Column-shaped pears - reviews of a professional gardener
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THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT COLUMN-shaped PEARS - MY REVIEWS
The issue of the acquisition of planting material has always been particularly acute. But recently, the number of claims to sellers is growing like a snowball. How not to make a mistake when choosing a variety, not to succumb to bright and colorful, but unfair advertising?
CAN YOU BUY COLUMN PEARS ON THE MARKET?
With the approach of spring one of the main concerns of the gardener becomes the acquisition of good, quality planting material. For many years I have been constantly studying the local markets, where visiting sellers offer a wide range of various seedlings. I am exploring with interest the assortment of various new-fashioned garden online stores, which send the planting material by mail to any corner of the country. On the one hand, it is very convenient, but on the other hand, there is always the risk of acquiring an expensive and absolutely useless seedling of extremely poor quality, often grown in the southern regions and completely unsuitable for local conditions.
In the spring, the collapses of various seedlings flaunt on the markets - you can buy anything you like, including species and varieties that in this area will not bring the proper harvest. I have repeatedly observed inspections of such sellers by employees of the Rosselkhoznadzor, who briefly looked through the submitted papers, returned them to the sellers and left without question.
After examining the plants I sold in the local market and finding out that I did not have certificates of conformity, the employees of the Rosselkhoznadzor stated that I have no right to sell them without documents. I explain that I am local, that for many years everyone has known me, that I, as an experienced gardener, carefully check all plants and varieties for breeding, study winter hardiness, disease resistance and potential yield in our conditions.
Useless. My arguments were deemed unconvincing and repeated again: there must be documents. Well, yes, according to the law, of course, they are right, but try to get the necessary documents in a small private farm! It is extremely difficult and costly.
The costs of their design are such that they exceed revenues from sales! And it turns out that it is better not to grow anything at all and not to offer for sale.
And most importantly, after checking the visiting sellers, I also approached them and asked them to show certificates of conformity for the plants being sold. And what would you think? There is only one answer: “The documentation is intended only for employees of the Rosselkhoznadzor, we are not obliged to show these documents to others.” Another option: “There are documents, but the boss has the documents, and the boss has left ...” For many years in the local markets I have never (!) Been able to see any documents for seedlings from visiting sellers.
Instead of documents, sellers of saplings of unknown origin often began to show certificates issued by the administration stating that they had land located in the nearest district where all the saplings on sale were grown. Such certificates are really issued, and it is easy to get them to people who sell God. How it's done? Find a needy family, in the use of which there is land, pay a small amount and draw up the necessary certificate. Everything is easy and simple. Except for one thing: such a certificate is completely useless and is not a document on seedlings. This is a purely symbolic piece of paper for the divorce of buyers.
What a real certificate of conformity for saplings looks like can be viewed on specialized websites or inquired from Rosselkhoznadzor employees. Nurseries that sell saplings always provide the necessary documents for review, and can also issue copies of them when purchasing planting material.
Wholesale buyers always have such copies of documents and when sold on the market at the request of the buyer must provide them. In addition, the documentation should be displayed in a prominent place for review.
See also: Garden of Colon Trees - a list of pros and cons
PEARS AND COLUMNS
Increasingly, columnar apple trees are widely advertised in the planting markets. On the colorful pictures of the tree, like sticks, of small stature, thickly plastered with large beautiful fruits; The impressive stories of sellers are so convincing that crowds of buyers acquire not cheap “supernew” varieties of columnar apple trees.
The most interesting thing is that they also offer columnar pears, which simply do not exist in nature. Online stores and advertisements in various print publications are literally full of elegant pictures with the image of a “miracle stick” hung with elegant pear fruits. Considering such photos and succumbing to the fabulous stories of the seller, people quickly buy up the imaginary novelties.
What is the result? Or the “miracle tree” turns out to be the most common, and under the guise of a wonderful “column” you have been handed a long-known tall variety - perhaps not even intended for cultivation in your region.
HOW TO "MAKE" YOUR HANDS A COLONOVID PEAR
The colorful photos of the “column-shaped pear” are actually a beautiful “sculpture” created by human hands.
It is done easily.
A strong, even stick is taken, beautiful pear fruits are attached to it with the help of ropes or scotch tape, and all this is decorated with artificial foliage. So, the “columnar tree” for the photo is ready, which is later used for advertising purposes. In this way, you can make any "columnar tree" - cherries, cherries, apricots, figs, you can even make columnar pineapples or watermelons!
It is also very common for sellers to confuse a gardener buyer, selling its dwarf varieties under the guise of a colon-shaped pear: annual shoots of dwarf varieties look very similar to columns, partly because of this, and there is either confusion, or (mostly) conscious deception with the goal is to make good money on the credulity of the gardener.
