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Fig peach is a type of fruit tree, also nectarine and pubescent. Feature of the variety are flat, like a lush flat cake, fruits, resembling a turnip. This variety of peaches from China originates, and they are commonly called: sushchaty or Fergana peach, but more often, Chinese turnip. Fig peach is more winter-resistant buds and buds, ripens in late August, requires a long, warm summer. Therefore, in the suburbs fruits do not have time to gain taste, ripen. The fruits are distinguished by their high weight, 90-140 g.
Characteristics of flat peach
Like other varieties, fig peach belongs to the Pink family. The disc shape of the fruit is reminiscent of figs, but the hybrid of peach and figs is impossible. The tree is cultivated as a peach, similar agricultural technology, the same diseases and pests. The fruits are different, they have a richer taste and a small bone. However, seed planting transmits maternal properties of the tree. Flat peach is painted in the usual colors - orange and yellow with all shades and a red blush. The skin is less pubescent, and does not detach from the pulp.
The tree can grow to 5 meters in height, the crown is spreading, the gain is weak. There are already standard forms. The requirements for choosing a warm, light, gentle slope, protected from the north wind, are no different from relatives. But the tree blooms in mid-April, which is why it leaves from the late southern frosts. The leaves of the disc peach are lanceolate, dark green above, the reverse side of the plate is grayish. The flowers are like rosehips, have pale pink flowers.
The photo of the fig peach cannot convey the breeze playing with leaves, the warmth and taste of the fruit. 
The description of fig peach draws attention to its useful properties. Fruits incorporate half of the elements of the Periodic Table. They are useful for the prevention of cancer, have a low calorie. Even the smell has a beneficial effect - it helps to ease the depressive state. You can not use this useful fruit for diabetics and those who are allergic to the fruits of pink.
However, the fruits of fig peach until 2010 were eaten only by residents of warm lands. They were not transportable. Miraculously, or thanks to GMOs, they now lie on the shelves of northern shops and do not deteriorate.
How to grow fig peach
Gardeners from the southern regions grow Chinese peach with pleasure. Agrotechnika plants no more difficult than nectarine or ordinary garden tree. But winter hardiness of fruit and leaf buds is higher, the plant is tolerant to the main diseases. The disk peach blossoms later, from cold spells leaves. He needs a lot of heat, in the southern part of the country to Voronezh, some peaches have time to ripen. The cost of the fruits of Chinese peach is 3 times higher than others, the yield is excellent.
Planting flat peach are seedlings from the nursery, or grown from seed. When choosing a peach sapling of figs, it is necessary:
- to clarify where the variety was grown and acclimatized in the area;
- roots must be alive, free from dry and damaged;
- bark from the inside should be green, alive;
- are the best saplings of the same age.
Sapling rooted in a prepared pit in March or late September. Autumn planting is preferred. The fertile substrate is prepared from 2 buckets of organic matter, a liter can of wood ash, a glass of superphosphate and half a glass of potassium chloride in the fall, and sulphate - in the spring. The substrate must not touch the roots directly. Chemical peas can make a chemical burn. After compaction of the earth, the root collar should remain above the soil. After the seedling is watered, the soil is mulched.
Cultivation of fig peach is based on operations:
- watering and feeding;
- formation and annual sanitary pruning;
- pest and disease prevention;
- is protected against freezing.
Fan-shaped formation of fig peach provides each sheet of the crop for luminous flux. In the future, the tree needs sanitary and thinning pruning. Pruning should provide a fan arrangement of branches. They are left no longer than 50 cm. Each cut into a ring, a stump, is treated with a garden bar according to a dry cut.
Peach feeding begins from the second year after rooting. In the spring, mineral and organic nitrogen fertilizers are required. After harvesting, it is necessary to increase winter hardiness by feeding the tree with potash-phosphorus mixtures. Before winter, you can insulate the roots with manure, placed in a trunk circle, without touching the trunk. Digging around the trunk circle will saturate the earth with oxygen.
Spring spring spraying of a tree with 1% solution of copper sulfate will destroy the hibernating spores and mycelium. The treatment schedule is normal - after the snow melted, according to the buds, before flowering and after.
Varietal diversity of culture
Consider some varieties that are common in the regions of Russia.
The tree is low, regular crops. Resistant to major diseases of flat peaches. Fruits leveled, the weight of one berry 180 g, sweet juicy, the color of the flesh is cream.
The tree is low, skoroplodnoe. The yield of the crop is simultaneous. Fruits weigh 140-150 grams, pleasant, sweet-sour taste.
Rich taste, small bone, good harvest - what more could a gardener want! The weight of round "saucers is 80-120 grams. The variety does not like transportation, it is stored for long.
The large-scale variety Saturn of the American selection was bred in 1820, but for its outstanding qualities we love gardeners of all countries.
Modern varieties of fig peaches have several kolonovidnyh that are easy to cover for the winter. But in the Moscow region for a set of taste they do not have enough heat and light. In Voronezh, a tender tree is already cultivated.
