Cherry Nord Star

Cherry Nord Star
The main characteristics of the variety:
  • Authors: Minnesota
  • Appeared when crossing: English Morello x Serbian Pie
  • Name synonyms: Northstar
  • Barrel type: wood
  • Growth type: low-growth, medium-sized
  • Crown: thick, broadly round
  • Leaves: matte, narrow oval
  • Flowering and fruiting type: mixed
  • Fruit size: average
  • Fruit size, mm: 20 in diameter
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Cherry Nord Star is a compact and early-growing variety that brings a large harvest. Differs in unpretentiousness and strong immunity. Berries are used for canning, making tinctures and preserves, dried fruits, jams.

Another name for the North Star.

Breeding history

The variety appeared in 1918 at an experimental station in the American state of Minnesota when the following species were cross-pollinated: English Morello and Serbian Pie.

Description of the variety

The tree is compact, weakly growing, up to 2-2.5 m, with a wide rounded dense crown. Branches are dark brown. Leaves are opaque, narrow, oval with a serrated edge, pointed. Flowering can begin in April or May. Flowers 2 cm in size are collected in inflorescences of 4 pcs. Fruits are tied on annual and perennial shoots. It has a low growth rate: only by the age of 10 it can reach a height of 2 m. Suitable for growing in intensive gardens.

Fruit characteristics

Berries of medium size, weighing 4.5-5 g, spherical, burgundy-red, the pulp is dense, juicy, aromatic, the stone is small, detachable. Stored for no more than 2 weeks in the refrigerator, in the cellar for about 10 days.

Taste qualities

Sweet and sour invigorating taste, sugar content - 9.2%, acids -1.5%. Tasting score 4 points.

Ripening and fruiting

The tree begins to bear fruit one year after planting. This is a medium late variety in terms of ripening: it begins bearing fruit in July, in some areas in August.

A mechanized harvesting method is possible.

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

Up to 15-20 kg can be removed from one tree, under favorable conditions up to 25 kg. 4-8 kg are harvested from a four-year-old plant.

Growing regions

Recommended for planting in central Russia, the North-West region, in the Volga region.

Self-fertility and the need for pollinators

Nord Star is partially self-fertile. Planting a number of other varieties increases yields. Cherries can become pollinators: Nephris, Meteor, Oblachinskaya, Volochaynaya, Apukhtinskaya, Zhukovskaya, Molodezhnaya, Lyubskaya, Turgenevka.

Landing

Planting work is carried out in April. In the southern regions, autumn planting is possible in mid-October. This cherry prefers open areas with good lighting and shallow groundwater. In the lowlands, they are planted on a special embankment. A hole is dug 50 cm deep, a mound of black soil is poured into it with the addition of organic matter, a seedling is installed, sprinkled with earth, watered, mulched. An interval of about 2 meters is left between the plants, 3 m between rows. In industrial cultivation, they are planted according to the scheme: 3x4 m. Seedlings are watered once a week with 20 liters of water. Then the skeletal branches are cut to 60 cm, and the side ones are shortened by 1/3.

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

Nord Star is a moisture-loving species. It is watered several times per season: in May during flowering, in June when berries ripen, in July after harvest, and in August. At one time, from 3 to 6 buckets of water are poured under the tree, depending on the weather and the frequency of rain. In summer, after watering, the soil must be loosened. In October, water-charging irrigation is carried out. Cherries are fed in the smallest doses. In the spring, fertilize with urea or calcium nitrate, in the fall, apply manure or compost. If the tree does not grow well, then at the end of the season it is fed with superphosphate. Mineral dressing, if necessary, is applied during watering in June.

The crown must be periodically thinned out, removing branches growing inward. Formative pruning is carried out in April or October. They are shaped like a bowl or a sparse-tiered scheme. Sanitary pruning is best done in the spring.

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

Cherry has good resistance to diseases and pests, especially resistant to coccomycosis and clasterosporium. It can be affected in some years by moniliosis. In case of manifestation of diseases, all affected areas are removed and sprayed with fungicides. Among insects, the moth, cherry sawfly and aphids are dangerous, preventive treatment is carried out in the spring in May before the beginning of flowering. For the prevention of pests and fungal diseases, they are treated in March and October with a solution of Bordeaux liquid.

Requirements for soil and climatic conditions

Winter hardiness of Nord Star cherry is high, withstands frosts from -30 degrees to -40. Young trees are completely covered for the winter. In regions with cold winters, the branches of an adult tree are bent in a circle or fan-shaped, wrapped in dense material, the trunk is wrapped in burlap or paper, the root system is protected with a layer of mulch, then a layer of snow. At the beginning of March, all insulation is removed. The variety can withstand heat and prolonged drought. From soils, it prefers light and medium-nutrient loams with neutral acidity and good moisture permeability.

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

Gardeners note the unpretentiousness and undemandingness of this variety. Cherries grow and bear fruit even on impoverished soils. I really like the compactness of the tree, which does not shade the area around. Fruits are set even in rainy years, they are very good in compotes and jams.

Main characteristics
Authors
Minnesota
Appeared when crossing
English Morello x Serbian Pie
Name synonyms
Northstar
View
common
Appointment
universal
Yield
high
Wood
Barrel type
wood
Growth type
undersized, medium-sized
Height, m
2-2,5
Crown
thick, broadly round
Branches
dark brown
Leaves
matte, narrow oval
Number of flowers per inflorescence
4
Flowering and fruiting type
mixed
Fruit
Fruit size
average
Fruit size, mm
20 in diameter
Fruit weight, g
4,5-5,0
Fruit shape
spherical
Fruit color
brownish red
Pulp color
Dark red
Pulp (consistency)
medium density, juicy
Taste
satisfactory sweet and sour
Juice color
colorless
Bone size
small
Separability of the bone from the pulp
good
Detachment of fruits
wet
Growing
Self-fertility
partially self-fertile
Fruiting type
mixed - both on strong growths of the last year, and on 2-4-year-old bouquet branches
Winter hardiness
high
Watering
hygrophilous
Suitability for mechanized harvesting
Yes
Disease and pest resistance
steady
Coccomycosis resistance
steady
Maturation
Early maturity
one year after landing
Flowering period
mid or late spring
Ripening period
mid-late
Fruiting period
early July
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