Peach White Swan: description of the variety, photos, reviews

Content

1 Origin of the White Swan peach variety
2 Description of the White Swan peach
3 Characteristics of the White Swan peach
4 Rules for planting peach
5 Peach aftercare
6 Diseases and pests, methods of control and prevention
7 Conclusion
8 Reviews

The White Swan peach is often grown in regions with warm and temperate climates. The fruits of this variety are quite unusual in color, which to some extent contributes to its popularity. For those who want to plant this peach on their plot, here is a description, characteristics of the variety and agricultural techniques for growing it.

Origin of the White Swan peach variety

This variety is of domestic origin, obtained back in Soviet times in Crimea, in the Nikitsky Botanical Garden. Belongs to mid-late varieties.

Description of the White Swan peach

This plant is heat-loving, so it is recommended to grow it in the southern regions and, possibly, in some regions of the Middle Zone. The description of the peach variety White Swan or White Lebedeva (another name) is as follows:

medium-sized tree;
the crown is spreading, spherical in shape;
the fruits are large (150–200 g), almost uniform in size, round or broadly oval, with a slightly convex apex;
the skin is light, non-classical peach color, sometimes with blush, pubescent in the area of the stalk;
the pulp is creamy-white, delicately fibrous, the cut fruit does not darken in air;
The stone is of medium size, easily separated from the pulp.

The taste of peaches is harmonious, pleasant, sweet, with notes of honey, without the presence of acid (when fully ripe), rated by professional tasters at 4.5 points. The aroma is characteristic of the culture, pronounced. You can see what White Swan peaches look like in the photo.

Characteristics of the White Swan peach

It will be useful to know about the characteristics of this variety for those gardeners who are interested in it and want to grow it on their site.

Drought resistance, frost resistance

The White Swan peach, which can be seen in the photo, is drought-resistant, so it can be grown in areas with dry and hot climates. It is characterized by sufficient cold resistance (withstands frosts down to -30 ˚C), but is still unsuitable for planting in regions where there are very cold winters.

Does the variety need pollinators?

The White Swan peach variety is self-fertile, so it does not need pollinators. The tree can be grown without adding peaches of other varieties to it.

When do White Swan peaches ripen?

The fruits of this mid-late variety ripen in August, approximately 1–2 decades. Then the time for harvesting the fruit comes. The white peach harvest is shown in the photo.

Productivity and fruiting

The first fruits from plants of this variety can be collected in the second or third year after planting, and from the fourth or fifth they gain full strength.The yield of this variety under good climatic conditions is above average - from one tree (over 6 years old) you can collect 50–60 kg of fruits of excellent quality. There is no frequency of fruiting: the peach produces fruit every year. The taste of ripe fruits is wonderful: sweet, rich, with a lot of juice in the pulp.

Area of application of fruits

Crimean White Swan peaches can be used for fresh eating and for processing: to prepare various homemade preparations from them: jam, marmalade, juice with pulp, peach compotes or assorted fruits. Fruits picked from trees are not stored for very long, but can be transported over short distances; peaches of this variety cannot tolerate transportation over long distances.

Resistance to diseases and pests

This variety of peach is quite resistant to various diseases, including powdery mildew and clasterosporium blight, but for various reasons it can still be affected by some fungal diseases.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

The advantages of this peach are:

excellent characteristics of its fruits, unusual skin color, tasty and aromatic pulp;
self-fertility;
rapid entry into fruiting;
the ability to produce fruit every year;
resistance to heat and cold, some diseases.

Disadvantages include susceptibility to fungal diseases and the fact that ripe fruits are poorly transported and stored only for a short time.

Rules for planting peach

To grow a good peach fruit tree that will bear fruit for many years, you need to plant it correctly. It is important to take into account many nuances, such as location, timing and the planting process itself.

Recommended timing

This variety of peach is planted in the spring, after the arrival of stable heat, but before the buds bloom on the seedlings. Planting is also carried out in the fall at least a month before the cold weather, so that the young trees have time to take root.

