Plum sorts

Among the fruit stone fruit trees, the plum is found in country cottages and near-home plots quite often. Now there is a large number of varieties of this fruit, differing in appearance and taste. In order to determine which type of plum is best planted, you should familiarize yourself with the description of the characteristic features of all major groups. Most often, the ripening of the crop is of great importance, so all varieties are divided into early, mid-ripening and late.

Early plum varieties

Those are those that bear fruit until 10 August. Also, a group of super-early ones is already singled out, from which it is possible to harvest in July.

• "Scarlet Sails";
• "The Altai Jubilee";
• "Melon";
• "Golden Ball" - supernumerary;
• "The July Rose";
• "July" - supernumerary;
• "Kyrgyz excellent" - large;
• "The Red Ball";
• "Ksenia";
• "Early Kuban";
• " Honey white ";
• "Opal";
• "Record";
• Early- stage ;
• "Karlishev's Renovide";
• "Fast-growing";
• Timoshka.

Separately, we should talk about the variety of large plums, assigned to this group, called "Alenushka." It belongs to the Chinese representatives of this fruit tree. The peculiarity of this plum is: a low tree with a spherical crown, leaves strongly similar to a peach, round fruit with a sweet soft flesh and a bone that is not separating from it.

Varieties of average maturity

With the representatives of this group, the harvest can be shot from 10 to 25 August.

• "Ballad";
• Valor;
• "Voloshka";
• "Eurasia 21";
• "Abundant";
• "The Blue Gift";
• "Altanka's Relcod";
• "Hollywood";
• "Yellow compote";
• "Red-cheeked";
• "Peresvet";
• Red Hart;
• "Huck";
• Croman;
• "Egg Blue";
• "Hungarian Belarusian";
• "Comet";
• "Souvenir of the East";
• "Memory to Vavilov";
• "Duce" (also called "Duce" and "Dyuga");
• "The beauty of Orlovschiny."

"Romain" - a variety of red plum, in which not only the flesh of the fruit has this color, but also the leaves. The berry berry grows small, heart-shaped, with an unusual almond flavor. Happened from the popular variety "Krasnoyasaya".

Late plum varieties

They include varieties that bear fruit from August 25 to mid-September.

• "Anna Shpet";
• Valor;
• "Hungarian Italian";
• "General";
• "The Golden Drop";
• "Red-nosed";
• "Avalanche";
• "Nizhny Novgorod";
• "The Manchurian Beauty";
• "Memory of Timiryazev";
• "Michurinsky's Rekklod";
• "Stanley";
• "Svetlana" - yellow;
• "Turn sweet";
• "Prunes 4-39TCHA";
• "Tula Black";
• "Lada";
• "Seaside Seaside";
• "Altanka's Relcod";
• "Canadian Vision" - ripens only by the middle of September (from 15 to 20 hours).

For gardeners, especially those involved in trade, the size of the berry is very important, so they prefer to plant large varieties of plums:

• "Amers";
• "Vision";
• "The General";
• "Beloved Mliyeva";
• "Volga beauty" - red;
• "Belarusian".

Self-fertilized varieties

Also very popular are the self-fertilized varieties of plum, since then it will not be necessary to plant a plant in the garden, a pollinator, the harvest will be in any case. These include:

• "Ripening red" - early;
• "The Red Ball";
• "Morning";
• "The Blue Gift";
• "The Hungarian Moscow";
• "Perdrigon";
• Mara;
• "The Kuban comet".

Many species of this fruit tree are already known to gardeners for many decades, but breeders, trying to find the most successful variant of taste and winter hardiness, create new sweet varieties of plum every year.

It should be noted that it is very important to choose a variety based on the weather conditions of the region where you live. After all, in the northern regions there are not enough warm days to grow late-ripening varieties, it is also necessary to take into account the resistance of the tree to unfavorable factors.

A properly selected plum variety is the first step to a good and stable crop.