Plum Morning

Plum Morning gives fruits of a yellow color, this has become attractive to many summer residents. The advantage of the variety is its exquisite taste, large fruits. In this article, we will consider the variety itself, and how you can plant a plum in a temperate climate.

Homemade plum variety Morning was opened in Russia, at the breeding institute. Parents of the variety - "Early ripening red"And" Renclaude Ullens ". The culture is grown in the Central regions. They entered the state register in two thousand and one.

Plum Morning: description and characteristics of the variety

Home plum Morning: photo of the variety

Characteristic features in the structure of the variety:

• The tree is of small stature, the crown is rounded, raised. The size of the tree reaches from three to three and a half meters. There are not so many foliage, the crown is medium overgrown. Leaves are oval, ribbed edges.
• The fruit is round, ovoid, large, weighing from twenty to forty grams. The plum color is green mixed with yellow. A reddish blush can be observed on one side of the fruit. The peel is smooth, not rough, there is a layer of plaque. The contents inside are juicy, sweet with a sour taste. In terms of taste, it scores four points out of five. The fruit stem is small and can be easily detached from the fruit.

The amount of sugar in fruits is about eight percent. This is two times less than in sweet plums.

Variety advantage

Yellow plum. Morning ripens early, the inflorescence can be seen already at the end of spring, the first fruits ripen by the end of July. Fruiting begins four or five years after planting. Vegetation lives up to twenty years.

Many gardeners find it difficult to determine which fruit has received its sight, and which still needs to hang. This problem manifested itself because ripe fruits do not differ in any way from unripe ones, ripeness can only be determined by touch.

• Disease tolerance

Home plum Morning carries a large number of diseases affecting vegetation, for example, clotterosporia, fruit rot, moniliosis. The attack of aphids, the moth does not tolerate, can resist other pests.

• Harvest

Plum harvest Morning from one tree is from fifteen to thirty kilograms. Within four years, there is a certain break in fruiting, at this moment a small number of plums ripen.

Among the majority of varieties in which fruit ripening does not occur at the same time, they also include the Morning variety. For a summer resident, this is a plus, the plum can be removed within thirty days. With the help of this, the consumption of plums is stretched, also their cooking, so to speak, not all at once, but gradually. The gardener is not afraid that the fruit may deteriorate.

• Heat resistance

Plum Morning cannot stand the cold season. Even the lightest cold snaps can affect the branches and buds. But it takes a minimal amount of time to recover. The variety tolerates frosts in spring normally, the kidneys are not injured.

They grow a variety of home plum Morning in certain territories: Moscow, Kaluga, Tula regions and others. It is forbidden to plant a variety in the territories of the Urals and Siberia, in such areas the climatic conditions are not quite suitable for this culture.

Dryness tolerance is average. It is worth moistening the variety regularly, if you do not water it, this will affect the yield, some fruits may fall off earlier, unripe.

• Plum Pollinators Morning

Fruiting in a culture is independent - this is its advantage. There is no need to plant nearby pollinators with Morning plum to provide a good harvest. But the Morning plum is used to increase the yield of other crops.

Plum Morning: planting varieties

Home plum Morning: photo of the variety

From how the Morning plum variety is planted correctly, its further development depends. Therefore, plant the variety very carefully, carefully, do not damage parts of the seedling.

Criteria

• Planting period - spring or autumn. In the spring they are planted before the buds open and the juice goes. In the autumn, they are planted before the first cold snaps, usually this is the beginning or middle of autumn.
• For planting, you need a bright area, without a draft. Choose the south of the site, you can next to the wall of the gate or house. Be sure to leave a distance of at least three meters between the wall and the pit.
• Do not plant a plant in lowlands, moisture accumulates there, cold fog, and this injures the roots. Also, the distance from the surface of the earth and to groundwater must be at least one hundred and fifty centimeters.
• The soil should be loosened, nutritious, loam is suitable, sandy, there should be a little acidity.

If the soil is not fertile, then the plum will not be able to develop comfortably, it will be defeated by diseases, and also poorly bear fruit.

Tree neighbors

Homemade plum variety Morning does not need to be planted next to stone fruits or seed crops. Do not plant with crops such as:

• Cherry - this culture is subject to the same diseases as plums, if it were not for this, then these crops would be ideal neighbors. But they can carry diseases from each other, for example, coccomycosis.
• Pear - this culture adapts to most trees. Crops are infected by different viruses, but when they grow next to each other, they suppress each other.
• Cherries - not the best neighborhood with all fruit varieties. The cherry will block out all the light that does not fall on the plum, and this will have a bad effect on the development of the plum.

Plant next to the apple tree, but not high, so that everyone has enough light.

