Plum "blue gift": characteristics of the variety, rules of planting and care

Many gardeners, who planted plum trees on their plot, complain later that there is no harvest. This may be due to incorrect selection of the variety. Breeders have developed many of them, which have excellent characteristics: frost resistance, precocity, yield. One of them is the plum "blue gift". About this variety, we will discuss later in the article.

Plum "blue gift": description

This variety was introduced by the selection and technology institute as a result of crossing the "Ochakovo" and "Timiryazev's" plums. The main characteristics of the "blue gift" are as follows:

1. The tree is medium in height, with an oval crown, not very thick. The color of the leaves is dark green.
2. Oval saturated purple fruit weighs 14 g. Have a pronounced waxy coating. The seam is not very pronounced.
3. Blooms on May 12-19, the fruit ripens to August 20. Fruits after 4 years, regularly.
4. The experts evaluated the taste of the fruit with 4 points, the aroma and sugar content of the average level. The flesh of the fruit is yellow-green, juicy. The lag of the bone from the pulp is satisfactory.

Advantages of this plum are:

• High winter hardiness;
• Self-fertility;
• Good crop volume;
• Universality of fruits.

A minus is the small weight of the fruit.

Plum "blue gift" brings good harvests. On the branches of the tree fruits are placed in large quantities, as in sea buckthorn. True, rare cases of crop absence after very cold winters have been noted.

Selection of seedlings and planting

The gardeners have an opinion about the whimsicalness of the plum tree. This is partly true. It is not always easy to grow a good plum crop in the central part of Russia. Winter thaws and a short summer are serious obstacles for growing fruit. Not the last value is given to the microclimate and on the site itself.

Planting plum "blue gift" is to be carried out on an elevated place protected from the north by a forest. Marshy and peaty soil, lowlands or areas near rivers are not at all suitable for a plum tree.

For planting should be selected seedlings of high quality, with developed roots, and the trunk of them should be at least one meter in length.

Planting a tree is best in the early spring. After planting, it is cut at a level of 40 cm in height, the cut is treated with oil paint. In the upper part will grow branches, from which in the future the crown will be formed.

Protection against diseases and pests

The plum variety "blue gift" is resistant to diseases and pests, but preventive measures will not prevent it. To prevent the appearance of diseases and parasites, you need:

1. In the early spring time, spraying plants with HOM, which protects against fungal diseases and aphid propagation.
2. At the beginning of flowering, during the budding stage, trees are treated with fungicidal agents to prevent moniliasis and klyasterosporiosis.
3. Using boric acid by spraying increases the number of ovaries.
4. To prevent infection of aphids, insecticides should be used.
5. Bordeaux mixture protects against a variety of diseases.
6. Pheromone traps and spraying with insecticides will help from the moth.

Following these useful tips will help to grow a quality crop on your site and please yourself and your family with home preparations.