Raspberry Varieties For Every Taste - Promising Raspberry Varieties - 2

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Favorite berry of gardeners for the Northwest region

Kaliningrad -

old German variety of medium ripening. The berries are large (average weight 2-3 g, the first berries reach 4.5 g), red, irregularly blunt-conical shape, dessert taste. Productivity - 1.5-1.8 kg per bush. Forms few shoots, they are tall (2.5-3 m), erect, powerful, bright purple by autumn, slightly thorny. Average winter hardiness. Uncomfortable for bending.

Kirzhach -

a variety of medium ripening, can be grown in different regions. The berries are large (2.6-3.3 g), broadly blunt-conical, sweet-sour with aroma. The yield is high - up to 2 kg per bush. The bush is medium in size (2-2.5 m), powerful, upright, compact. Forms a lot of shoots, they are tall, in autumn on the sunny side they are reddish or pink, with a thick waxy bloom, slightly spiny. The variety is quite winter hardy. It is affected by some viral diseases, damaged by a raspberry beetle, relatively resistant to spider mites and anthracnose.

Modest -

a variety of medium ripening. The berries are medium-sized (2.2-3 g), rounded-conical, dark raspberry with a large number of medium-linked drupes, sweet-sour taste, universal purpose. Productivity is stable and high (up to 3 kg per bush). Ripens relatively amicably. The bush is medium-sized (1.8-2.2 m) of compressed type, the shoots form a medium number, they are erect, powerful, brown in autumn, with a medium waxy bloom, thornless, two-year brown shoots with slightly deviating tops. Winter hardiness is high. The variety is resistant to the main fungal diseases of raspberries, sensitive to the shoot gall midge and raspberry mite.

Coral -

late ripening variety. The berries are large (3-4 g), raspberry, wide-conical in shape with large, firmly linked drupes, good taste, aroma, universal use. Productivity is high (more than 2 kg per bush). The bush is medium-sized (1.5-2 m), semi-spreading, it forms an average number of shoots, they are straight, well-developed, medium-spine, purple by autumn. Winter hardiness is high. Above average resistance to pests and diseases.

Reward -

late ripening variety. Berries are medium-sized (2.6-3 g), elongated-conical, good sweet and sour taste, universal use. Productivity up to 2 kg per bush. The bush is of medium height, few shoots are formed, they are thick, erect, compact (with shortened internodes), in autumn they are red-claret with a thick waxy bloom, medium spiny. The variety is winter hardy, but old bushes are sensitive to winter drying. It is affected by raspberry mites, mycoplasma overgrowth, shoot gall midge. Produces well with constant disease prevention.

Companion -

one of the most promising late ripening varieties. The berries are large (2.7-3.5 g), dense, hemispherical, dark crimson with drupes of uneven size. Differs in high density, good separability and relatively amicable ripening. Berries of sweet and sour taste, with aroma, universal purpose, as well as for obtaining intensely colored juice. The bush is medium-sized (1.8-2 m), the shoots are powerful, erect, red-carmine by the fall with a strong waxy bloom, weakly spiny with short internodes. Average winter hardiness. The variety is relatively resistant to fungal diseases and spider mites, not resistant to damping off, sensitive to verticillium wilt, shoot gall midge, raspberry mite.

Promising varieties

Promising varieties include new varieties that surpass the zoned assortment in any one or a complex of economically valuable traits that are in the State test or are already included in the State Register in other regions.

For the North-West region of the Russian Federation, we can safely recommend in the group of promising for home and amateur gardening varieties obtained at the Kokinsky support point of VSTISiP (Bryansk), already well-known large-fruited, with a mass of berries from 3.2 to 4.5 g, highly productive - from 2.5 to 3.5 kg per bush, distinguished by a good dessert taste and aroma, fairly winter-hardy early varieties: Cascade Bryansk, Solnyshko, medium ripening: Gusar, Volnitsa and late Brigantine variety.

Particularly noteworthy is the early ripening variety Beglyanka, which has golden-apricot berries of excellent taste with a delicate aroma.

These varieties have been studied and multiplied since 2004 in the Pushkin fruit and berry nursery "NPTs Agrotechnology".

Many gardeners are interested in high-quality large-fruited varieties with a berry mass of 4-8 g, obtained in VSTISiP (All-Russian Institute of Selection and Technology for Horticulture and Nursery, Moscow): Aboriginal, Maroseyka, Stolichnaya, Taganka. The successful cultivation of these valuable, albeit insufficiently winter-hardy varieties in the conditions of amateur gardening is quite feasible provided they are bent down for the winter and the plants are covered with snow or other warming material.

One of the promising varieties for amateur gardening is the variety of the Leningrad Fruit and Vegetable Experimental Station - Vega - early maturing, large-fruited, with a dessert flavor of berries, which is also propagated in the Pushkin nursery.

Thus, the list for choosing raspberry varieties is very extensive and varied, and each gardener can purchase and grow the desired varieties on his personal plot.

In the Pushkin nursery for the propagation of new varieties I. V. Kazakov laid the mother plant in the spring of 2005, in the fall of 2006 it will already be possible to purchase seedlings of the desired varieties.