You can also plant an elderberry, it can be a protection against aphids. You can also plant a maple tree nearby, but it should be pruned. A small tree will have a positive effect on the plum. Also, between the varieties, you can plant bushes of currants, raspberries, gooseberries.

The soil

The best planting option is spring. The hole should be dug in the fall. Areas where the water level is raised are raised by sixty centimeters. A drainage system is installed. Fertilizers are added to loam and sand. If there is a lot of acidity in the soil, it is reduced with lime.

Dig a hole in the fall, if it does not work out, then before planting it is necessary to make a hole in ten or twenty days, during this period the earth will settle. The size of the hole, from sixty centimeters deep, sixty centimeters wide, seventy centimeters long. The first layer is a drainage system, then about twenty centimeters of fertilizer. Next, the impregnated soil is filled into the hole.

The mixture includes:

• Manure about two buckets;
• Superphosphate from two hundred grams;
• Potassium sulfide from one hundred grams;
• Charcoal about three hundred grams.

The root system can be open or closed. But, of course, it is better to choose seedlings in containers, plant them in spring and autumn. You need to plant so that the earth remains on the roots, so the plant will take root faster. Bushes with open roots are planted in spring, in winter, insulated with agrofibre, and also sprinkled with snow.

Sapling selection

When buying a Morning plum sapling, carefully examine it so that it is free of herbs, the roots are healthy, strong. There are such damages:

• Injuries or spots;
• Traces of insects infecting the plant.

Buy a seedling that is from one to two years old, such bushes adapt faster than adults. The roots must be firm and well-formed.

If you bought Morning plum saplings with open roots, then before planting, be sure to put them in the water to settle for about twelve hours or for the whole day.

Yellow plum planting instruction Morning

When planting, the hole should already be ready. The first layer should be fertilizers.Planting sequence:

• The first thing to do is drainage;
• When installing a seedling, it is necessary to distribute the roots so that it is convenient for them, so that they do not cling. Then they put a support for the seedling, be sure to install it on the south side, this will be protection from the sun's rays.
• Next, we fill the hole with soil, compacting the earth. The neck of the roots should be five or seven centimeters above the ground.
• After the soil has been compacted, it is necessary to make a near-trunk circle to moisten the vegetation.
• The bush is attached to the support, you can use a string. Do not use wire, it will injure the seedling.
• Then you need to moisten the soil in the trunk circle and add mulch, such as peat or manure.

Do not put nutrients in a circle that can harm the root systems.

Plum Morning: home variety care

Home plum Morning: photo of the variety

When planted in the fall, all care is transferred to the spring. Bushes planted in spring need care:

• Moisturizing - it is necessary to water the soil abundantly. Weekly. If precipitation appears, then you can reduce the number of waterings. The water should be at room temperature, you can leave it in buckets for a day under the sun. Do not let the earth dry out, but do not overflow, otherwise there will be stagnation in the ground, the roots will begin to rot, and eventually the plant will die.
• Slice - when planting in the spring, the top of the tree is cut off. In spring and autumn, the crown is made out with the help of cuts of unnecessary branches.
• Food - if fertilizers were added during planting, then the first two years should not be fed.
• Transition in the winter season - the bush is insulated with spruce branches, mulch, manure, organic matter are added to the circle. For protection from rodents, it can be wrapped in a metal mesh.

The first inflorescences are removed, this can reduce the waste of vegetation. In the first years, all efforts are spent on the development of the seedling, its growth, the formation of branches, and not fruits.

With the development of a tree, moisture should be less and less, but more often it is worth cutting off branches, saving from insects that infect vegetation. Important! If you want a big harvest, then feed the plant, it really needs it.

Moisturizing and nourishing

Plum Morning loves moisturizing. Water it abundantly as soon as the ground dries up. If dry, you need to moisturize more often. How much to water depends on the age of the crop. With a growth of about two meters, twenty or forty liters of water are needed, and with an increase of more than two meters, from fifty or sixty liters of water. After moistening, loosening is necessary, then add mulch, for example, sawdust, fresh grass, straw.

In the second year after planting, start feeding the variety with minerals and organics. Power periods:

• Before the inflorescence, it is necessary to feed with urea and potassium sulfate - forty grams each.
• During sight, the fruits are fed with nitrophosphate and urea - thirty grams each.
• As soon as the crop is harvested, saturate with superphosphate and potassium sulfate - thirty grams each.
• When preparing for winter, it is necessary to add manure, compost. When digging a site, organic matter and potassium with phosphorus are added. Also adding about fifteen kilograms of compost, charcoal about one kilogram is also added to them, as well as superphosphate about five hundred grams.

