Cherry is one of the most common fruit crops. It is tasty and healthy. In addition, it is easy to care for her. There are many varieties of cherries with delicious large fruits. But only some of them are distinguished by a small tree height. One of these is Cherry Encounter.
Cherry Variety Selection Criteria
When choosing a cherry for the garden, pay attention to:
- the taste of fruits;
- terms of their ripening;
- resistance to major diseases;
- variety yield;
- frost resistance and resistance to spring return frosts;
- need for watering.
The yield of a variety largely depends on its self-fertility, that is, the ability to pollinate without the help of bees. This property can be useful if during the flowering of the tree the weather will be rainy and the bees will not be able to fulfill the function of pollination. Self-fertility can be full or partial.
For many gardeners, it is desirable that the crop on the tree does not ripen all at once. This allows you to stretch the period when you can feast on delicious cherry fruits.
For the northern regions, it would be better to choose the early varieties that ripen there in late June. But gardeners noticed that they have low frost resistance. Late, suffering severe frosts, may not have time to ripen during a short summer.
Which of these criteria does Cherry Meet?
Grade description
This variety is characterized by an early to medium ripening period. Typically, the meeting cherry fruit is ready for use in the third decade of June. Crown drooping, in the shape of a sphere, has a thick cherry Meeting. Her description suggests that it grows in the form of a bush covered with large fruits of a dark red color. Each weight is about 7 g. There is evidence that the fruits reach 10 g and even 15 g. The pulp is sweet, with acidity, very tender, juicy. Reviews gardeners say that she just melts in her mouth. Tasting evaluation of fruits - 5 out of five possible.
The bone is well separated from the pulp. The skin is thin.
A total of 2 m reaches a cherry meeting. The description of the variety, the photo suggests that it belongs to the morel. These are cherries with a dark shade of skin and juice, which turns red, unlike amorelles with a light fruit color and colorless juice.
The tree is partially self-fertile. Therefore, it bears fruit regularly. Each year, one cherry produces up to 15 kg of fruit. Individual trees produce 25 kg each. Of course, this is less than on tall trees, from which you can get up to 35 kg. But all of them are easy to assemble. After all, the tree is not high.
Origin of the variety
The variety was created by crossing Lyubskaya cherry and duke (a hybrid of cherry and cherry) Kievskaya-19 by the breeders of the Irrigation Institute (Melitopol) of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences Turovtsevs.
But does the meeting cherry created in the south endure severe frosts? Description winter hardiness is characterized as high. Cherry can withstand temperatures of up to 25 degrees below zero. Therefore, it is not difficult to grow it.
Cherry Encounter well tolerates drought.
The first harvest gives in the third year cherry meeting. Description, reviews indicate that at first the number of fruits is small. But every year it increases, especially if you properly care for the tree.
Seedling Selection
When buying a cherry seedling meeting, you need to carefully examine it. It should not have mechanical damage and traces of disease. There should be no yellow spots on the leaves, if any. The abundance of fresh foliage on the seedling suggests that it was dug up too early. This is not worth buying.
The root must be well developed. It’s nice to find a plant with a closed root system. Such ones take root much better. Yes, and they can be planted much longer than seedlings with an open root.
One or two year old trees are planted. The height of one-year-olds should be up to 70 cm, two-year-olds - up to 1.1 meters. If they are higher, the probability of a tree freezing in the first winter increases.
Planting
Where is the best meeting cherry grow? The description of the variety indicates that other trees of the varieties Shalunya, Primetnaya, Lyubskaya should grow near it. Neighboring them will help partially self-pollinated meeting significantly increase the number of fruits.
When choosing a place for cherries, you need to consider that it will grow better in sunny areas.
To the soil cherry Meeting is not very demanding. It needs to be drained. Then the moisture will not stagnate near the root. It is good if it is sandy loam or light loam.
Do not plant cherries:
- in the drafts;
- in low areas;
- near tall trees;
- near apricot, pear, plum, walnut, currant.
Good neighbors for her would be an apple tree, a cherry, a hawthorn.
Planting cherries Meeting in the southern regions is better in the fall, not less than a month before the onset of frost. If you do not have time to do this, it is better to dig it in until spring.
In mid-April, it usually comes time to plant cherries in the middle lane.
Prepare a pit for planting a tree. Its depth should be at least 80 cm. You can determine the size of the pit by adding 20-30 cm to the dimensions of the root system. The soil selected from the pit is mixed with rotted manure, sand, superphosphate, potassium chloride.
They fill up the hole to half, pour a heap of soil for root installation. Set the seedling. A wooden stake is prepared, which will subsequently support the young tree, protecting it from gusts of wind. Level the roots and sprinkle them with prepared soil.
Abundantly watered until water is absorbed into the ground.
Tie a sapling to the support.
The trunk circle is mulched with grass, the thickness of the mulch layer should be about 7 cm. An exception may be prolonged rainy weather, when moisture collects in the mulch layer. This can lead to decay of the root neck. In this case, it is better to move the layer of mulch before the onset of heat.
When planted in autumn, the trunk circle is mulched with a layer of 20 cm of manure; in winter, as much snow as possible is poured on it.
If several trees are planted, the distance between them should be at least 3 meters.
Care
Meeting cherries should be regularly watered until it starts to grow. After that, the number of irrigations can be reduced.
In early spring, the tree trunk and skeletal branches are treated with lime so that the sun's rays do not leave burns on them.
Needs revitalizing spring pruning Cherry Encounter. The description of the variety indicates that the tree after it gives a good harvest. Remove broken and damaged branches, form a crown.
Another feature is Cherry Encounter. The description of the variety indicates that overgrowth forms near the root. It will help reduce crop yields. Therefore, all processes near the root are removed.
In the spring, Cherries Meet are fed with nitrogen fertilizers. In the second half of summer - phosphorus and potash.
Diseases and Pests
Cherry Meeting is resistant to major diseases.
Coccomycosis is not affected at all. There have been cases of moniliosis, but to a small extent.
The fruits are damaged by a cherry fly. In the spring you need to carry out processing from these pests.
Application
How is Cherry Encounter applied? Description of the variety, reviews indicate that it is very popular among gardeners. It is found in many private gardens and household plots.
The fruits of cherries are consumed mostly fresh. The remaining ones are used for making juices and liquors. They canned, cooked delicious jam.