Pear Svarog

For a long time, domestic frost periods hindered the promotion of the pear to the northern Russian latitudes. But the development of breeders made the pear tree a common plant even for cultivation in Siberia. This variety is the Svarog pear. From this material you will learn the characteristics, history, growing conditions of the variety.

A brief excursion into history

Obtaining hybrid varieties resistant to frost for Siberian orchards was the primary task of the scientists of the M. Lisavenko Scientific Research Institute of Information Systems, which they had been solving since 1973. At the moment, branches of research institutes and garden plots for experiments are located in 3 regions: in Tomsk, in Altai, in Barnaul.

M.A.Lisavenko, who devoted himself to Siberian gardening and created more than one hundred twenty-eight varietal forms of fruit and berry plants, is no longer alive, however, selection is in full swing and among new varieties - pear varieties that are resistant to winter, which named after the Slavic gods, for example, "Svarog", "Perun", "Veles", "Lel", "Kupava".

In pre-Christian mankind, Svarog was listed as the father of all that exists, he was the earthly embodiment of the Kin. What is the meaning of this hybrid variety name?

Pear Svarog: advantages and disadvantages

Pear Svarog: photo of the variety

Advantages pear varieties Svarog:

• Undoubted resistance to harsh Siberian winter conditions (up to minus thirty degrees).
• The fruits ripen before the first cold snaps (September-October days).
• The yield is average, but regular.
• Good marketability of fruits.
• Fruit can be stored for up to three months.
• The taste is excellent.
• The variety is good for processing on a large scale.
• Immunity to fungal and bacterial diseases.

Winter-resistant pear varieties: "Severyanka", "Bere Russkaya", "Yakovlevskaya"," Uralochka "," Chizhovskaya ".

Minuses pears Svarog:

• Fruit size (small).
• Cannot pollinate on its own, requires helpers for pollination.
• The crown is thickened.
• The variety is susceptible to the effects of the dry season.

For reference... Pear Svarog is very fond of light, but does not tolerate dry times; frost resistance is lower than that of the well-known cherry and apple varieties in the same areas.

Pear Svarog: features of the variety

Pear Svarog: photo of the variety

Pear Svarog was created by the method of hybridization of pear varieties "Ussuriiskaya" (has resistance to winter) and "Bere Bosc»(Old variety of late ripeness from France).

Svarog inherited the pear variety from the Bere Bosk variety: immunity to scab and other infections caused by fungi; marketability of pears and their unusual taste; an increase in the yield indicator as the tree matures; unpretentiousness to the composition of the soil with optimal watering.

From the pear type "Ussuriyskaya": the Svarog pear is capable of changing during clone selection. Resistant to frosty times. Resistant to dry periods. Unpretentiousness to the composition of the soil.

But the pears of this attractive hybrid are not very pleasant in taste and are small in size, they need to be expected twenty years after planting a young tree.

For reference... A large amount of fiber in pears is capable of removing harmful cholesterol from the human body. The astringent taste of most of the Russian varieties is due to the content of tannins in the fruits - these are natural preventive components against the deposition of salts.Taste receptors can easily identify stony cells in the inner content of the fruit - this is its supporting tissue. In wild varieties, these cells are more pronounced, because of this, a crunch is created when you bite a pear.

Pear Svarog: variety description and characteristics

In 1996, the Svarog pear was included in the state register, and recommended for cultivation in the West Siberian, East Siberian, Volga-Vyatka territories.

In the same areas, such pear varieties as comfortably grow: “Hera», «Cathedral"," Red-sided "," Elena "," Faithful ".

• The tree is of medium height, the crown is round, dense.
• The bark covering the trunk is gray-brown in color, slightly flaky, the main branches are well formed.
• Young shoots are covered with dark red-brown skin, pubescent at the tips. Shoots are bent arcuate.
• Buds of 2 types: generative (where the formation of flowers occurs) - they are larger and rounder, vegetative (where the leaves are laid) - sharper and smaller.
• Leaves in the form of an ellipse, the apex is twisted helically, small, light green in color, the plate is wrinkled, slightly pubescent. At the end of the growing season, the foliage falls off.

Interesting fact... Pear trees, depending on the territory of growth and development and varietal form, are very different in the type of leaves: the leaves can be similar to willow, birch, loch.

