Gooseberry Candy

Gooseberry Candy
The main characteristics of the variety:
  • Authors: B. C. Ilyin (South Ural Research Institute of Horticulture and Potato Growing)
  • Appeared when crossing: 3-65 (Spark x mixture of pollen of varieties Brazilian, Dates, Varshavsky) x Change
  • Year of approval: 2008
  • Growth type: medium-sized
  • Description of the bush: erect, dense, compressed
  • Escapes: growing - medium to thin, green, not pubescent, curved
  • Thorniness: weak
  • Thorns: medium length, thin, brown
  • Sheet: five-lobed, medium, green, shiny, hairless, slightly wrinkled, leathery
  • Spike location: none at the top
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Thanks to the tireless work of breeders, the popularity of gooseberries is growing, and useful berries are increasingly appearing on the plots. The universal variety Candy has a dessert taste and allows you to use the berry in various forms. It is tasty fresh, excellent jams, jams, confitures and even marmalade are made from it.

Breeding history

The authorship in obtaining a wonderful variety belongs to the breeder of the South Ural Research Institute of Fruit and Vegetable and Potato Growing, B. S. Ilyin. As parental varieties he used for crossing 3-65 (Iskra and a mixture of pollen varieties Brazilian, Finik, Varshavsky), as well as Smena. Approved for use in 2008.

Description of the variety

Medium-sized straight bushes have a compressed shape and dense filling. Growing curved shoots with weak spinousness, non-pubescent, curved, of medium thickness. Young branches are covered with green skin, which over time becomes lignified. The bush is covered with medium-sized, five-lobed green leaves without pubescence, with a shiny, slightly wrinkled leathery-type surface. Shoots are poorly covered with thin, brown spines of medium length, located in the lower part. The gooseberry blooms with medium-sized, goblet-shaped, pale pink flowers, collected in a one-two-flowered inflorescence.

Advantages of the variety:

  • unpretentiousness;

  • strong immunity;

  • self-fertility and compactness;

  • winter hardiness and frost resistance;

  • low tenoniness, dessert taste, presentation, the possibility of growing in areas of risky farming.

Of the shortcomings, it is worth paying attention to the exactingness of the soil, but correct planting and adherence to agrotechnical rules will subsequently allow you to get excellent and stable yields.

Characteristics of berries

Large and medium-sized rounded-oval, one-dimensional berries weighing from 3 to 6 grams are colored in a caramel-pink shade. Fruits with a small number of seeds are covered with a skin of medium thickness with slight pubescence.

Taste qualities

The berry has a sweet dessert taste with a slight sourness. The fruits contain 8.6% sugars and 55.2 mg /% vitamin C. Gooseberries have the highest possible tasting score - 5 points.

Ripening and fruiting

The variety belongs to the late ripening category.

Yield

Candy has high yields - from 1.8 to 6.2 kg are harvested from one bush, an average of 6 to 20.6 tons are obtained per hectare. The yield of the variety largely depends on the region of cultivation. Adapted to temperate climates, only in such conditions can gooseberries reach their full potential.

Growing regions

The variety is intended for cultivation in the East Siberian and West Siberian regions.

Landing

For planting, select well-lit places with a neutral level of acidity, protection from northern winds and cold drafts. One of the advantages of the variety is its indifference to the position of groundwater, since the root system of Candy is located near the surface, at a depth not exceeding 30 cm.Choose two-year-old seedlings, on which no more than five buds are left, cutting off everything else.

The optimal size of the planting pit is approximately the volume of a bucket. The removed soil is enriched with 50 g of superphosphate, 40 g of potassium sulfate, half a glass of wood ash and ¼ a bucket of humus. The root collar is buried 3-4 cm, the soil is compacted and watered, mulching after that with a layer of peat. The distance between bushes is 1.5 m, at least two meters between rows.

Planting shrubs in different seasons has its own pros and cons. In order for a gooseberry to start, you need to know some aspects of planting it. First of all, you need to choose the right planting material, then decide on the landing site and competently prepare the planting pit.

Growing and caring

The variety has a high self-fertility and does not need additional pollination, however, if desired, you can use the cross-pollination method. All planting care consists of traditional agricultural techniques.

  • Watering. The superficial root system is not able to independently extract moisture at a depth, therefore regular irrigation is important for gooseberries. At the same time, the bushes react most gratefully to rain or settled warm water. During flowering, watered weekly, then the frequency is reduced, except for drought. Plentiful autumn watering helps the plants overwinter.

  • Pruning. Sanitary pruning is carried out in early spring, when frozen, diseased, dry and deformed shoots are removed. Shoots older than 7 years are removed. Such techniques relieve the bushes from thickening, stimulate the growth of young shoots.

Do not ignore weeding, loosening or mulching, adding additional nutrients starting 3 years after planting.

In order to rejuvenate the gooseberry bush, give it a neat look, optimize yield and protect it from pests, it must be periodically pruned. There are several types of pruning: anti-aging, sanitary and shaping. Each of them differs in seasonality and frequency.
For feeding gooseberries, both mineral and complex mixtures are well suited. Pure organic, including homemade, can also be recommended.
Although the gooseberry is considered to be an unpretentious crop, it also requires regular maintenance. Compliance with agrotechnical practices in the autumn-winter period guarantees the duration of fruiting and high yields for the next year, therefore, preparing the gooseberry for winter is an important event.

Disease and pest resistance

Gooseberry Candy has good health and high resistance to many diseases, including American powdery mildew, anthracnose and others. Resistance to septoria is slightly lower. In order to avoid damage to bushes by pests and diseases, preventive treatments with insecticides and fungicides are required.

In order for the gooseberry to produce a good harvest, it is necessary to devote time to disease prevention.

Resistance to adverse climatic conditions

The variety shows excellent winter hardiness and drought resistance.

One of the positive qualities of a gooseberry is its ease of reproduction. There are a number of methods for creating new bushes from old ones. Planting material is obtained by cuttings, layering and dividing the bush.
Main characteristics
Authors
B. C.Ilyin (South Ural Research Institute of Horticulture and Potato Growing)
Appeared when crossing
3-65 (Spark x mixture of pollen of varieties Brazilian, Dates, Varshavsky) x Change
Year of approval
2008
Appointment
universal
Yield
high
Average yield
6-20.6 t / ha (1.8-6.2 kg / bush)
Bush
Growth type
medium-sized
Description of the bush
erect, dense, compressed
The presence of thorns
with spikes
Thorniness
weak
Escapes
growing - of medium thickness or thin, green, not pubescent, curved
Sheet
five-lobed, medium, green, glossy, hairless, slightly wrinkled, leathery
Thorns
medium length, thin, brown
Spike location
at the top are absent
Flowers
medium-sized, goblet, pale pink
Inflorescence
one-two-flowered
Berries
Berry size
large and medium
Berry weight, g
3-6
Berry shape
round-oval, one-dimensional
Berry color
pink
Skin
medium, slightly pubescent
Taste
sweet and sour, dessert
Number of seeds
the average
Berry composition
sugar 8.8%, acid 1.2%, vitamin C 55.2 mg%
Tasting assessment
5 points
Growing
Self-fertility
high
Winter hardiness
high
Drought tolerance
high
Growing regions
East Siberian, West Siberian
Disease and pest resistance
average
Resistant to American powdery mildew
high
Anthracnose resistance
high
Septoria resistance
average
Maturation
Ripening terms
late
Reviews
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