Plum planting in the Urals and Siberia

Gardeners in Siberia and the Urals are faced with the fact that the weather there is unpredictable, and you can never know exactly what the summer will be like. In summer, snow can fall in this region, it rains constantly (sometimes with hail), and storms fall. Floods begin in the spring (in the picture). All these conditions can destroy young trees.

Nuances of growing plums in Siberia

Cold and snowy winters are not a problem for many frost-hardy plum species; the temperature fluctuations in spring affect the trees much worse. In trees emerging from suspended animation, swelling buds may freeze. To avoid this problem, for planting, you need to choose a variety with weakly awakening buds with a long dormant period.

Plum trees have a risk of damping out. Due to the thick layer of snow, cold air does not enter the lower part of the trunk, and the crust with cambium in that zone die off. The problem cannot be solved by removing the snow, because then the root system will freeze. The most rational option here is to freeze the soil of the trunk circle.

What plum is better to plant in Siberia

There is no definite answer to this question. Under the right conditions, any cold-resistant tree can survive the winter and delight in harvest. The best varieties can be considered the most fertile, cold-resistant and fungal-resistant, which one to choose is up to everyone.

What plums are planted on in Siberia

Plums in Siberia are grafted onto rootstocks, which can be seedlings / offspring of any of the Ussuriysk, Canadian plums. And also seedlings or sand cherries, propagated by green cuttings of the plant.

When the plum blooms in Siberia

Depending on the type of plum, the time when the berry is suitable for consumption varies most often from the end of July to the beginning of September.

How many years does plum bear fruit in Siberia

Plum begins to bear fruit from 3-4 years after planting, and after the next 20 years it grows old and dries up. Plum, with proper feeding, haircut, quickly reaches its maximum in yield and slows down the pace closer to death.

Plum varieties for Siberia with photos and descriptions

There are some varieties of plums that are almost indistinguishable and are self-fertile. Among them:

• "Altai Jubilee", a small berry with a yellow color, a pink blush on the outside and a yellow-orange flesh. Ripens in mid-August, is self-fertile. Trees of medium height with rounded crowns.
• "Scarlet Dawn" dark red berry with golden yellow pulp and an average weight of 25 grams. This species is resistant to many diseases, but self-fertile.
• "Admiral Shley", bears fruit in early August. Fruits are small, delicate red, propagated by grafting.

Self-fertile plum varieties for Siberia

Breeders have managed to create a variety of plums that can grow in the harsh climate of Siberia. List of plum varieties for Siberia with photos and names:

• "Hungarian", 6 cm purple / purple berry with golden flesh. Self-fertile, with high yields. The trees are spreading (up to 6 meters).
• "Yellow Hopty", yellow, small plum with yellow-green flesh. It blooms on, on average, 3-meter trees in the amount of 10-12 kilograms per tree at the end of August. Partially self-fertile.
• "Greengage", 5 cm yellow-green and blueberry color with amber pulp. It is rarely affected by a fungus, it is self-fertile, tolerates up to -30 degrees. The trees are on average 6 meters high with a rounded crown.
  
• "Red-cheeked" 2.5-centimeter yellow-orange plum with red blotches and light yellow flesh.
• "Dawn of Altai", small red-orange berry, ripening in early August.
• "Honey", large greenish-yellow berry with yellow pulp. It tolerates up to -30 degrees, self-fertile.
• "Manor", Canadian small berries of maroon color with a pleasant taste and the ability to be harvested for the winter.
• "Drooping" medium-sized, dark red berry, ripening at the end of August.
• "Peresvet", a small orange berry with a yellowish orange inner part. The variety ripens in early August and is self-fertile.
• "Chemalskaya" medium berry is light burgundy on the outside and yellow-green on the inside. The berry is self-fertile, frost-resistant.
• "Chemal's Gift" (in the picture), a small peach-colored berry, yellow on the inside. Ripens in the second half of August, self-fertile.
• "Pyramidal", small berry dark red with pale yellow flesh. It grows on a tree with a pyramidal crown of high fertility.

The best sweet varieties of plums for Siberia

Among the sweetest and most sugar-rich varieties of plums, people most often mention:

• "Yellow Hoptu"
• "Manchurian Beauty" fuchsia color with excellent sweet and sour taste
• "Altai Jubilee", pinkish with a pleasant taste.
• "Oyunu" pinkish plum from China.
• "Baikal Amber", orange-amber sweet plum
• "Morning" (shown), yellow round plum with medium frost resistance.
• "Interesting" purple and very fruitful plum.
• "Valor", large maroon berry with pale yellow pulp. The tree gives 30 kilograms of harvest

These types of plums were also highly appreciated by the tasters.

