A wonderful variety of pear "honey" fell in love with gardeners for their high productivity and early maturity (it starts bearing fruit for 3-5 years). This is a late-ripening variety, greenish-yellow with an amber hue, the fruits hold tight on the branches until the end of autumn. The pulp is juicy, oily, tastes sweet and juicy, with a slightly noticeable acidity and a strong honey aroma. The variety is characterized by good transportability, winter hardiness and disease resistance. With proper care from a young tree, you can get up to 110 kg of large juicy (up to 600 g) fruits.
Pear "honey": description, photo, reviews, planting
Landing time
The favorable period for planting is autumn, after the leaves fall before the first frosts. You can plant seedlings in the spring, before the beginning of May. It is important that the buds do not have time to bloom.
Site selection
The pear "honey" is hard to tolerate transplants, so you need to choose a permanent place for planting. The site should be well-lit, closed from the north winds. Protection can be a tall fence or building. Honey pear does not like low-lying places, areas with nearby soil water are undesirable for it. In such places, the root system rots, the tree weakens and can die. Acidic soils are not suitable for pears.
Site preparation
In order for the pear "honey" to begin to bear fruit earlier, it is necessary to create good conditions for seedlings. It is important to prepare the landing pit in advance. A well-developed tree needs a pit diameter of 80 cm and a depth of 100 cm. For a young seedling, the pit diameter is 50 cm, the depth is 80 cm. The fertile layer of earth must be left near the pit (it will still be needed). Fertilizers should be added to the pit:
- humus, peat - 2 - 3 buckets;
- coarse sand - 1 - 2 buckets;
- potassium sulfate - 3 tablespoons;
- superphosphate - 1 glass.
Fertilizers in the pit must be mixed, poured with 2-3 buckets of water and left for a week. The same size of the pit and preparation requires a pear-shaped "honey" pear (description, photo, reviews below).
Landing
Before planting, you need to drive a peg 50 cm high into the center of the planting pit. The peg will serve as a support and protect the seedling from overheating, so the tree must be placed on the north side of the peg.
It is necessary to pour a fertile layer (the one that was laid aside) into the pit so that it forms a mound.
Trim foliage from a seedling, damaged roots. To make the honey pear better take root, you need to dip the roots into an earthen chatterbox with heteroauxin.
The tree needs to be put in a hole on a mound of land and carefully straighten all the roots. Gradually sprinkle the earth, you can spill it with water so that the soil is better compacted.
The root neck of the tree should be 5-6 cm above the soil level.
The seedling must be attached to the peg with a cloth or film. Along the border of the landing pit, make a roller from the ground and pour 2 buckets of water.
Reviews gardeners about this variety are very good. The tree is beautiful, compact, and the fruits are very tasty and juicy.
Care Features
Watering
During autumn planting, one plentiful watering is enough for a seedling. When spring planting, you will have to water the tree often, since the "honey" pear is demanding for watering. Norm - 1 time in 3 days, 2 buckets of water. On hot days you need to water the pear every day. Plow the soil after watering and mulch it with dry grass.
Top dressing
In the first year, the plant does not need to be fertilized, since when planting in the hole, enough was introduced. In the second year, you need to use organic and mineral fertilizers. In the spring - organic matter (manure) is applied at a rate of 2 kg / m2 and mixed with soil. Such top dressing should be carried out every spring; trees older than 4 years old require potassium and phosphorus. Fertilizer is applied to the bayonet of a shovel.
Foliar top dressing
Before flowering, trees need to be sprayed with a solution of superphosphate (3%). This will increase productivity, and strengthen the tree with a solution of urea (2%). Pear growing on acidic soils requires calcium: 4 cups of ash per 1 m2 (such feeding is carried out at the end of summer).
Pruning rules
Pear pruning is done in the spring before the sap flow begins.
The annual honey pear does not need pruning.
Two-year-old trees need to form a crown. Choose 2-3 developed branches and cut them to 1/3 of the length. Cut the remaining branches into a ring (ring-shaped at the base of the branch). Cut the central conductor 15-20 cm.
In three-year-old plants, a second tier is formed. Two well-developed branches need to be cut at a height of 50-60 cm from the first level. Shorten the branches between tiers. Cut the central conductor 15-20 cm.
Four-year-old plants lay another branch, 40 cm above the second level. The branches between tiers need to be shortened.
Column-shaped pear "honey": description, photo, reviews
Planting a pear columnar is exactly the same as the usual one. It is important not to allow the soil to dry out, it is better to use mulch (peat, sawdust, straw). In the first year, the pear will not give a good crop, it is better to remove all inflorescences from the tree. In spring and mid-summer, you need to feed chicken droppings, nitrate or urea. It is important to regularly spray the pear-shaped pear from pests, and cover the lower part of the tree from frost.
High resistance to diseases and frosts, unpretentious care are the undoubted advantages of this variety. Numerous reviews by gardeners say that the pear bears fruit up to frost, the fruits do not fall, so you need to collect them manually.
Delighted comments indicate the taste of the fruit, excellent frost resistance. Not only is this attracted to gardeners by the "honey" pear, reviews describe it as a compact, low tree, occupying less than a meter in diameter. At the same time, incredibly plentiful fruiting.