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Honeysuckle is a bushy plant with edible fruits. Various varieties have been developed that differ in yield, flowering period, frost resistance and other characteristics. Description of the variety of honeysuckle Chulymskaya will help gardeners to become more familiar with the culture and properly care for it.
Description of honeysuckle Chulymskaya
Shrub up to 1 m in height, perennial, medium-sized, sprawling. Included in the extensive honeysuckle family. Shoots are medium, not thick, green, pubescent. The leaves are almond-shaped.
Fruits of irregular shape, laterally flattened, fusiform, with a dimple at the top. The color varies from plum and bluish to dark purple with a waxy coating and thin skin. Weight from 1,1 to 1,7 g. Chulymskaya honeysuckle berries are distinguished by high taste qualities. They are sweet and sour, refreshing, similar to blueberries. Productivity reaches 5 kg from one bush. Suitable for eating.
The berries of the Chulym honeysuckle are rich in vitamins and minerals, have a tonic effect on the body, strengthen the immune system
Planting and caring for honeysuckle Chulymskaya
With a caring attitude and proper care, the Chulym honeysuckle will delight you with fresh greens and fragrant flowers for a long time. To get a high-yielding shrub, you must adhere to the rules of planting and care.
Terms of planting
You can plant young bushes in autumn or spring. Saplings with open roots are best planted in September or early October.
It is advisable to transfer young Chulym honeysuckle bushes with a closed root system to the ground in the spring (end of March – April), but this can be done at any time of the year.
Selection and preparation of the landing site
Chulym honeysuckle is an unpretentious culture, but the choice of landing site must be approached responsibly. The seedling needs sufficient lighting, but with its excess, it begins to dry and hurt. Shading inhibits the processes of flowering and fruiting. It is necessary to find a place where the lower part of the plant will be in the shade, and the upper part will receive direct sunlight.
The place must be chosen so that the Chulymskaya honeysuckle does not stand in the wind. Strong gusts can pluck flowers and fruits from branches.
Seedlings can be tied up until they are firmly rooted in a new place.
The soil should be moist and fertile, well drained with a neutral pH (between 6 and 7,8).
Rules of landing
Honeysuckle Chulymskaya grows in one place up to 30 years, expanding extensively. If there are several bushes, then between them, when planting, they maintain a distance of 1-1,5 m.
The size and location of the planting pit must be calculated so that the overgrown honeysuckle does not interfere with other plants.
Honeysuckle Chulymskaya has a fibrous root system that does not go deep. A hole of 50×50 cm will be enough for planting. Before the procedure, the seedling is briefly placed in warm water.
Compost is added to the planting hole. If it is not there, then dry branches sprinkled with black soil are suitable as fertilizer. Organic food waste, hay, withered weeds are laid on top. Sprinkle a handful of bokashi, this will help to quickly process organic matter, add fertile soil and tamp. By the time the honeysuckle root system is strong, there will be enough nutrients around.
Before planting, the land is treated for pests and fungal diseases. 1-2 buckets of water with a dissolved agent are poured into the pit. Suitable Fitosporin, Bravo, Bona Forte.
Two-year-old bushes are planted on the site. After planting, they are covered with soil so that a few centimeters remain to the top. A seedling of Chulym honeysuckle compacted with earth is watered with a bucket of water at room temperature.
For additional protection and acceleration of survival, the soil around the Chulym honeysuckle is mulched with coniferous branches, sawdust, and dead wood.
Watering and feeding
In order for the Chulym honeysuckle to take root, it is required to maintain optimal soil moisture. In the first month after planting, the plant is watered 1-2 times a week. The culture is highly drought-resistant, but during dry periods it is watered 3 times a week.
Honeysuckle Chulymskaya loves both basal watering and bathing in a shower from a watering can or hose
Honeysuckle Chulymskaya does not need fertilizers and top dressings for the first 3-4 years. You can make wood ash diluted in water (1:10). A shrub at the age of 4-5 years is fed with mineral fertilizers or organic matter (humus, bird droppings, manure).
Pruning edible honeysuckle Chulymskaya
Pruning of the Chulymskaya is carried out after three years. Until this period, only excessively long shoots and dry branches are removed with secateurs.
The haircut is postponed to August. During flowering, it is undesirable to do this, because there is a risk of losing half of the future crop. You can cut the Chulym honeysuckle at the beginning of spring: at this time, the shoots growing deep into the bush, old, rotten and dry from the base, are removed.
