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Every person who has had a chance to collect garden raspberries at least once remembers the unpleasant sensations from sharp thorns digging into their hands. Fortunately, there are varieties of raspberries without thorns. One such amazing plant is the Glen Coe raspberry. We will try to tell you more about the features of a new, little-known variety, the rules of cultivation.
Description
Glen Coe raspberries were bred by Scottish breeders in 1989. To obtain a new plant, the following maternal varieties were used: Glen Prosen and Manger. In Our Country, raspberries have not yet gained wide popularity, since the variety has only recently entered our open spaces.
Bush features
- Exotic raspberry with black berries is represented by a compact shrub 1,5-2 meters high. Shoots are powerful, sprawling. During cultivation, they must be tied up.
- On the long shoots of the Glen Coe raspberry variety, thorns are completely absent. In the first year shoots grow, on which flower buds are laid. Raspberry Glen Coe bears fruit on the shoots of the second year.
- The leaves of the variety are dark green, compound, trifoliate or pinnate.
Fruit
The Scottish raspberry variety Glen Coe, even according to the description of the berries, is exotic for s. Because such large fruits of pink-purple color have not yet been grown in gardens. Wax coating is clearly visible on each berry, as in the photo below. The fruits of the variety are fragrant, sweet, somewhat reminiscent of blackberries in taste.
Berries of a conical shape hang in clusters of 7-9 pieces. Each of them weighs 5 grams. Black fruits do not ripen at the same time, so raspberries are harvested several times.
appointment
Purple raspberries of the Glen Coe variety can be used to make jams, jams, and pie fillings. Finished products acquire a surprisingly beautiful, rich red color. This is a completely natural color change after heat treatment.
From the berries you can make juices, homemade wine and spirits. Glen Coe black raspberries are delicious and fresh, especially from the bush.
Native Americans have long known about the health benefits of purple raspberries. They used raspberries in the treatment of diseased joints.
Characterization
Like any new plant, the exotic raspberry variety Glen Coe needs not only a description and photo display, but also a clarification of the characteristics characteristic of this variety. Gardeners will not start growing raspberries if they are not aware of the advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages
- The black raspberry variety Glen Coe is mid-season, the first fruits are harvested in mid-July, the last berries in September.
- Thornless shoots make picking berries easier.
- The fruit has a universal culinary purpose.
- Productive variety, plants grow quickly and vigorously.
- Glen Coe berries keep well on the bush, do not crumble.
- Raspberry varieties are unpretentious, hardy, able to withstand short-term drought.
- Glen Coe does not form a huge amount of shoots, which greatly simplifies maintenance.
- Shoots bend well before shelter, do not break at the base.
- raspberries of the Glen Coe variety, according to the description and reviews of gardeners, are practically not affected by root rot and wilt of the verticillium type.
Cons
Compared to the advantages, the disadvantages of the Glen Coe variety are practically not noted. Among the minuses, perhaps the lack of winter hardiness of raspberry bushes. In regions with severe winters, young shoots need to be bent down and good shelter is required.
Methods of reproduction
Black raspberry Glen Coe has an interesting feature: new plants can be obtained in various ways:
- rooting of apical layers;
- grafting;
- roots;
- seeds.
Consider each method of raspberry propagation in more detail.
Apical layering
At the end of the growing season, interesting changes can be seen in the shoots of the Glen Coe variety. The tops of raspberries spontaneously lean towards the ground. At the very tip of the shoot, a “loop” and small leaves appear. This is a sure sign that the raspberry is ready to breed.
The shoot is bent to the ground, the crown is sprinkled with fertile soil. After some time, rooting occurs. You can transplant new raspberry plants in autumn or spring.
Cutting
This is one of the most common raspberry propagation options. Cuttings are cut in autumn from well-developed and healthy bushes that have shown an excellent harvest. Cuttings should be no more than 10 centimeters. For work, you need to use a sharp secateurs, previously disinfected.
Glen Coe black raspberry cuttings are placed in an antifungal solution and then stacked in boxes. The bottom is covered with wet peat, in which the future planting material is placed. They store it in unheated rooms at positive temperatures – in the basement, cellar.
Glen Coe raspberry cuttings are planted in the spring, when the threat of frost has disappeared. So that weeds do not complicate the development of new bushes, the soil surface must be mulched.
Propagation by roots
You need to start work with the preparation of a new seat. Choose a site where raspberries, potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants have not grown before. Organic fertilizers are laid in the soil, carefully dug up. After that, the ridges are prepared.
The Glen Coe black raspberry is a plant with a high survival rate. Reproduction by roots is a natural way. Therefore, dug out roots, look at the photo, always have a large number of offspring ready for rooting.
