Many gardeners are dreaming of growing pears in their own plot, but for many of them this plant seems too fastidious, and in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, it simply does not land.
And it is completely in vain - there are no special problems, and the frost is over thirty, and the modern varieties are transferred to the scab normally.
Among all their diversity should pay attention to variety "Lira".
What kind of pears refers?
Pear "Lira" ripens mid September and refers to early winter. At the time of collection, the fruits are yellow with prozeleness, dull, pink-purple blush.
As the pears are stored, they turn yellow, and the blush becomes brighter, fruits of this variety are stored until December, January, and according to some sources - until February-March.
Winter varieties of pears also include: January, Yakovlevskaya, Chudesnitsa, Bere Russkaya and Fairy.
Breeding history and breeding region
Pear variety "Lira" - a hybrid of Bere winter Michurin varieties and Forest Beauty, obtained in the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for Breeding of Fruit Crops, by a group of scientists-breeders.
This early winter variety is included in the State Register of Central region of the Russian Federation.
Pear "Lira": description of the variety and photos
Fruit pear varieties "Lira" large, from 200 to 250 grams, right pear shape with a slight bevel, creamy flesh, very juicy, sweet with a slight sourness, light aromacharacteristic of the species.
Seed chamber closed, the seeds are small.
Pear tree varieties "Lira" great growth power, crown of medium thickness, broad, pyramidal shape, white flowers are collected in medium-sized inflorescences, the leaf is small, elongated, dark green, dull, the fruits have a short stalk and with a very strong wind may fall.
The yield is high and stable, plant tolerates frost at 30 degrees and resistant to scab.
The high-yielding varieties of pears also include: Uralochka, Severyanka red-cheeked, Lel, Svarog and Perun.
For more information about the pear variety "Lira" can be in the photo below:
Planting and care
Have you purchased a seedling of a sort of “Lira” pear and you have no doubt about it?
You can be sure only if the seller has a good reputation and sold you exactly the right brand, and not what he accidentally had at hand, as often happens in our markets.
The place for planting pears must be taken seriously, most often the failures in growing this plant are associated with the wrong place for planting.
Pear tree large, loves the sunthe bigger it is, the bigger and sweeter the fruit is, it lives a long time with proper care.
This means that it will be dozens of years to delight you with a rich harvest and deserves a better place in the garden.
It would be nice for a lover of pears in our company to plant some more pear trees of different varieties and ripening period - although a self-fertile pear plant, but cross-pollination significantly increases the yield.
Do not plant a pear between buildings, near walls and ridges, it does not tolerate crowding and shading.
Planting is best single or biennial seedlingsthe older the plant, the harder it is to transfer the transplant.
You can plant a pear in the fall and in the spring, and a plant grown in a container - from spring to autumn, its root system during transplantation suffers minimally.
Pear does not tolerate flooding, in case of need plant plants on ridges or hills, and take away excess water using drainage grooves.
Ridges and hills are arranged simply, large plant garbage collects at a selected place, then smaller, which is covered with soil. Ridge should be not less than 50 centimeters, and a width of about a meter. Hills are arranged on the same principle.
The landing pit for a pear should have a depth of at least a meter, and its diameter should be 80 by 80 centimeters., for each landing pit you need to cook a mixture of 1 or 2 buckets of humus, two handfuls of superphosphate, handfuls of potassium salts and shovels of wood ash.
The mixture is thoroughly mixed, a hillock is arranged at the bottom of the pit and the roots of the seedling are stretched on its sides, each portion of the soil when the roots fall asleep, compacted, root neck should be placed slightly above ground level, when watering the soil will settle and the root neck will be in place.
Sapling need freely tie up a peg. On the edge of the landing pit is arranged roller from soil to hold water during watering, on one sapling need at least two buckets of water.
During the first year after planting watering produced as needed, the trunk circle necessarily loosens.
In the event that the landings are not single, the distance between seedlings should be from 3 to 5 meters. Do not forget about weeds, they must be destroyed in a timely manner.
A pear tree is prone to crown self-shaping, for this reason pruning is mostly sanitary, one-year shoot during planting shortens to a height no more than one meter, and the kidneys below 50 centimeters are removed.
In the event that a young plant froze and grow the tops, the best of them should be left for substitution and placed horizontally, tied with string to the pegs, otherwise they can not bear fruit, and the remaining tops should be cut.
When planting, the soil was fairly well fertilized and organic matter needed to be applied only after three years, and mineral fertilizers - if the shoot growth slowed down.
Well established foliar feeding, a lot of drugs developed, Spraying plants is mainly aimed at strengthening the immune system of the plant.
Pear varieties "Lira" enters fructification for 3 or 5 years after planting, before the start of fruiting, the pristvolny circles need to be dug in, the young plant is more convenient to water, to loosen the soil, to weed, but with the onset of fruiting the soil is more convenient for tinning and weeding to replace with mowing.
Diseases and pests
Variety "Lira" resistant to //selo.guru/ptitsa/bolezni-p/gribkovye/parsha.htmlbut can cause fruit rot, rust, or a bacterial burn, and spraying with 10% urea solution in early spring or autumn will be a good preventive measure, for the same purpose can be used drugs Delan, Skor and the likeusing them strictly according to the instructions.
Disease-resistant varieties: Svetlyanka, Samara Beauty, Tatiana, Talgar Beauty and Skorospelka from Michurinsk.
Proper care of the plant reduces the risk of crop loss due to pests, gall mites, tsvetoedy and moths will not cause much damage if they are detected and destroyed by any insecticide.
Remarkable preventive measure is cleaning the trunk of a pear tree from the old bark and lichen and moss grown on it, after cleaning the trunk and large peeled branches whitened with a solution of lime with the addition of clay, mullein or iron sulphate.
Proper care will surely pay off a high yield.
The sort of pear “Lyra” is a variety of early winter and they call it so, of course, not because we gather pears in winter, but because in the middle of winter, when there are so few fresh fruits, we are pleased with these wonderful fruits.
Watch the video about pear variety "Lira".
