Otradnenskaya pear variety, its pollinators and other growing features

Pear Otradnenskaya.

Description of the variety

The Otradnenskaya pear variety was obtained by breeders by hybridizing the Tema and Lesnaya Krasavitsa varieties. It is included in the State Register as an autumn variety and zoned in the Central Black Earth region.

Characteristics of wood

The tree is low, up to 3.5 meters in height, has medium growth vigor, the trunk and skeletal branches are dark gray in color, the shoots are thin and geniculate. The crown is heavily leafy, at a young age it is funnel-shaped, with age it becomes spreading and oval.

The leaves are small, dark green, smooth with jagged edges. The flowers are white, collected in inflorescences of 5-7 pieces.

Description of fruits

Otradnenskaya pear variety.

Pears are medium-sized, weighing 100-130 grams, oblong-round or bi-conical, slightly ribbed. The skin is matte, smooth, greenish-yellow with a covering red blush and a large number of subcutaneous spots.

The pulp is white with a creamy tint, tender, fine-grained, medium density and juicy, sweet and sour in taste, practically without aroma. Tasting score of fruits 4-4.3 points.

What type of pear is it?

Otradnenskaya pears ripen in September ; they are an autumn pear with a shelf life of up to 4 months . During storage, the fruits acquire colors and sweetness, greenish-yellow at the time of picking, they gradually turn yellow, and the washed-out red blush becomes much brighter.

The disadvantage of this variety is
the lack of a characteristic pear aroma and juiciness , but who said that everyone likes the smell of pear?
And the dense sweet pulp has no less lovers than the loose juiciness.

Everything is decided by the individual taste of the gardener, and you shouldn’t draw the line with the words “technical variety”; the Otradnenskaya pear is a variety of wide possibilities, but you can find out which ones further in the description and see in the photo what the fruits look like.

Autumn varieties also include pears: Svetlyanka, Bere Bosk, Tatyana, Uralochka and Larinskaya.

Reviews

Raisa

Bykovo

We have an Otradnenskaya pear growing on our site; it’s a small tree, but we collect 4-5 buckets of pears from it. They store well, so they last a long time.

Leonid

Rzhavki

I have a large garden, there are 4 different varieties of pears, among them Otradnenskaya. The tree gives a good harvest. My wife makes compote and jam for our family for the winter, and freezes it for pies. Caring for a tree is not difficult, so it does not freeze and almost never gets sick.

Gregory

Andreevka

In our Moscow region, the Otradnenskaya pear tree grows and bears fruit well. Its fruits are stored for a long time; after harvesting, their taste becomes sweeter. Regular care, fertilizing, pruning, spring treatment with copper sulfate.

Planting and care

• Selecting a location The health of the tree, productivity, quality of fruit and its life expectancy will depend on whether you have chosen the right place for planting.
  The Otradnenskaya pear variety has a low growth rate, but despite this, choose a freer place for it, with good lighting and ventilation.

  Do not plant pears near walls, fences, or between buildings; young plants will stretch out, a full-fledged crown will not be able to form, and you may not dream of a good harvest.

  With soil everything is much simpler. Insufficiently fertile soil can be fertilized and improved when planting pears.

• Landing

  
  Pear trees can be planted in both spring and autumn, but autumn planting does not guarantee good rooting and it is better to postpone planting to the spring, and bury the seedlings for the winter, placing their roots in a shallow ditch, placing the trunk and crown above the soil at an angle of 45 degrees.
  The roots are dug in and covered with available material, and in the spring, after carefully inspecting them and removing possible damage, the seedlings are transferred to a permanent place.

  The plant tolerates transplanting to a new place painfully; one- and two-year-old seedlings take root most easily ; the older the plant, the greater the chance of losing it.

  Seedlings grown in containers can be planted in a permanent place throughout the growing season. At the location chosen for planting pears, the required number of planting holes are dug, at least a meter deep and 80 by 80 centimeters in diameter, with a distance of at least 3 meters between seedlings. Although the Otradnenskaya variety does not have great growth vigor, any pear does not tolerate thickening.

  The top layer of fertile soil is deposited separately from the less fertile lower layer, a bucket of humus, a glass of superphosphate, half a glass of potassium salts, a shovel of wood ash , everything is thoroughly mixed.

  A mound is built in the center of the planting hole, the soil is slightly compacted, the roots of the seedling are evenly distributed along the slopes of the mound and gradually, evenly covered with soil with constant compaction.

  The formation of air pockets leads to rotting of the root system with further death of the plant.

  
  The root collar should remain five centimeters above the soil surface ; when watering the seedling, the soil settles and the root collar will be in the desired position.

