Black currant Gloriosa

Black currant Gloriosa has high yields, excellent dessert taste, frost resistance, pronounced immunity to anthracnose, powdery mildew and kidney mites. Due to its advantages and unpretentiousness, the berry is gaining more and more fans among professional and amateur gardeners.

Black currant Gloriosa: variety description

Black currant Gloriosa can be talked about as an exceptionally winter-hardy culture. It also has a high yield, average ripeness with a pronounced immunity to a number of diseases.

It is recommended to grow it on the territory of the Siberian part of Russia, especially in the west of Siberia. It has also proven itself well in different regions of the country.

The currant Gloriosa was developed and bred in Novosibirsk, at an experimental station with the help of the originators A.I.Degtyareva, A.A. Potapenko, A.M. Belykh and V.N. Sorokopudov. The variety was obtained by crossing "Ojebin"And" Iskitimsky ". Gloriosa was included in the State Register in 2002.

Black currant Gloriosa: characteristic of the variety

Gloriosa currant: photo of the variety

Gloriosa black currant bushes are slightly spreading, growth is medium. On slightly curved shoots there is a brown, slightly glossy bark. The plant has five-lobed, bright green leaves. The berries are large enough (1.7-2.7 g). The berries are round with a firm, black skin and firm, sweet, aromatic flesh. Medium ripening variety of Gloriosa currant. The average yield per bush is 2.7 kg.
In terms of chemical composition, Gloriosa currants have a large amount of vitamin C (98 mg / 100 g), and sugars - 13.6 percent.

Advantages and disadvantages

The advantages of black currant Gloriosa include:

• high productivity;
• dessert flavor notes;
• frost resistance;
• immunity to diseases such as anthracnose, powdery mildew, kidney mites.

Disadvantages of currant Gloriosa:

• weak immunity to diseases such as septoria, gall aphid;
• obligatory competent pruning.

Black currant Gloriosa: planting

Agricultural technology consists of planting and care rules, planting care. High-quality implementation of agrotechnical standards is directly related to the subsequent development and fruiting of plants.

About the choice of seats and boarding

The landing site for Gloriosa should be well lit, sunny, preferably calm. The soil is chosen fertile, slightly acidic; loamy and sandy loam soils are also suitable for currants. Do not forget about drainage so that there is no stagnation of moisture in the root zone.

Bushes are planted in the spring before the juices move or in the autumn - at the end of the growing season.
Approximately 15 days before planting, planting pits are prepared. The size should be as follows: depth - 0.4 m, width - 0.5 m.Now you need to prepare a mixture of fertilizers:

• humus (10 kg);
• superphosphate (100 g);
• potassium chloride (45 g).

Pour the fertilizer mixture onto the bottom of the hole, on top of which we spread 10 cm of soil.

Next, place the plant at the bottom of the hole at an angle of 45 degrees. Next, you need to carefully spread the roots and cover the bush with soil so as to leave the root collar underground to a depth of approximately 5 centimeters.

Black currant "Gloriosa": care

For competent watering in the area of ​​the trunk circle, trench grooves are made (depth 5-10 cm). Water is added to these grooves if necessary, but not more often than once every 7 days. One-time for one bush will require from 20 to 30 liters of water.

In the hot summer period, as well as during the periods of ovary and berry formation, watering should be done more often (up to once every five days).

Do not allow moisture to enter the leaf plates: on sunny days this will burn the foliage.

Fertilization is mandatory twice a year:

• at the beginning of spring, the first three years from the moment of planting, urea is introduced (40-50 g);
• from the fourth year from the moment of planting, the same urea is introduced only in an amount of 15-20 g;
• in the autumn, after the berries are harvested, compost is added (5 kg / 1 bush).

About diseases and pests

The main advantage of black currant Gloriosa is considered to be high immunity to various diseases (powdery mildew, anthracnose, etc.).

True, the Gloriosa variety of black currant should be wary of septoria. If this fungal infection has caught up with your currants, then the bushes are sprayed with 1% Bordeaux liquid at the rate of 1.5 liters per one bush.

For the black currant variety Gloriosa, the kidney mite is not terrible. The plant shows excellent resistance to this pest.

Against this positive background, the instability and danger of an attack on Gloriosa by a gall aphid seems strange. To get rid of these parasites, spraying with insecticides is used (in particular, Aktellik, at the rate of 1.5 liters per 10 square meters of bushes).

About pruning and shaping bushes

Pruning Gloriosa bushes should be done in early spring, before the onset of the growing season, or in the fall (mid or late autumn). They begin to form a bush immediately after planting, cutting off the branches by about 10-15 centimeters. Thanks to these actions, skeletal branches will form. On the 2nd and several subsequent years, pinching of the tops (from 3 to 5) of several of the strongest young branches is done, and the weak ones are removed. Thus, by about the sixth year, the bush should consist of 15-20 branches, and by the seventh year, the bush will be fully formed. From this time on, it is necessary to carry out sanitary pruning to remove frozen, broken, affected, old and thickening branches.

About wintering

Currant bushes of the Gloriosa variety do not require winter shelter, since the variety is winter-hardy. It is enough to mulch the bushes with peat, sawdust or fallen leaves.

On the collection, transportation and keeping quality of berries
Berry harvests from the bushes can be harvested not at one time, but in several passes. The keeping quality and portability can be said to be average. Gloriosa currant berries can be stored for up to 30 days (temperature from +1 to + 3 ° C). The best storage place is a refrigerator or cellar.
It is worth noting that if individual currant berries have deteriorated, then it is better to discard them immediately, since there is a high probability of finding fungal spores in them that are dangerous to human health. Moreover, during storage, infected fruits can infect healthy berries.

Breeding the Gloriosa blackcurrant variety is an activity that even a novice gardener can handle. Due to its high frost resistance and resistance to various diseases, the variety will delight experienced farmers. Of course, efforts to grow such currants are necessary, but the reward in the form of tasty and healthy berries will not take long.