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Almost every gardener grows raspberries. The plant is unpretentious. But the benefits of raspberries, leaves and flowers are huge. Delicious fragrant fruits come in all sorts of shades. In recent years, s have become interested in remontant varieties, among which raspberry Orange Miracle is popular.
Remontant raspberry varieties have their own characteristics when planting, growing, and propagating. Beginning gardeners make a lot of mistakes. The article will talk about the nuances of the Orange Miracle variety regarding care.
Description
Remontant raspberries of the Orange Miracle variety correspond to the description. It was created by domestic breeders from the city of Bryansk.
Raspberry features:
- The height of the bush is up to two meters. Raspberry shoots are not sprawling, compact, but grow slowly. Up to 8 upright shoots are formed every year. On them, prickly spikes are clearly felt, located from top to bottom;
- The foliage is bright green, with a noticeable wrinkle. The teeth on the leaves are small.
- Velvety orange berries are large: up to 4 cm long, weight up to 8 grams. Some plants can have up to 8 grams. To compare the raspberries in the photo, a matchbox was used. In sunny summer, the fruits become pinkish. Cloudy weather affects the color in its own way: the orange miracle is colored with yellowish berries.
- The fruits of this raspberry variety are dense, the drupes do not fall apart after harvesting into particles, remain whole. The fruit itself is an elongated conical shape, the tip is rounded.
- The taste of berries also depends on the number of sunny days. The more sun, the sweeter the berry. Cloudy weather and rains add sourness to the fruits.
- Variety Orange miracle is mid-season, fruiting is extended. Apparently, therefore, this raspberry is practically not cultivated in large horticultural farms. Ripening begins by the end of July, and continues until the first frost.
Description of raspberry Orange miracle can be viewed on the video:
Pros and cons of the variety
Pros
Raspberry Orange Miracle has taken a strong position in the gardens of s due to a number of advantages:
- The yield is high. One bush gives up to 3 kg of delicious fragrant berries.
- Dense fruits differ in keeping quality and transportability. Gardeners note in reviews that raspberries of this variety can be stored in a room for up to 5 days, on a refrigerator shelf for up to two weeks. Isn’t that a miracle!
- The berries are firmly held on the petioles, even overripe ones rarely fall off.
- Plants are frost-resistant, with good shelter they do not freeze out even at temperatures from -25 to -30 degrees.
- The life cycle in one place is long. Planting raspberries can not be updated for up to 15 years, while the varietal qualities do not change.
- The berries are hypoallergenic due to their orange color.
- Tasters give the Orange Miracle variety up to 4,7 points out of 5.
- Raspberry Orange Miracle, judging by the description of the variety, photos and reviews of gardeners, has a unique property that is not inherent in other raspberry plants: unripe berries can reach technical ripeness if the twigs are placed in water. Raspberry berry bouquets gradually change color, creating a unique design in the room. The aroma of berries hovers in the room for up to a week and a half.
- Culinary properties are high. Raspberries grown in summer can be canned, frozen, dried.
Grade Cons
As you can see, the remontant raspberry variety has many advantages. Are there any downsides? Let’s look into this issue so that novice gardeners can make the right choice:
- The plant has sharp thorns already growing on the shoots of the first year.
- The wind can break flexible shoots, damage the berries themselves on the thorns. But if you tie up the raspberries, then the problem disappears by itself.
- Breeders failed to instill immunity to gray rot.
- Raspberries of this variety do not tolerate drought well, even short-term drying of the soil is not allowed.
As can be seen from the characteristics of the remontant raspberry of the Orange Miracle variety, there are not so many shortcomings. They, in comparison with the merits, cannot be the reason why gardeners refuse to grow an amazing plant.
How to plant raspberries correctly
Remontant raspberries with orange berries are recommended for cultivation in many regions of Our Country. The main condition is to plant the plant correctly. This is exactly what worries those who are just starting to deal with remontant raspberry varieties. We hope that our advice will help you avoid mistakes.
Features of the choice of seedlings
The choice of raspberry seedlings when planting the remontant variety Orange Miracle should be taken seriously. Purchasing from random sellers is undesirable. After all, it is not known in what conditions raspberries were grown. Often, along with a seedling, diseases and pests can be brought to the site.
In addition, it often happens that unscrupulous sellers can sell who knows what instead of the Orange Miracle. Therefore, it is best to buy planting material in nurseries.
What should be a viable raspberry seedling:
- It should have no more than 2-3 shoots without the slightest sign of damage and disease. The presence of leaves is not a negative quality. They can also determine the health of the plant.
- The root of the seedling of this raspberry variety should be given special attention. If the root system is open, rot, flaky scales are easy to notice. The presence of brown roots indicates that the plant has been without water for a long time. Such seedlings cannot be taken. Seedlings with an open system cannot be stored in the sun, they quickly lose viability.
