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Large cherry: varieties
Large-fruited sweet cherry was bred by Ukrainian breeders and is distinguished by very large sizes of fruit berries. During the selection process, the varieties “Valery Chkalov”, “Elton” and others were used. In the late eighties, the tree spread throughout the southern regions of Russia. Today it is very popular among gardeners.
Description of large-fruited cherries
The tree is self-fruitless, without pollinating neighbors it will not yield a crop. But if a cherry of such a variety grows nearby, which blooms at the same time as large-fruited, you can get a very high yield.
The large-fruited cherry has large bright red fruits
The plant has a number of distinctive features:
- The tree is very tall, reaching 10 meters.
- The crown is spherical, the trunk is straight with a light bark.
- The fruits are large, weighing up to 12 g, juicy, bittersweet.
- The stone is large, easily separated from the pulp.
- The skin is firm, black when ripe.
The variety is resistant to disease. Gray rot is affected only in too rainy weather. If the weather is favorable during the fruiting period, the fruits remain smooth and elastic.
Sweet cherries bear fruit poorly in shaded areas, but can grow in a thickened forest belt. Its height allows it to stretch higher than other plants, and it does not suffer much. But harvesting is difficult.
Characteristics of large-fruited cherry varieties
Recently, modern breeders have bred many varieties of sweet cherries with large fruits. Here are some of them:
- “Burlat” – maroon, sweet, high-yielding, early.
- Denisena yellow – yellow, sweet, very fruitful, medium late.
- “Revna” – dark red, sweet, juicy, mid-late, medium-yielding.
- “Red Butnera” – sweet and sour, red-pink, medium late, high-yielding.
- “Schneider late” – dark cherry, juicy, high-yielding.
- “Gedelfinger” – dark cherry, sweet and sour, low-yielding, late.
This is just a part of the large-fruited varieties known to modern gardeners. There are still a lot of them, and the list grows every year.
Today, in the gardens you can find mainly large-fruited high-yielding varieties, almost no one is engaged in small ones. Gardeners use them as a scion for varietal cherries and cherries.
In recent years, genetics has made great strides in providing new methods for breeding new varieties. This makes it possible to combine the best qualities in one variety.