Plum President: a description of the variety, features, yields and reviews

At each dacha site, fruit trees grow. Many people like to plant apples, pears and plums, because of these fruits you can get delicious jams, compotes and juices. Today we will describe a sort of plum President. What is remarkable about these fruits and why they are so fond of gardeners?

History of creation

More than a hundred years of plum President is popular, she got her deserved place in many suburban areas. The cultivar was bred by amateur breeders from England at the turn of the 19-20th century. Plum turned out excellent and immediately became famous for its taste qualities, unpretentiousness in the care. Gardeners noted its resistance to many root diseases, from which many garden trees die. Also, good growth, adaptability to the climate of the forest-steppe belt, high transportable qualities was noted. Soon the variety spread far beyond England.

Description of the plum brand President

A distinctive feature of the tree immediately strikes the eye. It is not column-shaped, but annually gives many lateral shoots; therefore, in order to obtain a stable yield and good, large fruits, the tree must be thinned, removing new and too old shoots.

The culture is very tall, and the adult plant can grow to 3.5 meters. The sapling quickly adapts to its place and begins to actively develop, its growth per year can be up to forty centimeters. The young tree has a pyramidal shape, but over time its branches are scattered, forming a thick sphere of the crown. The foliage is dark green, large, slightly concave at the base. The glossy shine of the foliage beautifully shimmers in the sun, eventually becomes covered with a wax coating. The back of the sheets is not bulging, it is smooth.

In spring the tree is covered with inflorescences collected in umbrellas. Very pleasant smells, spreading the fragrance for many square meters.

Characteristics of fruits

Fruits are oval in shape, fairly large in young trees, reaching a weight of one hundred grams. On mature they are smaller - up to 65 grams. Plum President, the description of which you read, has a dense skin. It has a purple-violet rich color and is covered with a waxy bluish bluish tint, on the surface there are coverslips. The plum pulp is uniform, very juicy, has a yellow or green-yellow color. The taste is excellent, sweet, the tasting score is quite high, 4 points out of five possible. The juice is colorless, sweet. The fruit has an oblong bone, it is easily separated from the juicy pulp.

Advantages and disadvantages

Plum sort President has a lot of advantages. And a few shortcomings they completely overlap. As always, we begin with positive qualities:

• It is possible to grow in any region, since the tree is frost-resistant, withstands winters with a drop in temperature to -30 degrees;
• Perfectly adapted to drought;
• Resistance to various biological aggressions;
• Relatively early begins fruiting - in the fifth year of life;
• Stable and high yield, it is possible to collect from one tree from 20 to 75 kilograms of fruits, depending on the age of the tree;
• Fruits of excellent quality, with a pleasant taste, dietary value (43 kilocalories per hundred grams);
• Plum President is well transported and stored.

Disadvantages:

• Annually and during the season thickens, it is necessary to thin out the branches;
• The possibility of infection of the tree with monolioze, aphid and pollinated fruit flies;
• Is prone to gum.

Features of landing

If you decide to have this miracle tree on your site, then prepare a vast space for it, as the branches will be scattered, and they need enough space for full development.

Planted in spring, late March or early April, also in autumn, from late September to mid-October. But still the spring period is more preferable. At this time, the young seedling will not be attacked by the first frost, will begin to actively grow and develop. As practice showed, the trees planted in autumn begin to bear fruit a year later, only on the sixth.

When planting, air temperature is important, it should be no lower than +12 degrees. Also, pay special attention to the soil, it should be soft and loose, so that the shovel freely entered.

Priming

Plum President is not very demanding on the condition of the soil, it will take root almost everywhere, but if you want to get a good harvest, then pay attention to the following characteristics of the ideal soil for a given crop.

In loamy, air-permeable and moisture-intensive soils, the yield is always higher. If the earth is heavily acidified (easily recognized by a well-grown sorrel, plantain and sour-sprouted) or swamped, it must be limed. This procedure should be performed directly in the spring, before digging the site. If you never limed the soil, then use our recommendation: you need to use lime puschku (you can replace shale ash, chalk or dolomite flour) and scatter it on the ground with a calculation of a pound per square meter. After that, you can dig in the ground.

Liming is very useful for the crop, it normalizes the structure of the soil, making it more moisture-and air-permeable. It also activates the vital activity of only useful microorganisms living in the earth, enriches the soil with calcium, magnesium and other trace elements.

If you decided to use wood ash to lower the acidity of the earth, then take it with a calculation of 1-2 buckets per ten square meters. Such a method will help neutralize the harmful effects on plants of heavy metals, such as aluminum and iron.

Planting

Plum President without problems will get accustomed and will avoid many diseases in a well-ventilated and sunny area. The earth must be leveled so that there is no stagnation of moisture or its drainage. Seedling should be prepared: if the roots are dry, then two days stand them in the water, and immediately before planting, dip them into a mud or clay "boltushku", it will save from burns that are possible when in contact with fertilizers (manure, superphosphate and compost that mix With the land in which the seedling will be immersed).

The pit for planting should be half a meter deep, eighty centimeters wide. If several trees are planted, the distance between the rows should be at least four meters, and between the trees - two and a half meters. The seedlings are planted so that the root neck remains on the surface. Sprinkle forty liters of water as the soil dries.

Plum sort President: reviews

Gardeners are very fond of the variety. The President writes that the plum blossoms well, and the yield increases only once a year. Its frost resistance is noted by the summer residents of the northern regions. In the south, they are praised for their resistance to drought and heat. The President also fell in love with big plum farmers. Feedback from the fishermen is also the most positive. They are especially valued for their rapid growth, abundant harvest, high transport tolerance and excellent taste.