Peach plum - This tree, the cultivation of which brings not only trouble, but also the pleasure of contemplating the harvest. The berry ripens in August, the sizes are large, the flesh of the berries is juicy, sour-sweet. Peach plum is suitable not only for consumption, but also for the manufacture of various conservation of it. Homeland of this wonderful tree - France. Next, we offer you a description of the variety.
Did you know? For the first time about plum peach became known after 1830. Another peach plum called Royal-Rouge or Red Nectarine.
Peach plum: variety description
Peach plum - it is a middle-growth tree, and the description of the variety can be started from the fact that the top of the tree is round or back-cone-shaped, medium thick. Young plantings are not as spreading as adults. Trunk and branches brown-gray color. The leaves are large, oval in shape with a blunt end, covered with fibers. The color of leaves is ruby. The plum blossoms late, and it begins to ripen in the second half of July.
Peach plum fruitless, so pollinators should grow nearby. Most of all, Hungarian, Renclod, Mirabel Nancy, Anna Shpet are suitable for the role of pollinators. For the first time, fruit picking can be done in the sixth year after planting, but fruiting becomes full and regular only in the fifteenth year of the seedling’s life. Peach yellow plum in adulthood brings up to fifty kilograms of crop. Ripe at the same time berries are not showered.
The weight of the berries can reach 70 grams. The shape of plums is round or egg-shaped with a flat tip. In the middle of the fetus there is a slightly noticeable shallow groove. Plum skin is thick, covered with small white dots and a touch of blue color. The color of the fruit is yellow with a light green and a red-orange tint. Ossicles, flat, rough, easily separated from the pulp. The very flesh of the yellow color, dense elastic structure.
Important! The lack of heat affects the taste of the fruit, they become tart and dense.
Peach Plum: How to Choose a Place to Plant
Peach plum - the plant is quite whimsical. Therefore, you need to follow certain rules when selecting a planting site for a seedling. The site should be well lit by sunlight, to be protected from strong winds. Because of love of freedom, it is undesirable to plant a tree near fences and buildings. Also undesirable for planting lowlands, because the seedling due to air stagnation risks frostbite. Choosing a site for planting peach plum, do not forget about the soil. Land for planting should be not only fertile, but moderately wet, without stagnant water.
Planting peach plum: how to plant a moody tree
Peach plum requires that the planting and care for it should be carried out according to the regulations. From the correct planting of the seedling depends on its further development and growth. A pit for planting is dug not less than 50 centimeters in depth and about 70 centimeters in circumference. In the bottom of the pit clog meter height peg. Planting mix is prepared from part of the fertile soil, which was taken out of the pit, two compost buckets, 150-200 grams of superphosphate in granules and 300-400 grams of wood ash.
Did you know? Peach plum fruit helps to eliminate toxins from the blood.
How to prepare a pit for planting seedlings
The parameters of the pits for a sapling are as follows: the depth is not less than half a meter, the diameter is within 70 centimeters. The substrate for planting is prepared from the soil, taken out of the pit, two buckets of manure, 300 grams of charcoal and 200 grams of granulated superphosphate. At the bottom of the pit set meter stick, which primatvayut plant. Roots straighten and fall asleep substrate. You need to fall asleep so that the root neck protrudes above the ground to a height of five centimeters. Then the remaining soil is filled up and at least two buckets of water are poured into the hole.
Peach Plum Planting Rules
Properly planted seedling is the key to successful growth and development of such an intricate plant as a plum variety peach.
Let's take a closer look at the rules of planting this wonderful tree:
- Since the plant is not resistant to frost, plant it better in spring.
- The pit for planting is prepared in advance (late fall or spring, 15 days before planting).
- The plant is placed in a pit near a stake on the north side.
- Mineral fertilizers are not thrown into the pit, so as not to burn the root system.
- Soil as podsypany well tamped, so that it enveloped the roots.
- Poured soil around the seedling mulch.
