Plum, apricot and peach hybrids: names and descriptions of new fruits

Growing fruit trees in your garden is a fascinating and rewarding activity. The more labor you invest, the better the harvest will be.Plum, apricot, peach, apple, cherry plum, nectarine - all these fruits, like many others, are tasty and healthy. But many gardeners prefer not just to plant traditional seedlings, but to place hybrids on their plots, for example, plums, apricots and peaches, after having previously studied the names and descriptions of new fruits.

Over the years, breeders have been trying to develop different varieties of hybrids in order to improve the quality of fruits, make them more resistant to aggressive environmental factors and pests that are easier to maintain and discover new unusual tastes. When creating a new hybrid mix two or more cultures. Here are some of them that may not be familiar to all consumers, but they are widely known to gardeners who know a lot about fruit trees and keep track of all the new products that appear in this area.

• Hybrid apricot plum is of two types: aprium and ploot. Aprium is two thirds apricot and one third plum. The flesh of the fruit is not as juicy as the apricot, but more dense. The surface, unlike velvety apricot, is smooth. Fruits are sweet due to their high fructose content. On the contrary, the main role is played by the drain. And the appearance is similar to this fruit, and the taste is more apricot. The description of the fruit suggests that its flesh is red and juicy, and the surface has a purple or pink tint, maybe green. This hybrid, in turn, has more than ten varieties.

• Plum, crossed with peach, is called plum nectarine. Its flesh has a yellow color, is rather dense and very easily moves away from the stone. The fruit itself is round and looks like a peach, but unlike it has a smooth skin.

• An apple paired with a peach forms apple nectarine. It is very juicy and has a flesh of white or beige color. In size, this species is smaller than plum. The peel has a pink tint and glossy shine.

• A hybrid with an interesting name sharafuga occurred immediately from three fruits: peach, apricot and plum. The color of the fruit is taken from the plums, the shape is from the apricot, and the size is from the peach. The pulp of a sharafuga is usually sweet and juicy, and in taste you can catch the hints of plum and apricot.

Learn more about the characteristics of plum, crossed with peach, you will learn from the following video.

Before planting hybrids of fruit trees on your site, it will be useful to read the reviews of those who have been engaged in similar experiments for a long time and know a lot about the pros and cons of different varieties.

The advantages of gardeners include:

• beautiful fruit appearance;
• high yield;
• self-pollination;
• pests and disease affect them much less frequently than ordinary fruit trees;
• unusual and interesting flavors.

But with all the positive qualities there are also disadvantages:

• seeds from a hybrid cannot be obtained;
• Trees have their own characteristics in terms of cultivation, and you need to adapt to them;
• the soil is needed fertile, which requires regular feeding, otherwise the crop will be bad;
• hybrids have a negative attitude towards both cloudy and cool weather, as well as excessive heat and the sun - we need a middle ground;
• abrupt changes in temperature can cause death for the tree;
• seedlings of hybrid crops have a higher cost than ordinary fruit trees.

When planting hybrids, it is necessary to take into account the particularities of each particular tree, but there are also general rules of planting and care that can combine them.

Gardeners who have experience in growing these crops planted hybrids usually in early spring, but in those regions where weather conditions allow. This gives them the opportunity for quite a long period to get used to the climatic conditions, to settle down before the onset of cold weather.

Before planting trees, you need to know how deep the groundwater flows: they must be at a depth of at least 1.5 meters.

For hybrids, it is necessary to choose even elevated places, which will prevent the accumulation of precipitation and melt water. Days 10 days before landing you need to dig a hole to a depth of at least 70 centimeters and with the same width.

For hybrids suitable neutral or alkaline soil. It must be well digged and fertilized, including compost in the amount of two buckets, superphosphate - 60–80 grams, potassium - 30–50 grams. If the acidity of the soil is increased, then it needs to add lime in the amount of 300 grams per 1 square meter.

The roots of the seedling gently straighten, then sprinkle with earth, compact the first layer, then supplement the pit with soil and again gently tamp. Then watered well. Experienced gardeners recommend immediately mulch the soil, which will help to retain moisture longer. This is especially true for sunny days.

Hybrids are those trees that are not without fertilizing, and you need to do it all the time. Early spring is the time when the soil should be supplied with nitrogenous fertilizers. Urea or ammonium nitrate is usually used for this: at least 25 grams per 1 square meter.

After the trees have bloomed, they need foliar application. Some gardeners use for this purpose such a composition as "Kemira Universal". After a period of 10 days, the procedure is repeated and fertilizer is applied again through the same interval. The interval between fertilization may be 15 days, as long as it is the same.

In autumn, they dig up the ground, add humus, compost or manure in the amount of 2 buckets under each tree.

With the diseases and pests in hybrid trees, the situation is much better than in normal ones. They endure their attacks. Therefore, preventive pest control procedures are not required. It is necessary only in time to make sanitary pruning and whitening tree trunks.

Excessive moisture and excessive drought have a detrimental effect on hybrids. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an individual irrigation regime and at the same time take into account the peculiarities of the climate, the amount of precipitation and other factors.