Garden of Colon Trees - a list of pros and cons
Dwarf garden - advantages and disadvantages
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I want to touch on the topic of "colon colonies".
Why do many summer residents bypassing them, having a small plot of land? I will try to explain to them that planting a dwarf garden is very profitable! In photo 1 - my dwarf garden, in which 10 apple trees and 5 pears grow in a small area 15 m long and 2 m wide.
What sorts of growing, I do not know, since my husband bought a kennel and threw out all the tags. First I will list what advantages the dwarf garden has.
See also: Growing Colon Fruit Trees - Planting and Care
Pros of Colon Trees
- In a small area you can plant many trees of different varieties.
- Located near the surface of the ground water is not terrible "column-vidkam."
- "Colonies" are more compact than early fruiting.
- They easily grow on poor soil: they are quite comfortable with a small fertile layer of land.
- Nothing needs to be cut, and you can harvest and spray without a ladder.
- With a superficial arrangement of the roots, drip irrigation can be used.
- Colonies have a high quality of fruits with simple care.
However, there are shortcomings in colonial trees, however small.
- They need a support: in strong winds, the tree swings and can bend or fall.
- They have a fragile root system, when digging out a large loss of roots.
- Regular watering is required, as the roots are located close to the surface.
- The fruit has a short peduncle. Unscheded apples often crumble, spraying with urea to strengthen the fruit stem results does not.
"Column-shaped" should stand like a column, and if side branches suddenly appeared, then you did something wrong. This is an ordinary tree, its internodes are simply shortened, and it will not take up much space in the garden. Colon-shaped apple trees have almost no lateral branches - the entire crop is formed on the central trunk.
See also: Colon-shaped trees - planting care and shaping
Plant the "column" tightly - at a distance of 60-80 cm (up to 1 m) from each other. In the first year, apple trees grow slowly, and the upper part does not ripen if the tree is not insulated for the winter. I did not warm, and as a result the tops were damaged by frost, and in the spring lateral branches began to grow instead of the tops.
I'd like you to take the strongest escape, and the rest to be removed, but I left it as it is, and my "Colonidae" lost their beautiful, slender appearance, turning into medium-unripe trees. Pruning was carried out only after two years. The main "column" is not touched, only shortened lateral shoots on 20 cm.
The value of the rootstock
In the market, the seller of seedlings will never tell about the shortcomings of their goods. But you are always interested in what the stock was used. It should be either dwarfish or quince, so that the tree does not bulge on 4 m. Not all sorts of "colonel" enter fruiting at 2-3 year, there are such that bear fruit through 4-5 years.
If it is bad to take care of or fertilize with manure from the heart, the "colony" begin to fatten - they grow up and do not bear fruit. Fertilizers must be applied to a depth of 20 cm. Colon-shaped trees are ill with the same diseases as ordinary ones. They can also bear fruit periodically, in this case, you need to remove the extra flowers manually.
Do not forget that the behavior of the "colon colonies" depends on the stock. On the dwarf rootstock they bear fruit abundantly for years. At the present "kolonovidok" the root,
as a sponge, consists of thin roots, and lateral branches do not exceed 10-15. See. The annual seedling grows only up to 70 cm. On a medium-tall tree, the tree grows to 4 m, and the branches grow to 1 m and bear fruit in a year. So, it is best to buy "kolonovidki" in the nursery.
If you constantly cut the lateral branches, the tip will turn into long tops. Now in the nurseries appeared sparrow varieties of apple trees, having shortened internodes. Such apple-trees do not grow very high, they require easy pruning and they bear fruit well every year. These are the future varieties of our gardens.
Colon-shaped pears (photo 2) also do not have side branches, do not require trimming, their trunks are strewn with short rings. which in the summer are covered with fruits. Unlike apple trees, they rarely get sick and bear fruit without periodicity through 2-3 years. If it is bad to take care of them, such diseases as bacteriosis, scab, fruit rot can also appear. For six years, my pears have never hurt, but the leaves of them blushed, and even yellowed.
If the leaves are red, do not panic. Redness of the foliage indicates a lack of phosphorus, waterlogging of the soil, excess lime in it or that aphids settled aphids, as well as the incompatibility of the scion with the stock. Leaves turn yellow in a few cases: excess or lack of nitrogen, excess or lack of moisture in the soil, chlorosis, virus. Yes, they really like to pear the pears: there is not enough iron in the soil. I advise you to treat iron sulfate three times with an interval of a week. But the leaves can turn yellow and from the virus, and this is bad: there is no cure.
By the way, there is a slight difference: if the leaves turn yellow at the edges - this is chlorosis, and if they start to turn yellow in the middle - a virus.
I hope, I convinced the summer residents in the undoubted benefits of the "Colonel".
© Author: Galina Ivanovna Shchekaleva st-tsa Petrovskaya Krasnodar Territory
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I have three questions for all gardeners at once.
10-12 years ago I planted several columnar apple trees, but they still barely bloom. He began to ask his acquaintances, and one of them explained this by the fact that at the time when I was buying seedlings, they did not know how to turn with apple-shaped trees, therefore they were made on tall rootstocks. That is why they do not bloom and do not bear fruit. Maybe there is another opinion on this? And is it possible to somehow bring trees stuck in childhood?
Recently, they began to write more often about gooseberries, and all the letters are very interesting. That's just about how to deal with such a pest as a fire spit, so far no one has told. And I just have bushes from this misfortune, I don’t know how to rid them of it. I was advised to do this: before the onset of cold weather, dig up the ground under the gooseberry so that the pests would die, and then cover it with cardboard so that the survivors would not come out in the spring. But in fact, there’s no sense in all this - gooseberries disappear. Please advise gardeners, gardeners, how to deal with the firebox?
I have long started to "slander" me and the quince: inside the fruit, when you cut it, everything is black, as if sootted out. What it is?
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In our region frosts are up to -36 degree in winter. Do you think I should grow columnar plums and pears (I'm concerned about the winter hardiness of these plants)? Or do not spend money and energy on this venture?
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The biological feature of apple trees is the absence of lateral branching. Existing varieties of other fruit plants, including plums and pears, do not possess such a biological structure. In other words, there are no columnar varieties of plum and pear!
And catalogs that colorfully paint the merits of the "columns" of pears and plums? Alas, this is just an advertisement. In fact, instead of columnar varieties, the potential buyer is offered varieties that have a narrow pyramidal crown and are capable of forming flower buds on the growth of the current year.