Raspberry rhizomes are planted in trenches 40-50 cm deep. The dug roots are inspected so that there are no signs of decay on them, and laid out at some distance from each other. After that, water is poured, allowed to soak and sprinkled with fertile soil.
When new Glen Coe raspberry bushes are received in the fall, plantings are spudded to insulate the roots. In the spring, the growth of shoots will begin. Raspberry seedlings can be dug up and planted in a permanent place.
If the Glen Coe variety is propagated by root offspring in the spring, then young bushes should be transplanted in the fall, when the foliage has flown around.
seed method
Glen Coe black raspberries, like many other varieties, can be propagated by seeds. They can be purchased at a specialized store or prepare the seed yourself.
The procedure is very simple:
- choose well-ripened berries that fully comply with the description and characteristics of the variety;
- raspberry fruits are slightly dried in the sun, and then rubbed through a sieve, a slurry of pulp and seeds is obtained;
- pour the mass into clean water, stir, the seeds will settle to the bottom;
- spread the seed on a napkin and dry.
Store in the refrigerator in a damp linen.
In the spring, Glen Coe raspberry seeds are mixed with wet sand and sown for seedlings. For the soil, sand and peat are taken in equal proportions. After germination, raspberry seedlings need a long daylight hours, so you have to turn on the lamp. Raspberry seedlings should be watered moderately, but the drying of the topsoil should not be allowed.
Picking seedlings of the Glen Coe variety is carried out when 2-3 true leaves appear. Raspberries are planted in open ground at the onset of sustained heat. Seedlings are first allocated a separate bed, where they are grown. Raspberries are planted in a permanent place in the fall.
Planting and care
You can plant Glen Coe raspberries in spring or autumn. A well-lit place is chosen under the ridge. The fact is that the more light the plants receive, the sweeter and more aromatic the berries.
Landing
Black raspberries of the Glen Coe variety feel comfortable, yield crops on nutritious, well-fertilized soils with organic matter. It is also necessary to regulate the depth of groundwater, they should not be higher than one and a half meters. Otherwise, the raspberry root system is endangered.
During the digging of the soil, the rhizomes of perennial weeds are removed. Lime is added to the soil with high acidity before digging at the rate of 300-600 grams per square meter. Raspberries of the Glen Coe variety are planted in trenches, which are cut at a distance of one meter. Seedlings of a variety with black berries are arranged in increments of 30-50 cm and covered with fertile soil.
Immediately after planting, Glen Coe raspberry seedlings shed well and mulch the soil well. A few days later, pruning is carried out: the shoots should not be more than 40 cm. Such an operation is necessary to accelerate rooting, as well as to form a bush and fruit raspberries next year.
Further care for seedlings is the same as for adult raspberry bushes. This plant loves moisture, especially at the time of flowering and filling of berries, but it is not necessary to fill it to a marsh state: stagnant water provokes root diseases. The grown raspberry shoots are tied to a trellis. The same procedure is carried out in the spring after digging up the shoots.
Features of feeding
During the growing season, mineral or organic fertilizers are applied simultaneously with watering for raspberries. It can be mullein, an infusion of green grass. Be sure to sprinkle wood ash under the bushes of the Glen Coe variety, which is also powdered with leaves.
Here are examples of proportions of different fertilizers (fertilizer/water):
- mullein is bred 1:7;
- bird droppings 1:18;
- herbal infusion 1:9;
- 1 liter of wood ash is dissolved in 10 liters of water;
- 50 grams of superphosphate per ten-liter bucket.
The first time Glen Coe raspberries are fed at the time of flowering, then with an increase in berries. The third feeding is carried out after the first harvest.
Protection against diseases and pests
Raspberries of any variety can suffer from diseases and pests. Immediately after digging up the shoots, until the buds start to grow, the plants are treated with Bordeaux liquid. And not only the stems, but also the soil.
When the first leaves appear, you can spray the plants with a pink solution of potassium permanganate or an infusion of wood ash. This will save the Glen Coe black raspberry bushes from possible pests.
You can use chemicals only as a last resort and before the berries begin to pour.
Wintering
Raspberry Glen Coe – a variety with an extended fruiting period. As a rule, the last berries are harvested until mid-September. After harvesting, fruiting shoots are cut out, leaving a small stump. As for the young shoots of raspberries, they begin to pinch them back at the end of August so that they have time to become woody.
When the leaves fly around, and this happens around mid-October, the replacement shoots are bent down, pinned and covered for the winter. A non-woven material is thrown on top of the raspberries, and then sprinkled with a layer of soil. Until the frosts begin, it is not recommended to completely fall asleep planting. So that the raspberries do not burn out, vents are left from the ends. Capitally closed at night temperature minus 8-10 degrees.