You can’t meet any home-grown plum varieties in our gardens!
Every true admirer of this species tries to settle in his plot and plum of early ripening, a couple of mid-season and always some sort of ripening in late summer and early autumn, so that the plum will delight with its fruits the whole season.
Picks up a variety gardener for planting not only by maturitybut also takes into account fruit appearance - they must be not only tasty, but also attractive.
Description of plum "Bolkhovchanka"
Both of these qualities successfully combines homemade plum variety “Bolkhovchanka”. It is a tree up to 2.5 meters tall with a rounded, dense crown of light green in white or yellow flowers, with a light protrusion and a purple blush of large fruits - a picture pleasing any person.
Wax coating fruits are insignificant, grooves and funnels are missing, skin smooth, tender, creamy flesh, closer to yellow, juicy, very tender, sweet, and slyvina up to 40-45 grams, egg-shaped, such is the beauty.
Yield varieties high, fruiting stable.
The “Bolkhovchanka” plum blossoms in the first half of May with white flowers gathered in inflorescences of three, the variety is self-infertile.
Fruit ripen in the second half of August and their use is universal thanks to the wonderful taste.
The tree of medium strength growth heroically transfers frost at 30 degreesthat is an important advantage of the variety.
A photo
Visually on the landing of the “Bolkhovchanka” plum see the photo:
Variety selection
"Bolkhovchanka" - a hybrid form of varieties Hungarian northern, Iskra and Tambov prunes.
Wonderful variety appeared thanks to the successful work of breeders. T.A. Trofimova, A.F. Kolesnikova and Gb Zhdanova, employees of the Institute of Fruit Crops.
Site Selection and Landing
His health, productivity, quality of fruits and longevity depend on whether the place for planting a young plant is chosen correctly.
Plum does not like excessive moisture, often sick in the lowlands, with a lack of coverage of a decent harvest can not dream, the fruits are small, poorly pigmented, taste worse than that of the same variety, but grown in the sun, as they say.
This means that for plum planting need a well-lit place with good air flow with all winds, except for the north, although it will not cause significant harm to the discharge of the variety “Bolkhovchanka” - the kidneys tolerate low temperatures well.
Plum grows well on fertile soils, but in the event that there is no such situation, it is easy to rectify the situation by ennobling it and that on your site. Waterlogging is eliminated by the construction of drainage grooves.
It is better to plant the plum in the spring, for the summer the seedling has time to settle down and prepare for the upcoming winter.
Note that the variety "Bolkhovchanka" self-infertile, and in order to get a good harvest, inter-pollination is necessary.
Well, if in your garden there are already plum trees with flowering in the first half of May, a cherry plum or a few thorns bushes, if not, then you need to plant. One important thing is another tree of the same species.
The variety “Bolkhovchanka” has an average growth power, and if several trees are planted, the seedlings are placed at a distance of one meter from each other. 2,5-3, thickening leads to the stretching of shoots, interferes with air circulation, which leads to weakening plants and increases the risk fungal diseases.
For a seedling of our variety, a planting pit 60 inches by 60 centimeters in diameter and 50 centimeters deep will suffice; a bucket of humus, a glass of superphosphate, a half cup of potassium salts and one or two shovels of wood ash will be needed per planting pit. With such dressing it doesn’t matter at all what type the soil belongs to before enrichment.
For watering on one seedling will need two buckets of water.
It is important to noteto sprinkle the roots of the seedlings need, evenly compacting the soil, voids will lead to rotting of the roots.
The root neck should be five centimeters higher than the soil surface, subsidence occurs when watering and the root neck is in its place, a small roller needs to be made along the edge of the tree circle - water should not flow when watering.
The soil after watering is useful to mulch. And the final touch is a peg driven in the center and a young plant is tied loosely to it, the peg should not interfere with growth.
Care and feeding
The first year of plant life in a new place is a very difficult period, it needs to take root, grow shoots and grow strong before the onset of winter, for this it need constant attention from the gardener.
Watering and weeding they are carried out as needed, and you should not hurry with additional feedings, they have been sufficiently applied during planting, organic matter is applied once every three years, mineral fertilizers are necessary in case of slower growth of shoots.
Fortunately for us, each package with mineral additives has instructions for use and its precise compliance will help not to harm, but to replenish the possible deficiency of mineral substances needed by plants.
The foliar top dressing has proven itself well, there are many developed spray products, the main purpose of the event is to strengthen the plant immunity, since the main component of the preparations is trace elements that affect the metabolic processes.
Pruning
Next year after planting, before bud break, first pruning is necessary, the branches are harvested with damage and not involved in the formation of the crown.
Pruning such orientation is carried out before the start of fruiting, and then replaced by sanitary and held every year without fail.
It should be noted that from an early age plum tends to form root shoots, it needs to be cut, as it weakens the plant.
Fight against diseases and pests
The best protection against diseases and pests is prevention, for this purpose annual pruning is carried out, the crown must be well ventilated, it will not allow the development of fungal diseases, cleaning and whitewashing the trunk with lime mortar with the addition of clay and iron vitriol will eliminate parasites hiding in the cracks of the bark.
In early spring, not only plants wake up, but also their pests, and the first treatment with insecticides. spend before floweringand the second, after flowering.
Once every three years sprayed plants with 3% solution of Nitrofen, and Bordeaux liquid - once a season.
Plum "Bolkhovchanka" - very interesting variety, an exotic type of fruit has just a fabulous taste, and the yield of this fragile-looking tree is surprising, a real gardener can not help but become interested in this wonderful variety.