Cuts and crown design

This procedure takes place in autumn and spring. Ideal, of course, will be spring. Until the juice begins to move. When making a round crown, cut off dry, injured branches.

It is already possible to cut off at the age of the seedling from one year, reducing the conductor.

The peculiarity of the cut:

• When reducing the shoots to the trunk, do not leave the stumps.
• Branches that grow towards the trunk, down, should be cut off.
• Make sure that a lot of overgrowth has grown, it should be removed. Interferes with tree development.
• To avoid any diseases, the cut is made before the foliage appears, it is also possible in the summer, after late frosts.
• You can cut with a knife, pruner, saw.When cutting large branches, do not forget to smear the injured areas with garden varnish.

Transition to winter time

It refers to frosts moderately, thus, after planting, in the first winter, the tree should be insulated. Can be closed with agricultural fiber, burlap. Shake off the snow from the branches, leaving a thin layer.

Also, young trees of homemade plum. Morning can be insulated with spruce branches, straw, all this can be wrapped with twine. A young seedling should be insulated with several layers of paper. The trees are aged, they are insulated in different ways, they spud the earth, feed them with organic matter, whitewash the trunk and branches, cover the trunk circle with agrarian fiber. To protect against pests, you can put a metal mesh, wrapping the tree trunk.

Diseases and pests

Yellow plum Morning carries a large number of diseases and pests. It can tolerate rotting, clotterosporia, attack of aphids and moths.

To protect the Morning plum from pests, you must do the following:

• Before the buds open, it is necessary to spud the earth in the near-trunk circle;
• Injured branches should be immediately removed and burned;
• Treat with special preparations, for example, Fufanon, Intavir, Spark is bio.
• If the fruit is damaged by rotting, they must be removed, burned, the tree must be disinfected with a one-percent Bordeaux mixture.

Cultural Diseases, How to Prevent:

• Moniliosis - it is necessary to treat the tree before the inflorescence with special preparations, for example, Skor, Switch, Fitoflavin. You can also use a mixture of ash and salt. Iodine will also help. It is worth feeding with phosphorus and potassium, also clean the area next to the tree, cut off injured branches, affected fruits.
• Scab - must be processed by Skor, Raik, Horus. Before the kidneys open, it is necessary to disinfect with a 1% Bordeaux solution.
• Red spot - treat with special preparations, for example, Topaz, Skor, Oksikhom. Before the buds open, disinfect the circle around the tree with 1% copper sulfate.

Plum Insects Morning:

• Plum Sawyer - the tree must be treated with infusions of horsetail or wormwood. Disinfection should be carried out with special preparations, for example, Lepitocide or Entobacterin. Hilling the land in the autumn. Before the buds bloom, it is necessary to treat with special preparations.
• Plum gall mite - after the inflorescence has passed, it is necessary to treat it with Tedion or colloidal sulfur. For protection, it is necessary to plant a suitable crop nearby for pollination. Do not plant birches, peach trees, and other varieties that are easily attacked by ticks nearby.

Harvesting

Yellow plum Morning: photo of the variety

Plum Morning is not so big, so it is convenient to harvest. But not all fruits can be reached from the top, so a ladder is used. Do not bend the branches, you can damage them with these.

When branches are injured, they are cut off, because they can bring disease into the tree. And the amount of the harvest will decrease. There is no need to shake the trees, fruits that fall may crack, especially those that are overripe.

When the fruit is consumed, it is removed ripe, but it is worth removing them carefully, as we already know, not ripe do not differ from mature ones. During transportation, the varieties are removed unripe. Fruit can stay in the refrigerator for about fourteen days. After a long overexposure, the plum may lose its taste, and a crumb appears.

Homemade plum Morning is relevant because its fruits are delicious both fresh and boiled. They prepare jam, compotes, jam, jam, add to desserts, salads.

Plum Morning: reviews of gardeners about the variety

Sergeev Igor, city of Kaluga

I have been growing the Morning plum variety for a long time, I like it because it smells sweet and delicious. I will not have time to make preparations, as my children have eaten all the fruits. There is practically no need to look after.I plan to plant a couple more home plum trees. Morning. For a good harvest, it is important to water and insulate in winter.

Krehalev Petr, Zheleznodorozhny town

I had to plant a variety of plums Morning, I planted it. The culture is practically maintenance-free, easy to plant. I was warned that the variety is weak to frost. But I insulate the tree for the winter, so we are not afraid of frosts. The fruits of the yellow plum. Morning is very tasty, the tree practically does not get sick.

Home plum Morning is intended for cultivation in the middle lane, in the north the crop will die. The variety brings a large harvest, the fruits are yellow, sweet, juicy, not squeamish.