2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Among the variety of fruit crops, there is one that still remains an exotic plant for Russian gardeners. A shrub with an unusual name multiflora (Elaeagnus multiflora), or gum (gumi), was brought to Sakhalin Island from Japan, and China is considered its homeland
Although the sucker is considered a Far Eastern plant, you can get a harvest of berries in any climatic zone of Russia.
Description
The multifloral goose is a beautiful shrub with unusual fruits that will certainly decorate your garden plot. Gumi is the Japanese name for sucker.
The shrub is durable, with proper care it bears fruit for up to 25 years. In height, the sucker can reach 1, 5 - 3 m, the crown has a pyramidal or spreading shape. The leaves of the plant are oblong, entire. A distinctive feature of the plant is the stellate-scaly pubescence of shoots and leaves, which gives a silvery color on top, and a golden brownish tint from below. Branching shoots, brown in color, have spines up to 5 cm. The root system is fibrous, well developed, lies at a depth of 50 cm. Nitrogen-fixing nodules are formed on the surface roots, as in all representatives of the loch family.
The sucker blooms in small, creamy yellow, drooping, bell-like flowers. They have a pleasant scent that attracts insects. Gummy blooms in May - June. The flowers are bisexual, but self-fertile forms are found. It is advisable to plant three bushes in the garden for better pollination as a safety net.
Fruits appear in late July - early August. The appearance of the sucker berry resembles a date or dogwood, only keeps on a long stalk. The attractive color of the gum berry makes the shrub stand out from the rest of the plants in your garden and gives it an elegant look. The color of the fruit varies from yellowish-green to cherry-red, the thin skin is strewn with star-shaped pearl-silvery dots. The shape of the berry is cylindrical, length 1, 5 - 2 cm, diameter - 1 cm, weight up to 2 g. Inside the fruit there is a stone with an uneven surface, which occupies 20% of the weight of the berry. The pulp is juicy, dark red, sweet and sour to the taste. Unripe fruits are tart, sugar content increases during ripening. The taste of ripe sucker fruit is similar to persimmon or quince. The first crop is harvested from a three-year-old shrub.
Soil for sucker
You can grow sucker in almost any land by introducing organic fertilizers. The only thing that sucker doesn't like is acidic soils. If this is the soil in your garden area, and there is a desire to grow this amazing shrub, then add dolomite flour to the hole for planting, at the rate of 300 - 500 g per square meter.
Planting a sucker
The most optimal time for planting sucker seedlings is spring. Only the soil for planting needs to be prepared in advance in the fall. Choose a warm, moist, well-lit area that is sheltered from the wind for the shrub.
For young shrubs, planting holes are dug 50x50x50 cm in size. At the bottom of the hole, create drainage from fragments of pebbles, bricks, gravel, pebbles with a layer of 10 cm. Then fill it with a mixture of fertile soil, turf, wood ash and double superphosphate..
When planting cuttings, remember that the root collar is buried only 5 - 8 cm, the earth is well tamped around the seedling and watered abundantly. It is necessary to mulch the soil around the plant. For this purpose, use sawdust, peat or humus.
Loch care
For the first two years, fertilizers can be omitted. In subsequent years, subcrustations are needed with liquid mullein or bird droppings during the growing season. During flowering, use 20g urea per plant. If the summer is dry, then the shrub is watered with 30 liters of water per square meter and the soil must be mulched after watering. Periodically weed and loosen the bite strip. Pruning at the end of July every year, removing dead, broken branches.
For the winter, be sure to cover the soil near the shrub with half-matured manure, thereby improving the air-thermal regime and retaining moisture around the root system. The sucker has a short dormant period, therefore, for the winter hardiness of the plant, in the fall, the shoots should be bent to the ground and covered with brushwood or burlap.
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