Plum Firefly

If you want a good tree with quality varieties to grow in your garden, then you should pay attention to the Firefly plum variety. The firefly plum has an excellent immune system, tolerance to diseases and pests affecting vegetation, is also resistant to the cold season. Thus, for a large yield, you need to know some criteria for planting and caring for plums.

Variety history

Firefly plum discovered from the varieties Volzhskaya krasavitsa and Eurasia twenty one. Everything happened at the I.V. Michurin. Breeders: L.E. Kursakova, G.A. Kursakov, R.E. Bogdanov, G.G. Nikiforov. The state test was passed in two thousand and four.

Plum Firefly: variety description and characteristics

Plum Firefly: photo

The yellow plum Firefly has practically no drawbacks, it is a beautiful attractive variety that tolerates frost calmly. Even beginners in their greenhouses can start growing it.

Wood

Plum tree Firefly is tall, about five meters in size, the crown is spreading, rounded, elongated. Branches are brown in color with a wine tint, slightly hairy, thin and straight.

The leaves are small, elongated, even, of a dark green color. The edges are slightly ribbed. The foliage is smooth, not rough, dense.

Stipules are medium, fly early from the tree. The cuttings are also small. Inflorescences of snow-white color.

Fruit

Plum fruits of the Firefly variety are large in size, round in shape, weighing about forty grams. the color is light yellow fruit, with a green tint. There is a small layer of plaque. The bone can be pulled out easily. The fruit is juicy, sweet with a sour taste, delicious smell.

The Firefly plum was given four and a half points in taste. The composition of the fruit: sugar - about thirteen percent, acidity - one percent, dry elements from fourteen and a half percent, ascorbin - six milligrams per hundred grams.

For a good harvest, you need to know everything about plums.

Cold season and drought tolerant

The yellow plum variety Firefly tolerates the cold season as well as the heat. Maximum frost tolerance up to minus twenty degrees. young shrubs are not strong enough to withstand severe frosts, so they are insulated for the winter.

The plum variety Firefly is also drought tolerant, but it is also worth keeping an eye on and can be irrigated once for ten or twelve days. When watering, make sure that there is no stagnation in the ground, otherwise the roots may begin to rot, and then the crop may become sick.

Disease and rodent tolerance

As we already know, the Firefly plum tolerates a large number of common diseases and is also resistant to pests, so this plum is often grown commercially, on a large scale. If you properly take care of the vegetation, then no diseases are terrible for it. Aphids are what in most cases infect a tree. Thus, the plant must be protected from insects with extreme precision, and ants also participate in the attack.

What is the fruiting of this variety

The plum variety Firefly cannot bear fruit on its own, therefore, for its yield, it is necessary to plant neighboring crops for pollination. The vegetation in the neighborhood should bloom and mature at the same time as the Firefly variety.

Plum Firefly: pollinators

Crops - pollinators for plum Firefly, which can be planted in the neighborhood:

• Renklode is fruitful;
• Lighthouse;
• Kolkhoz renklode.

Remember! The distance between them should be at least three meters. with such cultivation, the yield from one tree will be equal to twenty kilograms.

Inflorescence, amount of harvest

The inflorescence of the plum variety Firefly occurs at the end of spring. Fruiting occurs three or four years after planting. Fruiting for ten or fifteen years, lives about twenty-five years.

Plum variety Firefly bears fruit regularly, annually. In industrial gardens, workers collect about one hundred and twelve centners per hectare of land.

Yield

The fruit is consumed both fresh and boiled. They prepare compotes, preserves, jams, jam, and also add to desserts. Delivers carriage without losing its attractive appearance. For commercial purposes, it occupies the most honorable places.

Plum Firefly: how to plant?

Plum Firefly: photo

In order for the Firefly plum to give a large number of fruits, you need to know some criteria for planting it.

When and how to plant a Firefly plum depends on the climate. In the south, a plant is planted in the autumn, in the north, it is planted in the spring. The pit and soil should be prepared in advance.

