Black currant - varieties for giving

Black currant berries rich in vitamins can be found in summer cottages and backyards from Moscow to Siberia, as its popularity is growing every year. Today, many varieties of black currant have been bred, which allow you to choose the most suitable for any region of our country.

Each variety of currant has unique characteristics, when comparing which, you can make the right choice in favor of one or another black currant:

• fruiting time;
• taste (sweet, sweet and sour);
• the thickness of the skin of the berries;
• drought resistance;
• frost resistance;
• resistance to damage by diseases and pests.

For beginner gardeners, we recommend staying on 2-4 varieties of black currant with different ripening periods in order to have tasty and healthy berries in their diet for as long as possible.

Early varieties of black currant

Early currants ripen in early July and are not afraid of return frosts in May. Since the main harvest takes place before the onset of hot days, she is not afraid most diseases , kidney mites and powdery mildew:

• Curiosity - a medium height bush with oval sweet and sour berries weighing 2g and dense skin;
• Selechenskaya-2 - a popular variety in the middle lane and the Moscow region, has an erect bush with round dessert-flavored berries weighing 4-5g;
• Exotics is a versatile variety with round berries of 4-5g and thin skin, suitable for canning and grinding with sugar;
• Seedling Dove - an ultra-early variety that has passed many years of testing in many regions of our country, has small berries of 1.2 - 1.7 g, which crack when overripe, suitable for manual harvesting;
• Pleasing - early-growing bushes with short clusters of 6-9 berries, yields 4-5 kg ​​per bush.

The best early varieties for the Moscow region and central Russia are:

• Summer resident;
• Nara;
• Nester Kozin;
• Belarusian.

They are distinguished by amicable ripening and high productivity.

Medium black currant varieties

Mid-season blackcurrant varieties have sweet berries and medium spreading drought-resistant bushes:

• Perun is a disease and pest resistant variety with large aromatic berries;
• Dubovskaya - characterized by compact, low-growing bushes with medium-sized sweet berries;
• Dobrynya - is resistant to diseases and pests;
• Raisin - has sweet berries with an original aroma of high yield, which do not crumble during the period of final ripening, but wither on the bushes.

Medium varieties are the broadest group of black currants, which also include new high-yielding varieties:

• Fidelity;
• Green haze;
• Black Pearl;
• Necklace;
• Riddle;
• Orlovia.

Late varieties of black currant

Late black currant is most suitable for conservation, making jam, compotes and other preparations.

It is the late varieties of black currant with a dense skin of berries that are frozen to replenish the winter diet with vitamins:

• Venus - has a strong-growing bush with sweet large berries (5-6g), unpretentious to growing conditions and soil composition;
• Vologda - vigorous frost-resistant bushes with large berries are suitable for mechanized harvesting;
• Natasha is a versatile variety with dense, rounded black berries, giving a consistently high yield of good taste.

To obtain high yields of late varieties of currants, it is necessary to provide the bushes with optimal growing conditions throughout the entire growing season.

Large-fruited black currant

When choosing large varieties of black currant, it is necessary to consider for which region they are bred. After all, even the best varieties of currants for Siberia or the Urals will not give the desired rich harvest in the Moscow region, since the growing conditions will differ from those declared by the breeders.

To obtain high yields and large berries, you need to adhere to some recommendations:

• For a summer cottage, choose proven varieties that have proven themselves for several years: Yadrenaya, Valovaya, Guliver, Zhemchuzhina, Bagira, Lazy;
• Choose zoned varieties that are adapted to the specific growing conditions of the Urals, Siberia or the Moscow region;
• Strong healthy planting material that nurseries offer is the key to a future harvest;
• Compliance with the correct agricultural practices on the site ensures the maximum yield.

Competent care of the berry (timely watering, fertilization, pruning bushes) - a guarantee of successful cultivation of large varieties of black currant.

Regionalized varieties of black currant

Depending on weather conditions, one and the same variety of black currant can manifest itself in different ways in different regions of Russia. Breeders develop varieties that are resistant to diseases and pests, as well as adapt to changing growing conditions. For each climatic zone of our country, the best varieties of black currant are zoned, of which the most promising are distinguished.

• The best black currant varieties for the Moscow region (Belorusskaya sweet, Detskoselskaya, Moscow, Izmailovskaya, Karelskaya, Paulinka) - ideal varieties of black currants of European selection for the middle lane, which are bred taking into account the climatic characteristics and weather conditions in this region, drought-resistant, self-fertile, good tolerate sudden changes in spring temperatures.
• The best varieties of black currant for Siberia (Brown, Zagadka, Minusinka, Hercules, Lucia) - are distinguished by high frost resistance and unpretentiousness to growing conditions.
• The best blackcurrant varieties for the Urals (Nina, Kent, Pamyat Michurina, Sibilla, Dashkovskaya, Rhapsody) are winter-hardy, resistant to diseases and pest damage, perfectly tolerate return frosts and sudden temperature changes.

When choosing a currant for your site, it is important to pay attention to the soil composition of the site, the climatic conditions in the region, the size of the berries, the taste and yield of the variety.

For summer residents who have the opportunity to come to the site once a week, drought-resistant varieties are most preferred, in which the berries do not crumble when ripe:

• Raisin;
• Gulliver;
• Nara;
• Titania.

Typically, catalogs contain descriptions of each variety of black currant with a photo, where its characteristics and advantages are briefly given.

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