The flowers are not self-fertile, their ovary has grown together, there are no anthers. Medium size, contain five petals, flowers are collected in an umbrella-shaped inflorescence.

The best pollinators for this variety will be the following varieties:Dangling"," Century ". If you do not pollinate the pear, then the appearance of fruits will still be, but in small quantities, and their appearance will be, to put it mildly, unattractive, and they will also not give grains.

Svarog pears weigh up to eighty grams, they are round, the peel is rough, dull, when the fruit is fully ripe, it has a yellow coloration and a blurred blush on the side, illuminated by the sun; subcutaneous dots of a greenish color are pronounced (these are the so-called stony cells); large seeds of a dark shade are in closed chambers; the fruit stem is medium in size.

The inner content is juicy, delicate, creamy in color. Tasting taste score - four and a half points. Sugar and ascorbic acid are contained in fruits in equal measure - nine and a half percent each.

Fruiting of the Svarog pear tree begins from the fourth year regularly, the number of fruits is moderate.

The fruits ripen fully by the first days of October.

The average yield from pears in a nursery in Altai is nineteen kilos.

High immunity to diseases caused by the fungus.

Unconditional resistance to the winter season.

The taste of the fruits of the Svarog pear variety for the most part depends on the temperature: in the hot summer season, the taste is sweet, in the rains it is fresh and watery.

Varieties with excellent taste: "Space"," Marble "," Karataevskaya "," Kupava "," Krasulya ".

If the fruits are fully ripe, then they begin to crumble. If you harvest the crop before dropping, then it will be stored for less time.

• Application of the plant.

Everything in this pear is good for a person.

Svarog pear fruits - for baking and preservation (marmalade, marshmallow, candied fruit, juice, wine, cider, kvass are prepared from pears).

Leaflets - preventive measures and treatment of various diseases.

Wood - in the manufacture of furniture, models and shapes are made from wood, car finishes, with the help of pear wood they imitate ebony wood.

The pear itself is in the landscape when decorating territories, and to strengthen the sandy slopes.

Interesting fact. In Switzerland, they invented "pear honey", obtained by thickening the juice of a pear to a honey consistency. The mixture has a thick, opaque composition of dark brown color.

Pear Svarog: planting and care

Pear Svarog: photo of the variety

To plant any pear variety correctly, it is important to choose the right site. It should be well lit and protected from the winds. You can plant a pear in the form of a bush, on a wire trellis, in wall planting, palmette is used in the form of a fan. The optimal time for planting is the autumn season.

When choosing planting material, take those that have a dense root system, this will guarantee the rapid growth of the seedling. Before planting, damaged roots are removed, they are dipped into a soil chatterbox, which is based on heteroauxin.

In the prepared hole, a mound is formed from the poured soil, on which the roots of the plant are spread. A stake is driven in for support, the trunk of a pear is attached to it.

The root collar rises six cm above the surface soil layer.

The root system is covered with soil, carefully crushed. A pit forty cm in diameter is formed, water is poured into it (four to five buckets), humus is added, then mulching is carried out with peat. Fourteen days later, watering is repeated.

Sanitary pruning is performed (dried and broken branches are trimmed) to form and thin out the crown.

Organic fertilizers, potassium and phosphorus are applied every year.

Interesting fact. The pear crop is not tropical, like the apple plant. However, there is a ficus pear at the equator, its roots of great length hang.

Diseases and harmful insects

• Common plant aphid... They get rid of it with a solution of drugs "Karbofos" or "Rovikur".
• Weevil beetle (polyphagous tube worm). Due to the deposition of larvae, the leaves on young shoots are twisted. To fight it, the infected foliage is collected and burned, the tree is sprayed with a 3% solution of the Nitrofen preparation.
• Bacteriosis Infection with pathogenic bacteria diverges through the vessels of the pear, leaves, branches, trunk are captured. The affected branches are removed in time to prevent further spread of the disease. Cut with a disinfected tool, the cuttings are burned. If the tree is totally affected, then you will have to uproot it.

Northern pear varieties such as the Svarog pear will always bring an exotic look to your garden plot.

These exotic varieties have become available thanks to the continuous selection of pears by scientists.