Plum Morning: variety description and characteristics, cultivation and care with photo

The Morning Plum is a fast-maturing variety that produces sweet and fragrant, sunny yellow fruits. If the gardener takes proper care of the trees of this variety, then after four years he will harvest a rich harvest of delicious plums. So how do you care for plum trees?

General information about the variety

This variety was bred by three gardeners, scientists H. K. Enikeev, V. S. Simonov and S. N. Satarova. They crossed the Renklod Ullens variety and the Red early maturing variety. Plum tree Morning lives for about 21 years. It gives its first harvest four years after planting.

The height of the tree reaches an average of 3.5 meters. The fruits are yellow-green in color, and on the side where the sun's rays hit, the fruit has a slightly pinkish tint.

This variety blooms from mid to late May. The fruits are ready for harvest in the tenth of August. Morning plum can be described as a juicy, moderately sweet fruit. It is recommended to grow this variety in the central part of Russia.

Resistance to diseases and pests

Utro variety is generally considered to be quite resistant to various diseases and pests, but there are also weaknesses:

• Scab is a fungal disease that deforms leaves and spoils plum fruits. To prevent such a disease, it is enough to spray the trees with one percent Bordeaux liquid. If the disease is already present, treatment should be done after harvest.
• Another type of fungus is moniliosis or fruit rot. It is enough to clean up the garbage in time, collect spoiled fruits from the tree and around it, and feed the soil in time with fertilizers containing potassium and phosphorus, and this disease will never disturb. If this fungus is present, the plant must be treated during flowering.
• Are there orange spots on the sheets that start to grow and become more red? This is another type of fungal infection - red spotting. For prevention, spraying with a solution of copper sulfate (1%) should be done. Various solutions are used to treat the plant after plum blossom.
• Plum mite is capable of destroying more than half of the crop. The tree begins to wither and eventually dies. The only measure to protect plums is to plant them away from almonds, peaches and other fruits that are also affected by this mite.
• Plum sawfly. To prevent the appearance of such a pest, you should dig up the ground under the trunk in the fall, and in the spring, before flowering, carry out treatment with special preparations.

Yields

The harvest of this variety is from fifteen to thirty kilograms from one tree. A decrease in volumes occurs only once every four years, because with such an interval the drain rests. The first harvest after planting is usually obtained from the fourth to the sixth year of life. In the 21st year from the date of planting, the plum ceases to bear fruit.

Frost resistance

The main disadvantage is the high sensitivity to winter frosts, the plum suffers greatly from this, therefore, in places where severe winter conditions are not grown.

But it is worth noting that the Utro plum variety recovers quite quickly. When cold weather sets in in the spring, the plum tree does not suffer from this.

Drought Tolerant

Irrigation should be done regularly, otherwise the fruits will fall prematurely due to lack of moisture, and therefore the yield will decrease.

Pollination

Morning is a completely self-fertile variety. No additional pollinators are needed. Interestingly, such a plum perfectly increases the yield of neighboring trees, thereby being a pollinator itself.

Positive and negative aspects of plum Morning

Dignity:

• High and stable yield.
• The look of plums encourages a quick sale.
• Sufficiently high resistance to parasites and diseases.
• Sweet fruits.
• Does not require pollination.

Flaws:

• The only important disadvantage is that it does not tolerate winter cold.

The subtleties of growing a tree

It is important to follow all planting guidelines.

Timing and choice of landing site

According to the timing of disembarkation, everything is simple:

• Sapling with a closed root system is recommended to be planted in the spring or in the first two months of the autumn season.
• When the roots are open, planting should be done in the spring, before bud break.

When choosing a place, pay attention to the soil. It should be loose enough, not hard as a rock.

The place should be:

• not shady but well exposed to sunlight;
• windless;
• on a flat surface so that moisture does not accumulate in large quantities.

When the conditions are met, the harvest will be rich and large.

