Honeysuckle Cinderella is a perennial shrub whose properties are highly appreciated by folk medicine.
The beneficial substances and vitamins contained in its composition significantly improve health and strengthen the immune system. Outwardly, a honeysuckle broth is used for inflammation of the throat, wounds and swelling; with dropsy, acts as a diuretic. Honeysuckle juice and bark are indispensable natural remedies for colitis. Branches have antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties; infusions based on them are useful in washing eyes, treating rheumatism and polyarthritis.
Honeysuckle Cinderella: description
The honeysuckle variety Cinderella was bred at the Siberian Research Institute of Horticulture and registered in 1983. In size, the plant is relatively small - 60-100 cm; bushes are characterized by a dense crown. The shoots are light green, thin, straight. Leaves linearly oblong, 2-3 cm long, located on short petioles. Fruits are oval in shape, elongated, with thin skin, sour-sweet to the taste, with a delicate hint of strawberries. One bush gives 1.5-2.0 kilograms of almost black, with a blue coating of berries that hold well on the plant and practically do not crumble. The average weight of each is 2 grams. Honeysuckle fruits are delicious fresh, perfectly retain their qualities when frozen; they make delicious jams, compotes and wine.
Honeysuckle in the wild
Numerous honeysuckle flowers appear closer to the beginning of summer (in the second half of May) - a period when the leaves of the plant are not yet fully developed. Therefore, Honeysuckle Cinderella is very much appreciated as an early honey plant. Fruiting of the bush begins in the second year of planting, in June-July. Under natural conditions, honeysuckle grows in Japan, Korea, China, the Far East and Eastern Siberia. The most comfortable areas for such a plant that loves moisture are the outskirts of marshes, river valleys, tundra, coastal sands, and areas of floodplain forests.
Breeding
Honeysuckle Cinderella propagates by cuttings. For this, a stalk taken from a young branch must be buried at an angle of 2/3 of its size. Previously, it can be held for several hours in a container of water. Also, honeysuckle (Cinderella variety) is propagated by layering. To do this, you need to dig in the lower branch of the bush, attaching it to the surface of the soil with a staple. With the seed method, it is required to collect dry seeds from selected high-quality fruits of the shrub, leave them until the fall, with the onset of which mix with wet sand and place in a closed container on the lower shelf of the refrigerator. Check the moisture content of the sand every 2 weeks. In the spring, plant the seeds in a box with fertile soil, cover with foil and leave in a dark place. With the germination of young seedlings, the film should be removed, and in September, seedlings can be planted in open ground.
Growing conditions
Honeysuckle Cinderella (see photo in the article) is quite suitable for home cultivation due to its highly decorative and medicinal qualities. Such a plant loves the sun, so it is recommended to plant it in bright areas protected from the winds.
Optimum soil composition:
turf land, peat or humus and sand. Although in a different soil composition, honeysuckle will please with good growth and high yields. Under natural conditions it is pollinated by bees, bumblebees. If other varieties grow on the plot, then the pollinators are: Blue Spindle, Kamchadalka, Tomichka, In Memory of Gidziuk, Amphora, Titmouse, Roksana.
Honeysuckle Cinderella: landing
Shrub planting is required in the early spring or fall, after the end of the growing season. The advantage of the autumn planting is that the plant has time to take root before the frost and with the onset of spring it will immediately begin to grow. Spring planting is not very convenient, since at the time of shrubbery awakening, the ground is often still covered with snow carpet. Before planting, the soil should be well fertilized with organic fertilizers, potassium salt and superphosphate. The recommended distance between plants is at least 1.5 meters to avoid shading.
Honeysuckle Cinderella is very easy to transplant: just gently, without damaging the roots, dig it out and with an earthen lump identify it at a constant place of growth.
Care Features
Honeysuckle care is simple: the plant needs regular abundant watering, weeding and loosening of the soil. On dry days and during fruit setting and ripening, the moisture supply must necessarily be increased, spending 8-10 liters of water for each bush. This operation prevents the appearance of bitterness in the berries. Also, during flowering, honeysuckle is recommended to be watered with a solution of ash (1 liter per 10 liters of water).
Every two years, under each bush, it is recommended to make one bucket of humus. To stimulate flowering, honeysuckle should be fed with drugs such as Aquarin, Master, Mortar (10 grams of water per 10 liters of water).
Adult specimens of honeysuckle are recommended to carry out sanitary pruning with the removal of dried, diseased, damaged branches (in spring or autumn). Old bushes can be rejuvenated, leaving the trunk with branches at a height of half a meter from the soil surface. Thanks to young shoots, honeysuckle will recover within 2-3 years. In the spring, it is recommended to cover the bush with material in order to protect the kidneys from pecking by birds.
With proper care, you can easily grow a honeysuckle bush, which will become a worthy decoration of the garden and will bear fruit for two decades.
Pest and Disease Control
Honeysuckle Cinderella, reviews of which are positive among gardeners, is a plant resistant to diseases, but aphids can sometimes be affected. You can determine its appearance by yellowing the bush. In this case, the preparations “Eleksar”, 0.2% solution of “Aktellik”, “Aktara” will help. As a preventative measure, spraying with tinctures of pepper, tobacco or garlic can be used. With severe thickening of plantings, a defeat by a honeysuckle tick is possible.
If dark spots appear on the leaves, which become brown and dry at the end of summer, the plantings should be thinned out and treated with a 0.2% solution of Actellik. Also, this drug will help in the fight against scabies, attached to the bark and sucking the juice of the plant. Darkening of unripened fruits, their wrinkling and shedding can be caused by the honeysuckle fingerfly, against which Inta-Vir is effective.