Medicinal properties and characteristics of pear dicky
 Pear wilderness

Autumn is not only a great time for exploring the autumn forest, but also time to gather healthy fruits. Ask what fruits can be picked in the forest? A pear tree is a tree with small fruits, but with unique beneficial properties.

Description of Pear Dick

A pear tree or a common pear is a wild-growing tree. The bark of the tree is gray, the crown is dense.Fruits of green or yellowish color of a round form, keep on stem. Flowering in April. Maturation occurs in the first half of September. Fruiting begins with 8 years of tree life.

 Pear wilderness
Pear wilderness

You can meet an ordinary pear in the forest belts of Russia, in the south of Ukraine, Armenia, and Europe. In the period of flowering from the tree is an unusual sweet aroma that attracts insects. In autumn, ripe, red-sided fruits are inedible, since the flesh is coarse, I can even say stony. In order to start eating fruits, they must lie down.. Fruits are stored for more than three months. The harvest from an adult tree can reach up to 40 kg.

The plant grows both alone and in groups. Wild pear is not picky tree, which develops a powerful root system in nutrient soils with neutral acidity. Propagated by seeds and root growths. Basically you can find abundant pneumo shoots.

A pear is considered a long-liver; it can grow in one place up to 70 years.

The advantage of wild pears - It is a strong-growing stock that combines with cultivars.The wild-growing tree grows in partial shade and in the sunlit areas. In cultural conditions, the pear is better to plant near the forest.

Advantages and disadvantages, medicinal properties and contraindications

The advantages of pear dicky include the following:

  1. Useful fruit, which has excellent healing properties. Broth can reduce the temperature, the pulp has a diuretic effect.
  2. The composition includes tanninswhich have a beneficial effect on the digestive system.
  3. Contained natural antibioticwhich is able to stop the inflammatory processes.
  4. Fetus has a bactericidal effect.
  5. Baked pear benefits in the treatment of upper respiratory tract.
  6. You can use boiled, dried, baked and fresh.
  7. Tree in spring is an early honey plant.
  8. Wood is used in the carpentry shop, thanks to dense and valuable wood.
  9. Bark plants used for dyeing wool, carpets.
  10. Fruit is beneficial affects men's health.
  11. Fruits are rich in vitamins. A, B1, B2, E, P, PP, C, folic acid, a number of useful metals, macro-and microelements.
  12. Frost resistance.
 The fruits of wild pear have excellent healing properties.
The fruits of wild pear have excellent healing properties.

Contra indications of pear dick:

  1. Categorically forbidden to eat on an empty stomach.
  2. It is impossible drink water.
  3. After eating a pear, it is not recommended to eat meat products.
  4. Do not eat green fruits.

Features of planting seedlings

A wild pear is planted as a shelter plantation, but you can plant it at the dacha. Unlike other varieties, this species of wild plant tolerates severe frosts and does not need shelter.

 After landing, you need to trample the ground and pour 2-3 buckets of water
After landing, you need to trample the ground and pour 2-3 buckets of water

The plant is wild-growing, therefore in cultural conditions it is better to place it near the deciduous forest. Place for landing must be lit. The tree is suitable fertile soil with neutral acidity. Fragile trees are recommended to be watered more than an adult plant.. Flowering in April, but can bloom and later depends on climatic conditions. Propagation is carried out by grafting or grafting, but you can also try seeds. When choosing seedlings, choose young trees with a well-developed root system.The best time to plant a young seedling is autumn. Spring can be planted after thawing the soil.

Pay attention to the fact that the plant should be planted a few weeks before the steady freezing of the soil.

Growing conditions for wild pears

Everyone knows that the right place for a plant is a guarantee of a rich and healthy harvest. therefore an important stage in the landing is the choice of location. It must be sunny and protected from the winds. As soon as we decided to prepare the landing pit. It must be dug in advance, its dimensions: width and depth of not less than 1 m. Only young plants that do not have damages, diseases and they have a well-developed root system are planted in the ground. Landing can be spring and autumn, but it is better to plant a pear in the fall - in the middle or the end of September, when the saplings have opal foliage and sap flow has stopped.

Pits dug out, seedling picked up begin to plant. In a hole from the center, at a distance of 30 cm, a stake is driven in, which is necessary for the support and proper growth of the young seedling. Manure, superphosphate, potassium salt are added to the bottom of the pit and mixed with the ground.Sapling pears shake, straighten the root system and set in a hole, gradually falling asleep ground. The root neck should rise above ground level. The final step is to compact the soil around the tree and water it.. Watering requires moderate if there is no drought.

For the first four years, the tree must be fertilized with nitrogen and potash supplements.

A young seedling can begin to bear fruit only in the fourth year of life.but it may depend on the soil and climatic conditions. Flowering occurs in April, the harvest in the second half of August.

 Wild pear blooms in April
Wild pear blooms in April

Caring for a tree in the fall

Throughout the entire warm period, the tree was cared for: watering, treatment from pests, now it is necessary to properly prepare the tree for cold and frost.

  1. The most important stage will be trimming the crown.
  2. Treatment of insecticides against diseases and pestswhich can persist through the cold weather in the bark of the tree, then in the spring they will begin active activities. It is better to prevent the reproduction of pests and diseases than to wage an active struggle with it.
  3. Fertilizer fertilizer should be carried out in early fall.
  4. Digging and deep watering pristvolny circles.

Harvesting and storage of the harvest, the use of dried fruit

Fruits are medium-sized, egg-shaped, covered with a thin, but rather dense, rough skin. At the stage of removal the fruit is greenish-yellow, well-ripened pears of golden-yellow color. The flesh is yellowish, with a sweet-sour taste.

 Pear compote wild for winter
Pear compote wild for winter

The fruits retain the appearance and taste for six months. The tree for the season can give more than 20 kg of the crop. Use the fruit is recommended in fresh, dried and canned form. They can be used to make desserts, juices, wine drinks. Compotes are made from dried fruits.

Peculiarities of this variety

  1. Pears wild off the tree, stored in a warm placewhere they ripen. During this time, the flesh turns yellow, loses its hardness, becomes sweet.
  2. Pear fruit Dicky much more useful and richer active substancesthan ordinary varieties. Due to the high content of vitamin, trace elements, minerals, the fruit has disinfecting and tanning properties.
  3. Pear wood is highly valued in the production of first-class furniture. You can cut it in all directions, removing the layer by layer gradually with a chisel.

Diseases and pests treatment methods

Leaf gallitsa - a dangerous pest of a pear, which is a brown insect. The larvae are deposited by insects, eating leaf tissue. This leads to growths, leaves become brittle, yellow and curl. To deal with the problem can only be insecticides or mechanically. Collect the twisted leaves and destroy, the soil under the trees in the fall be sure to perekapat.

 Pear gall mite
Pear gall mite

Medianitsa - A small pest that damages a tree. Insect secretes sticky excrement, resulting in blocked tree development. Fruits acquire an ugly shape, the branches dry out, the plant weakens. You can protect the tree. To do this, be sure to plow the soil, remove fallen leaves. It is necessary to spray a pear with insecticides (metaphos, embouchus, decis).

 Pear Copper
Pear Copper

Scab - infects leaves, fruits and shoots. The infected tree begins to bear fruit badly, the yield decreases several times. You need to fight cardinally. The tree is sprayed with a solution of urea or a solution of ammonium nitrate.

 Defeat pear scab
Defeat pear scab

Wild pear ordinary look and taste. but she has dignity - these are medicinal propertieswhich contains fruit. Therefore, such a tree can easily replace the pharmacy.