Winter-hardy plum varieties for Siberia

For cold Siberia, you need to choose a plum variety with special attention. Plums need to be prepared for extreme temperatures and fluctuations. The most persistent are:

• "Honey", transferring up to -30 degrees;
• "Rapid", transfers up to -35 degrees. It's amazing that she came to Siberia from the central zone of Russia
• "Bee", "Manor", "Chulyma", "Admiral Shley" and "Amateur" are cherry-plum hybrids that can withstand 40-degree frost.
• "Uvelskaya", "Pioneer" and "Yellow Hopty" can withstand frost up to 50 degrees

Bush plum varieties for Siberia

Varieties of bush plum are cherry-plum hybrids, which have already been discussed earlier:

• "Bee";
• Chulyma;
• "Amateur";
• Admiral Shley;
• The Manor.

Early varieties of plums for Siberia

Early varieties bear fruit before the second half of August. The most striking examples are:

• "Admiral Shley", early August;
• "Dawn of Altai", early August;
• "Peresvet", early August

The best varieties of Chinese plum for Siberia

Among the varieties from China, adapted for the Russian winter, several berries can be distinguished: "Chemalskaya", "Chemal's Gift", "Red-cheeked", "Yellow Hopty".

Russian plum varieties for Siberia

Plum varieties have been developed that can grow both in Central Russia and Siberia. These are three berries.

• "Rapid" plum is a frost-resistant self-fertile variety, bearing yellow and red berries. Up to 30 kilograms of harvest can be harvested from a tree. Plums ripen early and are well tolerated.
  
• "Red Ball" - disease-resistant, self-fertile variety. Fruiting in 3 years after planting, after a while 18-20 kilograms of plums. The berry is red on the outside, yellow on the inside.
• "Yakhontovaya" plum is a vigorous and self-pollinated variety that can withstand -30 degrees. The berries are large, appear at the end of August, 30 kilograms of them are collected from the tree. In color, it can be pale orange and pale green.

The best plum varieties for Western Siberia

You also need to remember that the land in Western Siberia is wet, and somewhere even swampy, so you need to carefully moisten the soil under the drain.

Plum in Siberia: planting and care

When to plant plums in Siberia

There is no clearly defined planting time for plums, it varies depending on the onset of cold weather. Plums are usually planted in Siberia as seedlings in late spring or autumn. In both cases, when there is no snow.

Place for planting plums in Siberia

The plum planting site should be well lit, well protected from drafts, and never in a low area. Avoid areas with groundwater too close to the surface (ideally, they should flow at a depth of more than 1.5 meters).

Preferably, the soil should be loose and rich in organic matter, either sandy or sandy loam. It is recommended to fertilize the soil a few weeks before planting. Too acidic in composition, swampy soils are not suitable for plums.

Plum planting in spring in Siberia

The correct planting of plums in Siberia in the spring means planting a seedling in a hole in which the roots are calmly distributed and not damaged.

Young cuttings can be grafted onto healthy rootstocks. An established stalk has a high chance of survival in winter.

How to care for plums in Siberia

Freezing of the soil has already been mentioned, which prevents the bark and cambium from damping out. For her, you need to compact the snow in the area of ​​the trunk circle. It will also be useful to place empty barrels around the barrels.

Trees also need regular pruning and constant root growth. In early spring, damaged branches are usually pruned, at the beginning of summer they form a crown (in order for the branches to recover faster, the pruning site is covered with garden pitch, and the tree itself is fed). Old trees are pruned to encourage new shoots to emerge.

Many trees need quality watering due to drought intolerance.This is especially true for cold-resistant drains. Also, several times a year, trees need to be treated with fungicides and insecticides.

Pruning plums in Siberia in spring

In the spring, while the tree is not quite active, you need to do pruning plum branchesnot surviving the hibernation. You need to start the process at the seedling stage, when the desired crown shape is formed. An uncut tree, or one in which the cut site has not been treated with garden pitch, has a risk of getting diseases and less fruit.

