Red currant varieties

Red currant is a favorite of many, a promising crop with a stable annual yield, rare unpretentiousness, and high taste. The average yield of the best varieties of red currant is almost two times higher than that of raspberries and black currants, and an order of magnitude higher than that of gooseberries and strawberries ... Its berries contain vitamin C, amino acids, P-active compounds and coumarins. This type of currant entered the culture much earlier than black currant and worthy to this day takes its rightful place in it.

Red currant is popular in many countries around the world. It is grown in the USA, England, Iceland, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands and not only in private gardens, but also as an industrial culture.

In Russia, red currants occupy an insignificant part of the area. The planting areas of this shrub in the Urals and Siberia are also small. Nevertheless, its high technological and taste indicators put red currants in one of the first places with first-class horticultural crops.

Red currant occupies the vastness from the European part of Russia to the Kola Peninsula and Siberia. Calmly reacts to heat, moisture, frost. High frost and drought resistance combined with shatter resistance. Resists strong winds. It is undemanding to the characteristics of the soil, but prefers chernozems, loamy and heavy loamy soils.

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The best varieties of red currant

A large number of varieties of this currant have a remarkable ability to set berries with their own pollen. This is also one of the reasons for its unique popularity. She does not need the presence of insects that produce pollination, this culture is self-fertile, which allows her to hold the lead in the eastern regions of the country.

• The largest red currant berries can be observed in varieties such as:
  Ural beauty, Rondom, Ilyinka, Ob sunset, Viksne, Asora.
• Red currant varieties have the best taste:
  Ural souvenir, Meat-red, Early sweet.
• The highest content of vitamin C can be found in berries of the currant variety:
  Chulkovskaya, Vika, Gazelle, Zarya Zapolyarya, Niva, Osipovskaya, Rote Shpetlese, Ustina.
• The sugar content is mostly in red currant varieties:
  Houghton Castle, Red Cross, Svetlana, Red Meat.
• Of no small importance for the technological characteristics, transportability is the sign of fruit breaking off during collection. Such abilities are observed in currant varieties:
  Star of the North, Long-leaved small, Laturnais, Dutch red.
• Such varieties as have a high degree of winter hardiness:
  Ural Dawns Glory Sablon,, Reibi Castle, Ural beauty, Chulkovskaya, Dawn, Melody, Ural Lights, Scarlet Dawn, Night.

Considering all the varieties of red currants considered above, the best of them, undoubtedly, can be called:

Viksne is the best red currant variety in terms of its taste and rich deep cherry color. Winter-hardy and heat-resistant variety, disease resistant.

"Gollandskaya krasnaya" is a winter-hardy variety, characterized by unpretentiousness. It has compact and powerful bushes. Possesses good resistance to fungal diseases.

"Cascade" is a large-fruited variety of currants, it has a brush 10 cm long.A frost-resistant variety, resistant to fungal infections. Very productive.

Uralskaya krasavitsa is an excellent variety. It has a dessert taste and large fruits. Early ripening currant, hardy. High productivity and self-fertility.

"Serpentine" is a large-fruited fruitful variety. Medium-sized, compact bush. Highly winter-resistant. The fruit has a wonderful taste with a pleasant aroma.

The best varieties of red currants for the Moscow region

Red currants in the Moscow region usually bloom in May. Early varieties ripen in June, late ones in August.

For planting red currants in the specified region, such varieties are recommended as:

• Early sweet;
• Jonker van Tete;
• Rachnovskaya;
• Natalie.

"Early Sweet" is a fruitful bush that gives up to 4 kg of fruits. On a long brush, the berries are small, but tasty, do not crumble.

"Jonker van Tete" - the best of the red currant varieties, a compact tall bush that produces up to 6 kg of berries. The berries are tasty and large. Well known for its winter hardiness.

"Rachnovskaya" is a slightly spreading, medium-sized bush that yields up to 5 kg of calibrated juicy and tasty berries.

Natalie is a compact, dense bush. Productivity up to 12 kg. The berries are deep red in color, aromatic and tasty. Medium resistant to fungal diseases.

The best varieties of red currants for Siberia and the Urals

The harsh climatic conditions of Western and Eastern Siberia and the Urals have a huge impact on horticultural crops. In winter, in these regions, the temperature drops to 45 ° C, and return frosts can ruin the harvest even during flowering.

Red currant adequately overcomes these cataclysms of nature and emerges victorious from them. There are many varieties that yield good yields in Siberia and the Urals.

The best varieties of red currants for the Urals and Siberia are the following:

• Chulkovskaya;
• Dutch pink;
• Darling;
• Ural souvenir;
• Lights of the Urals.

Chulkovskaya - early red currant. Slightly spreading, vigorous, with bright red fruits from an exquisite dessert taste. High urozhnost up to 10 kg per bush. very winter hardy.

Beloved is a very popular variety. Semi-spreading, medium-sized shrub. Berries with a sweet and sour taste. Differs in excellent productivity and winter hardiness.

Dutch rose is a favorite variety of gardeners. Tall shrub, but compact enough. Fruits are large in size, pink in color with an excellent dessert taste. Excellent yield, cold-resistant.

The Ural souvenir is a wonderful winter-hardy variety. The berries of this variety are juicy, bright red, the taste has a sweet and sour tint. The bush is medium-sized and medium-spreading.

Ural Lights is a very hardy variety with medium-sized berries. The flowers and ovary are resistant to spring frosts, and the plant has good resistance to pests and diseases.

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