Cherry Vladimirskaya

When planning fruit plantations on a personal plot, the gardener first of all chooses suitable cherry varieties that are not capricious in care and bear fruit well. These include the Vladimirskaya variety, with a long history, which gives delicious berries.

Cherry Vladimirskaya (Dobroselskaya, Vyaznikovskaya, Izbyletskaya) is a favorite variety of many generations of summer residents and farmers, since its history begins in the 12th century. There is a legend that the name of this variety came from the city of Vladimir, where huge cherry orchards were planted. A fruit and berry crop has been approved for use since 1947. Cherry is zoned in many regions - Central, Volgo-Vyatka, Srednevolzhsky and Central Chernozem.

Cherry Vladimirskaya is a bushy tree that grows up to 2.5-5 meters in height, endowed with many characteristic features. Cherry has a rounded crown shape, medium spreading of the branches of an ash-gray color, which increases with time, and a weak foliage with dark green foliage with a matte finish. Over time, the crown droops and takes on a weeping look. The grafted cherry looks like a standard tree with a neat crown.

Cherry flowers are collected in loose inflorescences of 5-7 pieces. During the flowering period, which occurs in the first decade of May, the crown is densely covered with snow-white flowers with forked petals. The fruits are tied on annual twigs.

Cherries of this type are found in small and medium fractions. On average, the weight of the berry ranges from 2.5 to 5 grams. The shape of the berries is round, slightly flattened or compressed.

Ripe cherries are evenly covered with deep black-red color. If you look closely, you can see numerous gray dots and a light matte bloom with a silvery sheen on the surface of the berries. The skin of the fruit is thin, not hard. The ventral suture of cherries is poorly expressed. The berry separates from the stalk easily and dryly.

The purpose of cherries is universal - the berries are consumed fresh, massively used in cooking, frozen, processed into jams, preserves, compotes, juices. In addition, cherries are suitable for the production of alcoholic beverages, used in medicine, since they are characterized by antiseptic and expectorant properties.

Once removed from the tree, cherries can be transported over long distances. Fruit keeping quality is standard.

The berries taste great. The dark red flesh has a tender, fleshy, firm, slightly fibrous and very juicy texture. The juice of the berries is dark cherry, rich. Fruit taste is harmonious - sweet and sour, diluted with pleasant astringency. A large bone is easily separated from the pulp. Cherry pulp contains more than 11% sugars and less than 15 acids.

Vladimirskaya is a medium-ripening cherry.The tree begins to bear fruit early - 2-3 years after planting the seedling. Berries ripen unevenly, gradually, so the fruiting period is somewhat extended.

The phase of active maturation falls on the period from 10 to 30 July. It takes about 2 months from the beginning of mass flowering to ripe cherries on the branches. The life span of a tree is 25-27 years.

The yield of the variety is average, directly dependent on the growing zone, past diseases and other factors. On average, one small tree produces 5 kg of cherries. The maximum figure varies between 20-25 kg of berries per season from one tree.

This cherry species is self-fertile, so you will need to plant donor trees with similar flowering times. Turgenevka, Morel black, Vasilievskaya, Amorel pink, Lyubskaya, Zhukovskaya, Moskovskaya, Rastunya and Griot Michurina bloom at the same time as Vladimirskaya cherry.

Planting dates directly depend on the climatic characteristics of the region. In the Central Region, seedlings are planted in April - before bud break. In the southern regions, planting is carried out in the fall - 30-40 days before stable frosts.

The best plantings for this cherry variety are plum, cherry plum, grapes and elderberry. It is recommended to purchase an annual seedling with a developed root system, the length of which is at least 25-30 cm. The distance between trees should be at least 3 meters.

Even a novice summer resident can grow Vladimirskaya cherries, since she has a simple agricultural technique and there are no special requirements for the place and soil of growth. You can propagate a culture in several ways - by seeds or offspring.

Caring for a tree consists of a number of standard activities: regular watering, fertilizing, loosening the soil, mulching, forming the crown, removing excess branches, preventing diseases, preparing for winter.

Watering is carried out 4 times per season - during flowering periods, the formation of ovaries, after removing the fruits and when digging up the soil for the winter. You need to water not under the trunk, but in the grooves made nearby. It is recommended to apply fertilizers in spring (ash and phosphate fertilizers) and in autumn (compost, manure and sawdust). It is better to cut branches and form a crown in spring. As protection for the winter, it is recommended to use sacking or agrofibre wrapping.

The immune system of the fruit and berry crop is weak, so the tree needs good protection from diseases and pests, cherry is especially vulnerable to fungal diseases - moniliosis and coccomycosis. Among the pests that annoy the tree, the most dangerous are cherry and shoot moths, aphids and mice.

Cherry Vladimirskaya is a thermophilic and moisture-loving culture, therefore, a plot in the garden should be chosen sunny, reliably protected from drafts. The tree loves soils fertile, fluffy, air / moisture permeable, neutral oxidized, with a deep passage of groundwater. The more sun and warmth, the sweeter the berries will be.

In addition, the variety has good winter hardiness, so the tree can be grown in the northern regions. The only thing is that from severe frosts - below -25, the kidneys may suffer, which will negatively affect the formation of ovaries.