  When watering, water will not spread if sides are made from less fertile soil deposited when digging a planting hole. Watering should be plentiful. The planting should be completed by driving a peg not far from the seedling, but so that it does not interfere with the seedling, and tying the pear tree to it with twine so that it does not interfere with the development of the future tree.

• Watering The first year after planting the plant requires constant monitoring, it must be watered as needed, the soil should be loosened, this simple event prevents the evaporation of moisture.
  Before fruiting begins, it is better to dig up the trunk circles without damaging the root system; open trunk circles make it possible to weed, loosen and water the soil as needed.

  Pear trees do not tolerate waterlogging well, and as they grow older, there is no need to water them more than once a month in the absence of rain.

• Pruning and care

  
  When planting an annual seedling, the plant is shortened to a height of no more than a meter; buds located below 50 centimeters must be removed.
  A two-year-old seedling, after planting in a permanent place, is cut to one third of the length of the shoots , this allows the root system of the young plant to actively develop.

  A pear planted as an annual seedling undergoes the same pruning in the second year after planting. The pear is prone to self-formation of the crown and there is no need to interfere with this process unnecessarily.

  The Otradnenskaya pear variety is early-fruiting, the first fruits appear 3 or 5 years after planting, and with the beginning of fruiting sanitary pruning is carried out , which will eventually be replaced by sanitary rejuvenating.

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  Otradnenskaya pear is a frost-resistant variety , but if freezing occurs, keep in mind that replacement shoots must be fixed horizontally with pegs and twine, otherwise they will not bear fruit.

  Rogneda, Duchess, Severyanka, Lira and Lel can boast of good frost resistance.

  With the beginning of fruiting, digging around the tree trunks should be replaced by tinning and weeding should be replaced by mowing the grass. The trunks and skeletal branches of a young tree do not need to be cleaned, but as it matures, dead bark appears, it must be removed using a scraper, and possible wounds should be treated with iron sulfate 3%.

  Debris from cleaning the bark must be burned ; insect pests, fungal spores, lichens and mosses overwinter in the cracks of the dead bark.

  For whitewashing you need to take equal parts lime and clay and 100 grams of iron sulfate per bucket of working solution ; after mixing, the whitewash should have the consistency of liquid sour cream.

  
  Cleaning of trunks and whitewashing should be carried out in early spring.

  In autumn, it is necessary to remove mummified fruits from trees, collect fallen leaves and burn them; pests and disease spores overwinter in fallen leaves and diseased fruits.

Landing

Proper planting of the Otradnenskaya pear will be the key to its development throughout the long life of the tree. This includes the choice of seedling, planting site, and technology. More details about all procedures can be found in the links to the articles below.

How to plant a pear tree correctly

At what distance to plant pears?

How to choose pear seedlings

How to replant a pear

Otradnenskaya pear: planting a variety

Otradnenskaya pear: photo of the variety

• How to choose a site for planting.

The health of the pear, its yield rate, the quality composition of the fruit, and its lifespan depend on the correct choice of site for planting.

The Otradnenskaya pear is medium-sized, but it should still choose a free area that will be well lit by the sun and ventilated.

You cannot plant pear trees near walls, fences, or between buildings, as young trees will begin to stretch out, the crown will not be fully formed, and therefore there will not be a generous and high-quality harvest.

Everything is simple with soil. If it is not very nutritious, you can add fertilizer and improve it when planting.

• Disembarkation.

It is possible to plant the Otradnenskaya pear variety in both the spring and autumn seasons, but when planting in the fall, it is impossible to guarantee one hundred percent that the seedlings will take root well, so it is advisable to postpone the planting time to the spring, and dig in the planting material for the winter; the root system is placed in shallow groove, the trunk and crown are above the ground at an angle of forty-five degrees.

The root system is dug in and covered with any material, in the spring season they are carefully inspected, all damaged parts are removed, and the plant is transplanted to a permanent site.

The pear tree does not tolerate replanting well; seedlings of one or two years adapt better; the older the plant, the more likely it is that it will die.

Seedlings that were grown in a container can be planted in a permanent plot throughout the growing season. In the selected area, dig the required number of holes for planting, one meter deep, eighty cm wide and long, the interval between holes is at least three meters. Despite the fact that the variety is not vigorous, it will not tolerate great density.

The surface soil nutrient layer must be set aside separately from another, less nutritious layer dug from below; to the nutrient layer from the hole you need to add humus (bucket), superphosphate (glass), potassium salts (0.5 cup), wood ash (scoop), everything well mix.

