At all times, cherries have been famous for their taste and useful properties. Compotes, preserves and jams are made from it. Cherry of the Black large variety is no exception, moreover, many sophisticated gardeners have long preferred this particular variety, since it is unpretentious in care, almost like cherry, has an excellent taste and gives a rich harvest from year to year.

The variety was created at the Rossoshansk zonal experimental gardening station by A.Ya. Voronchikhina. Breeders crossed two varieties: Cherry Consumer goods black and Zhukovskaya.

After 2000, this berry variety was distributed in the regions of the North Caucasus. She is preferred by gardeners of the Rostov region, the southern part of the Voronezh and Belgorod regions and residents of Volgograd.

Characteristics of the variety

Black cherry

A descendant of the Shirpotreb cherry variety is characterized by good frost resistance, calmly tolerates a drop in temperature to −31 ° −33 °. Flower buds do not suffer much - from 0.3 to 4.8%.

Black cherry is characterized as a fast-growing and fruitful variety. If the cherry is 7 years old, the tree can yield from 16 to 26 kg of harvest. This is a variety with an early fruiting period, it begins to give a crop already 2.5 years after planting. The fruits fully ripen at the end of the first month of summer in the south, the inhabitants of the middle lane begin to eat berries a little later - towards the end of July.

Yielding variety

Description of the tree:

  • weak or medium vigor, the height of an adult tree does not exceed 5 meters;
  • the top of the tree has the shape of a wide pyramid, sometimes an oval;
  • density is above average, and foliage is characterized as good;
  • on the trunk, the bark is dark gray, young seedlings have a slightly lighter bark, there is no curl of the trunk;
  • the roughness is medium or mild;
  • cracks longitudinally, but rarely;
  • puffy lentils, above average length, have the shape of an elongated oval, wide, characterized by a dense arrangement;
  • there is a large distance between the nodes, the shoots are straight, at an early age the shade is between brown and green, after it is grayish;
  • vegetative buds are large, ovoid, reaching 6 mm, stick out from the shoot, while generative buds, in turn, are slightly smaller - 3.5 mm, have a similar shape, also lag behind the shoot;
  • the leaf blade is slightly elongated and has the shape of an oval, the top of which is pointed, the main part is rounded;
  • cherry petiole reaches 23 mm, thickness is above average, glabrous, has a downy on the upper part, stipules are absent.

In the inflorescence, on average, 3 flowers are observed, much less often - 1, 2 or 4, the flowers themselves are quite large, reaching 33 mm in diameter. They have the shape of a wide bowl, some are flatter, and there are petals bent back. The color scheme ranges from white after flowering to a darker mesh of veins towards the end of this process that do not overlap.

The pistil is on the same level with the stamens, sometimes in a slightly lower position, the stamens reach 12 mm, together with the ovary of the pistil - 14 mm.

Black cherry

Black cherry has large full fruits:

  • weight on average reaches 5 g, length - 26 mm;
  • the fruit has a rounded shape, strongly flattened from the edges;
  • has a small wide funnel, the upper part of the fruit is round, after the pistil there is a trace in the form of a small notch;
  • the skin of the berry has a dark cherry hue, closer to black;
  • the pulp has a similar shade, the veins are slightly lighter, dark juice, the pulp itself is soft and tender.

Dark cherry is characterized as a fruit with a pleasant sweet and sour taste.The peduncle reaches 33-39 mm in length, thickness - 2 mm, the pulp easily breaks off the stone, without any particular difficulty. On average, the mass of the seed reaches 0.5 grams, while making up 9% of the mass of the berry itself. Its shape can be oval or broadly oval, the upper part is slightly round, the main part is flat, slightly sloping, with small ribs. The shade is light brown.

Features of agricultural technology

Cherry Hope

The variety is considered not too whimsical, but there are nuances when planting and growing. Experienced gardeners recommend considering the following features:

  • even if the variety is frost-resistant, you should choose the southern section of the garden, where there is good lighting and there are no strong winds;
  • do not plant cherries in places where groundwater is high or where water stagnates in the spring;
  • the soil should be light sandy loam or loamy, it is dug up and lime in advance. Then, 7 days after liming, organic fertilizers are applied there;
  • the best time for planting is mid-April;
  • the plant does not tolerate strong thickening, therefore, the branches must be shortened every season;
  • does not need frequent watering, it is enough 2 times per season - at the beginning and during the formation of fruits.

Important! Large black, being not a self-fertile variety, that is, not capable of independent pollination, gets along well in the neighborhood with such pollinating varieties as Zhukovskaya, Rossoshanskaya black and some others.

Features of harvesting

Cherry tamaris

The best harvest can be expected 3.5 years after planting the tree, towards the end of July. You need to harvest the fruits 3-4 days before their final ripening. The best harvesting method is to cut the cherries with brushes, closer to where the stalk is attached. It is recommended to harvest healthy fruits separately from deformed ones. If the berry was picked without a stalk, you should not let it sit, otherwise it will soon become unusable. It is recommended to pick cherries in the morning.

Harvesting

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Kharitonovskaya cherry

This variety, like others, has both advantages and disadvantages. Among the positive features, it is worth noting that black Stefania cherry:

  • compact;
  • gives large juicy berries with an attractive sweet taste;
  • begins to bear fruit early.

The Black cherry variety has its drawbacks, including:

  • relatively short life span;
  • a tendency to damage leaves and fruits with diseases of coccomycosis and moniliosis.

However, if you take good care of the tree, leaves, take into account all the peculiarities of planting this variety of cherry, it will soon please its owners with a rich harvest.