If you decide to plant in your garden plum varieties "Kroman", you should get acquainted with the main features this variety plums.
From the right care of trees directly depends the quality and size of the crop that you get from them.
Description of Plum Kroman
For plum Kroman are characteristic medium tall trees with a rare and sprawling crown rounded shape.
The trees are thick and ribbed shootscovered with a waxy coating.
Dark green shiny leaves are oval-shaped. Trees give large fruitswhose average mass reaches 35-40 grams.
Fruit have a round shape and are covered with a waxy coating. Their main color is dark red, and the color of the cover has a dark blue color.
Pulp has a yellowish color and a dense juicy texture. It has a sweetish pleasant taste.
According to the tasting scale, the fruits are evaluated in 4.5 points. Stone takes up 3,5% of the total weight of the fetus.
A photo
Visually with a variety of plums "Kroman" can be found on a photo below:
Breeding history and breeding region
Scientists such as BEHIND. Kozlovskaya and V.A. Matveyev.
It was invented at the Research Institute of Fruit Growing of Belarus as a result of the crossing of such varieties of plums as “Hungarian Azhanskaya” and “Perdrigon”.
AT 2002 the variety of plums “Kroman” was entered in the State Register of Achievements of Breeders of the Russian Federation and allowed to grow in the Central Region.
Characteristics of a variety
Trees begin to bear fruit in the third or fourth year after planting.
This variety is usually referred to mid-grade varieties, since the maturity of the fruit reaches in the first half of August.
For the variety "Kroman" characteristic enough high yield.
If you plant trees according to the scheme 5 by 3 meters, you can collect up to sixteen tons of plums from one hectare of planting.
Fruits can be used both for preservation, and for the use in fresh look. Stone from the pulp in them is completely free.
Cromen variety is self-fertiletherefore does not need pollinators. Winter trees of this variety are well tolerated.
Planting and care
Most favorable period for landing trees are spring, however those saplings that were grown in a package or container, and will be planted together with the land, better take root during the autumn planting.
For planting seedlings should choose well lit arealocated on a hill.
Ideal for the Kroman plum trees, as well as for the Egg Blue plum, loamy soilcontaining lime in sufficient quantity.
When planting seedlings in sandy soil, you need to add a bit of clay to the pit, and when planting in clayey heavy soil - a little sand and peat.
Pit for planting dug at a distance of three to four meters from each other. Their depth should be about fifty centimeters, and the diameter - eighty centimeters. From the pit, it is necessary to remove the lower layer of the earth, which is infertile, and instead fill up a couple of buckets of rotted manure or compost.
You can also use a special soil mix, which is sold in flower shops. When filling the pit, use the top layer of earth mixed with one kilogram of wood ash. The seedling should be positioned so that the root neck, which differs in color from the rest of the trunk, is slightly above the surface.
After landing be sure to tamp land around the tree and make a roller in which you need to pour two buckets of water. Then mulch the soil, put a peg next to the seedling and tie a seedling to it. As the soil subsides, the sapling will gradually fall to the ground level.
The next year after planting, the plum trees of the variety “Kroman” need fertilizers, as which you can use ready-made complexes or an infusion of weeds and manure.
Mature trees will feel better if you regularly enrich the top layer of the earth around them is wood ash and potash salts.
Plum trees varieties "Kroman" tolerate coldhowever, you can provide them with additional protection if you vaccinate against a cold-resistant stock using thorns or wild plums.
In the last days of March of the following year after landing, do the first pruning plum trees. In this case, the main trunk must be shortened by about a third.
When the trees become fruiting, pruning should be to remove the branches that grow outside the area of crown formation, as well as to clean the trees from the root growth.
Diseases and pests
Cromani is characterized highly resistant to the main types of diseases and pests of plum trees.
However, you can still take measures to protect your plum trees, the main pest of which is plum moth.
To get rid of it, do not forget to regularly clean the dead bark from the trunk and branches and dig up the soil under the trees every spring.
If the trees are struck by aphids, you must completely remove all basal shoots that grow in early spring.
In addition, in the autumn and spring period, it is customary to clean the skeletal branches and the trunk from dead bark, and then to cover them with lime.
The main advantages of the Kroman plum variety are its frost resistance, self-fertility and high yield, as well as good resistance to major pests and diseases.
After studying the features of care for the trees of this variety, you can safely bring them in your garden and collect a huge harvest of tasty and healthy fruits every year.
