With the onset of the summer season, gardeners beginthink about expanding the range of their fruit trees. Most adore plums, since they are not very fastidious and have high yields. Recently, the Start Start plum is very popular. Description of the variety, photos and reviews can be found in this article. So, first, let's talk a little about the history of excretion.
Plum Start (description of the variety and photoprovided in our publication) has been known since 2006. The variety is quite young, but has already spread widely throughout the country and found its fans. The initiators were agronomists RE Bogdanov, TA Pisanova, GG Nikiforova, GA Kursakov. The Volga beauty and Eurasia-21 were used for hybridization. They are the best pollinators of Starvitova plum, the description of which will be in the further content. From their "parents" the derived variety has received the best qualities, it is high winter hardiness and quite large fruits.
At the moment the plum is widely distributed in the central part of Russia, in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia and Estonia.
This variety has an early-term maturity,very frost-resistant and can move without the additional shelter the harshest winters. It is also adapted to a sultry summer with little precipitation. She loves the sunny and warm weather, then the fruits are more sweet and tasty.
High yields are observed in all regions,where the tree of this plum grows. It was loved not only by lovers of digging in country cottages, but also professional agronomists growing fruits and vegetables for industrial purposes. With one hectare of planting with proper care, you can collect more than sixty centners of mature fruit. But the minus of the brand is its short shelf life, in a cool room it will be good for up to twenty-five days.
It is used fresh, but for the most partharvested for the winter. Description of the plum variety Start is that it is ideal for freezing so that you can enjoy fruits on a winter day. Also it is used for the preparation of wine, juice, jam and jam, it perfectly enriches your own taste with compotes.
Starting plum, the description of which interestsmany gardeners, grows on a tree. It is powerful, decorated with a broad, thick, oval-shaped foliage. Its lability is average. The leaves themselves are of medium size, a neat wide form with a pointed tip. They have a beautiful emerald shade, glossy, wrinkled, ribbed at the edges.
The tree gives wide, strong shoots. They are burgundy-brown, with a slight silvery tinge. The top is short and pointed. On the shoots there is a huge number of lenticers of brown-silver color.
The petioles are decorated with "freckles" in the form of a small pigmentation. Iron has a shade of amber and is located on each stalk of two pieces.
The tree is especially beautiful in the flowering period. It is showered with large white flowers with a pleasant aroma, their cups resemble bells.
In the form of large round-ovoid fruit growsStarting plum. The description of the variety says that each of the fruits weighs no less than forty-five grams, and the average weight is 55 grams. All plums are one-dimensional, their base is elongated, the apex is oval, and the fossa is small.
The skin has a rich purple color, but ithidden under a claret-blue wax coating. There are no "freckles" under the skin. To the touch, the skin is dense, firm, it protects the flesh. But eating does not feel at all, giving the opportunity to fully experience the amazing taste of pulp. Inside the plum is amber, very juicy. Juice with a little sour, but still more sweet. Also it is colorless, but fragrant. A tasting evaluation of the plum was in the amount of 4.7 points out of five.
Inside each fetus, as a rule, there is one elongated bone. It is very simply separated from the ripened pulp.
Mature plums do not crumble from the tree, they wait until the gardener carefully collects them. From the pedicel they depart perfectly, they are not damaged.
High transportability for long distances became possible precisely because of the quality of the skin, which protects the fruit from deformation and damage.
Surely, when you were children, loved from sinksplant bones and wait for them to germinate. But children's patience is not the same as in adults, so the "bed" was soon abandoned, and did not bring the harvest. Would you like to see a "Start" plum in your garden, the description of which is given above? Then you have to remember the children's games, get a stone, but be patient and work hard.
The seed should be well washed from the pulp andsoaked for 120 hours in water at room temperature. Every day the water should change, and the bones, if there are several, wash again and mix. In the future they should be dried and put in a glass container. Only after this we proceed directly to the landing.
Stratify bones begin six months before planting in the soil, mixed with wet sand. The temperature for such operations should be no lower than -10, but not higher than +1.
If the landing is scheduled for the spring, then land inApril, if in the autumn, then until the middle of October, until the frost hit. So, we are waiting for two years, do not forget to water in arid days. During this period an excellent seedling will grow out of the stone! In four years it will turn into a tree and give you ripe plums, exactly the same, a bone from which you landed six years ago.
So, you planted a beautiful variety in your garden.The starting plum (described above) is unpretentious in care. You do not have to defend yourself against pests, they are not at all interested in this variety. Even such dirty creatures as a plum sausage, a plum moth, a plumfruit plum and silkworm, are indifferent to the taste, quality of the fruit and the tree of the Starter plum. Also, she is not attacked by plum diseases and can not fall prey to greedy fruit rot, scab and rust. That's why you do not have to wear a respirator and sprinkle a tree, it protects itself from all troubles!
Summer residents describe the variety as ideal.They write that high yields are stable, despite climatic conditions and the number of sunny days per year. Only plumper is good. The comments describe both the taste and the color of the plums, do not forget to praise for a "short temper" a tree, for which there is practically no need to look after. Especially gardeners are pleased with the fact that it does not need to be treated with all sorts of poisons in order to save the crop from all sorts of misfortunes in the form of diseases and pests. People who have this miracle tree on their plot, advise all villagers to drop the same!
