Pear Dulya: variety description and characteristics, pros and cons, cultivation

Cultural pear varieties can have interesting characteristics. Consider the description and key characteristics of the Dool pear, the advantages and disadvantages of the variety. When and how to plant seedlings, how to care for a young and adult plant, how to deal with diseases and pests. When to harvest and where to properly store the harvested fruits.

Description and characteristics of the Dulya pear

The variety is zoned in Russia in the Nizhnevolzhsky region. The pear grows quickly, grows high - up to 6.5 m, with an oval-vertical crown. She has medium length shoots, thick, medium leafiness.

Fruits are yellow, with a pinkish side. They ripen in autumn, in September. Fruiting is annual. From one tree, you can collect 70 kg of fruit, which is considered a good yield. Fruits are stored for a short time, about a month. Recyclable. The taste of Dulya's pears is sweet, the juiciness is of medium level, the pulp is coarse-grained.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Pros and consunpretentiousness to growing technology;resistance to cold and heat;sweet taste;annual fruiting;productivity.tallness;late ripening, the first fruits can be obtained from a tree that is more than 8 years old;short shelf life of fruits.

Features of growing plants

Growing the Dulya pear variety is simple, like most varieties of folk breeding. The tree is not capricious, but has its own characteristics.

When and where to plant

The time for planting Dulya pear seedlings comes in early spring or mid-autumn. The main condition for successful planting and rooting is that the buds must be unopened or, if planting occurs in the fall, the leaves must fall off.

For planting, it is better to choose seedlings of 1 or 2 years of age. Young trees take root quickly and without complications.

Pears grow well in sunny, open areas. A tree can be protected from strong cold winds if it is located not far from the house, outbuildings or a high fence. In the selected area, the soil should be loamy or sandy, light and nutritious, with a neutral reaction.

Preparation of planting material

Dulya pear seedlings are prepared the day before planting. The tips of the roots of the seedlings are cut off if they are dry. Then prepare a solution of any drug-stimulator of root formation. The roots are soaked in it, such treatment stimulates the growth of new roots well and accelerates rooting. The branches and the top of the trunk are also cut to 1/3.

Planting into the soil

The recommended depth of the landing pit for the Dulya pear is 1 m, the diameter is 0.7 m. Drainage is laid at the bottom with a layer of 10 cm, then a soil-humus layer. Immerse the roots of the seedling inside, straighten them. Fill the entire space of the pit with soil, compact it and water it with 1-2 buckets of water. Close the trunk circle with mulch to prevent the soil from drying out. A peg is placed nearby, the trunk of the tree is leveled and tied to the peg.

Proper crop care

Both young and adult pear Dulya require care. The complex of works consists in fertilizing, watering, loosening. Pruning is done once a year. Cut out branches damaged by diseases and pests, broken, dry, frostbitten, superfluous, growing in the middle of the crown. For the winter, the trunk circle is covered with mulch to protect against freezing of the roots. To protect against rodents, the trunk is wrapped with a metal mesh and burlap.

Fertilizer

In the first year, no fertilizer is applied, the tree has enough of what was planted during planting. Then every year it is fertilized 3 times: in the spring, at the beginning of the growing season, after the end of flowering and during the period of mass growth of the ovary. Apply organics and fertilizers of mineral origin.

Watering pears

The first year, especially the first 2 months after planting, the Dulya pear seedling is watered once a week.Frequent application of moisture is necessary for rooting to be successful. When the tree takes root, the frequency of watering is reduced to 1 time per month. An adult tree that is already bearing fruit is watered only in extreme heat. If mulch is not laid near the trunk, the soil is loosened after each irrigation.

Ways to control diseases and pests

The Dulya variety is prone to scab, gray rot and brown spot. The tree is protected from fungi by treatment with pesticides. Preventive spraying will help to significantly reduce the likelihood of diseases. If this does not help, they are treated with fast-acting fungicides at a therapeutic dosage. The number of treatments - until the infection is completely eradicated.

Pests: pear mites, aphids, bedbugs, sawflies, psyllids, weevils. Destroy insects with insecticides. Prevention of infections and pests: destruction of plant residues removed from the garden in autumn, whitewashing trunks with lime, pruning.

Harvesting and storage

Dulya fruits ripen in September. They are plucked from the tree when they turn yellow, but the flesh remains quite dense. These are suitable for storage. Only plucked pears are sent for storage, and not pears that have fallen to the ground, without damage to the skin and traces of disease. They are carefully stacked in boxes in layers, paper is placed under each. Put packed pears in the cellar. In cold and moderate humidity, in the absence of light, the fruits are stored for more than a month.

Due to the sweetness of Dool's pears, they can be used to prepare delicious homemade preparations, and, of course, eat fresh during the entire storage period. Dulya pear variety is widespread in the Nizhnevolzhsky region and is successfully cultivated there. It is well adapted to the climate, unpretentious to care for. Gives fruit every year, differs in productivity. The fruit is known for its excellent sweet taste.