Cherry Natalie

Cherry Natalie
The main characteristics of the variety:
  • Authors: V.P. Tsarenko, N.A. Tsarenko (Far Eastern Experimental Station VNIIR)
  • Appeared when crossing: Summer x Pollen Blend (Red Sweet + Sparkle + Damanka)
  • Year of approval: 1997
  • Barrel type: bush
  • Growth type: vigorous
  • Crown: broadly oval, medium thick
  • Escapes: brown, downy
  • Flowers: saucer-shaped, medium-sized, 2.5 cm in diameter of the corolla
  • Flowering and fruiting type: solid along the branch
  • Fruit size: large
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Cherry Natalie is a culture that is pleasant in all respects: both with its small “felt”, sensual fluff, abundantly covering the underside of the leaves of young shoots, pedicels and even fruits, as well as the wonderful taste properties of large fruits. It grows successfully both in temperate latitudes and in the harsh Siberian expanses, withstanding winter cold and drought. She deserved the attention of gardeners and her modest unpretentiousness in care.

Breeding history

She saw the light in 1979 thanks to the painstaking and long-term (over 20 years) work of the scientists of the Far Eastern Experimental Station VNIIR V.P. Tsarenko, N.A. Tsarenko. The work was carried out by crossing Leto cherries with pollen from Red Sweet, Ogonyok and Damanka. Only in 1997 was it entered into the State Register. Culture is universal by design.

Description of the variety

The culture grows in the form of a vigorous bush up to 1.8 m high, with broadly oval, sparse crowns. Branches are scaly, upright, grayish in color, with transversely located light-colored lenticels. Annual shoots of brownish shades have superficial pubescence. The pubescent buds are small in size, pointed at the ends, grouped in 3 pieces. Leaves are greenish, elongated-oval, pubescent on both sides.

The flowers are medium-sized, saucer-shaped, white, about 2.5 cm in diameter with corollas. The number of petals is 5, and the number of flowers in inflorescences is 1-2. Bushes live up to 18 years.

Of the main advantages of culture, we note:

  • early ripening of fruits;

  • high level of productivity;

  • large-fruited;

  • excellent taste properties of berries;

  • good parameters of frost and drought resistance;

  • a high level of immune potential, which determines a reliable resistance to coccomycosis.

Minuses:

  • the need to use pollinating plants;

  • the bushes do not tolerate waterlogging, which increases the risk of moniliosis;

  • with excess harvests, the size of the berries decreases;

  • fruits poorly tolerate transportation and harvesting by mechanical means.

Fruit characteristics

The berries are attractive in appearance, large in size (1.8x1.7x1.7 mm), the average weight of the fruits is about 4 g. The configuration of the berries is broadly oval, with slightly sloping tops. They are dark red in color, with slight pubescence. The abdominal suture is marked with a stripe. The consistency is red, firm, cartilaginous, with a lot of juice. The seeds are small (about 0.2 g). The quality of separation of berries is semi-dry.

By chemical composition, berries include: dry compositions - 11.6%, sugar - 8.2%, acids - 0.71%, ascorbic acid - 30.4 mg / 100 g.

In refrigeration units, fruits are stored for no more than a week and only three days at room temperature. They must be processed immediately after picking up.

By their intended purpose, the berries are considered universal. They are consumed fresh, used for making juices, jams, marshmallows and marmalade. They make excellent wines and liqueurs.

Taste qualities

The berries are sweet and sour to taste.The absence of astringency in their taste is characteristic of the berries. Tasting assessment of ripe fruits in points - 4.0.

Ripening and fruiting

The period of fruit bearing of grafted seedlings starts in the second year of growth, for self-rooted ones - for 3-4 years. They enter the flowering period on May 10-18. Berries are picked from 13-18 July. The maturation order is synchronous.

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

The crop is high-yielding - the average yield reaches 9.0 kg per bush.

Self-fertility and the need for pollinators

The bushes are self-fertile, therefore, plants with similar flowering periods are used as pollinating plants. For this, plums, peaches, apricots or cherry plums are planted nearby. Other types of felt cherries are often used (Salute, Morning, Fairy Tale, Ogonyok).

Landing

Planting culture trees is not much different from planting other fruit plants. The landing grooves should be spacious. Standard dimensions in width are up to 60 cm, in height - 50-80 cm (taking into account the degree of soil fertility). The lower part of the grooves is fertilized with a mixture of humus and nutrient soil. The root necks of the trees are not overly buried when planting. Post-planting irrigation is abundant - up to 20 liters of water per bush.

