- Fruit shape: heart-shaped
- Authors: Belarus
- Growth type: medium-sized
- Appointment: for fresh consumption
- Yield: high
- Tree height, m: from 3 to 3.5
- Crown: pyramidal
- Fruit size: average or above average
- Fruit weight, g: 5-8
- Fruit color: yellow
Cherry Zhurba appeared thanks to the Belarusians in the twentieth century and quickly entered the circle of cherries that won the respect of gardeners. Now the variety appears frequently on the plots compared to previous years. This is explained by the rate of maturation of successful selection, the acquisition of resistance to frost and pest attacks.
Description of the variety
Cherry is intended for fresh consumption. This variety belongs to medium-sized and reaches a height of 3-3.5 m. The crown of a pyramidal shape has light green foliage of medium density. With age, the lower branches may droop slightly.
Fruit characteristics
The size of the heart-shaped fruit is classified as medium or above average. The berries weigh 5-8 g. Matte skin has a yellow tint. Inside the berry has a light yellow juicy pulp of medium density.
Taste qualities
Taste described by tasters: sweet, pleasant. The berries have a yellow juice. Taste score: 4.8 points.
Ripening and fruiting
The early maturity of the Zhurba cherry is 4-5 years. This means that it takes more than four years to wait for the outlandish yellow berries after planting a tree. In terms of flowering time refers to early, in terms of ripening: to medium. The fruiting period begins in the middle of summer.
Yield
Zhurba is a high-yielding tree. Upon reaching adulthood, it blooms every season.
Growing regions
Sweet cherry feels great in the Moscow region and in the Moscow region. Due to its frost resistance (the indicator is high), it is well suited for growing in central Russia and other, more northern regions.
Self-fertility and the need for pollinators
The variety is partly self-fertile. Suitable pollinators: Cherries North, Osvobozhdeniye, Zolotaya Loshitskaya and Narodnaya.
Growing and care
Disembarkation is carried out in a sunny place with fertile soil, well protected from strong wind currents. Fertile land is a kind of guarantor of good survival rate of cherries. It grows poorly in sandy and clayey environments. It is good if the cherry pollinator is located nearby.
The seedlings have a closed root system. Therefore, when planting, it is important to help the tree and spread the roots evenly: the cherry itself will not cope with this. The approximate parameters of the pit: 60x60 cm and 80-90 cm in depth. The distance between trees should be about 3 meters.
The pit is pre-filled with fertilizers by a third. Composition:
35 kg of manure or humus;
1 liter of wood ash;
1 kg of potash type fertilizer;
3 kg superphosphate;
2 kg of ammonium sulfate;
2 buckets of earth.
And also a support post is placed at the bottom of the dug hole, to which at the end it will be possible to tie a tree. Having spread the roots evenly, they begin to fill the pit. The process is accompanied by periodic compaction of the earth. A little earth must be left, so that later it can be sprinkled on the places where shrinkage appeared from the first watering. The trunk of the tree should be 3-5 cm covered with earth.
It is useful to mulch cherries. For this, dry foliage will do.
Weeds are regularly weeded, the process will also be aimed at loosening the soil: in the first years of life, this is especially important for the normal development and growth of the root system.
Fruit trees love watering. The abundant process is carried out three times a season (provided there are no long rainy seasons). Good watering is also essential for cherries after fertilization.
Disease and pest resistance
Zhurba is characterized as a disease-resistant variety. Including it well resists coccomycosis. It is important that protection against diseases (chemical treatment and treatment with solutions) occurs before or after the period of flowering and fruit formation.