How to prepare a plum for winter in Siberia

Frost-resistant plums do not require much effort and cost for preparing for winter... They are only fed and watered abundantly. Berries grown in less snowy areas need shelter. These are spruce branches or agrofibre.

Plum pests and diseases in Siberia

In order to protect plum trees from pests and diseases, you need to treat it with insecticides and fungicides twice a year, in spring and autumn. But how to understand that the tree is already sick and what needs to be done if this is so?

Gum therapy

Gum flow (above in Fig.) Is the appearance of resin droplets on the trunk of a tree. If this problem is not corrected, then the tree can pick up the infection.

To eliminate gum removal, it is necessary to clean the place where the resin appears with a knife, and then disinfect it with a 1% solution of copper sulfate. You can also rub the cut area several times with sorrel leaves, and then treat it with garden var.

Dwarfism

In the initial stage, the plum leaves become narrow, small, and uneven. With the progression of the disease, the leaves become thicker and more fragile.

Fighting this viral disease trying to save the tree is almost useless. Therefore, the best option would be to uproot the tree and burn it behind the site.

Plum pockets

This disease (pictured) affects the fruits, making them baggy, and then severely deformed, pitted.

To overcome this defect will help the application of 3% Bordeaux liquid to plants in early spring before or during bud break.

Clasterosporium disease

Gray-brown spots appear on the leaves, which soon dry up, creating holes and causing the leaves to fall off faster. Often, the disease spreads to the fruit, from which resin is then released. Without treatment, the entire tree may die.

Here again, 1-3% Bordeaux liquid will help, applied to the plant the first and second time, before the buds and buds bloom, the third, after flowering, the fourth, two weeks later, the fifth, three weeks before collecting the plums.

Fruit rot

The symptoms of the first stage of this disease are obvious - branches and shoots look like burnt. In the second stage, rotting spots and cushions with mushroom spores appear on the fruits (in the picture).

The disease can be prevented with 1% Bordeaux liquid and 1% iron / copper sulfate. Plum must be processed before and after flowering. The affected fruits must be destroyed, after which the trees must be treated with 1% Bordeaux liquid.

Smallpox plum

Plum pox are spots on the leaves that look like rings and twisting lines.

Rust

First, rusty spots appear on the leaves, and then, on them, black pillows with mushroom spores. The affected leaves fall off, and the tree loses its immunity.

Any fungicide or 1% Bordeaux liquid can get rid of mushrooms. Trees should be cultivated in mid-summer, and then every two weeks until three weeks before harvest.

Aphids

Aphids usually settle on the underside of the leaf, so you should always inspect them for pests.

An effective way against aphids is considered to be spraying the leaves in spring with decis or inta-vir.

Plum growing in the Urals

What plum to plant in the Urals

The weather in the Urals is unpredictable due to the mountains, so it is necessary to choose varieties that are not afraid of temperature changes (almost all are frost-resistant).

When the plum ripens in the Urals

In the Urals, plum ripens at the same time as in Siberia - from late July to early September. There are no exceptions here.

The best varieties of plum for the Urals with a photo

Breeders of the past have clearly tried their best, because now in the cold Urals, plum varieties such as:

• "Pride of the Urals" (in the picture), a large dark pink berry, yellow on the inside. It does not bear fruit every year, it is self-fertile.
  
• "Pearl of the Urals" medium-sized plum of fiery color on the outside and pale orange on the inside. This self-fertile berry ripens in early August.
• "Snow White" (in the picture), very frost-resistant (up to -40 degrees) plum of medium size, yellow in color. The tree is not tall (2.5 meters), but spreading (4 meters).
• "Ural prune", a cream-colored berry with good frost resistance, blooms in early August at 15 kilograms per tree. The tree is low, up to 2 meters high, but the crown is wide.
• "Chebarkulskaya" the berry is medium in size and dark blue on the outside, yellow-green on the inside, recognized as one of the best plums. The height of the tree and the spreading are the same - 3.5 meters.
• Uralskaya Zolotistaya, high-yielding variety, resulting in small sweet and sour berries that have received high marks from tasters.
• Uralskaya Zheltaya small plum with yellow flesh and skin. It ripens in early August (10-15 kilograms per tree), the tasters' marks are high.
  
