot - With this disease, the leaves become as if burned. If the plum has become infected, then the affected branches are cut and burned.
Marsupial plum disease - plum grows, but remains empty inside. Here, too, cut and burn the infected branches.
Rust - a raid on the leaves is colored like rust. Affected leaves are removed.
Hawthorn - a butterfly eating green parts of a tree. The timely removal and removal of the nests of the caterpillars helps against its appearance.
Zlatoguzka - all the same as in the Hawthorn.
Fruit mites - pull the juice out of the cells. Destroy the winter larvae by digging the soil. In extreme cases, spraying drugs.
Yellow plum sawfly - eat fruits of plum. Adults just shake off the ground. Before flowering sprayed with drugs.
Plum aphid - causes damage to leaves and shoots, stopping their growth. When appearing, process the larvae.
Let's sum up. Bogatyrskaya plum variety is really good for growing in summer cottages.
is he frost-resistanttherefore, the area of its distribution increases. The fruits are tasty, large, juicy. They can be well transported.
Cultivar poorly affectedthat practically saves you from worries about his health.
Even planting two or three trees in your garden you can get a fabulous harvest for the whole family, and even sell it.
Fruits are suitable for fresh consumption, and for cooking compotes or making desserts.
Bogatyrskaya variety is versatile and easy to clean.
