This gardener enthusiastically tries to grow new and rare varieties of garden crops, thereby checking their capabilities and satisfying the desire for a new one. So, for example, the colon-shaped pear is considered unusual. It was deduced by the scientist Kachalkin as a dwarf subspecies of a pear.
Colon-shaped pear is extremely popular among gardeners due to its compact size. The small and short trunk of a tree is usually crowned with several fruit formations of shortened length - with drizzards, which, with the approach of autumn colds, are covered with fruits. Thus, there are no branches at the trees, which means that the column-shaped pear needs a very small space in the garden. In addition, the unusual seedling does not require pruning. That is why this fruit tree is so in demand. But in order to obtain a guaranteed crop, the owner of the site will need knowledge about the peculiarities of care for the column-shaped pears.
Varieties of the Column Pear
Varieties of columnar pears are not that many. So, for example, the fruits of the variety Decora ripen in August. They have a reddish color and a pleasant sweet-sour taste. Sapphire seedlings are characterized by winter hardiness. Juicy pear fruits are greenish-yellow. Pear Colon Honey gives delicious yellow fruits with a wonderful aroma. The creator of dwarf pears identified five varieties:
- G 1 - winter seedlings. Their fruits are yellow, bumpy with a tender flesh.
- G 2 - late-autumn trees. Their fruits, ripening late in the autumn, are greenish-brown, sweet, bumpy.
- G 3 is characterized as an early-autumn variety of trees that carry large bright yellow fruits.
- Г 4 - pear-shaped autumnal with wide large fruits.
- G 5 - yellow-brown fruits in trees belonging to the summer-autumn variety of colon-shaped pears. Their fruits have a wonderful taste and aroma.
Planting of Column Pears
It is best to plant one-year seedlings of a colon-shaped pear, which tolerate a transplant better. The optimal time for planting is until the middle of October in the autumn and in April in the spring. The tree planting scheme can be dense. The optimal distance between the pits is 40-50 cm. It is better to dig the planting holes in advance - for 2 weeks. The depth of the pit should reach about 80 cm, and the diameter - 60 cm at the bottom of each pit, pour on a bucket of humus or compost, as well as a bucket of sand. Before landing at the bottom of the pit, pour a bucket of water and only then put a seedling in it. Its roots need to be straightened neatly. Then dug up the ground in two steps, each time trampling. In the end, the ground around the trunk is watered.
Care for the Column Pear
For a column-shaped pear, it is important not to allow drying. Do watering the trees better every three to four days. If
In the first year, the tree of a colon-shaped pear tree will not give you a full-fledged harvest. But she probably will have inflorescences. Here it is better to remove them, so that the forces of the seedlings are not wasted, but contribute to a better rooting. A year later the flowers can not be removed, and then a few fruits will appear on the tree. Their number will increase every year. By the way, fruit bearing in the columnar pears lasts about 15-17 years.
Periodically feed pears with fertilizers - in the spring and in the middle of July. Use chicken manure, humus, saltpeter or urea. From time to time we recommend spraying trees with solutions from pests and diseases.
For the winter, the lower part of the tree of the columnar pear should be sheltered from frost.