• "Cherry plum Early", a variety with yellow, and then red fruits, excellent frost resistance and yield (20-25 kilograms per tree). The pulp is yellow and sweet. Grows on a bush 2.5 meters high.
• "Uyskaya" very large dark red fruits from a 2.5-meter tree have a good and pleasant taste and ripen at the end of August. However, the plum is not resistant to aphids.
• "Kuyashskaya" These large red fruits from a 3-meter tree have an excellent sweet and sour taste. Ripens in early August.
• "Vesta", medium purple plum with golden flesh, ripening at the end of August. Winter hardiness is excellent.

Yellow plum varieties for the Urals

There are not so many yellow varieties of plums in the Urals and you can count them on your fingers:

• "Hungarian" (most often, Moscow);
• Admiral Shley;
• "Scarlet Dawn" (in the illustration).

Self-fertile plum for the Urals

Most plums in the Urals are considered self-fertile. Among them:

• "Pearl of the Urals";
• "Snow White";
• Chebarkulskaya;
• "Uyskaya" other.

Sorts of plum-cherry hybrids for the southern Urals

Plum-cherry hybrids in the Urals are almost the same as in Siberia:

• "Manor";
• Chulyma;
• Admiral Shley;
• "Amateur";
• "Shley";
• "Opata", dark pink or orange medium plums.
• "Gem", medium-sized and self-contained plum red.

Columnar plum varieties for the Urals

Tip, columnar plum bushes can be easily distinguished from trees by their thin branches, their upward direction, smooth bark. They have high frost resistance (up to 30 degrees), they can be planted close, they are low, early ripening. In the Urals, the plum is planted in the spring. These include:

• "Ant" yields a harvest of dark purple berries in August one year after planting.
• "Ruby" (in the picture), the berries are very large, red in color. Harvested in early September.
  
• "Russian", large dark red plums, ripen at the end of August
• "Honey", fruits are golden and large. Self-infertile.
• "Commander", fruits are large, reddish-purple and self-fertile.
• "Imperial", most popular with farmers. The fruits are large and dark red.
• Blue Sweet, a very large dark purple berry that ripens in August.
• "Olenka" bright red medium-sized berries, self-fertile.
• "Mirabella" plums are yellow and large, resemble apricots in appearance.
• Angers, large maroon fruits, the bush tolerates low temperatures well, it is self-fertile.
• "Yellow", ripening at the end of June, the fruit is golden in color.

Plum varieties for the southern Urals

For the southern Urals, sun-loving plants are suitable, it is not necessary to use winter-hardy varieties of plums, they are more suitable for the northern regions. This list includes:

• "Opata" (in the picture);
• "Pearl of the Urals";
• "Pride of the Urals";
• "Hungarian";
• "Uyskaya";
• Chebarkulskaya.

How to plant a plum in the spring in the Urals

When to plant a plum in the Urals

In the Urals, plums are usually not planted in spring. There are almost no spring types of berries here. Plum planting in the Urals occurs in the spring, before the onset of cold weather and snow.

Site selection and soil preparation

The factors by which you need to choose a landing site completely coincide with those that operate in Siberia. In the Urals, varieties appear for which, in order to prepare the soil for planting a tree, in the spring it is necessary to dig up a place, removing all weeds.

How to properly plant a plum in the Urals

Usually in the Urals, plums are planted not in spring, but in autumn, two people at a time. Then you need to follow the following points:

1. Depending on the size of the root system, you need to dig a hole. In this case, the upper (fertile) soil must be folded in one direction, and the lower in the other.
2. You need to drive a meter stake into the center of the pit.
3. Now you need to prepare an earthen mixture by mixing:
   • Compost, 2 buckets.
   • Superphosphate, 200 grams.
   • Wood ash, 350 grams.
   • Previously deposited topsoil.
     
4. The prepared mixture is poured in a mound around the stake. Moreover, the root collar is 6-8 centimeters above the ground, and the stake should not exceed the height of the trunk (the distance from the ground to the branches).
5. A seedling is placed in the "hill" to the north of the stake, from which the branches are straightened.
6. After planting, the ground around the seedling is compacted and watered with 1-2 buckets of water

Plum tree care in the Urals in spring

Plum care in the Urals is almost the same as in Siberia. The only differences are the start times of the procedures. During these tests, most of the snow should have melted.

Conclusion

Plum varieties for Siberia and the Urals are incredibly diverse, despite not the best weather conditions. The most joyful thing is that the plums grown here will be in no way inferior in quality and taste to those grown in warm countries.

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