Pear Victoria

Pear Victoria is known from the territory of the North Caucasus, as well as from regions of Ukraine, this variety is a hybrid. Its creators "Fat Runner" and "Bere Bosc". The discoverers of the station are scientists in Melitopolia, the head is A. Avramenko. Since one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three, the Victoria pear variety has been added to the State Register.

Pear Victoria: variety description and characteristics

Pear Victoria: photo of the variety

Pear Victoria ripens in late summer, early autumn. The tree begins to bear fruit six years after planting. The tree blooms in June, when there can be no frost. The weather cannot influence the development of culture in any way. The Victoria pear variety is grown in large quantities and yields are high. From one variety, the pear got - the tolerance of the cold season, and from the other - the quality of the fruit.

• The size of the tree can grow up to five meters, the crown is scattered, not dense, rounded in shape, in the form of a trapezoid. The bark of the tree acquires a brown color, young branches of a wine-colored color, as soon as a year of their formation has passed, become brown, like the whole tree.
• Emerald leaves, smooth, rounded, elongated. On young twigs, the leaves are brown with a reddish overflow, after a while they become in color, like all other leaves.
• Inflorescence and vegetation - this happens at the end of spring. The inflorescence is regular, small snow-white buds appear, ringed cultivation. Inflorescences are formed until the fruits begin to grow. Do not fall off. The development of ovaries is one hundred percent.

Important! Pear Victoria is suitable for cultivation in the southern area. In Europe, the center of Russia, it is impossible to grow this variety.

• DESCRIPTION OF FRUITS

Because of its quality, the Victoria pear variety is included in the dessert varieties. There are very few such varieties; when ripe, they do not have seeds. The crop can be harvested in September, the fruit can lay for a sufficient amount of time. The culture itself is not dense, it is practically not cooked, but eaten fresh.

Appearance characteristics:

• The shape of the pear is good, no complaints, symmetry.
• The fruit stem is either straight or curved.
• Usually large fruits grow up to two hundred and sixty grams, but also small ones from one hundred and fifty-five grams.
• The skin is glossy, initially has a greenish color with brown spots, then the color changes to yellow, the spots become darker.
• Blush is only on one half of the pear.
• The skin is smooth, without cracks.
• The contents are juicy, smells delicious, no granules, soft.
• It tastes sweet, with a sour aftertaste.
• The fruit is firmly attached to the stem and cannot fall from the tree.

Attention! In order for Victoria pears to lie for a large amount of time, they are placed in a refrigerator or in a cellar, where the temperature is about plus five degrees.

Pear Victoria: advantages and disadvantages

Pear Victoria: photo of the variety

The Victoria pear is grown for production purposes, sales, and also for its own use. pros culture:

• Regular and large harvest.
• High quality.
• Served appearance.
• Cold season tolerance.
• Drought tolerance.
• Tolerance of scab and rodent disease.
• Can lie down for a sufficient amount of time after collection.

To the disadvantages includes a decrease in glucose if there is not enough light for the cultures. And the fruit will taste sour.

Pear Victoria: planting varieties

As we already know, the Victoria pear variety was bred in the north of the Caucasus, in the territory of Ukraine, and is also planted in Belarus. This variety is planted in the south. It tolerates frost, but weakly, therefore, it is not recommended to plant this variety in northern and European territories.

The yield is increased if everything is suitable for the crop according to the conditions, and the correct maintenance of the land is carried out. The tree also needs light. If you grow the fruit in the shade, you can get a small fruit and taste of acid. Young branches are fragile, long, regular inflorescence, but some buds may fall off.

It is best to plant a pear in the south or east of the site, you also need to make sure that there are no strong gusts of wind.

The soil should be sandy or clayey, you can connect. If there are no options, then you need to plant acidic soil, in September add lime or flour to the soil. This fruit can tolerate drought, but there is no stagnation in the soil. It is forbidden to plant a crop in lowlands, since in these places there is a constant accumulation of moisture, it is still impossible to plant in coastal areas.

• HOW TO PLANT AND CARE THE CULTURE CORRECTLY?

The planting time for the Victoria pear variety is spring or autumn. The fruit should be grown specifically in the southern territories, so seedlings are not planted so often in spring. Seedlings are planted more often in the fall, twenty-one days before frost, this is about mid-autumn.

Saplings should be chosen with strong and healthy roots. Before planting, all shoots with errors are cut off. Bushes should be smooth, dark, free of cracks or any other imperfections, should be dense at a distance above the roots.

• HOW TO PLANT IT CORRECTLY?

The size of the holes should be ninety by eighty centimeters. You need to dig it seven days before planting. The soil should be saturated with nutrients, consist of sand, humus. Potassium and phosphorus are also added. The roots are left to soak for three hours in the Epin mixture, which helps the roots develop.

Planting pear varieties Victoria alternately:

• In order for the seedling to stand upright, a support is added, it is driven straight into the hole.
• The first layer should be a fertile mixture with organic matter.
• Set the seedling so that the roots are conveniently located at a depth. If, before planting, the seedling was grown in a pot, then it is transplanted with a lump of earth from the pot, placed strictly in the middle of the pit.
• Fill the pit with fertile soil.
• Tied to a peg, compact the soil.
• Moisturize.

