Many of us love pears. They are sweet or sour-sweet, early or late, hard and crunchy or soft and juicy. To plant in your garden is such a tree, the fruits of which will be to your liking, study the characteristics of different varieties. In this article you will read the description of the pear "Lada" - one of the most popular varieties in our latitudes.
Characteristics of the Lada pear
Pear "Lada" was bred by Moscow breeders as a hybrid of varieties "Olga" and "Forest Beauty" in 1993. The authors are S.P. Potapov and S.T. Chizhov.
This pear is considered summer, as its fruits keep up to the second half of August or earlier (depending on the region). The tree begins to bear fruit early enough, 3-4 years after planting, provided that the seedling in the nursery has undergone ocularization (grafting with eyes). Fruitfulness "Lada" abundantly and regularly, in the harvest years from one tree you can remove up to 50 kg of harvest.
Pears of medium size, with a mass of about 100 g, have a yellowish color with a blush on the sides, which appears from the sunny side. The fruit has a thin and smooth skin, and its shape resembles an egg. Flesh white and yellow, sweet and sour taste, fine-grained, medium-density. The core is weakly expressed, contains 5 or more seeds. Pear "Lada" like lovers of juicy fruits. In this case, the fruits do not have a pronounced flavor.
"Lada" is considered a stamping tree, and unlike a column-shaped pear, it is quite sprawling. The adult tree of the grade "Lada" has an average height and lining. The crown is funnel-shaped, but with the beginning of fruiting it becomes pyramidal. Bark - gray or dark gray, on young shoots light brown. The leaves have a deep dark green color, like many other pear varieties.
Although this variety also refers to self-pollinated,
It should be noted that pear Lada has a high resistance to most pear diseases, and also has high frost resistance. Undemanding "Lada" and the sun: the fruits are ripening, even if the summer was cloudy and gloomy.
The fruits of the Lada pear are not too transportable, and the maximum shelf life at 0 ° C is about 60 days.