Choosing a suitable location

The place on the site for the White Swan peach tree should be light and open, that is, sunny, but partial shade is also acceptable. It should be located on flat ground or on a hill, but not in a lowland (there should be at least 1.5 m to groundwater). This is due to the fact that in constantly wet soil, the roots of the peach can be affected by rot, which will lead to the death of the plant. Areas where stone fruits previously grew are not suitable: plums, apricots. The most suitable soil for this crop is loam or sandy loam. Soil acidity – neutral or alkaline.

Selection and preparation of planting material

1 or 2 year old seedlings are suitable for transplantation. They must be completely healthy, with well-developed roots and shoots.

Advice! It is advisable to purchase seedlings from nurseries to be sure of their varietal identity.

Before planting in a permanent place, the trees are prepared: the roots are kept for a day in a solution of any root formation stimulator.

Landing algorithm

Before planting a peach seedling in a permanent place, the dried ends of the roots and branches are cut off by 1/3. Then:

Dig planting holes 0.7 m in diameter and the same depth. The distance from one tree to another should be at least three meters.
1 bucket of humus and 0.5 kg of ash are poured into the bottom of the holes. Everything is mixed with soil and watered.
Place the seedling vertically in the center of the pits, cover it up to its neck with soil and compact the soil a little.
The tree trunk circle is mulched with any plant material.

How to plant a peach of the White Swan variety is shown in the photo.

Peach aftercare

In the first season after planting, the Swan peach is watered abundantly (at least 5 buckets of water) several times during the summer, especially in the heat. A mature tree is watered only if there is intense or prolonged heat.

Fertilize the plant every year: 2–3 times in spring and summer and 1 time in autumn, starting from the second year of planting. The composition of fertilizers should be dominated by potassium and phosphorus, nitrogen should be limited. In the summer, the peach is watered with slurry in a concentration of 1 to 10 or a solution of bird droppings in a concentration of 1 to 20. Before applying them, the tree is watered with clean water so that the infusions do not burn its roots.

In autumn, under each peach add:

superphosphate (granules) – 200 g;
potassium chloride – 150 g.

Mineral fertilizers can be replaced with organic ones and 7–10 kg of humus and 0.5–1 kg of ash can be added to each tree.

Peach is pruned in the spring before the buds open or in the fall before the onset of cold weather. In the spring, all branches that have dried out over the winter are cut out, and the remaining healthy ones are shortened by ¼. In the fall, the current year's growth growing inside the crown is removed.

In winter, the tree trunk circle around the tree is dug up and covered with a layer of peat, leaves, straw, and the trunk is wrapped in burlap and a piece of roofing material on top to protect it from rodents. In the spring they are removed from the tree.

Diseases and pests, methods of control and prevention

White peach can be affected by a disease such as leaf curl: most often it appears in wet and long spring. If measures are not taken and the plant is not cured, it may die.

Peaches can also be harmed by fruit rot, moniliosis, scab, and fungal blight.These are infectious diseases, the spread of which can be prevented by spring and autumn preventive treatments of trees with Bordeaux mixture, as well as by covering the cut sites with garden varnish.

Pests that can settle on peach trees at different periods of the growing season are flower beetle weevils, aphids, codling moths and fruit moths. Measures to combat them include treating plants with pesticides.

Conclusion

White Swan peach is recommended to be grown in the southern regions of Russia and in the central zone. This plant with fruits of original color and harmonious sweet taste can decorate the garden of any amateur gardener.

Reviews

Gardeners who are already growing the White Swan peach leave their reviews about it.

Kozinkova Olga Aleksandrovna, 36 years old, Taganrog

This variety of peach differs from many other varieties of the crop in its unusual color, which became the decisive argument in favor of its choice. It has been growing for me for several years now and bears fruit every year consistently. The fruits, as stated, are light, almost white, tasty and aromatic.

Maria Romanovna, 51 years old, Yeisk

It was no coincidence that the White Swan variety of peach was planted - they needed a tree that was easy to care for, not afraid of either heat or cold. In general, it corresponds to its characteristics: it tolerates the vagaries of the weather well, and produces fruit crops of excellent quality every year.

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