Attention! The neck of the roots should be at the level of the soil.

Pear Victoria: variety care

Pear Victoria: photo of the variety

• HYDRATION AND NUTRITION

Pear Victoria gives its first fruits only six years after planting. After planting, there is no need to feed the seedling. Moisten the soil once a month during drought. Does not require watering when there is heavy rainfall.

You need to feed the Victoria pear variety when it blooms, use saltpeter or urea. As soon as the fruits begin to develop, they are nourished with Kaphorom K, and when the fruits ripen, they are fed with magnesium sulfate. Before the winter period, they weed the ground around the tree, remove weeds, nourish, insulate. To remove the acid, you should water the soil with lime, one watering every four years.

• SHEAR

The cut should be done in the spring, after planting in the fall. Usually one third of the branch is cut off. Next, the branches of the crown are cut to rejuvenate it:

• The branches are cut from the bottom so that they turn out to be horizontal, so they are tied up in this position. Enter the first skeletal circle.
• Then, in the spring, they are reduced by one fourth, the upper branches are broken in the fall.
• Next, the skeletal circle is made from a pair of branches, they are cut off shorter than the previous one.
• The third skeletal circle of three branches, they are cut off, like the rest.

In five years, the crown of the tree will be rounded in the form of a trapezoid. You do not need to cut a large number of branches anymore.In the spring, dry branches are cut off, preventive work is carried out against diseases and insects.

• HOW IS IT CORRECT TO WHITEN WOOD AND WHY?

The time of the procedure is spring and autumn, whitewash at a distance of one hundred centimeters from the soil. Lime, acrylic or water emulsion is used. Such a procedure is considered a preventive measure for the culture. Because insect larvae, rodents, and fungus appear in the tree for the winter. Another advantage in the whitening process is protection from direct sunlight.

• WINTER TRANSITION

The Victoria pear variety is usually grown in areas with a good warm climate, the variety can safely endure the winter, since it was laid in it from planting. Thus, a young tree is not mulched. If during the growing period there is a small amount of precipitation, then the tree should be moistened; mulch, sawdust, peat and foliage are also added to the soil.

• • PEAR POLLINATORS VICTORIA

Male and female inflorescences grow on this tree. The Victoria pear variety can be grown without neighboring crops. But you can also raise the crop several times. If you plant next to similar varieties, which have an inflorescence at almost the same time. For example, "Vienne's Triumph" or "Williams Red".

• HARVESTING

After opening, the inflorescences do not fall off, and also remain on the tree. Also, the ovaries do not disappear, they ripen to the end. When growing a variety in an open place where the sun is constantly shining, the yield can be up to one hundred and sixty kilograms, it can also be higher than about one hundred and eighty kilograms, this can be with a warm, without rain, summer season.

Diseases and pests

Pear Victoria: photo of the variety

The most dangerous enemy for a tree is scab, but this species suffers such a disease. But there are also those that affect this culture:

• Moniliosis - Symptoms: gray spots on the fruit, then the fruit rots. Infected fruits hang on the tree, therefore, healthy fruits intercept the infection. To combat this disease, first of all, infectious pears are harvested.
• Powdery mildew - a grayish bloom appears on the whole tree. For protection, diseased branches are cut, the tree is cleaned with special preparations, for example, "Sulfite" or "Fundazol".
• Black cancer - can be found less often, the symptom is corrosion. If you do not start to treat, then the disease will pass from the trunk to the branches of the crown. Therefore, the tree should be sprayed with special solutions that contain copper. In the autumn, leaves and branches are burning.
• Pests - there are not so many of them in this culture. If a brown fruit mite appears, then the drug "Oleocobrite" will help you, this should be done in the spring. In the summer season, the variety is disinfected with coloid sulfur, as well as "Akartan". Galitsa also appears on the leaves, it is removed with the help of Zolonoma, Nexionoma, and also Karbofosom.

Pear Victoria: reviews of gardeners

Petrov Sergey Igorevich, forty-one years old, City of Kostroma

“We have planted several trees on the site, now we are pleased with Victoria pear with its harvest. The variety had been developing for about seven years, I was sure that it would not give any fruit. As a result, I collected about a hundred kilograms. It tastes very sweet, there is a sour aftertaste, but this adds juiciness to it. This is the only seedless crop I grow. My tree has never had a disease, because every spring my wife and I disinfect the tree with copper sulfate. "

Sergeeva Vitalina Dmitrievna, fifty-six years old, city of Sevastopol

“Pear Victoria is my favorite culture in the country. Fruits ripen very tasty, sweet. I collect them at the end of summer, then I keep them in the cellar until winter. I do not cook canned fruit from fruit, because it turns out to be a strong liquid. Eat fresh, or make juice, leave it until the new year. The pear variety Victoria was planted under our weather conditions, tolerates the winter period, as well as heat and drought. We collect a large harvest, the inflorescences do not fly. "

Outcome

This article tells everything about the Victoria pear variety, you can analyze which type is right for you. Pear Victoria is suitable for dry places, the quality is excellent, it tolerates diseases, as well as insects that infect the pear. The variety does not need special care.