Cherry Lyubskaya

Cherry Lyubskaya
The main characteristics of the variety:
  • Authors: folk selection
  • Name synonyms: Lyubka
  • Year of approval: 1947
  • Barrel type: bush
  • Growth type: undersized
  • Crown: round or spreading, often weeping, drooping
  • Leaves: dense, slightly shiny, dark green, 87 x 50 mm, narrow oval or elongated obovate
  • Flowers: with a diameter of 30-34 mm, with rounded, concave, slightly corrugated petals
  • Flowering and fruiting type: on annual branches
  • Fruit size: above average and large
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Cherry variety Lyubskaya is distinguished for its compactness, high yield and undemanding care. Berries are suitable for preparing compotes, preserves, liqueurs, wine, they are dried and frozen. The plant is suitable for industrial cultivation and the creation of landscape compositions in the backyard. Another name is Lyubka.

Breeding history

This is a culture of folk selection, it was planted in the 19th century. It was first described by N.I.Kichunov in 1892 as a cherry growing in the gardens of the Kursk province. The variety was entered in the State Register in 1947. Now, the Moscow All-Russian Institute of Selection and Technology of Horticulture is tasked with monitoring the safety of the culture.

Description of the variety

The bush is weak, it can reach 2.5 m. The shape of the crown is rounded, spreading, it can droop and take a weeping look. The bark is silvery brown, cracking. The branches are curved, the leaves are dense, elongated, obovate with a serrate edge, dark green, slightly shiny. The flowers are white or pale pink, slightly corrugated, collected in inflorescences of 3-4. Blooms for 5-8 days. The tree lives for about 15-25 years. Photophilous cherry, differs in weak shoot formation: root shoots almost do not appear.

The variety is prone to spontaneous kidney mutations. The resulting varieties differ in appearance, ripening time, yield, properties of berries. There is Lyubskaya late, Lyubskaya bouquet, Lyubskaya productive and others.

Fruit characteristics

Berries of medium size, weighing 4-5 g, heart-shaped, round, dark scarlet with subcutaneous dots, the skin is glossy, thin and dense. The pulp is dark red, juicy, soft, with a delicate aroma. The bone is small, easily detached. They are well transported, stored at zero temperature for about 10 days.

Taste qualities

Sweet and sour taste, sugar content - 9.5-10%, vitamin C - 11-20 mg per 100 g.

Ripening and fruiting

Cherry begins to bear fruit 2-3 years after planting, it is considered late in terms of ripening, the harvest ripens at the same time: in late July - early August. The berries are not prone to shedding, they ripen together.

When growing cherries on your site, you need to know some of the features of fruiting. After planting, the cherry tree usually does not bear fruit for the first few years. Under favorable conditions, this crop can bear fruit in 2 or 3 years. However, you often have to wait 4-5 years.

Yield

An average of 10-12 kg can be removed from one tree in a temperate climate; in the presence of pollinators in favorable years, the yield reaches 35-50 kg.

Growing regions

Suitable for planting in the middle lane and southern regions of Russia, planted in the Urals and in colder regions.

Self-fertility and the need for pollinators

Self-fertile variety: no additional pollinators are required. When planting a number of other species, fruiting increases by 2-3 times. Cherries are suitable: Anadolskaya, Vladimirskaya, Zhukovskaya, Lotovaya, Fertile Michurina, Early Shpanka, Molodezhnaya.

Landing

The variety is planted in the spring; in the fall, the seedling may not take root. For him I choose the sunniest place, protected from the winds. Since autumn, the earth is dug up and 10 kg of manure, 100 g of superphosphate and 100 g of potassium sulfate are introduced. A planting hole is dug 60x80 cm in size: garden soil mixed with humus and phosphate flour is poured onto the bottom, after planting, it is watered with 2 buckets of water.

For guaranteed survival of a cherry seedling in a summer cottage, all basic requirements should be strictly observed during planting. It is necessary to correctly determine the timing of planting, correctly choose a seedling, prepare a planting pit.
Cherry grafting is an agricultural technique, during which one plant fragment is transferred to another to obtain a new crop with its own characteristics and properties. During the procedure, the aerial part of one tree is spliced ​​with a fragment of another culture. This will increase the yield of the cherry tree as well as increase its resistance to diseases and pests.

Growing and care

Culture is appreciated for its unpretentiousness. Watering is recommended several times per season: during the formation of buds, during flowering and in the initial stage of fruit ripening. At one time, 30 liters of water are poured, the earth is loosened, mulched with sawdust or peat. In the fall, water-charging irrigation is definitely recommended.

They begin to feed the shrub in the 3rd year after planting: in the fall, after digging up the soil, organic fertilizers are applied, nitrogen compounds will not interfere in the spring, and in the summer they are fed with an infusion of wood ash or potassium chloride with superphosphate.