Sapling selection

When you buy a seedling, look for it to be from one to two years old, and also look at the roots, they should be strong and healthy, without any injuries.

If the roots are dry, they can be put in a container of water for two or three hours to soak. Before planting, the roots are sprayed with a preparation to strengthen and develop the roots.

Choosing a place for growing

The site for planting plums of the Firefly variety should be light, clean, without gusts of wind. Do not plant the variety in the lowlands, there usually accumulates water after rain, fog. Stagnation will occur, the culture can rot and die. Therefore, it is better to plant on a hill. Also, keep an eye on the distance of groundwater, the gap should be about one hundred and fifty centimeters deep. Also, damp ground, such as coast, swamp is not suitable.

Landing algorithm

It is necessary to make a hole, the size in depth is about fifty centimeters, the length and width are seventy centimeters. The soil mixture is made from fertile soil, adding humus, potassium, superphosphate, and coal.

The first layer should be a drainage system. Then a layer of fertile land, make a small mound. Next, place the seedling so that the roots are straightened and do not cling to each other. If there are any large spaces in the pit, the soil should be compacted. The neck of the roots should be on the surface at a distance of five to seven centimeters from the ground.

Next, it is worth digging a near-trunk circle ten centimeters deep, pour in a sufficient amount of water there. Then add a layer of mulch, for example, you can use peat, manure or soil.

Plum firefly: care

Plum Firefly: photo

When leaving, the vegetation is not capricious, it is only necessary to huddle it, moisten it, nourish it with useful substances, fight diseases and insects that infect the culture.

Moistening and nourishing the soil

Attention! In the first years after planting, it is necessary to water the vegetation more often. As soon as the layer of earth dries up, moisten. During the development period in the summer, it is worth repeating three waterings, this must be done in the evening.

It is worth nourishing the soil once every three years. In the autumn, they feed with minerals, and also add when planting. It is also necessary to cut the herbs and put them in a circle around the tree, this will serve as mulching and nutrition for the variety.

Crown formation

It is worth cutting off the first branches in the second year of the seedling's life. This is done easily, in the same way. Every year it is necessary to cut off dry, diseased branches, those that grow towards the trunk of the tree. fresh wounds are treated with garden varnish.

How to properly care for the trunk circle

After moistening the soil, spud it a little, this will allow oxygen to reach the root system.cut off the growth, it interferes with the development of the variety. The trunk circle should be cleaned of overgrown grass, add water there, mulch by adding one bucket of manure there.

Fight against diseases and pests of plum varieties Firefly

The most relevant option for protecting trees from pests is whitewashing. Only pillars are whitewashed for aged trees, and whitewash is also added to the near-trunk circle. If you notice any symptoms of the disease, immediately spray them with special preparations. This is done before there is an inflorescence, then the ovary is carried out by a donkey.

It is also necessary to do one treatment with a Bordeaux solution, the leaves that have fallen off must be heaped and burned, this will save the culture from the accumulation of pests.

Preparing Firefly Plum for Winter

First of all, the trunk circle is dripped to a depth of about thirty centimeters, nutrients are added, for example, manure, charcoal, superphosphate. Also, the vegetation must be disinfected with Bordeaux solution. Before winter comes, the trunk circle is filled with thirty-five liters of water. And wrap the tree trunks with roofing material.

Plum Firefly: reviews of gardeners

• Ekaterina Vasilievna, Sverdlovsk region: “Growing Firefly plum is really easy! Fruiting is regular, it is important to watch the tree, take care of it, do not run it. I can give advice to novice gardeners: do not overdo it with disinfection and treatments. Because this can affect not only the trunk, shoots, but also the fruits. They can become saturated with chemicals. And then you yourself will eat this and you can harm yourself. "
• Tamara Grigorievna, Moscow region: “Firefly plum is a real find for me. In addition to the fact that it has very large and tasty fruits, the tree also has excellent resistance to frost and drought. There is one drawback - the Firefly plum is highly dependent on pollinators, so we had to plant a number of pollinating varieties "