Cherry Etok beauty

Sweet cherry Etok beauty appeared at the Stavropol experimental gardening station. The resulting variety was due to the crossing of such subspecies as Dybera black and Denissen yellow. It is also worth noting that the Etok beauty cherry variety appeared thanks to the works of such breeders as A.I. Seredenko and V.V. The old ones. In 2000, this cherry variety was zoned in the Stavropol Territory.

Cherry Etok beauty: description of the variety and characteristics

Cherry Etok beauty: photo of the variety

Cherry tree Etok beauty has medium ripeness and is considered to be medium-growing. The crown of the plant is endowed with a wide pyramidal shape, closer to round, and it is also raised and has an average thickening. Skeletal stems have medium growth, they are thick and extend at an angle greater than 50 degrees. Shoots are formed at an average rate. They are medium in size, straight and brown in color, they are covered with a gray film in the form of a film, naked. The leaves of the tree are large, elongated, have a narrow oval shape, and are also pointed and long. They have a green color, a slightly wrinkled structure, along the edges of the leaf is double-serrated. The petiole is of medium size and pale green in color. The inflorescence is umbellate, and the flower is large and white. The most productive bouquet twigs are 3-5 years old.

• Description of fruits

The fruits of the sweet cherry Etoka beauty are quite large, each berry weighing 9 grams can reach. They are one-dimensional, endowed with a flat oval shape, and slightly narrowed towards their upper part. The skin of such berries is medium and bare, has a dark red color, almost black. The peel can be easily removed from the berry, it has a strong wax bloom. The funnel of this variety is wide, very small. The upper part of the cherry is a round, slightly elongated Etok beauty. The abdominal suture is weak and hardly noticeable, does not crack. As already mentioned, the fruits have an almost black tint and purple tint. The inner part of the fruit is red in color, and when ripe is dark red with white veins in the form of a mesh. Such flesh is quite dense and semi-hardy, has sufficient juiciness, excellent taste with a sweet aftertaste and slight sourness. The juice of such berries is of a dark red hue. The stone is endowed with a medium size, smooth surface, round shape, with a slight slope towards the dorsal seam, has the peculiarity of separating from the inside of the fruit with medium ease. The seed of such a fruit has a bitter taste. The stalk is medium, with good separability from the fruit branch, with a dry separation. The fruits contain substances such as: 0.64 percent acids, 12.2 percent sugars, 14.3 percent dry matter. The fruits are highly transportable. The fruits are endowed with excellent taste characteristics and universal purpose.

Features of the variety

The flowering period of the Etok beauty cherry variety comes quite late. The subspecies is considered self-fertile, and the best pollinators for its varieties are: Daibera, Golubushka and Franz Joseph. The ripening period for this variety is medium late, comes at the end of June. The subspecies is very fast-growing, beginning to bear fruit in the fourth year, usually after disembarkation. Fruiting occurs on bouquet branches and annual growth.At the age of 8 years, the average yield is approximately 45 kilograms per plant, and at the age of 11 years, the yield is approximately 80 kilograms per tree. The flower buds and the tree itself have a good level of frost tolerance. Foliage and fruits are endowed with relative immunity to such a dangerous disease as coccomycosis, and fruits - to cracking in wet weather.

Formation occurs along a moderate tier-sparse crown. The subspecies is sensitive enough to lighting, soil, moisture and heat. Great for top dressing and anti-aging pruning. Another variety of cherries, Etoka Beauty, requires preventive measures to protect against infections of various kinds and harmful insects.

Sweet cherry Etok beauty: advantages and disadvantages

The Etok beauty cherry, like other subspecies, has its own advantages and disadvantages. TO advantages subspecies include: High level of frost resistance of the tree itself and its flower buds; compact size of the tree crown; large fruits; good transportability; the ability to little shedding when ripe; good resistance to cracking and coccomycosis disease; dry separation; sweet cherry Etok beauty is suitable for the production technology of cultivation, as well as processing.

Disadvantages cherry varieties Etok beauty can be called: self-infertility of the variety, required in the presence of a number of pollinating varieties.