Apricot Dessert: a description of the variety, peculiarities of cultivation, reviews

Apricot is a large tree with a strong trunk, belongs to the family of Rosaceae. His homeland is China, then he spread to Armenia and Iran. In warm regions of Russia it is very common. Cultivation of apricot tree in the middle belt will require a lot of effort.

Apricot Dessert: a description of the variety and advantages

1. One of the best northern species.
2. Excellent commodity characteristics.
3. Recommended for growing as a garden crop.
4. It does not require the creation of special conditions for winter time.

Apricot has an excellent sour-sweet taste. The fruits are light, with a thin skin, a small bone and a juicy tender pulp. Their weight is about 30 g. The fruits of apricot contain a small amount of inulin, pectin substances, starch, malic, citric, ascorbic acid, potassium and vitamin B15. Carotene, contained in fruits, gives them a beautiful orange shade.

Spraying a variety of Luisa with a mixture of pollen varieties Comrade and Best Michurinsky, brought apricot Dessert.

The fruit tree grows rapidly and tolerates the cold well. Has a dense crown of a rounded shape. In height it grows to 5 meters. Fruits appear in the fourth year. Apricot is resistant to numerous diseases. You can get a high yield, if next to the dessert apricot plant another variety.

We select a pollinator

Gardeners-lovers, wishing to preserve the purity of a certain type of apricot, plant self-fertilized varieties of wood. Their peculiarity consists in good fruiting with the arrangement of apricots of one sort in the summer residence. Such characteristics are apricot Dessert medium-ripening.

However, self-fertility is a non-permanent indicator. A richer crop is obtained by pollination of trees with pollen of another variety.

Scientists have developed special lists, which indicate the best and permissible pollinators for each type of apricot. In order to avoid errors in plantations, it is necessary to equip yourself with knowledge.

If you take a variety such as apricot Dessert, pollinators for it are selected according to the following criteria:

1. The flowering phase of the main species and pollinator must coincide.
2. Pollent varieties should bear fruit simultaneously with the main ones.
3. Pollinators are selected from the best varieties recommended for cultivation in a specific locality.

Fruit tree planting

Apricot Dessert, planting and caring for which will not bring special care, unpretentious. They put him before the buds awaken, in the last days of April. The pit hole of 0.7 x 0.7 x 0.7 m is prepared from autumn. The bottom is covered with gravel or rubble. Then add the soil mixture from humus, mineral fertilizers, lime and ammonium nitrate. Then everything is thoroughly mixed and covered with earth, so that the roots do not directly contact the mixture. Apricot should be located on a hill, so the pit must be buried to the ground level. Around the hill make a watering circle. After the seedling of the apricot is planted, it is required to water it with two buckets of water. The distance between the trees should be approximately 5 m.

There is a horizontal variant of planting the apricot. For this, the apricot seedlings must be anchored at an angle of 40 degrees for the branches, so that it will receive heat from the ground.

Reproduction of apricot

1. Cultivation from the bones. In March, select the best seeds, soak in water for three days. Prepare from the river sand and sawdust substratum, and in it to land bones. Boxes put in the basement. In May, after frosts, to plant seeds on a permanent place. Apricot Dessert (the description of the variety is presented above), which is grown from the bones of a plant growing in a similar climate, will become significantly stable, and will also inherit the best properties of the previous one. Thus, bones are a great way to grow apricots.
2. Graft. On the sapling-rootstock, plant a stem of a quality fruit tree. The procedure is carried out in early spring.

Apricot Dessert: reviews

Gardeners in this form note only positive points:

• Refers to the most popular variety for cultivation on personal plots;
• Corresponds fully to the declared cold resistance indexes;
• Well tolerates significant lowering of the ambient temperature in the winter.

Pruning, top dressing of apricot

Immediately after planting the apricot make the first pruning and create the so-called sparse-tiered view of the crown. Next, each spring regularly shorten the fruiting twigs twice. Do this with the purpose of rejuvenating the tree and better penetration into the depth of the sprawling crown of sun rays. In the summer time, you can also trim.