- In a closed root system, the soil is stitched with white roots.
Difference between open and closed root system
Let’s deal with these concepts, because for beginner gardeners a lot is not clear:
- Raspberry seedlings, which were grown in the field and temporarily dug or wrapped in cellophane, have an open root system. When buying, you need to pay attention to the presence of white roots. This is a sign that the plant has been dug up recently. Such seedlings are inexpensive, but their survival rate is lower.
- Seedlings with a closed system are grown in containers, sold with a large clod of earth. If during extraction the lump does not crumble, it is stitched with roots, which means that the planting material is good. Seedlings are expensive, but take root quickly. Although in this case there may be flaws. If the seller is unscrupulous, with a clod of earth can be transferred to the area of uXNUMXbuXNUMXbdisease and pests. These remontant raspberry seedlings in the photo below, judging by the description, are a good option for gardeners.
Site Selection
To grow healthy raspberries and get a rich harvest of berries, you need to choose an open area with good lighting for the Orange Miracle. If you grow bushes in a shaded state, the taste of the berries will not change for the better. Yes, yields will decrease. When placing seedlings, you need to protect them from the north wind.
Preparing the soil
Variety Orange miracle does not grow well on acidic soils. The predecessors of remontant raspberries with orange berries can be tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants.
Soil preparation for raspberries is done 30 days before planting. Fertilizers are applied to the soil:
- potassium sulfate – 45 grams;
- superphosphate – 15 grams;
- humus or compost – up to 12 kg.
Top dressing is laid in the holes, mixed with the soil.
Immediately before planting, a trench is dug along the proposed bed with raspberries at least half a meter. It also needs to be filled with potassium sulfate and superphosphate in a glass, and a liter jar of ash per linear meter. From above, the trench is covered with earth and rammed. Such a trench will give the new shoots of remontant raspberries additional nutrition.
Features of planting seedlings
Raspberry variety with orange berries bears fruit on the shoots of the first and second year. Therefore, a plant planted in spring will already yield a crop by the end of summer.
Judging by the reviews of gardeners, some of them are engaged in planting in the spring, the rest prefer autumn work.
Step-by-step instruction:
- If an orange raspberry seedling with an open root system is planted permanently, then the roots are cut first, then the shoot is shortened by a third.
- Having lowered the seedling into the hole, hold it vertically. The roots are carefully straightened in the hole. When falling asleep with soil, they should be underground and the kidneys at the root. But the root neck does not need to be dropped. It remains at ground level when landing.
- Under each raspberry seedling of this variety, after planting, 2-3 buckets of water are poured.
- To retain moisture and prevent the formation of an airtight crust, plants are mulched with humus or compost. In autumn, you can use sawdust or dry foliage as mulch.
Planting a raspberry seedling with a closed root system is easier.
Care instructions
Repair raspberry Orange miracle, judging by the description and reviews, is considered an unpretentious plant. There is nothing complicated in growing and caring. Everything is exactly the same as with the rest of the raspberry bushes of other varieties. The main thing is to water, cut, tie up and feed raspberries during the growing season. Naturally, you will have to take care of shelter for the winter.
The remontant variety Orange Miracle is demanding on watering. We talked about this in the description and characteristics of the raspberry variety. But overwatering can cause root rot and other diseases. Therefore, with this type of care for remontant raspberries with orange berries, you need to be careful.
Plantings are fed throughout the growing season. This raspberry variety responds well to solutions of mullein, bird droppings. Between the rows and under the plants, wood ash is also added. Top dressing is best applied before watering.
Look at this photo, and you want to reach out to the berry.
Raspberry beds should not be allowed to grow with weeds. After weeding and watering, surface loosening of the soil is carried out.
Since there are a lot of large berries on the raspberries of the Orange Miracle variety, as noted in the description, the shoots begin to bend down to the ground, and you can lose part of the crop. To save the situation will help tying raspberries to the trellis. Experienced gardeners, leaving reviews, also draw the attention of beginners to this stage of caring for the Orange miracle.
Pruning and sheltering for the winter
Remontant raspberries with orange berries can be grown as one-year and two-year shoots. Each gardener decides this issue individually, there is no consensus on this issue.
If you leave the replacement shoots for the winter, then they need to be bent to the ground at the end of October, until they are frozen, tied in bunches. The beds are completely covered in November. Dry humus, compost, sawdust can serve as a shelter for raspberries.
When growing a variety of remontant raspberries, the Orange Miracle on the shoots of the first year, the fruiting bushes are cut off at the base of the earth, leaving no high stumps. Cut shoots must be burned. The method of sheltering raspberries is the same. In the photo below, the gardener made a mistake. Try to define it.
About the features of remontant raspberries:
