Cherry Winter Pomegranate

Cherry Winter Pomegranate
The main characteristics of the variety:
  • Barrel type: bush
  • Growth type: undersized
  • Crown: compact
  • Flowers: pinkish white
  • Fruit color: from ruby ​​to maroon
  • Fruit weight, g: 3,5-4
  • Taste: sweet, with noticeable sourness
  • Appointment: universal
  • Flowering period: starts in late April or early May, lasts 2-3 weeks
  • Early maturity: 3 years after planting
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The size of the territory of the garden or dacha does not always allow planting large trees. In this case, you should pay attention to dwarf varieties. Among them, the Winter pomegranate cherry is gaining more and more popularity.

Breeding history

This variety was born relatively recently. It was bred as a result of the efforts of scientists and foreign farmers. Working with seedlings, they crossed steppe ("Canadian") cherries with sandy ones.

Description of the variety

The tree is characterized by low growth and modest height - 1.5-1.8 m. The crown is compact, the trunk is divided into a small number of branches with neat shoots.

Fruit characteristics

Cherries of the described variety have a weight of 3.5-4 grams. The thick peel prevents them from spoiling in hot weather, allows them to be safely transported, stored and frozen. Cherries range in color from ruby ​​to deep burgundy. The bone is diminutive.

Taste qualities

The fruits of this variety stand out among their fellows with a particularly harmonious taste - sweet, with a well-felt sourness. Their composition includes only 14 percent sugar. The fruit has a universal purpose. Jam, marmalade, and marshmallow will turn out to be equally tasty.

Ripening and fruiting

Dwarf cherry blossoms can be seen in May, when they are covered with delicate pinkish-white flowers. The Winter pomegranate sings in the second or third decade of July. The first fruits from the tree can be removed in the third year from the moment of planting, but a bountiful harvest will have to wait 6-7 years.

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 variety in question gives a decent harvest - up to 10 kilograms per bush.

Growing regions

On the territory of our country, this dwarf cherry can be successfully grown in many areas, starting from the Moscow region and ending with Vladivostok, but with the condition that the summer temperature there will not be below 10 degrees. The best climate for this variety is sharply continental.

Self-fertility and the need for pollinators

The Winter pomegranate variety belongs to self-fertile plants. This means that cherries do not need pollinating trees. About 25-40% of the ovaries are formed on it even without the mediation of bees.

Landing

For planting, it is advised to select young two- or three-year-old cherries with a powerful root system. There should be several branches on a straight trunk. It is advisable to prepare the soil loose, with good oxygen permeability. Chernozem does not need chemical fertilizers, and they will not interfere with sandy loam or loamy soil.

You can dig holes for planting in the fall, freeing up space from weeds in advance. The parameters of the hole can be 60x60x60 cm. In the spring, planting young plants in the ground is only worth in the second half of April, when there will be no snow and the ground warms up well.

Cherry Winter pomegranate should be planted on the southern side of the garden: where there is a lot of light and the shadow of any structures will not fall on it. And away from conifers. On the eve of planting, part of the soil from the planting hole is mixed with wood ash and superphosphate and the bottom is covered with this combination.

The seedling is scrupulously inspected for dry or rotten areas, pests. If necessary, the cherries are sprayed with insecticide. To improve root growth, the plant is left in a bucket of water for a day. The seedlings are immersed in the planting hole, without covering the root collar with earth to the end. After that, the Winter Pomegranate must be well watered.

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

After completing planting, the tree should be pruned, watered, fed with fertilizers and loosened around it in time. The first watering is carried out in the spring, at a soil temperature of 5-10 degrees, then it all depends on the weather.

In the first year of the tree's life, fertilization is not required, since this was done when planting. When the cherry blossoms, nitrogen should be added to the soil. In the summer - organic. In autumn - phosphorus, calcium and potassium. The first pruning of the Winter pomegranate is done immediately after planting, removing the twigs growing half a meter from the ground. In the spring, they get rid of dead shoots.

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 Winter pomegranate variety has excellent resistance to many diseases and pests. However, one should not forget about preventive procedures.

It is recommended to carry out a number of simple activities:

  • spray "Karbofos" from aphids, "Aktara" from attacks of weevils and fungicides from moniliosis;
  • whitewash the trunk in the spring;
  • in the fall, remove fallen leaves and dig up the soil.

Requirements for soil and climatic conditions

The described variety was created for areas with severe winters. Agricultural technicians declare that it can tolerate up to 40-45 degrees of frost with honor. In addition, the roots of the Winter Pomegranate cherry are deep in the ground, so the tree can feed on groundwater and easily tolerate drought.

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

Despite the fact that the variety is young, there are already a lot of reviews about it, and in general they are positive. Gardeners note the balanced flavor of the berries, a decent harvest and praise the ability to withstand harsh climatic conditions.

Main characteristics
Appointment
universal
Maximum yield
up to 10 kg per bush
Transportability
good
Wood
Barrel type
bush
Growth type
undersized
Height, m
1,5-1,8
Crown
compact
Flowers
pinkish white
Fruit
Fruit weight, g
3,5-4
Fruit color
from ruby ​​to maroon
Skin
dense
Taste
sweet, with a noticeable sourness
Bone size
very little
Growing
Self-fertility
self-fertile
Winter hardiness
easily tolerates temperatures of 40-45 degrees below zero
Heat resistance
good
Pruning
formative
The soil
unpretentious
Watering
can easily endure a long time without watering
Location
Sun
Growing regions
from Moscow region to Vladivostok
Disease and pest resistance
rarely affected
Crumbling
fruits do not crumble
Maturation
Early maturity
3 years after planting
Flowering period
starts in late April or early May, lasts 2-3 weeks
Fruiting period
2-3 decade of July
Reviews
There are no reviews.
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