A compact, low fruit tree with the ridiculous name of the Candy sink is deduced by Michurin breeders.
Elegant decorative wood, reachingmore than 2.5 m in height, perfectly fit into any garden landscape, transforming and decorating it: in the spring, a white-flowering bloom, and by mid-summer - with garlands of maturing lilac-red fruits. Starting with a description of the general appearance of the plant, we add that a special elegance is attached to it a neat rounded crown with openwork dark green foliage.
Good frost resistance enables cultureto bear all the hardships of severe Russian winters. With a sufficiently high snow cover to the plant, twenty-degree frosts are not terrible: the root system and flowering buds will not suffer. In addition, Candy is appreciated for a very high degree of confrontation with traditional diseases and pests, which saves the gardener from carrying out additional protective procedures.
Fast-growing plant for several years turns into a young tree with a beautiful crown and begins to bear fruit.
Being self-fertile, this variety requiresproductive neighborhood with other representatives of the species, the flowering period of which coincides with the bloom of the Candy plum variety. Pollinators for her are plum-shaped plums, the collective farm's Renoclod, Zarechnaya early.
The colossal advantage of candy plumis its fast-growing: the harvest ripens by the end of July. This ultra-early dessert variety is famous for the extremely sweet taste of thin-skinned fruits, their yellow-honey flesh and magnificent appearance.
Experienced gardeners argue that there are no special difficulties in growing this fruit tree. Let's clarify the main stages of agricultural technology cultivation and caring activities.
Like many stone fruits, plums forgood development requires sun-warmed areas without a close groundwater table. Plum Sweet prefers air and water permeable loams or clays with a neutral or alkaline reaction. Excess acidity of the soil during planting is eliminated by adding 500 g of lime, dolomite flour or ash to the planting pit. Plant trees, given the established garden interior and remembering the stunted tree. Young plants are planted on the south side of existing landings, maintaining an interval between them of 3-4 meters.
The root system of drains, capable of penetrating quite deep, is superficially located in the climate of temperate latitudes, occupying the entire circumference under the crown or slightly beyond its boundaries.
Care for the tree is simple:regular loosening of soil in the near-barrel circle, sanitary and shaping pruning and watering. This culture is hygrophilous, but the stagnation of water is afraid: excessive moisture causes decay of roots and weakens the tree.
The optimal landing time is considered to be earlyspring, because in autumn young trees do not always have time to get stronger and subsequently freeze. But planted under winter saplings are able to successfully survive the cold, if covered with lapnik, ruberoid or spandbond.
Landing pits measuring 0.5 * 0.6 m are preparedin advance. The upper fertile soil layer is mixed with humus (10 kg), superphosphate (200 g), carbamide (70 g). This mixture is filled with a pit at a third of the height. Experienced gardeners recommend to install a strong stake in the center of the pit - a kind of support for the tree. After that, a seedling is placed in the pit, the roots of which are gently spread, covered with prepared soil and gently compact the soil.
In spring, the soil under the overwintered plantgently loosen, preventing intense evaporation. Dug the soil in the trunk circles to a depth of 8 cm, along the circumference of the crown - by 10-12 cm, between rows of trees - by 20-25 cm so as not to damage the roots, shovel to the trunk during digging put an edge.
Plumage is accompanied by abundant watering.The laying of flowering buds and the formation of fruits also require quite a lot of water. Usually fruit trees are watered 3-5 times during a season, but in humid periods the soil is moistened more often.
But to the fertilizer the plant is veryrestrained. The first 2-3 years of plum is satisfied with the supply of food, which is laid in the planting pit. Beginning from the 3rd-4th year, qualitative organic matter (3-5 buckets of humus), 300 g of superphosphate and 200 g of potassium salt contribute to the trickle-holes under the digging.
Nitrogen fertilizers feed the tree in the spring when the soil is first treated in the garden, phosphoric-potassium - before flowering.
An important aspect of care is cleaningtrimming circle from weeds and loosening of soil to increase aeration. Mulching will keep moisture in the soil and significantly reduce the labor of the gardener: watering and weeding will have less.
Support the productive fruit fruiting Candy will help the periodic removal of the emerging root shoots and sanitary and shaping trimming the tree crown.
These are the features of caring for a fruit tree withthe children's name of the Candy sink. The comments of gardeners growing this plum are unanimous: an excellent variety with sweet fine-skinned fruits, unpretentious and decorative, is a good option in terms of harvesting early harvest and aesthetics of garden composition.