A hill is made in the middle of the planting hole, the earth is slightly compacted, the roots are distributed equally over the hill and gradually, also equally, covered with earth, constantly compacting it.

If air voids remain, the root system may rot because of this, and the tree may even die in the future.

The root collar should be located 5 cm higher above the surface soil layer; when watering the plant, the soil will settle and the root collar itself will take the required position.

Spreading of water during watering will not occur if you make sides from the less nutritious soil that you set aside when you dug the hole. You need to water abundantly.

To finish planting, you need to drive a peg next to the plant, but in such a way that the stake does not interfere with the plant, then the tree is tied to the peg using twine so that it allows the future pear to grow and develop well.

Care

Otradnenskaya pear is an unpretentious variety that is very responsive to basic care. This includes watering, fertilizing and crown care procedures. You can read more about all agricultural technology using the links to the articles below.

How to care for a pear Pruning a pear Pruning a columnar pear Treating a pear from diseases and pests Feeding a pear How to water a pear

Pear care

Caring for the Otradnenskaya pear is simple. In order for the plant to develop properly and produce a bountiful harvest, no special skills are needed. But there are still some features that should be adhered to. These should be taken into account by those just starting out in gardening.

The pear does not like excessively wet soil, so the optimal frequency of watering is once a month. If the weather is rainy, you should irrigate even less often.

Basic rules for plant care:

1. Insect treatment. At the very beginning of spring, until the tree begins to form buds, it is sprayed for preventive purposes. Treatment with an ammonia solution at a concentration of 10% gives good results. Before flowers bloom and immediately after flowering, the tree is treated with insecticides to protect the pear from codling moths, mites, and flower beetles.
2. Watering the tree. The first year after planting, the young tree must be watered regularly. The soil should not dry out, otherwise the seedling will disappear. Also, after each irrigation, the soil around the trunk is loosened, this will protect it from rapid evaporation of moisture.
3. Feeding. In the autumn period of the year, fertilizers are necessary for the formation of wood, which, in turn, helps the tree to overwinter well. For feeding at this time, preparations based on potassium and phosphorus are most suitable. In the spring, the pear is fed with nitrogen mixtures and organic matter.

As for pruning, it is simply necessary for the Otradnenskaya pear. The first procedure is carried out immediately after planting. Annual specimens are trimmed so that their height is no more than a meter. Shoots in the lower half of the tree are also removed.

The next year, the exact same procedure is carried out. Two-year-old seedlings undergo less pruning - only a third of their height. Due to this, the tree will receive an incentive to form a strong root system.

If you follow simple rules for planting and caring for the Otradnenskaya pear, the tree will definitely reward you with a good harvest. The fruits will grow beautiful and very tasty.

Diseases and pests

Otradnenskaya pear is highly resistant to scab and other fungal diseases. It is rarely affected by pests. Prevention is enough to help maintain the healthy state of the variety. Detailed instructions on protection and prevention can be read here.

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Diseases of pear trees

To get what they cherish, gardeners have to work hard, and the reason for this is pear diseases.

Read about 19 common pear diseases and how to combat them.

Diseases and harmful insects

In warm weather in the spring, not only vegetation wakes up, but also a large number of its enemies, in connection with this, the still bare branches are sprayed with an ammonia solution (ten percent), this prevention is aimed against all types of diseases caused by fungi and bacteria, as well as against harmful insects.

To prevent codling moths, flower beetles, and mites from attacking pears of the Otradnenskaya variety, the trees are treated for preventive purposes before they bloom and after the flowering period with any insecticidal preparation. It is worth noting that this variety has good immunity to diseases; it was not affected by scab.

The following varieties are also resistant to scab: “Noyabrskaya”, “Marble”, “Orlovskaya Letnyaya”, “Limonka”, “Naryadnaya Efimova”.

An important and most important aspect of preventive measures against diseases is proper care; if the trees are properly cared for, then they will not be affected by diseases, and pests will not damage them on a huge scale; if you constantly monitor the condition of the pears, then diseases and enemies will not harm the plants, and also everything these comrades are easily detected and you can just as easily get rid of them.

The Otradnenskaya pear seems to have been specially bred for zealous gardeners - the fruits are sweet, with dense internal contents, it is excellent to prepare dried fruits from them, and the jam turns out amazing, and they will live until the New Year; for the holiday, the fruits will decorate the table.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Advantages:

• Precociousness;
• Partial self-pollination;
• Resistance to diseases and adverse weather changes;
• Annual fruiting;
• The yield is stable and abundant (30-40 kg per tree);
• The fruits practically do not fall off the branches;
• Long-term storage at zero temperature is possible;
• Good winter hardiness.

