Pear Honey is highly appreciated by gardeners. It combines good yield, early fruiting, excellent taste, winter hardiness, transportability.

Full characteristics of honey pears

This is an achievement of breeders of the Crimea, the variety was obtained in the last century. Got spread in the Crimea, but is also grown in the North Caucasus. Trees reach a height of 2 m. Coloniform pear Medovaya has a typical crown shape. It is characterized by early fruiting. As early as the third year after planting, the first crop can be harvested, although a 5-year period is considered the normal onset of fruit appearance. Trees bear fruit annually, the collection from one tree is up to 35 kg.

Pear Honey

It is interesting: residents of Russia are often confused in the names of varieties and use common names, so you can hear the name Crimean honey pear. This is not quite the correct name; when using it, problems with finding a seedling may arise.

The fruits have a characteristic green-yellow color with a brownish blush on the side, the weight of each pear reaches 400 - 500 g. The peel of this variety is thin and smooth. Each pear contains in terms of 100 g of weight:

  • 6 mg of vitamin C;
  • organic acids - 0.15%;
  • a large amount of minerals.

The variety is distinguished by good vitality, resistance to weather conditions, diseases and garden pests. Therefore, the description of the honey pear is of interest to many gardeners and summer residents.

It should be noted that the variety has an interesting variety: the honey-leafed pear. It decorates the garden in its own way, because the peculiarity of the variety is the peculiar color of the leaves.

The pulp is juicy, sweet taste, with a subtle

Agrotechnics

Plum Honey

Fruiting is in direct proportion to the growing conditions. The cultivation process consists of several stages:

  • starts with preparing the place, creating conditions for growth;
  • direct planting of a seedling;
  • constant care of the plant.

The landing pit is being prepared in advance. Its dimensions should correspond to the pear tree. For a developed seedling, you need a seat with a diameter of 80 cm and a depth of up to 1 m.A young seedling needs a hole of 0.5 mx 0.8 m.

Planting pears

A tree planted according to the rules will give a good result. The landing rules are pretty simple:

  • Work begins with the preparation of the seedling. Strong roots are cut off by 10 cm and the top of the plant is exposed. The prepared seedling looks like a stick about 75 cm high, bare from branches and roots. It is soaked in water for 1 hour.
  • Soil fertility is of no small importance. The top layer of earth, which is dug out during the preparation of the pit, must be mixed with ash in a 1: 1 ratio, pour the mixture with water to obtain a substance of dense creamy density.
  • A half-meter peg is driven into the center of the pit. In the future, it will serve as a support.
  • Then the recess must be filled with a prepared mixture of the top layer of soil with wood ash and sprinkled on top with earth. This is necessary to provide nutrition to the root system for an extended period of time.
  • A pear tree is planted on a mound of fertile land, on the north side of the peg. At the same time, it is important not to deepen the seedling - the root collar should be left 5-6 cm above the ground level.

Important! Some gardeners recommend laying a dozen raw eggs on the loosened bottom of the planting pit. Soon after planting, they will start to rot and provide the root system with nutrients.

  • Around the young seedling, the hole is filled with the remaining excavated earth, carefully tamping each layer so that no voids remain in the ground.
  • The trunk is tied to a wooden peg.
  • The seedling will need a lot of water, so the planting site is thoroughly watered. After completing all the necessary actions, the earth around the trunk is mulched. Needles, compost, peat, sawdust, paper are used as mulch.

Fruit and vegetative buds of Honey pear do not bloom simultaneously, vegetative buds lag behind for several days. One of the conditions for budding is the average daily temperature (not lower than 6 ° C). The roots grow at the same temperature, their most intensive growth occurs under temperature conditions from 10 ° C to 20 ° C.

Preparation of seedlings

Pear blossoms begin a little earlier than apple trees (approximately 4 days), this period falls on the end of May and the beginning of June. Between the beginning of budding and flowering, the time interval is from half a month to a month. Flowering begins when the temperature reaches 15 ° C - 18 ° C. Weather conditions affect flowering duration. For the formation of ovaries varieties pear Honey pollinators are needed. Hot dry weather promotes rapid flowering (3 - 5 days), cold and damp weather keeps flowering up to 2 weeks or more. Late spring frosts provoke the formation of brown spots and rings on the fruits. Simultaneously with the flowering period, the increased growth of shoots coincides, which ends with the formation of a bud at the top of the shoot.

Note! The growth of a pear is accelerated if the rowan of the Nevezhinsky variety grows nearby.

How to care for a young pear

Apple Honey

In the first year after planting, the tree grows weakly and does not require crown pruning. Starting from the second year, in spring and summer, branches that were damaged in winter (they are without leaves) are necessarily cut off.

Many vital processes of the fruit tree are directly related to pruning a pear. If done correctly, it contributes to:

  • abundant development of fruits;
  • further plant growth;
  • the formation of a solid wood skeleton;
  • unimpeded access during harvesting and wood processing.

The crown of the pear is formed in such a way that a few fruiting branches remain. With inconsistent or poor-quality pruning, the crown becomes denser, and the tree is forced to give up the strength of the young growing shoots. Therefore, the yield decreases, and the fruits become smaller.

Timely pruning of branches has a beneficial effect on the growth of neighboring fruit trees and shrubs, because the spreading pear does not block them from sunlight.

Pruning pear branches

A plant cannot live and develop without water. The first years of life, before the first fruiting, requires watering once a week in a volume of 10 liters of water. During the period of fruit growth per 1 sq. m of near-barrel area needs 20 liters of water. After watering, it is recommended to mulch wet soil with organic matter, for example, straw. This agrotechnical technique allows you to retain moisture.

Feeding pears begin from the second year after planting in a permanent place. Feeding is carried out in stages:

  1. During the flowering of the pear tree.
  2. After the end of flowering, a summer care cycle is carried out.
  3. In autumn, plants are fed in the month of October. The last autumn feeding is linked to the end of the harvest.

Note! The first stage is characterized by nitrogen fertilization. The second stage requires nitroammophoska in a dissolved state. The third periods correspond to phosphorus feed. The final top dressing before frost is expressed in digging the soil, combined with fertilizing it with wood ash.

On the advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Pumpkin Honey

Pear Honey has several significant advantages:

  • high winter hardiness - fruit trees safely tolerate negative temperatures down to -25 ° С;
  • immunity to fungal diseases and other diseases;
  • gives consistently high yields;
  • it has good consumer properties - excellent relish with a characteristic honey aftertaste;
  • fast-growing variety;
  • when transported over long distances, it shows a good preservation of fruit quality.

Pear fruits do not crumble. Harvesting is easy.

The disadvantages of the Medovaya variety are expressed in claims about fruit heterogeneity (heterogeneous fruits are formed from a large number of ovaries, some of them weigh 500 g, and some - 2 times less than 250 g). With high yields, resistance to temperature extremes decreases.

Columnar Honey Pear

Column-shaped honey pear can become a decoration of any garden. Having bought such a variety, the gardener will be able to grow several fruit trees even in a small summer cottage. Of course, many are scared off by the short lifespan of the tree (10 - 15 years), but this disadvantage is more than compensated for by the quality of pears. In general, we can confidently say that the Honey pear, including all its varieties (columnar, Medoc pear), is excellent for cultivation in individual plots.