Cherry plum - a hasty garden culture. Its adaptive abilities are very high, which allows you to grow this culture everywhere. Due to its excellent taste, it enjoys well-deserved popularity among gardeners around the world.
A bit of history
The homeland of cherry plum is Transcaucasia. Today you can admire the pristine view of this culture by visiting the Balkans, Ukraine, the Tien Shan mountains, Moldova and Asia. For a long time, cherry plum was considered a southern plant, and gardeners of other latitudes were not interested. The first Russian scientists became interested in it.
They asked themselves about cherry plum - what kind of southern beauty is she who does not want to live in other parts of the world. And they started to work. So the frost-resistant variety "Russian Plum" was bred. But the new name did not take root. The hybrid remained cherry plum. Today, this culture grows in the northern and southern regions, even in Siberia.
Description
Plum plum - This is a home crop with a medium early maturity. It is a low tree (up to ten meters tall) with a spreading crown. Leaves and flowers of amazing beauty bloom at the same time. It tolerates both drought and frost. Cherry plum is resistant to many diseases and injuries. Fruiting can in 1-2 years after planting. Crohn grows rapidly, therefore, the yield is high. One tree can give forty kilograms of fruit. The years of her life are determined by 25-35 years, this is due to the fact that the cherry plum begins to bear fruit early.
This type of garden culture has many varieties. One of them is cherry plum yellow. It is distinguished by the color of the fruit: they are orange-yellow, round in shape. Each fruit weighs up to twelve grams and has an excellent taste: sweet and very juicy. A small bone does not separate from the juicy pulp. Fruits of other varieties can be elongated or flattened, red, purple or black.
Cherry plum seedlings
This culture is unpretentious. Nevertheless, when choosing seedlings, it is recommended to give preference to those varieties that are more adapted to the climatic conditions of the area where they will grow. This is especially important for the middle band. As for the southern varieties, they will simply perish in other latitudes.
Cherry plum - what is it? First of all, it is a cultivated plant that prefers the sun, due to its origin. Therefore, when planting a tree, you need to pay attention to this, and determine the illuminated area for it. Better if it is the south or southwest side of the garden. Then the ripened fruits will be more sweet and juicy.
Planting this culture is best done with rooted cuttings. Although some use shoots. It is formed in the garden if cherry plum trees already grow in it. Seedlings can be grown independently by sowing seeds in pots. They are planted in open ground after frosts, after wetting a lump of earth with roots first.
Cherry plum variety "Comet"
He is familiar to every summer resident and enjoys great love for his excellent winter-hardiness. Even in severe frosts, the tree survives perfectly, and in the summer it generously presents with delicious fruits that can weigh about forty grams. The comet has a sweet and sour taste and a burgundy-purple color of the fruits, which differ in a rounded shape.
Sometimes this variety is called "Cherry plum yellow" due to the color of the flesh. The comet adores quality care: timely top-dressing of the soil and pruning of branches.
What to look for when choosing a variety of cherry plum
- On agricultural technology and adaptation to the climate in which you live and plants will grow.
- Preference should be given to early varieties, which in a couple of years will begin to bear fruit.
- When choosing a variety of large-fruited culture, consider the features of care on which the size of the fetus depends. With poor care for your pet, the fruits will be small
Beneficial features
Cherry plum - what is it is that? The answer is simple: it is a horticultural culture with surprisingly tasty and healing fruits. They make juice, compote, jam, pastille and jam. The peoples of many countries are familiar with the Tkemali sauce, one of the ingredients of which is cherry plum. Frozen fruits are no less popular. They retain all the substances useful to the body.
Cherry plum possesses invaluable medicinal properties. Description of all is impossible to list. Here are some of them: fruits can purify blood, inhibit inflammation, remove heavy metal particles, improve vascular permeability and well-being of patients with various diseases: tuberculosis, hypertension, pulmonary inflammation.
Cherry plum - what is it: healthy fruit or God's gift? Healers give preference to the second name, explaining that the cherry plum has amazing properties. It is recommended as a diuretic and laxative. It increases appetite, cleanses, nourishes the skin and gives it freshness. For this, a mask is prepared from the pulp and powdered bones of the fruit.
The roots, bark and leaves of cherry plum have beneficial properties. Antipyretic and anti-cold infusions are prepared from them. A decoction of leaves stops uterine bleeding and reduces the uterus. Preparations made using cherry plum leaves reduce the risk of vein expansion. To prepare a decoction, you need a tablespoon of crushed and dried leaves, pour a glass of boiling water and heat in a water bath for 15 minutes. Then cool and drink half a glass three times a day before eating. This will permanently save a person from a chronic form of colitis.
Cultural appeal
- The main advantage of cherry plum is early maturity. Sometimes it begins to bear fruit at the age of one.
- The advantage of this culture is the ripening time. Ripe fruits appear after the cherry has bred, but the plum has not yet ripened.
- High productivity, which is associated with the annual laying of flower buds in large numbers.
- It is resistant to spring frosts and summer drought, tolerates them without damage.
- It does not have special requirements for agricultural technology.
- The cherry plum tree is a good honey plant.
- It has unique healing properties.
- It is widely used in the food and medical industry, in landscape design.