It is important to take into account that the culture does not develop well on heavy clay soils. The soils should be neutral in acidity. The optimal types of soils to be used are peat, sandy loam and loam.

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

The complex of measures for the care of the crop includes standard measures and procedures for the periodic normalization of bushes, the optimal regime of irrigation and fertilization, and protective procedures against pest attacks and diseases. In this respect, the culture is clearly unpretentious.

In the spring, before sap flow and swelling of the kidneys, they carry out sanitary and formative pruning procedures. In other words, in the 2nd year after planting the seedlings in the soil, their branches are shortened by 40 cm. In the third year of growth, the lateral branches are reduced in length by another 30%.

After the beginning of fruiting, the lateral branches are removed, leaving only 7-10 main and most developed branches located in the center of the seedlings. In the future, pruning procedures are performed for sanitary purposes - only dried, deformed and affected branches are removed.

During the first year of development of seedlings, they are not fed, since the nutrients that were added to the planting grooves during planting are quite enough.

The first feeding is carried out immediately after the flowering period. As an additional top dressing, mulching of the culture is carried out with vegetable peelings, peat or compost.

Although excess moisture can negatively affect the crop, irrigation is essential. In dry season, the bushes are irrigated with water at a temperature of at least 18 degrees. For each bush, about a bucket of water is consumed. In general, it is necessary to irrigate the bushes very moderately, no more than 3-4 times a season, while it is important to ensure that the root collar of the plant does not undermine.

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 trace elements.

Disease and pest resistance

The high hereditary immune potential of the culture effectively prevents the disease of the bushes with coccomycosis and clasterosporiosis. However, appropriate preventive procedures are essential.

To protect culture from all kinds of diseases, systemic professional procedures are carried out:

  • in the spring, before bud break, the trees are treated with a composition of copper sulfate (100 g of copper sulfate are diluted per 10 liters);

  • systematically carry out sanitary cutting;

  • the fallen leaves are removed and burned.

The culture should be protected from harmful attacks of pests especially dangerous for felt crops:

  • grape mite;

  • scabbards;

  • aphids;

  • leaf rollers;

  • moths.

To protect plants from such parasites, special pesticides or folk recipes should be used - soap-garlic solutions or wormwood infusions.

Requirements for soil and climatic conditions

Treelike bushes of the culture are distinguished by excellent cold resistance and are able to keep temperatures down to -35 degrees. Its flowers survive well in spring frosts down to –3 degrees. The crop is highly resistant to droughts.

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. Cherries can be propagated by cuttings, seeds, layering, grafting, shoots. Each of the methods has its own characteristics.
Main characteristics
Authors
V.P. Tsarenko, N.A. Tsarenko (Far Eastern Experimental Station VNIIR)
Appeared when crossing
Summer x Pollen Blend (Red Sweet + Spark + Damanka)
Year of approval
1997
View
felted
Appointment
universal
Yield
high
Average yield
9.0 kg per bush
Transportability
weak
Wood
Barrel type
bush
Growth type
vigorous
Height, m
1,8
Crown
broadly oval, medium thickening
Branches
straight, gray, scaly, with transverse light lenticels
Escapes
brown, downy
Flowers
saucer-shaped, medium-sized, 2.5 cm in diameter of the corolla
Number of flowers per inflorescence
1-2
Flowering and fruiting type
solid along the branch
Durability of wood
18 years
Fruit
Fruit size
large
Fruit size, mm
1.8x1.7x1.7
Fruit weight, g
4
Fruit shape
broadly oval with slightly sloping apex
Fruit color
dark red
Abdominal suture
striped
Skin
pubescent
Pulp color
Red
Pulp (consistency)
cartilaginous, dense, juicy
Taste
sweet and sour, harmonious
Juice color
Red
Bone weight, g
0,20
Detachment of fruits
semi-dry
Fruit composition
solids content - 11.6%, sugars - 8.2%, acids - 0.71%, ascorbic acid - 30.4 mg / 100g
Appearance
attractive
Fresh fruit tasting
4.0 points
Growing
Self-fertility
self-infertile
Pollinator varieties
Fairy Tale and Spark
Winter hardiness
good
Heat resistance
drought tolerant
The soil
grows poorly on heavy clay soils
Watering
excess moisture is bad for the plant
Breeding features
reproduces well with green cuttings
Suitability for mechanized harvesting
No
Disease and pest resistance
high
Coccomycosis resistance
steady
Resistance to moniliosis
affected by waterlogging
Maturation
Early maturity
grafted seedlings bear fruit for 2 years, self-rooted for 3-4 years
Flowering period
May 10-18
Fruiting period
July 13-18
Ripening nature
simultaneous
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