Pear Vesnyanka
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Pear Vesnyanka is a late winter variety. Breeder A.S. Tuz brought it out on the basis of the VIR experimental station in Maikop. Precursor varieties: "Triumph of Vienne" and "Decanka winter". The Vesnyanka pear variety was transferred to the state varietal trial period in 1976. Recommended for growing in the North Caucasian and Transcaucasian territories.
Pear Vesnyanka: variety description and characteristics
The tree of the Vesnyanka pear variety is medium-sized, by the age of ten it grows up to three or more meters, the crown reaches two hundred and seventy cm in diameter. It is in the shape of a circle, dense and leafy in an average degree. Branches are shortened, curved, not spreading, grow from the stem almost perpendicularly, begin to sag under the load of fruits. The bark covering the trunk and main branches is gray in color and also peels off. The fruits grow on ringlets.
Shoots consist of knees, bare, brownish-green in color. There are few medium-sized lentils. The leaves are medium in size, in the form of an ellipse. The sheet plate bends downward, smooth, glossy; the edges are even or in a small denticle. The leaves are not pubescent, painted in a green tint. The petiole is medium in length and thickness, no pubescence, light green coloration. Stipules are small, lanceolate. The flowers are medium-sized, white in color, flattened, with oval-shaped petals. Pistil of medium size, no pubescence, stigma on the same level with anthers. The flowering period of the variety is average, the Vesnyanka pear begins to bloom two to three days faster than the Williams variety.
- Description of the fruits of the pear variety Vesnyanka
Vesnyanka pears are large, weighing on average one hundred and sixty-seven grams, maximum - two hundred and fifty-two grams. The fruit is in the form of a shortened pear or cone. The peel is smooth, dry, rusty. With technical ripeness, the coloring is green, with full ripeness it is yellow-green, there is no integumentary pigment, or there is a slight blush. The points under the skin are numerous, both small and large, pronounced. The fruit stem is medium in length and thickness, upright or slightly bent. The funnel is small, medium in width, rusty. The cup is medium in size, does not fall off. The saucer is medium in width and depth. The heart is medium in size, bulbous. The seed chambers are closed. There is no axial cavity. The tube under the cup is medium in size, in the form of a bowl. Seeds are medium in size, egg-shaped, dark brown in color. The inner contents are white, moderately firm, tender and juicy. Taste qualities are sweet-sour, spicy, aromatic properties are pronounced.
Fruits have excellent taste and high marketability. Taste assessment of tasting - 4.8 points, marketability assessment - four points. Fresh pears include dry matter (twenty percent), sugars (13.4%), organic acids (0.19%), ascorbic acid (four mg per hundred grams).
You need to remove fruits no earlier than October 15th. The fruit keeps well in the refrigerator or basement. Fresh pears are consumed from the first days of January to the first days of May. Fruits are transported well and are firmly attached to the branches. This variety is a dessert variety.
Pollination and fruiting
Pear Vesnyanka is not capable of pollinating on its own. The best varieties for pollination: "Bere Bosk", "Williams", "Pass-Crassan"," Favre "," Turquoise ". The variety will not be compatible if grafted on clonal or seed quince, it will take root well on Caucasian and forest pears.The varieties are undemanding, they can grow well on any soil with different amounts of humus.
The pear begins to bear fruit from the fifth or sixth year, the yield is increasing at a rapid pace. The yield indicator, when the tree is fully bearing fruit, is pretty decent. The variety bears fruit in moderation and regularly.
Pear Vesnyanka: features of the variety
Resistance to winter in the Vesnyanka pear variety in the foothills of the north-west of the Caucasian territory is high. In the winter season 1971-1972. under temperature conditions of minus thirty degrees on ten-year-old pears, thirty percent of the generative buds were damaged (for comparison, ninety-two percent of the generative buds of the Kure variety froze). Resistance to hot and dry periods is average. In the summer season of 2000, under temperature conditions of more than forty degrees and with a prolonged dry period, the well-being of pears was observed for twenty-seven years. Immunity to diseases is average. The highest score of infection with the most dangerous diseases (scab and brown spot) is three points, not more (in most of the zoned varieties, this mark reached four points).
Pear Vesnyanka: advantages and disadvantages
Varietal Benefits pear varieties Vesnyanka: fruits are stored for a long time, taste is excellent, early fruiting, a decent yield indicator, resistance to the winter season, compact trees.
Varietal minuses Vesnyanka pears: harvesting is done late.
