With the onset of the summer season, gardeners are beginning to think about expanding the range of their fruit trees. Most love plums, as they are mostly picky and have a high yield. Recently, Startovaya plum has been 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 breeding.
Origin
Plum Startovaya (a description of the variety and photos are provided in our publication) has become known since 2006. The variety is quite young, but has already spread widely throughout the country and has found its fans. The originators were agronomists R. E. Bogdanov, T. A. Pisanova, G. G. Nikiforova, G. A. Kursakov. Volga beauty and Eurasia-21 were used for hybridization. They are the best pollinators of the Startovaya plum, the description of which will be in the future content. From its "parents" the bred variety received the best qualities, it is high winter hardiness and quitelarge fruits.
At the moment, plum is widely distributed in central Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Estonia.
Home plum Home: variety description, photo
This variety has an extra early ripening period, is very frost-resistant and can endure the most severe winters without additional shelter. It is also adapted to hot summers with little rainfall. He loves sunny and warm weather very much, it is then that the fruits are sweeter and tastier.
High yields are noted in all regions where this plum tree grows. She was loved not only by lovers of digging in summer cottages, but also by professional agronomists who grow fruits and vegetables for industrial purposes. From one hectare of plantings, with proper care, you can collect more than sixty centners of ripe fruits. But the minus of the variety is its short shelf life, in a cool room it will be good for up to twenty-five days.
Used fresh, but mostly harvested for the winter. The description of the Startovaya plum variety says that it is ideal for freezing so that you can enjoy the fruits on a winter day. It is also used to make wine, juice, jam and jam, it perfectly enriches compotes with its taste.
Description of the tree
Starting plum, the description of which is of interest to many gardeners, grows on a tree. It is powerful, decorated with wide, dense, oval-shaped foliage. Its foliageaverage. The leaves themselves are medium in size, neat wide in shape with a pointed tip. They are a beautiful emerald hue, glossy, wrinkled, ribbed at the edges.
The tree produces wide, strong shoots. They are burgundy-brown, with a slight silvery tint. The apex is short and pointed. On the shoots there is a huge variety of lentils of brown-silver color.
Petioles are decorated with "freckles" in the form of slight pigmentation. The pieces of iron have a shade of amber and are located on each petiole, two pieces.
The tree is especially beautiful during the flowering period. It is showered with large snow-white flowers with a pleasant aroma, their cups resemble bells.
Fruits
Starting plum grows in the form of large round-ovoid fruits. The description of the variety states that each of the fruits weighs at least forty-five grams, and the average weight is 55 grams. All plums are one-dimensional, their base is elongated, the top is oval, and the hole is small.
The skin has a rich purple color, but it is hidden under a burgundy-blue wax coating. There are no "freckles" under the peel. To the touch, the peel is dense, firm, it protects the pulp. But when eating it is not felt at all, making it possible to fully experience the amazing taste of the pulp. Inside the plum is amber, very juicy. Juice with a little sourness, but still more sweet. It is also colorless, but fragrant. The plum received a tasting score of 4.7 points out of five.
Inside each fruit, as a rule, there is one elongatedbone. It is very easy to separate from the ripened pulp.
Ripe plums do not fall off the tree, they are waiting for the gardener to carefully collect them. They depart from the pedicel perfectly, they are not damaged.
High transportability over long distances became possible precisely because of the quality of the skin, which protects the fruit from deformation and damage.
How to plant a seed?
Surely, when you were children, you loved to plant seeds from plums and waited for them to sprout. But children's patience is not the same as that of adults, so the "bed" was soon abandoned, without bringing a harvest. Do you want the "Starting" plum to grow in your garden, the description of the variety of which is given above? Then you have to remember childhood games, get a bone, but be patient and work hard.
The seed should be well washed from the pulp and soaked for 120 hours in water at room temperature. Every day, the water should change, and the bones, if there are several, should be washed again and mixed. In the future, they should be dried and put in a glass container. Only after that we proceed directly to the landing.
Stratify the bones begin six months before planting in the ground, mixed with wet sand. The temperature during such operations should not be lower than -10, but not higher than +1.
If planting is scheduled for spring, then plant in April, if for autumn, then until mid-October, until frost hits. So, we are waiting for two years, do not forget to water in drydays. During this period, an excellent seedling will grow from the bone! In four years, he will turn into a tree and give you ripe plums, exactly the same as the stone from which you planted six years ago.
What pests and diseases are attacked?
So, you have planted a beautiful variety in your garden. The starting drain (described above) is unpretentious in care. You do not have to defend yourself from pests, they are not at all interested in this variety. Even such nasty creatures as the plum sawfly, plum moth, plum codling moth and silkworm are indifferent to the taste, quality of the fruit and tree of the Starter Plum. Also, it is not attacked by plum diseases and cannot fall prey to greedy fruit rot, scab and rust. That is why you do not have to wear a respirator and spray the tree, it protects itself from all harm!
Plum Starting: variety description, reviews from gardeners
Summer residents describe the variety as perfect. They write that high yields are stable, regardless of climatic conditions and the number of sunny days per year. Feedback on the plum is only good. The comments describe both the taste and the color of the plums, do not forget to praise the tree for its “short temper”, which practically does not need to be looked after. Gardeners are especially 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 on theirplot this miracle tree, they advise all summer residents to land the same!
