- Taste: sweet
- The size: large
- Weight: 25-30 gr
- Repairability: Yes
- Ripening terms: early
- Description of the bush: compact
- Berry color: Dark red
- Winter hardiness: winter hardy
- Amplitude: Yes
- Height and width of the bush: height 25-30 cm
Ampel strawberry, to which the hybrid variety Roman F1 belongs, has long been considered by gardeners and landscape designers as a universal plant. It is both fruitful and highly decorative, and at the same time undemanding.
Description of the variety
Strawberry Roman is not only remontant, but also ampelous culture. It has a genetically built capacity for continuous flowering and fruiting. The bushes are quite powerful, but at the same time compact, giving long stepchildren, at the end of which new rosettes develop, also bearing fruit. In this case, the stepson can reach a length of 100 cm.
Ripening terms
The repaired species of the plant classifies it as an early variety, allows it to bloom and bear fruit throughout the growing season. If the berry is grown in a greenhouse or indoor conditions, then harvesting is possible all year round. The hybrid blooms from May to October outdoors and indoors all year round. The fruiting period coincides with the flowering period.
Yield
The bush is able to bear fruit abundantly due to the mustache and good agricultural technology. Its reparability provides a stable, multiple harvest for the entire summer-autumn season.
Berries and their taste
An elongated large berry of a beautiful drop-shaped shape is painted in dark red color, has a weight of 25-30 g. Fruits with dense, juicy pulp, have a delicate and pleasant aroma with a pronounced sweet taste.
Growing features
The hybrid is grown not only in garden conditions, but also in pots or balcony containers. The amazing quality of ampel varieties is the possibility of developing stepchildren by air. This allows plants to be grown in hanging planters when the fruit is developing at the ends of the long stepsons.
For growing in pots, the Roman variety requires drainage at the bottom, fertile, breathable soil. When grown in traditional conditions on the ground, plants need sunny places, they need regular loosening after watering and weeding. The distance during planting is maintained in row spacings of 25-30 cm, between bushes 15-20 cm. The variety needs pruning after the first harvest - the lower row of foliage is removed. A large number of mustaches can be thinned out or removed entirely.
Site selection and soil preparation
For active fruiting, the hybrid variety Roman needs light and breathable soil. The acidity level is close to neutral - 5.2-5.5 pH. The variety does not need shading; an 8-10-hour daylight hours are enough for the development of fruits. Strawberries coexist well with green manure such as phacelia, rapeseed and others. The plant is afraid of frost, therefore, in early spring, when the planting temperature is threatened, it is covered with agrofibre.
Pollination
The hybrid belongs to self-fertile varieties and does not need the participation of pollinating varieties.
Top dressing
Like any other variety of garden strawberries, strawberries, Roman needs timely application of mineral and organic fertilizers:
in spring, these are nitrogen-containing compounds;
summer potash-phosphorus fertilizers;
in the fall, the introduction of organic matter - compost, humus.
Don't forget about complex special compositions.
One of the important techniques in strawberry care is feeding. Regular fertilization guarantees a rich harvest. There are several different ways to feed strawberries, and each of them is designed for a specific period of plant development. During flowering, fruiting and after it, feeding should be different.
Diseases and pests
The variety, like others, is susceptible to diseases such as:
gray rot;
late blight;
powdery mildew.
And:
nematodes;
strawberry mite;
strawberry weevil.
In the case of fungal diseases, fungicides should be used. As for the defeat by pests, in this case, insecticides are used. In addition, all of these drugs can be used prophylactically.
Strawberries are often subject to many dangerous diseases that can seriously undermine their condition. Among the most common are powdery mildew, gray mold, brown spot, anthracnose, and verticillosis. Before buying a variety, you need to inquire about its disease resistance.
Reproduction
Garden strawberry Roman is easily propagated by layering stepsons. To get new outlets, you don't even need to have experience - the plant itself will take care of the new planting material. It's all about the numerous mustaches, on each of which young rosette bushes develop.