Peach variety Donetsk Yellow: characteristics, pros and cons

Description

The fruits of all varieties of peach are valued for their juiciness, amazing taste and aroma, they are used not only fresh, but they make delicious jams, marmalade, jellies, candied fruits, add to cakes and pastries. And a lot can be said about the benefits of peach – it helps to improve the activity of the cardiovascular system, normalize liver function, promotes the formation of hemoglobin, has a cleansing property, is widely used in dietary nutrition and as a general tonic.All these qualities are inherent in such a wonderful variety of peach as Donetsk yellow. This high-yielding variety, which appeared in the Donetsk office of the Institute of Horticulture. It was bred by the efforts of the breeder L.I. Taranenko in 1960. The specialist managed to create a new high-quality peach variety from the seeds that were brought from the city of Gelendzhik. For a long period of time, the variety was propagated by specialists from the Donetsk nursery, and a little later it became popular not only in the Donbass and other regions of Ukraine, but also in Our Country.

A fruit tree of the Donetsk yellow type is a tall culture with a fairly dense round crown.. The leaves are also large, have a beautiful dark green hue, and annual shoots, on the contrary, are light green in color, but you can see an interesting carmine tan on them. Peach blossoms are also very large and have a nice pink hue. Donetsk yellow is a self-fertile variety, its fruits weigh up to approximately 150 g, some can reach 220 g.

The fruits are characterized by a round shape, sometimes they are in the form of a wide oval, somewhat flattened on both sides, and a specific abdominal suture is also visually visible on the surface. The fruits have a peel of a pale yellow hue with an exquisite blurred blush on the surface. In unripe peaches, the skin color is greenish-yellow – the same as the flesh of the fruit. It is dense in texture, and has a yellow-orange color right next to the peel. The taste of Donetsk yellow can be called quite sweet, with a pleasant acidity. The stone of the fetus is large, it is almost impossible to separate it from the pulp. When tasting by specialists, this peach variety received a good rating of 4 points.

In terms of the duration of the vegetative period, this variety of fruit tree is very close to Kyiv early, but its need for heat at this time is greater. Just like the control variety Kyiv early, Donetsk yellow begins to bear fruit no earlier than the third year after planting, and the maximum yield can be expected in the fourth year. Early fruiting is average, in years favorable for wintering of flower buds, the amount of harvest collected from each fruit tree can be about 50 – 60 kg.

Advantages and disadvantages

Most peach varieties today are adapted to our climatic conditions. But still, before you buy any kind of peach tree for your garden plot, you should familiarize yourself with its features. The variety Donetsk yellow has a lot of undeniable advantages, for which it has been loved by experienced and novice gardeners for many years.

Among them is the good resistance of the crop to severe frosts. As experience shows, in one of the years the trees of the Donetsk yellow were frozen by 1 points, while in the varieties Kyiv early and Redhaven this figure was more than 7 points. In addition, the variety we are describing has excellent restorative properties – even those trees that freeze to the level of fallen snow are able to fully restore their strength next year and give a good harvest. If we talk about the winter hardiness of flower buds, then Donetsk yellow has higher rates than most other large-fruited varieties.

It has large fruits of high quality, which are distinguished by good taste properties. Also, fruits normally tolerate transportation, but only if they are transported unripe, since when fully ripe they can become covered with unpleasant dark spots.

The disadvantages include the non-simultaneous ripening of the fruit pulp, as well as the possible defeat of powdery mildew and leaf curl.

In order to prevent curliness, which most often leads to twisting and dying of leaves in early May, makes the fruits small and inhibits their normal ripening, takes away strength for proper growth and development near the tree itself, preventive treatment with special preparations should be carried out.

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