Plum Yellow Hopty

Plum Yellow Hopty
The main characteristics of the variety:
  • Authors: N.N. Tikhonov (Hopty garden in Ussuriysk)
  • Growth type: vigorous
  • Crown: flat-round, spreading, rare
  • Fruit weight, g: 12-14
  • Fruit shape: rounded with a slight flattening and a pronounced suture-groove, the funnel is small
  • Fruit color: light yellow, with a light white waxy coating
  • Skin : thin, bitter taste
  • Pulp (consistency): loose, juicy
  • Bone size: large
  • Self-fertility: self-fruitless
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The tireless work of breeders gave the residents of risky farming zones the opportunity to grow southern fruits on their plots. New types of peaches, apricots, cherry plums, sweet cherries and plums have been mastering Siberian gardens for a long time. These include the magnificent yellow-fruited, high-yielding domestic plum of the Yellow Hopty. Its fruits are intended for fresh consumption. For preservation, use is complicated by the need to remove the bitter skin. In this way, you can cook jams and preserves, but fruit is not used in compotes. The variety is characterized by low transportability, which does not allow the use of products for commercial purposes.

Breeding history

The authorship of the plum adapted to difficult climatic conditions belongs to the breeder N.N. Tikhonov, whose inquiring mind could not calm down until he achieved the desired result. As a starting material, he used plant samples from the gardener Hopta, after whom the new variety was named.

Description of the variety

A vigorous (up to 250 cm) tree with a short stem has a rounded spreading crown with some flattening and sparse fullness. The skeletal branches are covered with a light brown, shiny bark, covered with a large number of small light lentils. Thick shoots have a direct growth direction, sometimes with subtle bends. Round fruit buds are of medium size, small vegetative ones have a conical shape. Fruiting is observed on bouquet branches.

Features of Yellow Hopty:

  • the height of the tree is inferior to the red-fruited and blue-fruited varieties;

  • self-fertility and the need for pollinating varieties;

  • low calorie content (44 kcal or 181 kJ / 100 g) allows the use of fruits in weight loss diets.

A non-pubescent plate of medium-sized ovoid leaves 11x6 centimeters colored green, has a slightly wrinkled surface with a slight gloss. On young shoots, the leaves are folded like a boat, on old ones, they are unfolded and open. The blossoming snow-white flowers are cup-shaped, collected from contiguous obovate, wavy at the edges, petals 9x6 mm in size.

Fruit characteristics

Rounded, slightly flattened fruits weighing 12-14 g have a clearly visible abdominal suture, a small funnel and are covered with a thin, bitter skin. Plums are light yellow with a touch of prune. The stone is large in size, well separated from the pulp.

Taste qualities

Loose but juicy pulp is characterized by high sweetness with pleasant sourness and light aroma. The composition of fruits includes: sugars (10.2-13.6%), titratable acids (1.2-1.7%), dry substances (4.5-21.8%), tannins (0.45- 0.74%), ascorbic acid (4-12 mg / 100 g) and P-active substances (150 mg / 100 g).

Ripening and fruiting

The crop is harvested in late August - early September, regular fruiting, comes 4 years after planting annual seedlings.

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

The variety belongs to the medium-yielding variety - 20-30 kilograms of fruit are harvested from one tree. The peculiarity of the Yellow Hopta is that ripe fruits should not be left on the tree, since the plum is prone to shedding.

Growing regions

The variety is officially adapted for the Ural region and Western Siberia. These are Kurgan, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk and Bashkortostan, as well as the Altai Republic and Altai Territory, Tomsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Tyumen. In practice, the variety is found outside these areas.

Self-fertility and the need for pollinators

The variety is listed as self-fertile, therefore it needs pollinating varieties with the same flowering times.

Growing and care

Self-fertile Yellow Hopty is prone to damping, which must be borne in mind when growing. The time for planting is spring and autumn, but experienced gardeners always prefer the autumn period. In spring, a young plant is planted early - it is important to have time to carry out the procedure before the buds begin to swell. In this case, the snow should already melt, and the earth should warm up. Autumn planting is carried out in the first decade of September, and it is most effective for the future development of the seedling. Before the onset of cold weather, the root system manages to get stronger and adapt, the plant takes root and in early spring enters the growing season along with all nature. A seedling planted in spring takes a long time to root and adapt, and therefore, the season can be considered lost.

After planting, caring for a young tree consists of standard activities. These are watering and weeding, loosening and hilling, autumn preparation for the winter period. Top dressing begins in the third year after planting. A healthy plant needs nitrogen-magnesium fertilizers in spring. in the fall, the trunk circle is covered with a thick layer of organic matter - humus, compost, manure, as well as potassium-phosphorus preparations and wood ash. Sanitary pruning of the Yellow Hopty is carried out in the spring, removing damaged, dry or diseased branches. During formative pruning, root shoots, lateral shoots are removed, leaving the largest and most beautiful.

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

Despite adaptation to a difficult climate, yellow Hopty has average resistance to clasterosporiosis and is strongly affected by Maslov's seed-eater.In addition to the listed problems, pests such as the moth, aphid and sawfly pose a danger to plums. Preventive treatments with insecticides and fungicides are needed to prevent problems. For those who do not use chemistry on their sites, alternative methods remain, although they are not always effective. Whitewashing with special compounds, for example, lime, casein glue, copper sulfate and others, helps a lot.

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

The variety has a high winter hardiness with regard to wood, and a lower ability to tolerate frost at the buds. The climatic conditions of risk zones (rains, temperature drops, short summer) are tolerated by the plant quite easily.

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
N.N. Tikhonov (Hopty garden in Ussuriysk)
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Appointment
for fresh consumption
Yield
high
Average yield
20-30 kg / wood
Transportability
low
Wood
Growth type
vigorous
Crown
flat-round, spreading, rare
Escapes
straight or slightly curved, thick, light brown with a sheen with numerous light small lenticels
Leaves
medium in size, 11 cm long and 6 cm wide, ovoid, green, slightly glossy, medium wrinkled
Flowers
medium, cupped, white
Fruit
Fruit weight, g
12-14
Fruit shape
rounded with a slight flatness and a pronounced furrow seam, the funnel is small
Fruit color
light yellow, with a light white waxy bloom
Abdominal suture
pronounced
Skin
thin, bitter taste
Pulp (consistency)
loose, juicy
Taste
sweet and sour
Scent
small
Bone size
large
Separability of the bone from the pulp
good
Fruit composition
dry substances - 14.5-21.8%, sugars - 10.2-13.6%, titrated acids - 1.2-1.7%, tannins - 0.45-0.74%, ascorbic acid - 4-12 mg / 100 g and P-active substances - 150 mg / 100 g
Growing
Self-fertility
self-fruitless
Winter hardiness
winter hardy
Damping-out resistance
unstable
Growing regions
Ural and West Siberian regions
Clasterosporium resistance
medium resistant
Semen resistance
amazed strongly
Maturation
Early maturity
for 4 years after planting in the garden as annuals
Fruiting period
late August - early September
Regularity of fruiting
regular
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