See also: Colonic trees - cons and my feedback on cultivation
COLONOVID PEARS ARE NOT
Now we clearly know that there are no colony pears, but what kind of dwarf varieties and what they are good, let's see. Dwarf pear varieties have a small growth force, form a low crown on a common stock (should not be confused with varieties grafted on rootstocks such as quince, hawthorn, irgi!) And give the graft a compact crown size.
You can often find the English dwarf variety Nayt Vert, but it has not only dwarf growth, but also small nondescript fruits of mediocre taste. In addition, this variety is not winter hardy in our climate. On the basis of this variety, the British received samples of dwarf pear forms with the best qualities of fruits, but they still have low winter hardiness.
The most suitable variety with a compact crown can be considered the Carmen variety, it successfully grows at the latitude of the Tambov region, we planted this variety in the crown of a winter-hardy sample to study in our area, but, unfortunately, it froze out in the frosty winter. There is an old folk variety Stencil, the shape of a crown resembling a Colo-shaped Apple tree, but its growth power is the same as that of ordinary varieties. Dwarf tree from it does not work, and the taste of the fruit, frankly, low.
Breeding is carried out in Russia, the first samples of dwarf forms are named G-1, G-2, etc. Their plantings are studied in the southern regions, and during the observations revealed their insufficient winter hardiness. You can grow them only on the latitude of the Caucasus.
Of course, the selection does not stand still, new models are created, more winter-hardy, but in the implementation, especially mass, they are not. Therefore, all sentences like “kolonovidnye, superrozhaynye or dwarf varieties of pears” boldly throw aside!
I do not advise you to visit trade points with such planting material and, moreover, to buy something in them.
© Author: Alexander LUKSHIN. with. Spruce forests. Mordovia.
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Do not look for pears - “columns”: while there are none!
Compact columnar apple trees, of course, won the sympathy of summer residents. Therefore, it is not surprising that gardeners willingly acquire “columnar” pears in the markets. But their enthusiastic expectations are replaced by disappointment - the trees die ...
Where did the rumors about the “columnar” pear come from? Yes, in nature there are those whose shape resembles a columnar apple tree, for example, a pear of the Voskovka variety. Only her growth power is the same as that of an ordinary pear. And the taste of the fruit is mediocre. As, however, the dwarf pear varieties Night Wert, which has long been known in Europe.
Specialists of our experimental breeding nursery, using pollen from the best English dwarf pears and plants of southern domestic varieties, also received interesting hybrids. These are small trees with a rounded crown and dense foliage, the height of which is from 0,8 to 1,3 m. Beare fruiting in the first year after planting. Annual seedlings of such a pear are very similar to
seedlings of a columnar apple tree. This was used by unscrupulous businessmen who stole hybrids cuttings, propagate them and pass them off as “columns”, although they do not know the names of the varieties or the quality of the fruits. Our tests showed that such plants have a long growth period, which is why they only manage to prepare for winter in the southern regions (and not everywhere!). Nevertheless, the selection does not stand still: the first winter-hardy dwarf pears with good fruits have already been bred. But for consumers they will be available no earlier than in a few years. In the meantime, do not believe the colorful advertising on the Internet and do not buy "columnar" pears!
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Colony-shaped pears, plums, apricots - a myth or not?
Column-shaped apple trees have long been popular among gardeners. Having appreciated all the advantages of a compact productive tree with tasty fruits, summer residents with excitement look for other fruit trees of the same shape.
It is known that demand creates supply. Here are unscrupulous manufacturers and sellers and began to offer seedlings of allegedly columnar pears, apricots, peaches, plums, and even sweet cherries. And the Internet is filled with beautiful photos of the "columns" for every taste. If you are looking for such a “novelty”, you will have to be disappointed: besides the column-like apple tree, there are no column-like plants among the fruit crops! There are separate dwarf, bush forms. But the columnar plants, again, no! Do not look for them!
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Maybe someone knows how to wean a pear blossom in mid-July? In the spring does not bloom, and in the summer of fruit, of course, I do not see. By the way, last year one woman sent me strawberry seeds Elizabeth II. I promised her the seeds of irgi, but I forgot the address. I'm already 75 years old, the memory fails.
I hope that she will call me and I will send the seeds. I sowed the seeds and grown strawberries, but without stratification. At the end of May she planted cabbage, and in the nursery on the street she ground the ground and sowed the seeds sent. Covered the film and all. Strawberries rose very thick. So it can be grown without stratification?
Galina KULAGINA