Cherry Meeting

Cherry Meeting
The main characteristics of the variety:
  • Barrel type: bush
  • Growth type: medium-sized
  • Crown: wide, dense, spherical
  • Fruit size: large
  • Fruit shape: rounded, flattened
  • Fruit color: dark red
  • Fruit weight, g: 10
  • Pulp color : red tint
  • Pulp (consistency): tender and juicy
  • Separability of the bone from the pulp: good
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Variety Vstrecha is a high-yielding cherry for cultivation in the steppe zone. This is a crop loved by many gardeners with very tasty large berries. They make jams, compotes, preserves, marshmallows, freeze them, make candied fruits, and wine. Suitable for private gardens and industrial cultivation.

Breeding history

The variety was created in 1966 at the Institute of Irrigated Horticulture. Sidorenko in Ukraine by agronomists Nikolai and Valentina Turovtsevs. It appeared with the participation of the hybrid form Kievskaya 19, obtained from cherries and sweet cherries, and the late variety Lyubskaya.

Description of the variety

The shrub-type tree grows up to 2.5 m. The bush is spherical, dense and wide. Branches droop during fruiting. The leaves are elongated, elliptical, large, bright green with small notches along the edge, pointed at the end. Flowering occurs in April-May. Flowers are white small, collected in inflorescences of 2-3 pcs. With temperature changes, flowers and ovaries may fall off. The life span of a plant is 20 years.

Fruit characteristics

The berries are large: weighing 9-15 g, round, flattened on top, dark cherry, ruby ​​flesh, juicy and soft, shiny skin is not thick, the stone is small, well separable. They are distinguished by good transportability.

Taste qualities

The taste is great, sweet, with cherry notes. The sugar content is 11.6%. Tasting score: 5 points.

Ripening and fruiting

A young tree begins to bear fruit for 3 years, and then regularly every season. Mid-season in terms of ripening, the berries begin to ripen at the end of June. Not prone to shedding.

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 25 kg is removed from one bush.

Growing regions

The variety is planted in Western Siberia, the North Caucasus, Kalmykia, Krasnodar Territory, Volgograd, Orenburg and Astrakhan regions.

Self-fertility and the need for pollinators

The variety is referred to as partially self-fertile: for setting a large number of berries, Lyubskaya, Perceptible, Samsonovka, Shalunya or Valery Chkalov cherries are planted nearby.

Landing

Young plants are planted from the second half of September to early October, so that they have time to take root before the cold weather begins. Planting is permissible in mid-April - early May, after the ground warms up. The place is chosen sunny, protected from blowing, on a hill. Lowlands and wetlands are not suitable. Nearby can grow: cherry, plum or cherry plum, grapes, elderberry, hawthorn, honeysuckle, mountain ash. Do not plant next to gooseberries, sea buckthorn, raspberries, currants. Tall trees - apple, pear, apricot, linden, maple - should be at a distance of 3-4 m. Culture is contraindicated in proximity to nightshade. Other crops should be placed at a distance of 150-200 cm.

Two-year-old seedlings are suitable for planting. Planting holes are made 60x60 cm in size and left for a month for soil shrinkage. Good drainage is imperative. A mixture of fertile soil, 50 g of superphosphate, 30 g of potassium sulfate, 1 kg of wood ash are poured onto the bottom. After disembarkation, watered with 2 buckets of water.In the absence of rain, water it 2-3 times a week. Saplings are easily adaptable and take root in new conditions. For the winter, they are fenced off with a metal mesh from rodents.

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 culture is unpretentious. The tree is recommended to be watered during the flowering and fruiting periods. Over the summer, they irrigate 3-5 times: about a bucket of water is poured under a young bush, 4 buckets under an adult. Watering is combined with top dressing. In the spring, add mullein solution and ammonium nitrate, after flowering - potassium-phosphorus additives, wood ash or urea. In the fall, water-charging irrigation is carried out - 10 buckets of water, 2 buckets of humus or compost are brought under each bush.

The plant needs pruning in the spring: 5-10 of the strongest shoots should remain on the bush, all damaged and diseased ones are removed.

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

This is a moderately resistant variety: it is slightly affected by moniliosis and coccomycosis, it can get sick with anthracnose. Every year it is necessary to carry out preventive treatments, especially on wet days: remove broken branches, remove dry foliage, dig up the soil, treat with fungicides.

Pests can attack: aphids, weevils, sawflies. For prevention, it is recommended to regularly dig up the soil and carry out processing.

Requirements for soil and climatic conditions

The species tolerates frosts down to -25 degrees. For protection from frost and wind, trees are recommended to be wrapped with agrofibre, especially young ones. Before the onset of cold weather, the bush is huddled, and the soil around is mulched with a thick layer of humus. The tree is drought-resistant and shade-tolerant, but with a sharp temperature drop, it begins to shed its leaves.

The soil prefers loamy or sandy loam, loose, with neutral acidity. Does not like heavy clay substrates, acidic soils, close occurrence of groundwater is contraindicated. It tolerates poor soils well.

Grown in temperate continental climates with cold snowy winters and hot dry summers. In central Russia, the summer is too damp and cool, which is why the tree develops slowly and does not bring crops.

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.

Review overview

Gardeners speak positively of the Vstrecha variety: it has a high yield, and the fruits are very large, and minimal care is required. Unfortunately, by itself, it does not bear fruit very well, but when planted next to other berry trees, it brings a large harvest. These cherries taste more like sweet cherries.

Main characteristics
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Appointment
universal
Average yield
up to 25 kg per tree
Transportability
good
Wood
Barrel type
bush
Growth type
medium-sized
Height, m
up to 2.5
Crown
wide, dense, spherical
Branches
drooping during fruiting
Fruit
Fruit size
large
Fruit weight, g
10
Fruit shape
rounded, flattened
Fruit color
dark red
Skin
thin
Pulp color
red tint
Pulp (consistency)
tender and juicy
Taste
dessert
Bone size
small
Separability of the bone from the pulp
good
Growing
Winter hardiness
winter hardy
The soil
drained
Disease and pest resistance
average
Maturation
Early maturity
3 years after planting
Flowering period
in April and May
Ripening period
average
Fruiting period
at the end of June
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