Cherry Ural Ruby

Cherry Ural Ruby
The main characteristics of the variety:
  • Authors: Sverdlovsk Horticultural Selection Station
  • Appeared when crossing: Ideal x Michurin cultivars
  • Year of approval: 1959
  • Barrel type: bush
  • Growth type: undersized
  • Crown: broadly rounded
  • Escapes: green, turns purple-brown with age
  • Leaves: obovate, smooth plate with serrated edges and sharp end
  • Flowering and fruiting type: mixed
  • Fruit size: average
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Ural Ruby is an old cherry variety, but it is still quite in demand today, especially in the north of Russia. The culture belongs to technical types, the workpieces from it are the most delicious and aromatic.

Breeding history

The culture was obtained on the basis of the Sverdlovsk selection station of gardening back in 1954. This is a hybrid of the steppe cherry, which was created by crossing the cultivars of Michurin developments with the Ideal cherry. Breeders Zhukov and Gvozdyukova worked on its creation. Their task was to develop a crop for cultivation in the cold weather conditions of Siberia and the Urals.

Beginning in 1955, the selection result was sent to the State Grade Trials, and 4 years later (1959) the State Register Commission allowed the culture to be used throughout the country. Today, the Ural ruby ​​is widely used for breeding work to create the newest varieties, being a carrier of good productivity indicators, short stature, frost and drought resistance.

Description of the variety

Like all steppe types of cherries, the Ural Ruby Cherry develops not like a tree, but like a shrub, moreover, weakly growing, reaching a height of one and a half meters. It has a wide-round crown, it has spreading, drooping branches. The green young growth over time becomes brownish-purple and becomes bare.

The leaves are obovate, pointed, with jagged edges. Leaves are two-colored - the upper surface is dark green, below it is light. Flowers and subsequently fruits are formed either on shoots 1 year old, or on bouquet branches.

Fruit characteristics

The fruits of the steppe cherry are small, their weight is usually 3.5 grams. The berries are round, the skin is dark red, smooth. Ural ruby ​​- a typical griot (or morel), juicy cherry pulp along with juice is also colored red. The not very long stalk holds the berry firmly, they will not crumble, being fully ripe. The stone separates well from the fruit.

Taste qualities

Cherries are sweet and sour, the taste is satisfactory. Some consider it a sugary sweet dessert. Therefore, the variety is classified as technical, that is, due to similar characteristics, it is not very suitable for fresh consumption. Basically, the fruits are processed into compotes, juices, preserves, jams, used in cooking. In principle, you can, of course, eat it, but other varieties can be tastier when consumed fresh. In terms of the processed products and treats obtained, they are on top and even outperform products from other cherry varieties.

Ripening and fruiting

The variety in question has a late ripening period, but it is simultaneous. The culture bears fruit every year stably since the 3rd year.

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 yield of Ural Ruby cherries is considered high. On average, 6-10 kg of cherries are harvested from one bush, and in commercial production - 60-90 c / ha. The berries ripen together.

Growing regions

According to the State Register, the crop is intended for cultivation in all regions. However, it grows best in regions with a cool climate, such as Volgo-Vyatka, Ural, West Siberian. In the southern open spaces it manifests itself worse.

Self-fertility and the need for pollinators

The culture is self-fertile. For its fruiting, cross-pollination with other cherries is necessary, which bloom simultaneously with it and grow no further than 40 meters. Such varieties as Tamaris, Nord Star, Mechta of the Trans-Urals, Izobilnaya are well suited for this. The very same Ural ruby ​​plant is often planted as an excellent pollinator of most late cherry varieties.

Landing

The optimal time for planting the culture in question in the regions of northern latitudes will be the beginning of spring, the period before bud break. In the fall, planting is also possible, only the bush may not have time to take root until the first frost.

The best placement of steppe cherry is a hill, well-lit by the sun, a slope facing west, north-west or south-west. On a flat territory, the culture will grow worse, in a hole or lowland it may even die or it will often get sick, and a good harvest may not be expected.

In this case, it is better to choose a loose, fertile, neutral soil, for example, loamy. It is better to avoid groundwater or it should run deeper than 2 meters from the surface of the earth.

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

Immediately after planting, the plant needs regular watering. In the future, the bush is watered only in drought. A large amount of moisture is needed by the culture at the very beginning of the growing season, as well as during the formation of ovaries. Watering should be stopped about two to three weeks before the fruits ripen. If the autumn is dry, you need water-charging irrigation.

Ural ruby ​​requires sanitary as well as formative pruning. It is necessary to shorten the branches that grow upward. In an adult plant, you will need to gradually remove all old skeletal branches.

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

The variety is moderately susceptible to such ailments as coccomycosis, fungal diseases. May be affected by cherry aphids and sawfly, but rarely. Preventive treatment should not be neglected.

Requirements for soil and climatic conditions

Cherry was specially created for cultivation in the climate of Siberia. Its frost resistance is high (up to -35C). Trees winter well under the snow, and are also resistant to spring frosts.

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.
Main characteristics
Authors
Sverdlovsk Horticultural Selection Station
Appeared when crossing
Ideal x Michurin cultivars
Year of approval
1959
View
steppe
Appointment
technical, for jam, for making compotes, for making juices
Yield
high
Average yield
6-10 kg per bush, 60-90 kg / ha
Wood
Barrel type
bush
Growth type
undersized
Height, m
up to 1.5
Crown
broadly rounded
Branches
drooping
Escapes
green, with age acquire a purple-brown hue
Leaves
obovate, smooth plate with serrated edges and sharp end
Flowering and fruiting type
mixed
Durability of wood
more than 30 years
Fruit
Fruit size
average
Fruit weight, g
3,5
Fruit shape
round, homogeneous
Fruit color
ruby
Skin
smooth
Pulp color
Red
Pulp (consistency)
juicy
Taste
sweet and sour
Juice color
Red
Bone size
small
Separability of the bone from the pulp
separates well
Growing
Self-fertility
self-infertile
Pollinator varieties
Tamaris, Nord Star, Trans-Urals Dream, Abundant
Fruiting type
mixed - on annual growth and bouquet branches
Winter hardiness
good
Heat resistance
good
Growing regions
all regions
Resistant to fruit cracking
steady
Coccomycosis resistance
medium susceptible
Resistance to sawfly
rarely affected
Crumbling
fruits do not crumble
Aphid resistance
rarely affected
Maturation
Early maturity
3 years after planting
Flowering period
late May - early June
Ripening period
late
Fruiting period
2nd half of August
Ripening nature
simultaneous
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