Cherry Gedelfingen: description, characteristics

The article presents the Gedelfingen cherry: description of the variety, main characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.

Cherry Gedelfingen: variety description

Cherry Gedelfingen

The variety was bred in Germany, has a venerable age, and is most fully represented in Europe. The name comes from the settlement of Gedelfingen, which is located near the city of Stuttgart, where this cherry variety first appeared. It grew and was under the jurisdiction of the Krasnodar Territory since about 1947, but in 2000 it was not known under what circumstances it was removed.

Cherry Gedelfingen: description of the characteristics of the variety

Cherry Gedelfingen

The tree is powerful, grows quickly (by the age of 10 it reaches 5 m, older ones are about 8-10 m) and lives for a long time; crown in the form of a wide pyramid, rather dense, with a lot of leaves. The trunk is compacted, has a rough, gray-red-brown bark surface.

The main shoots are even, with a slightly rough, reddish-brown bark and large, round lenticels. Young branches are also smooth, relatively thin (5 mm), brown in color with a slight shade of red and black. Buds for propagation on shoots in the form of a cone, brown, 15-20 degrees obliquely extending from the branch.

The leaves are large, 155 × 60 mm in size, oval, slightly elongated, with a pointed tip. The edges of the sheet are double serrated; the stalk is thick and elongated, 40-43 mm, next to which, at the very base of the plate, there are 1-2 small brown glands. Flowers are collected in a bunch of 2-4 buds each, up to 30 mm in size, with oval petals, which have small notches at the top. The stem of the flower is 30 to 35 mm long. A bowl of color is presented in the form of a glass with a diameter of 7 mm, stamens up to 11 mm long, a fruit grower up to 10 mm, its stigma is located above the anthers.

Sweet cherry variety Gedelfingen: description of the fruits

Sweet cherry grade Gedelfingen

Fruits are 26x26x25 mm in size, weighing 7.8 g, in the shape of a flattened heart, burgundy, almost black, with a stripe in the form of a seam on the lateral surface of the berry. A well-defined incised strip runs along the entire back side of the berry. The pulp is coarse, dark red, abundantly filled with juice, with a well-combined sweet and sour taste, rich red juice. The composition of the fruit contains 16.9% of dry components, 12.2% of sugars, 0.6% of various acids and 14.2 mg / 100 g of ascorbic acid. The knuckle is large, about 11x9x7 mm, egg-shaped, beige-brown; weight 0.42 g, which is 5.5% of the total weight of the berry, it is difficult to tear it off from the pulp. The stalk is 3.7-4.5 cm long, clings tightly to the berry and, when separated from it, juice begins to flow out.

The variety is suitable for technical harvesting of fruits only at the final ripening of the berries, until then they can only be harvested by hand. The fruits are tasty and sweet, completely suitable for transportation by transport without any damage. They are universal in use: they can be eaten both fresh and after heat treatment (in compotes, jams and other offal).

Fruiting, pollination

Cherry begins to bear fruit 5-6 years after the process of grafting and transplanting the tree into a garden or nursery. The variety is considered to be medium late in terms of fruit ripening, which fully ripen by the end of June and can still remain on the branches for two weeks, acquiring new taste and external qualities.The most suitable plants for pollination of this variety are: June early, Priusadebnaya, Francis, South Coast and Zhabule. The variety is one of the best in terms of yield. For about 11-17 years of life in the Crimean gardens, trees gave about 85 kg of berries from one individual, and for 8 years of growth in the Krasnodar Territory, 7-14-year-old trees give from 26 to 45 kg each. This means that one tree can bear approximately 5-6 kg of fruit annually.

Persistence, advantages and disadvantages

The reproductive organs of this variety tolerate average winter temperatures (up to about -18) very easily; when the temperature dropped to -27.4 degrees in the Krasnodar Territory, the eyes of flowers died by 99% (with a decrease to -24 degrees by about 76.5%). It has extremely good immunity for transferring fungal diseases, in relatively healthy periods it is practically not affected, and during epidemics the level of risk of contracting coccomycosis rises to a maximum of 4 points, moniliosis - up to 3, and clasterosporiosis - from 1.5 to 3 points inclusive.

The advantages include: rapid formation and ripening of fruits; taste, quality and variety of use of fruits; high yield and good immunity to fungal diseases.

The disadvantages can be considered the fact that the variety in some periods does not tolerate winter frosts painlessly enough, which leads to the death of flower buds. And also too thick bark, which forms on the tree over the years and prevents the trunk from receiving nutrients and sun rays.