Plum Honey white (Honey yellow)

Plum Honey white (Honey yellow)
The main characteristics of the variety:
  • Authors: selection of Ukraine
  • Growth type: vigorous
  • Crown: medium density
  • Tree height, m: up to 5
  • Fruit size: large
  • Fruit weight, g: 40-50
  • Fruit shape: round
  • Fruit color: yellow with orange blush
  • Skin : dense, with a waxy coating
  • Pulp (consistency): juicy
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Plum, one of the favorite fruits, cultivated not only in the garden plots of the southern regions, but also in the more northern regions - the Middle Strip, the Urals, Siberia. Home plum Honey white, Honey yellow has an attractive appearance, excellent taste, high portability and versatility. Its fruits are used for fresh consumption, amazingly beautiful and tasty jams, preserves, confitures are made from them, used in desserts, baked goods.

Breeding history

The authorship in obtaining the variety belongs to the Ukrainian breeder L. N. Taranenko. Taranenko's work was carried out by order of the state, when, in the difficult post-war years, people desperately needed increased nutrition and vitamins. An additional task is to get a crop from a crop in any conditions.

Description of the variety

A vigorous (4-7 m) tree has a powerful spreading crown of medium density, reaching 5 meters in diameter. Fortunately, the plum is not prone to excessive sprouting and therefore thickening. The plant can be safely called unpretentious, despite the fact that certain agrotechnical conditions have to be fulfilled, but this is typical for all fruit and berry crops, if the gardener is faced with the task of obtaining the maximum yield.

Pros:

  • high adaptive abilities;

  • calm reaction to temperature changes;

  • the variety is not afraid of return frosts, calmly tolerates drought;

  • early maturity, excellent taste, universal purpose, transportability;

  • when pollinated by other varieties, the fruits of Honey White do not change the quality indicators.

Disadvantages - a very large crown, which makes it much more difficult to process and harvest.

Fruit characteristics

Large (40-50 g), aligned, rounded fruits are colored in yellow tones with an orange blush, and are covered with a dense skin with a strong bloom of prune. The bone is quite easily separated from the pulp.

Taste qualities

Juicy yellow pulp has a sweet honey taste with a slight acidity and delicate aroma. The assessment of the tasting committee is 4.5 points out of five.

Ripening and fruiting

The variety belongs to the early category: the crop is harvested in late July - early August. Fruiting begins in the 4th year after planting, if agrotechnical conditions are met.

After planting a plum sapling on the site, of course, the question of the beginning of the fruiting of the tree always arises. Most varieties of plums begin to bear fruit 4 years after the seedling is planted. However, there are those that differ in an earlier or later period of fruiting. The difference in the beginning of fruiting is determined by the color of the plum. So, purple varieties always begin to bear fruit earlier - by 2-4 years, but yellow varieties differ in later fruiting.

Yield

Honey is characterized as a high-yielding variety - up to 35 kg of fruits are harvested from one tree. Moreover, the wood of this variety is very weak, and skeletal branches often break off under the weight of the harvest. To preserve the tree, gardeners install props.

Growing regions

Honey white was bred in Ukraine, adapted to local conditions, eventually mastered the entire post-Soviet space - Moldova, Transcarpathia. In the Russian Federation, it lives in the Kaluga region, the Central Black Earth Region, the Belgorod region and even in Altai.

Self-fertility and the need for pollinators

The variety is self-fertile and needs pollinating varieties - Vengerka Rannyaya, Renklod Karbysheva.

Growing and care

Due to the voluminous crown, plants require a rather large distance between trees, but, fortunately, the variety does not suffer from thickening. It should be remembered that despite the drought resistance, the plant loves abundant watering.

The most suitable planting material is annual seedlings with a closed root system (CCS), but plums take root well on open roots (CCS), especially if they are pretreated with Kornevin. You should take a close look at the appearance - the bark should be smooth and intact, the trunk is even, without visible defects, there are live fruit buds on the branches. The maximum height is up to 1.5 meters, tall plants have lower survival rates.

Good neighbors for plums are cherry plums, cherries, apricots, peaches and aphid repellent elderberry. It is contraindicated to be near conifers, birches, pears and walnuts.

Plants are planted in both spring and autumn. The planting site should be sunny, with sandy or clayey soil. The optimal distance between the trunks is 3 m, between the rows is 5 meters, but it does not tolerate swampy areas of discharge. The dimensions of the planting pit are 60x60x60 cm. A drainage layer is organized at the bottom, a support for the fragile stem is installed. The fertile part of the excavated land is mixed with lime, humus, superphosphate, wood ash, potassium chloride.