The best fertilizers for the fruit tree apricot Dessert (a description of the variety you already know) are:

• Organic;
• Potassium;
• With microelements;
• Complex chlorine free;
• Nitrogen.

Cleaning and storage

Apricots are harvested starting from the lower branches, when they fully ripen. The unripe fruit in the room does not ripen. From the collected fruits are prepared confit, compote, marmalade, jam. And fresh and dried apricots are useful for people suffering from anemia and cardiovascular diseases.

Diseases and pests

Untreated apricot Dessert, the peculiarities of growing which are reduced to protection against diseases, can get fungal infections. To combat them, the trees are periodically sprinkled with copper sulfate, Bordeaux liquid or preparations "Fundazol", "Horus".

Very dangerous for apricot trees are viral diseases, which are not amenable to treatment. For prevention, it is necessary to use healthy seedlings, maintain order in the garden and in a timely manner to fight the pests that carry the infection.

Often on apricot trees you can find aphids, moth, leaf rollers. In this case, plantings are sprinkled with onion and tobacco infusions, soap and soap solution will help, or you can use "Carbophos".

Preparing for winter

In order for the apricot trees to comfortably winter, the following should be done in autumn:

• Remove and burn the fallen leaves;
• Dig up the ground near the trunk circle;
• Insecticides treat the crown and trunk.

Adult trees hibernate without shelter. In young seedlings, the base of the trunk is high. In the early years, the seedlings are tied with lapnik and wrapped with a non-woven cloth.

Varieties of apricots for the Moscow region

Not every apricot variety is suitable for cultivation in the Moscow region. Given the climatic conditions of the area, the breeders brought forth fruit trees that are able to tolerate fairly low temperatures. The best varieties of apricots for the Moscow region:

1. Red-cheeked. One of the most loved and popular varieties. The tree reaches a considerable size, undemanding to the soil, has a spreading crown, high yield, frost-resistant. Fruits in appearance look like an egg, have a rich golden-orange color, weighing about 50 g, taste sweet, the bone is easily separated. Three years after planting, the apricot tree is ready for fruit bearing. Fruits ripen in late July.
2. The Russian. The tree has a high yield, is resistant to frost, low, with large fruits of orange-yellow shade of rounded shape. Fragrant pulp of yellow color.
3. Hardy. The tree is strong, it copes well with low temperatures. Fruiting begins after five years of age, the yield is high. Fruits weighing up to 45 g have a flat-round shape, they are full of orange color with a golden hue. The pulp is fragrant, sweet, orange. Fruit ripening begins in the first days of August.
4. Honey. The height of the tree reaches 5 meters, the crown is wide and sprawling, can tolerate freezing up to -35 degrees. Fruits of small size are yellow with small red dots. The flesh is fibrous, dense, yellow in color, the taste is sweetish. Harvest is harvested in the second half of July.
5. The Snegirek. Fruit tree up to one and a half meters, grows on any soil, frost-resistant. Fruits are well stored and transported. Out of the deficiencies of this species, the instability to moniliasis and leaf spotting is noted.

It is these best varieties of apricots for the suburbs received the most good feedback from garden lovers.

It is interesting

1. To obtain a daily norm of vitamin A, it is enough to eat 5 medium-sized apricots.
2. The ration of astronauts includes these wonderful fruits.
3. In ancient times, Chinese healers believed that the fruits of apricot increase female fertility.
4. Regular use of apricots increases immunity.
5. The intake of dried and fresh fruits has a beneficial effect on health in anemia, heart failure, edema.
6. The fruit of the apricot, unlike other fruit and stone fruit plants, ripens from the inside.
7. "Golden Apricot" is the name of the international film festival that takes place in Armenia.
8. "Armenian apple" is called apricot in Greece.
9. The "Armenian plum" was called by him in ancient Rome.
10. In Russia, in the southern regions, he was nicknamed zherdela.

Planting on the site such a demanding culture, like Dessert Apricot (a description of which is known to many gardeners), it will be necessary to work caring for it. The reward for the works will be an excellent harvest of delicious juicy fruits.