The process and scheme of planting seedlings

Landing is recommended in the spring. The pit and soil for the seedling should be prepared in the fall. If this is not possible, wait about 20 days between preparing the hole and planting the seedling.

If the ground is very wet, you need to raise the hole by half a meter, and more. The size of the hole should be 60 by 60 cm.

When the soil contains a large amount of sand or clay, it should be fertilized with nutrients. For acidic soil, lime is added. Humus, potassium, wood ash are added to the first 20 cm of the excavated earth, then this mixture is added back to the hole, filling it 2/3.

It is better to purchase a seedling from one to two years old without visible damage to the trunk and rhizome. It is more favorable to plant a seedling with closed roots, so it receives less stress, and this can be done both in autumn and in spring. If the roots are open, then before planting in the soil they are immersed in water for up to a day.

Next steps:

• Further, a piece of wood is driven into the prepared hole from the south side, which will be a support for a young tree and protect it from burns.
• Then the seedling is placed. The root system must be evenly distributed in the soil.
• The roots are carefully sprinkled with earth, which must be compacted so that there are no air voids.
• Small sides are made around the trunk for easy watering.
• The seedling is tied to a piece of wood only with a soft cloth.
• Water abundantly. When water is absorbed, top with compost.

Nuances of culture care

If planting is carried out in autumn, leaving is postponed until spring. Spring seedling needs enhanced care.

Regularity of watering

Water the tree weekly in sufficient quantity. If there have been heavy rains, it is better to postpone irrigation in order to avoid rotting of the roots. Cold water cannot be watered, only warmed in the sun.

In an adult tree, the number of moisture is reduced. In any case, regardless of the age of the tree, it is necessary to prevent overdrying of the soil. If the ground is too damp or water has not been absorbed near the tree, watering should be abandoned. After irrigation, sawdust or freshly cut grass is added from above.

Fertilization

Feeding is good, but in moderation. When using various fertilizers during the planting process, nothing more needs to be added for the next two years.

After two years, fertilization should be regular:

• When flowering, top dressing with urea and potassium is added about 40 g.
• When fruits appear, 30 grams of urea and nitrophoska are added.
• After harvesting the fruit, it is better to fertilize the tree with potassium and superphosphate.

Before winter, it is better to flavor a fruit tree with organic fertilizers. The most common among them is manure. It's good to add wood ash and superphosphate there.

Cutting rules

The top of a young seedling is cut off during spring planting. And young trees are pruned to form a crown in spring and winter.

You need to remove branches with a sharp knife or saw. The cut points are treated with a garden solution. When pruning, a round crown should be formed. At the same time, branches damaged after wintering, that is, frostbitten or broken, are removed.

Stumps should not remain after the cut. The shoots near the roots need to be removed all summer so that it does not take away nutrients from the tree. Branches growing inwards and upwards are cut off.

Wintering plums

The young plant is covered with warm material, and the trunk must be protected with a net from rodents. Considering that Morning plum does not tolerate frost well, trees at any age must be carefully wrapped with warm material. And from young trees, you should shake off excess snow to avoid breakage of branches.

How to protect a plant from diseases and pests

Despite the fact that the Morning variety is resistant to parasites and disease, the plant can still get sick.

Prevention measures:

• Digging the ground around the trunk.
• Cleaning affected branches and fruits.
• Timely processing of trees

For more information about drugs for treatment, see above.

Collecting and storage rules

Fruits at the top should be removed with a ladder. It is impossible to bend the branches in order to avoid breaks and cracks in the shoots.

It is not recommended to collect fruits by shaking the tree. This will lead to the formation of cracks in ripe fruits, due to which they will lose their marketable appearance and deteriorate faster.

If plums are supposed to be used immediately for eating or processing into jam or jam, you need to pick ripe fruits. If plums are planned to be transported, then collect unripe fruits. But such fruits are stored in the refrigerator for two weeks, after which the sweetness is lost, and the plum becomes soft.

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