Features of acclimatization of Ligustrum L. in the Middle Urals

Abstract

The article is devoted to the introduction and acclimatization of Ligustrum vulgare L. in the Middle Urals since the creation of the collection in 1960. At that time, the average annual temperature was only 1°C and Ligustrum vulgare L. froze, grew again and fruited in favorable years. It was possible to create an introduction population by families, but, nevertheless, in 1998 all plants died from the return of cold weather and frosts. The study of the growth and development of privet has been resumed since 2016. Several geographical samples of seedlings grown without irrigation were studied. It turned out that the sample from Barnaul turned out to be the best in all indicators, close values of growth and development of plants from seeds from Samara, and the worst indicators of plants from seeds obtained from Kazan. Average values were noted in Ligustrum ibota (Kaliningrad reproduction), while agrotechnical care (watering and weeding) revealed the maximum height in a sample from Penza.