Pruned in the spring during the budding period, removing old and damaged shoots, healthy branches are removed only with strong thickening. Forming a tree, they leave a stem 35-45 cm high, 7-10 skeletal branches at a distance of 10-15 cm from one another, very long branches are cut to a lateral branch.

One of the keys to a good cherry harvest is proper care, a mandatory step of which is pruning. Pruning is one of the simplest procedures, and it doesn't require a lot of tools and time. After the procedure, the cherry tree redistributes a significant part of its vitality to the formation of a crop, which becomes better and more stable.
For abundant fruiting and successful growth, the cherry tree must be fed. Cherry makes rather high demands on the quality of feeding. For it, you can use both organic and mineral mixtures. At each stage of the growing season of a fruit tree, it needs different microelements.

Disease and pest resistance

Cherries can be affected by coccomycosis. For treatment, spray with fungicide "Abiga-Peak" after swelling of the kidneys. At the time of the appearance of the buds, they are treated with "Horus". After the end of flowering, the affected shoots are cut off and burned, spraying with the "Speed" agent is carried out. After harvesting, they are sprayed with a Bordeaux mixture of 1%. When moniliosis appears, it is treated with Quadris.

From pests attack weevil, cherry sawfly. As a preventive measure, they dig up the soil around the tree, remove the old mulch, cover the trunk with lime, and spray it with Karbofos.

The variety is prone to gum flow - the sap of the tree begins to stand out and thicken in those places where cracks have appeared on the bark. Lyubskaya is prone to cracking the bark in winter and summer, in order to protect against this, it is recommended to whitewash the trunk and skeletal branches to the very top.

Requirements for soil and climatic conditions

Frost resistance of this species is high: it can withstand temperatures from –30 degrees.The tree is covered only in the northern regions: the young one is covered with agrofibre, and the adult one is covered with spruce branches. The bark suffers the most from frost; generative buds have the best frost resistance. The trunk circle is mulched with 30 cm peat. Prefers sandy loam soils with neutral acidity.

Cherries are found in almost every garden plot. And if every year she pleases with a bountiful harvest of large and sweet berries, then the question arises about the reproduction of such an effective variety. Cherry can be propagated by cuttings, seeds, layering, grafting, shoots. Each of the methods has its own characteristics.

Review overview

According to gardeners, the variety has a good survival rate, but the harvest of young bushes is different for everyone. From the berries of this variety, a very tasty jam is obtained: moderately sweet, with delicate and aromatic cherries in syrup.

Main characteristics
Authors
folk selection
Name synonyms
Lyubka
Year of approval
1947
View
common
Appointment
technical
Yield
high
Average yield
10-12 kg per tree
Maximum yield
35-50 kg per tree
Transportability
good
Wood
Barrel type
bush
Growth type
undersized
Height, m
up to 2.5
Crown
rounded or spreading, often weeping, drooping
Branches
curved, departing from the stem at angles close to 45 °, annuals - drooping, brown, with a silvery bloom
Leaves
dense, slightly shiny, dark green, 87 x 50 mm, narrow oval or elongated obovate
Flowers
with a diameter of 30-34 mm, with rounded, concave, weakly corrugated petals
Number of flowers per inflorescence
3-4
Flowering and fruiting type
on annual branches
Durability of wood
15-25
Fruit
Fruit size
above average and large
Fruit weight, g
4-5
Fruit shape
almost round, blunt-hearted
Fruit color
dark red with numerous subcutaneous punctures
Abdominal suture
clearly visible
Skin
glossy
Pulp color
Dark red
Pulp (consistency)
juicy, tender
Taste
sour, mediocre
Juice color
light red
Bone weight, g
0,2-0,3
Bone size
small
Separability of the bone from the pulp
good
Fruit composition
dry matter - 14.5%, sugars - 9.5%, free acids - 1.7%, ascorbic acid - 20.0 mg per 100 g of wet weight
Shelf life of fruits
within 10 days
Growing
Self-fertility
self-fertile
Pollinator varieties
Anadolskaya, Vladimirskaya, Zhukovskaya, Lotovaya, Fertile Michurina, Early Shpanka
Fruiting type
on annual branches
Winter hardiness
increased
The soil
dislikes both wet and acidic soils
The need for feeding
optimal doses of organic and mineral fertilizers
Location
in the sun
Growing regions
Northwest, Central, Central Black Earth, North Caucasian, Middle Volga and Lower Volga regions
Coccomycosis resistance
amazed
Crumbling
do not crumble
Resistance to moniliosis
amazed
Maturation
Early maturity
2-3 years after planting
Ripening period
late
Fruiting period
late July - early August
Ripening nature
simultaneous
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