Raspberry Cascade Delight

The culture conquered domestic lovers of raspberries with its high yield, juiciness and gorgeous taste of large berries, with its unpretentiousness. In Russia, a hybrid is a recent guest, quickly settling in the vastness of the country.

The name Cascade Delight corresponds to the Russian - Enthusiastic Cascade.

Cascade Delight is a hybridization of Chilliwack and WSU 994 in 1989 in the United States. Its genetic history reflects the qualities of the Meeker variety. The results of the experiments were implemented in greenhouse conditions in 1990. Upon receipt of the fruits, the selection of seedlings coded as WSU 1090 took place. The dominant features in the selection were: the strength and appetizing of the fruits, as well as their high yield. Later, in 1993, during the final tests, the positive characteristics of the new variety were confirmed.

The breeding group's research was led by Professor Patrick Moore. The novelty was patented in 2004 with the WSU 1090 code.

The plant is high-yielding. Type - mid-season, round-fruited, deciduous, with bushes from 1.6 to 2.5 m high, with characteristic complex leaf plates. A culture with excellent adaptive potential, forming neat bushes with vertical development of shoots. Average studding. It has good vigor, producing up to 12 stems per season. The shoots are tall, solid. Semi-stemmed, with spreading branches and small internodes, which is a characteristic feature of the variety. The average stem width is 1.8-2.0 cm. Fresh shoots have a juicy green color, but ripening to cold weather, they get brownish shades.

The leaves are large, widened, with a corrugation, ovoid with pointed tips, including up to 5 leaves of a juicy green shade, slightly pubescent, with serrations. The denticles often get reddish shades. The largest leaves are 13 cm long and 8.6 cm wide. Leaves of yellowish shades are often formed - the transformation is typical for both "nettles" and for fruit-bearing plants.

Growth of shoots of culture in the first year - up to 1 m. Root development is intensive, with thick, perfectly branched roots. The thorns are small, purple in color, erect. Stems up to 30 cm long, with a frequency of 20-40 pcs. per 1 running cm. Upon reaching one-meter growth, the density of thorns is set to about 5 pcs. 1 cm in length. Slightly elongated laterals, flexible, strong, fairly branching, greenish, without thorns, often acquire an anthocyanin color.

The ripening dates are medium early, by the end of June or the beginning of July. Fruit picking - up to three weeks.

The main regions of effective cultivation are: the USA, regions of Belarus and Ukraine, England and central Russia. The crop is recommended for cultivation on farm land and on an industrial scale. The plant perfectly withstands mechanized harvesting methods.

The potential for rearing and productivity of the species is high. On average, it is 4-7 kg per unit, with a fruiting sector of 70% of the size of the shoot, (in the case of a competent agricultural background and with favorable conditions, it reaches 8 kg).

The fruits are wide, fleshy, even, slightly elongated, heart-shaped, large at the first harvest, weighing up to 8 g. However, after two weeks after the appearance of ripe berries, their weight decreases to 5.6 g.The average length of the berries is 3.3 cm, sometimes up to 5 cm, and the width is 2.4 cm. The fruits are bright red, with a slight gloss and fluff, sometimes with a light whitish coating. Drupes are small, uniform, tightly tied.

The tasting characteristics are excellent - unsaturated sweetness. Natural aftertaste, giving the feeling of natural freshness. Berries with a firm structure, moist core and dense aroma.

The fruits are versatile, perfectly preserved when freezing, drying and other harvesting methods. They make a wonderful and fragrant jam (the fruits do not boil over).

To obtain significant harvests, the culture requires a systematic and thoughtful feeding, the implementation of protective measures in a complex. The variety responds vividly to the introduced near-soil organic matter. Ground plowing and mulch for planted yellow mustard green manure bushes will not hurt here either.

As support for tall bushes, devices from double-row wire trellises will be appropriate. In order for the culture to bush abundantly, the upper part of its shoots is subjected to pinching (upon reaching a growth of 90-100 cm).

For the correct management of a high-yielding variety, it is important to correctly select the position of the site and the quality of the soil. Loams, sandstones and sour soils are absolutely unsuitable. Raspberry trees feel great in well-lit, draft-protected areas, prepared for planting by traditional methods (the presence of humus, compost, manure) even in the fall.

Spring pruning involves removing dry, defective twigs and pruning the shoots that form bushes by 10-15 cm.

In autumn, they are pruned at a height of 1 m. All fruiting branches are removed.

For the productive formation of shoots on the sides in the summer, the bushes should be pinched.

The variety is extremely sensitive to the amount of watering. Deficiency of moisture leads to the formation of crushing and a change in the taste of the fruit.

On high-quality soils, with proper preparation with the addition of topical additives, the culture does not need replenishment.

The culture is characterized by good frost resistance. However, some deformities of the stems and buds do occur. For insurance, they resort to bending the twigs. In areas with severe frosts, bent plants are covered with agrofibre.

The plant is resistant to a number of common infections (anthracnose) and pests. She is worried about the raspberry aphid and the dwarf virus (RBDV), to which she is extremely vulnerable. It spreads through pollen. Root cancer also damages the plant. Prevention is carried out using a high agricultural background, regular watering and planting normal seedlings. In humid and cold weather, the berries become infected with gray mold bacteria. Often it affects bushes and stem gall midge.

The variety reproduces vegetatively with:

• root processes;

• dividing the bushes;

• root cuttings.

The first option is the simplest and most popular. For industrial scales, a special uterine agricultural technology is used. The seed method is used only in breeding. Root propagation is considered a quick method. Many miniature plants sprout around the bushes, they are taken out with roots and planted in new places in the fall.