The successes of breeders are not determined by the measure of talent, but by the time allotted by God for creativity. Selection work is a long and laborious process, sometimes more than one year is needed to get the result.
Even for a “grain of gold” it’s worth working. Similarly, the breeders of our country are working to ensure that in orchards and kitchen gardens, in addition to the usual apple trees, pears appear, ripening in different climatic conditions.
The result of this work is Pear Quiet Don, a description of this variety and photos of the fruit in the article.
Breeding history and breeding region
Quiet Don refers to varieties that ripen in the fall. The variety has been developed by breeders. Central Black Earth region.
The work was carried out at the Zonal Experimental Gardening Station of the city of Rossosh.
For a new variety, a late summer variety was crossed. Rossoshanskaya beautiful and early autumn - Marble.
It got its name in honor of Sholokhov's novel "Silent Don".
The autumn varieties also include Karataevskaya, Kupava, Forest Beauty, Thumbelina, Noyabrskaya.
Description of the variety Tikhiy Don
Consider separately the appearance of the tree and the fruit.
Tree
The growth of the tree is relatively small; at the age of ten, the pear reaches heights up to three meters. The appearance of the crown of this pear is rounded, of medium thickness, somewhat weeping.
The color of the main trunk is gray. The branches have a vertical slope, the color is grayish-brown. Ringed type of fruiting. Sitting collars become noticeable on the bark of the trunk within 2 to 3 years.
Shoots vertical brown-red color, can be both straight, long, and more round, medium and thick, but their number is very small, no pubescence, medium internodes.
Small lentils, medium density. The buds are similar to bulging cones, the color of which is brown.
Leaves Pacific Don dark green glossy, medium-sized, egg-shaped have an interesting small serrated border along the edges.
Lamina up slightly arched. The touch is smooth, leathery. The leaf stalk is rather short and not thick.
The inflorescence is very beautiful - are tassels in the form of umbrellas, with a large number, up to 8 flowers in each.
They are small, white saucer-cup-shaped. The pistil in such inflorescences is not pubescent, at the level of anthers the stigma is located.
Fetus
The fruits of the Pacific Don large enough, the weight of one pear can reach 350 g The shape resembles the shape of an oval or a blunt cone, equilateral.
The skin of pears is dense, the color when fully matured is yellow-green on top, on the main surface there is a crimson-red blush, slightly diffuse, many subcutaneous points. In a section - creamy white juicy flesh. Seeds inside elongated brown.
A photo
Specifications
Quiet Don - a variety that is famous for its high yields. In the ten years from landing age can be achieved a very large harvest of at least 70 kg, and plants that are grafted already in the first four years can give up to 19 kg.
Hera, Lada, Children's, Dekabrinka and Vernaya also demonstrate excellent yields.
Fruiting comes earlyIt happens regularly. The so-called removable maturity falls on the beginning is the middle of the first month of autumn, and consumer already a little later - between late September and November.
With the growth of pear trees do not crumble, and the fruits do not shrink.
Unfortunately, this variety belongs to self-infertileThis means that it needs pollination by other varieties that bloom simultaneously with this one.
For the Quiet Don fit Dessert Rossoshanskaya and Marble.
Appointment of the fruits of this variety for food purposes, mainly dessert. And the superiority of the fruit is their excellent keeping quality in specialized stores of pear can be stored up to 140 days.
Silent Don highly resistant to extreme environmental conditions. The plant can survive the winter, when the temperature drops below -30 degrees, but the spring frosts can destroy a large number of flowers, if in the summer there is a small drought, the plant is not scary.
Resistance to adverse conditions is shown by the following varieties: Duchess, Yakovlevskaya, Chudesnitsa, Fairy, and January.
Planting and care
When buying a good look at the sapling. Choose with a branched stem of three years of age. Pear of this variety better to plant in the fallbut if necessary can and springby choosing to land spacious sunny place.
In this case, be sure to perform the following work:
- Already towards the end of August, the soil needs to be dug up and deposited compost, potassium salts and superphosphates;
- make a hole a little bigger than the root system. For the correct formation of the tree set the number in 30 cm from the stem. He must 70 cm from the ground;
- in the hole set the tree so that root neck was above ground level 6 cm. Straighten the roots, cover them with the purchase earth that was with the tree. Cover it with soil, dab it up a little, pour it gently and burn it;
- if there are several plants, observe the distance between the plants is not less than 7 m;
- watering in the first year should be abundantit is better to produce it with sprayers or with the help of grooves around the tree, so as not to blur the roots;
- pruning one year after planting in the spring, plant trim 50 cm from the groundthat will contribute to the development of crown and low-lying branches. Two-year seedling pruned excess vertical shoots;
- in winter, the pear must be covered with snow.
Diseases and pests
Quiet Don - pear variety pretty disease resistant.
It can hit Septoria (white spot) - spreads on leaves in the form of grayish spots with a dark brown border.
Appears usually in late May. In this case, sprayed with nitraferon (per 10 liters of water 300g) in the spring before bud break.
But the most common pear pathogenic disease in the form of brown spots on the leaves - //selo.guru/ptitsa/bolezni-p/gribkovye/parsha.html, this hybrid is not at all terrible.
Resistance to scab is also demonstrated: Dessert Rossoshanskaya, Autumn Yakovleva, Marble, Larinskaya and Svarog.
But, unfortunately, there are a couple of pests that the plant is afraid of:
- the main pests of all trees in the garden - rodents. So that they do not gnaw the trunk, just wind the bottom of several layers of thick paper;
- Pear Copper - leaf flea - a small jumping insect with wings. In this case, it is advised to spray biological pesticides or organophosphates.
Despite the slight difficulties, unlike apple trees, in cultivation, the Silent Don pear variety should be planted; in terms of the content of vitamins and minerals, apples are inferior to pears.
Learn all about spraying and blends for it from the video:
