Cherry Velvet Night

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Velvet cherry (or, as it is often called Velvet night) was bred on the basis of the North Caucasian Zonal Research Institute of Horticulture and Viticulture (Krasnodar Territory) by interspecific crossing of the sweet cherry variety "Napoleon White" with the cherry variety "Anadolskaya". The authors are: M. A. Kolesnikov, I. M. Kirichek, E. M. Alekhina. The culture was zoned in 1987. Recommended cherry varieties Velvet Night for growing on an industrial scale in the North Caucasus.

Cherry Velvet Night: description of the variety and characteristics

The tree of the cherry variety Velvet night of strong growth, the crown is wide, in the form of an oval, medium dense, the foliage is good. The shoots are thickened, vertical, brown in color, bloom of gray colors. Cherry leaves of the Velvetnaya variety are long, oval-shaped, medium-sized, dark green in color, moderately pointed, the base is rounded, the edges of the leaf are raised upward, with two teeth, not pubescent. The petiole is elongated, medium in thickness, light green in color with a pinkish tone. There are two glands, in rare cases three, dark red in color, in the form of an oval. The inflorescence contains two to four flowers, medium-sized, a saucer-shaped corolla, oval-shaped petals, free-standing, white, cup-shaped, sepals in color, no notches, shortened and medium-sized stamens, elongated pistil located higher than anthers. Fruiting in the Velvet Night cherry variety occurs on bouquet branches (seventy-eight percent) and on the bases of one-year-old shoots.

Cherry Velvet Night: photo of the variety

Cherry fruits Velvet Night are more average in size, weigh 7-7.8 grams (sizes - 2.1 by 2.3 by 2), wide, in the form of a heart, rich coloring when fully ripe, the integumentary color is almost black, the inner contents and juice are dark red, very dense. The fruit stem is medium in size. The stone is medium in size (0.3 grams), rounded, beige, with rounded top and base. Berries of the Velvet Night cherry variety are very beautiful, decorativeness was 4.5-4.7 points. Taste qualities of velvet cherries are good, harmonious (the tasting score was 4.7 points). The fruit is torn off from the fruit stem medium, the place of separation is dry. Berries contain: sugars (13.7%), acids (0.8%), ascorbic acid (ten mg per hundred grams), P-active substances (four hundred thirty-six mg per hundred grams). Cherry variety Velvet Night is universal in purpose, high quality compotes are prepared from berries, dried fruits, candied fruits, and fruits are frozen.

Features of the Velvet Night variety

The flowering of Velvetnaya cherry is late, the ripening of berries is simultaneous, medium. Cherry begins to bear fruit from the age of five. The cherry variety Velvet Night is not self-fertile. The yield indicator is high when it fully bears fruit (at thirteen years), the yield is forty-forty-five kilos per cherry and more than nine tons per hectare, a record amount - fifteen tons per hectare, with a planting pattern of eight by six.

The resistance of fruit buds to winter is at a good level, wood - on average, to cold snaps high resistance. Cherry variety Velvet Night has immunity to fungal diseases, drought resistance is at an average level.