A smaller part of the excavated and prepared soil is poured onto the drainage layer. The plant is carefully installed, spreading the roots, if it is an ACS, or simply installed, if a specimen is planted with an ACS. Fertile soil is poured, the root collar is left open 5-6 cm. The trunk circle is compacted, abundantly watered with 2-3 buckets of warm, settled water.

The next day, the soil must be loosened to prevent drying out and crusting, as well as subsequent cracking. Wet soil can be covered with a layer of peat, using it as mulch, which allows it to retain moisture for a long time. The seedling is regularly watered in the first season, an adult tree is much less frequent, but abundant. Irrigate in spring, during flowering and during the period of fruit filling. At least 30 liters of moisture is introduced under each tree. In the fall, to ensure a successful wintering, each plant is watered with 8 buckets of water.

The introduction of additional nutrients begins at the age of 4, if the planting pit was filled in accordance with agrotechnical requirements. Under the drain, 20-30 kg of manure, superphosphate, saltpeter, potassium salt are introduced. An extensive crown forces garden owners to carry out formative pruning. For 2 years, some extra shoots are removed, ensuring good ventilation and access to sunlight. The extended branches are shortened by one ring, achieving a crown as compact as possible. Rejuvenating procedures are necessary for adult trees to prolong the full development and duration of fruiting. All branches older than 5 years are subject to pruning, giving way to replacement shoots. Actively emerging young growth must be regularly removed - for its development, it takes too much energy from the plum.

Autumn preparation for the winter season involves several stages. Whitewashing of trunks with a mixture of lime, copper sulfate, casein glue. The solution repels rodents and pests. Before whitewashing, the bark is examined and cleaned of lichen. A good additional, perhaps the main measure of protection, will be the use of spruce branches or a special net wrapped around the trunk to a height of 70-100 cm. The trunk circle is covered with humus or compost with a thick layer - at least 20 cm under an adult tree.

For normal development and timely release to fruiting, the plum must be planted at a favorable time, provided with food and water. It is necessary to choose the right seedling, determine the location, prepare the planting pit in advance.
If you wish to get a full harvest in the future, and to renew the tree, the plum is grafted onto crops that are classified as pink. In this case, the plum cuttings are implanted on the mother plant, which will be responsible for further vegetation and nutrition of the scion.
Pruning plums is not easy and very important. If it is not carried out, the number of branches on the tree will be excessive, the crown will become too thick, the fruits will begin to shrink. You can trim plums in spring, summer and fall.
Plum feeding is one of the important stages of fruit crop care. In order to properly and fully feed the plum tree, various types of fertilizers are used. Both mineral and organic options are used. Many of the folk remedies are found to be useful and effective.

Disease and pest resistance

Practice has shown that Medovaya is highly resistant to moniliosis, however, perforated spotting, rust, and putrefactive fungi pose a danger to it. Of the pests, the pear is attacked - sawfly, aphids, scale insects and weevils. Therefore, preventive treatments with insecticides and fungicides.

Despite the fact that plum is considered more hardy than many fruit trees, it is not immune from diseases. It is attacked by viral, fungal and bacterial infections, and parasitic insects harm it. It is necessary to notice and recognize the signs of plum disease in time. They are easier to deal with and defeat early on. Well, in order to protect the garden tree from such a misfortune in the future, preventive procedures can be carried out.

Resistance to soil and climatic conditions

Honey is characterized as a plant with high winter hardiness and drought resistance.

Reproduction of plums will help save on planting material: you do not have to pay money for a seedling. In addition, this activity is simple and exciting. Plum can be propagated by cuttings, root shoots and layering.
Main characteristics
Authors
selection of Ukraine
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Appointment
for fresh consumption, for various types of processing
Yield
high
Transportability
high
Wood
Growth type
vigorous
Tree height, m
up to 5
Crown
medium density
Fruit
Fruit size
large
Fruit weight, g
40-50
Fruit shape
round
Fruit color
yellow with orange blush
Skin
dense, waxy bloom
Pulp (consistency)
juicy
Pulp color
yellow
Taste
light honey taste with hints of sourness
Scent
light
Separability of the bone from the pulp
average
Tasting assessment
4.5 points
Growing
Self-fertility
self-fertile
Pollinator varieties
Hungarian Rannyaya, Renklod Karbysheva
Winter hardiness
high
Maturation
Fruiting period
in late July and early August
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