Flaws:

• The grade is primarily for technical purposes (for processing);
• Lack of juiciness and bright aroma.

Reviews from gardeners about the Otradnaya pear

Although the variety was developed relatively recently, it has become a favorite among gardeners, especially those living in temperate and northern latitudes, for its high winter hardiness and unique ability to survive in extreme weather conditions.

The hybrid has a high yield, a long shelf life of its fruits and excellent transportability. Gardeners also highly appreciate the excellent immunity to fungal diseases and pests, the early fruiting period and the good presentation of pears, however, not everyone likes their taste - some consider them a bit dry. In general, they respond positively to the variety and do not intend to abandon it.

Storage

At a temperature of 0°C, pears can retain their taste and presentation for up to 120 days. The variety is characterized by low shedding and high transportability. Otradnenskaya pear belongs to the technical varieties.

The main advantages of this variety: high yield, as well as transportability, disease resistance, early fruiting, excellent winter hardiness.

Disadvantages: technical grade with mediocre taste.

Characteristics of wood

The Otradnenskaya pear variety, popular in our country, forms standard-type trees below average in height. A characteristic feature of young plants is the presence of a funnel-shaped crown. The crown shape of mature and productive fruit trees is round or oval with medium density and strong foliage.

The main color of the bark on the trunk is dark gray. The skeletal branches are gray in color and are located in an oblique-vertical direction. The ringlets are sessile type, finishing type. Indicators of kidney awakening are assessed as high. Shoot formation is moderate.

Features of cultivation

Although the Otradnenskaya pear can partially self-pollinate, it requires the right proximity for full fruiting. Suitable varietals:

First of all, a place to place the seedling is selected. The space should be open, with good lighting and ventilation. The soil can be absolutely any, the main thing is to fertilize it during planting. The best time to plant a young tree is spring. But this procedure can be performed in the fall.

Humus, ash and complex fertilizers are placed in a planting hole 80 cm deep and 100 by 80 cm in size. The roots of the seedling are carefully straightened and covered with earth.

The final stage of planting is to install a peg or other support next to the pear trunk. They tie the tree with twine very carefully, in several places.

In the first year, it is very important to water the seedling regularly, avoiding drying out and waterlogging of the soil. Also, several times a season the soil around the tree is loosened.

In the spring, the next year after planting, the branches must be pruned. The shoots are shortened by about a third.

The Otradnenskaya pear is distinguished by its stable immunity to common diseases. Preventive treatment is carried out in early spring, before sap flow begins.

Description of fruits

The weight of each pear is 80 - 130 g. The shape is doubly conical. The peel is smooth, without a glossy sheen. The color of the ripe fruit is yellowish-red, with a blurred blush. Inside there are 5-10 medium-sized seeds. When ripe they are dark brown in color.

The pulp is creamy white, fine-grained. The taste is weakly expressed - sweet and sour. The aroma is practically not felt.

Evaluation of the appearance of the fruit - 4 points, taste - 3.7 points.

From each mature pear it is possible to collect 30-40 kg of harvest.
Ripening occurs annually in mid-September. Collected fruits can be stored at zero temperature for 2-4 months without loss of commercial quality. Interesting! During storage, the taste of the fruit slightly improves.

Fertilizing scheme

Correct and timely feeding of the Otradnenskaya pear is a guarantee of regular and abundant fruiting. Highly productive fruit plantations are more dependent on the quality and quantity of fertilizers applied. Experienced gardeners recommend adhering to the following feeding scheme for pears at all stages of the growing season:

• After almost complete melting of the snow mass and the beginning of active sap flow, fruit plantings are especially in need of nitrogen fertilizers. Substances such as ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate and urea have proven themselves very well.
• In summer, it is very important to apply phosphorus-containing and potassium fertilizers in the form of superphosphate and potassium sulfate. An insufficient amount of such substances in the soil often causes shredding of leaves and fruits, as well as discarding of the ovaries.

• Until mid-September, the last application of nitrogen-containing fertilizers is carried out. Autumn feeding of fruit plants with mineral complexes is mandatory.
• For annual fertilizing with organic matter, compost, manure, bird droppings, green manure crops and slurry are optimal.

A significant part of amateur gardeners very actively use foliar fertilizers, which show high efficiency. With such fertilizing by spraying, fruit plants receive basic nutrients directly through the foliage . The use of microfertilizers, organic fertilizers and mineral complexes gives good results. When foliar feeding, it is necessary to use rather weak solutions of preparations.

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