Dried or frozen shoots interfere with the development of the bush
Sanitary pruning is relevant once every 2 years. Cut out about 1/3 of the bush. This stimulates the plant to bear fruit more and allows you to create a neat crown.
Anti-aging pruning is suitable for old Chulym honeysuckle bushes. Perform it at the end of autumn, or in March. Cut off all shoots at a distance of 30 cm from the ground.
Wintering
Honeysuckle is one of the most frost-resistant plants for the garden. The trimmed Chulymskaya bush perfectly tolerates frosts down to -40 ° C, even without shelter. The upper one-year-old shoots may freeze slightly, but in the spring the plant quickly recovers.
In the southern regions, Chulymskaya honeysuckle may bloom in autumn due to warm weather. In this case, the shoots are pruned. In Siberia and beyond the Urals, the plant is advised to cover for the winter period with hay or garden film.
Reproduction
Honeysuckle Chulym is propagated using cuttings. The plant is bred with seeds only by breeders in order to obtain new varieties and hybrids.
Young cuttings of Chulym honeysuckle are characterized by rapid adaptation and good survival.
Cuttings are a familiar and popular method. In an adult bush at the age of 4-5 years, a strong shoot is cut in the spring and divided into parts of 15-20 cm. The cut should be oblique from below, straight from above. The cuttings are dried, sprinkled with a growth stimulator and planted in boxes at a slight angle. The soil for seedlings should be constantly moist. Choose black soil with the addition of sand. After landing in the ground, regularly loosen. For 3 weeks, cuttings of Chulym honeysuckle should take root and bud. Depending on the region, they can be planted on the site or in tubs.
Honeysuckle Pollinators Chulymskaya
To get a good harvest, plant several different varieties for cross-pollination. It is better to arrange the seedlings in a checkerboard pattern for a larger harvest. For Chulym honeysuckle, neighbors such as the Giant’s Daughter, Dwarf, Giant, Delight are suitable. During the flowering period, they produce a large amount of pollen, which is carried by honey bees, wasps, flies, and also by the wind.
Group growth allows for uniform pollination of edible varieties
There is another way to increase the yield of Chulym honeysuckle – this is to attract pollinating insects to the site. Honey bees and bumblebees are the best at this task. Before flowering, the bushes are sprayed with a sugar solution at the rate of 3 tbsp. l. honey or sugar with a slide for 10 liters of water.
Diseases and pests
Honeysuckle is very resistant to parasites and diseases. But still there is a list of negative influences that spoil the appearance and health of the plant.
The aphid parasitizes on young shoots and bushes of the Chulym honeysuckle, sucking the juice out of them, weakening the growth. The plant blooms worse. The leaves turn yellow, curl into brown dry tubes. Spring sprayings with a 0,2% solution of Candifor, Aktellik and Rogor help against aphids.
Aphid colonies can destroy the entire crop
Scale insect larvae hibernate under honeysuckle bark, and in spring crawl out and attach to the bark, becoming covered with a hard shell. They suck out nutrients, inhibit the development of young shoots. Control measures are the same as for aphids.
Leaf-eating pests (sawflies, leafworms, goldfish, fingerwings) gnaw holes in the leaves and spoil fresh shoots, eat away buds and buds on bushes in spring. Control measures: spraying with drugs Eleksar, Rogor, Inta-vir, chlorophos.
The gall nematode is a microscopic worm that lives in the soil. They suck the juices from the roots and cause significant damage to the lower parts of the Chulym honeysuckle. They carry many viruses that are difficult to get rid of. Control measures: tillage and roots with Topsin-M solution.
Powdery mildew. Appears as a white or light gray bloom on the leaves of Chulymskaya. Over time, such a sheet is deformed, dries and falls off. The bush reduces the overall frost resistance.
Soot fungus appears as a black coating on the upper side of the leaves, mainly on young shoots. Control measures and treatment of Chulym honeysuckle bushes: spraying with solutions of wood ash, soda, colloidal sulfur, laundry soap, as well as Topsin-M, Topaz preparations.
If the plant already has flowers or ovaries, it is recommended to choose a more gentle way of fighting, but it is better to wait with it altogether, or sacrifice the harvest.
Conclusion
The description of the Chulymskaya honeysuckle variety allows you to evaluate this crop before choosing it for planting. Those gardeners who have already managed to appreciate the yield and taste of fruits recommend a variety for planting in regions with a temperate climate.
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