- The distance between the seedling and the peg should be at least 15 centimeters. The rope that is used to tie the tree should be soft and well stretched. Peg after two years removed. During the growth of the plant it is necessary to ensure that the rope does not stick into the trunk.
Rules for growing peach plum: how to care for a tree
They planted a tree - they did half the work. Now it is up to the small, to ensure the discharge of full care. The plum will grow large if it is provided with the correct sufficient watering, feeding, pruning and disease prevention.
How often to water the plum
Since peach plum is whimsical, watering is carried out with extreme caution. The plant is plentifully watered during flowering and active growth of shoots (May-June), as well as during fruit ripening and growth of the root system (August-September). When watering the plant, do not forget that everything is good in moderation. Over-wetting of the soil may cause stunted growth of the tree, yellowing and drying of the foliage. Having carried out the irrigation procedure, the soil must be fluffed and mulched.
Features feeding large-fruited varieties
Large-fruited plum peach needs annual application of organic and mineral fertilizers, its fertilizing is carried out every year in the fall. To get a good harvest, you need to give the tree an impetus for development in the fall. Fertilizers are applied in the form of manure and mineral agrochemicals at the rate of ten kilograms per square meter. After five years, the dose is doubled.
Important! The dosage of fertilizers must be clearly maintained, since an increase in the number of applied supplements reduces the ability of the tree to tolerate frosts.
How to trim a plant
FTo form the top of the plum peach start from the first year of the seedling's life. Shape trees according to a sparse-tier system. It is obligatory to trim annual pagons, otherwise the crown will be liquid. The length of the scraps does not exceed the third part of the length of the branch. When a tree enters a fruiting phase, shoots longer than 50 centimeters are cut and pruned. If the ends of the skeletal shoots cease to give growth, they are rejuvenated, transferring to third-party ramifications. The main pruning consists in thinning the crown and pruning annual twigs, rejuvenating the fruit shoots. 
If the tree is old or almost does not grow, it is cut to a stump about 70 cm high to form a new crown. With the arrival of summer, the growth of new branches is activated in peach plum; they are cut out so as not to take power away from weak branches. In the spring, dry and cracked branches are removed, as well as near-root growth. During the summer period, all thin shoots are cut off, cut-off points are not processed.
Ways to combat diseases and pests
There are many diseases and pests that are attacked by peach plum. In order to become their hostage and not lose a crop, it is necessary to carry out preventive measures in a timely manner. With some types of pests are struggling with trapping belts. Trapping belts are used to prevent the attack of winter moths, gold-clad mounds, and plum moths. Already overwintered pests are eradicated by spraying with "Karbofos" or "Chlorofos". 
If peach plum is affected by moniliosis or klyasterosporosis, the infected branches are removed by cutting to the non-infected body of the tree. Trimming out of the garden area and burned. In February and November, the trees are sprayed with a solution of Bordeaux mixture. They are struggling with rust, removing infected fallen leaves from the garden and sprinkling the seedlings with Bordeaux mixture.
When signs of marsupial disease appear, infected plums are removed from the tree, branches are cut and then burned. In the spring, trees are cultivated with Zinebom. In order to avoid infection with hawthorn, cherry sprout moth, plum pollinated aphids, and yellow plum sawfly, in the spring of 2-3 visits, trees are sprayed with Nitrofen or Karbofos.
How to prepare peach plum for winter
To get a good harvest, it is necessary not only to water, cut, fertilize and process the tree, but also worry about the safe wintering of the plant. Temperature fluctuations have a negative effect on the peach plum. The effects of these drops are bark burns. This happens in February-March, when the difference between day and night temperatures is very high. To make the tree well wintered, the trunk is whitened with diluted lime and wrapped with sacking or heavy paper. During the autumn period, watering and feeding are regulated so as to increase the frost resistance of the plant.
Peach plum: merits and demerits of the variety
Plum peach boasts attractive shapes and sizes of fruits, high palatability, early simultaneous ripening, the presence in the fruits of a large number of nutrients and vitamins. The tree is resistant to pests and diseases. The disadvantage of this variety is considered to be reduced cold resistance and frost resistance.
