Cherry Meteor

Cherry Meteor was bred in America (Minnesota) by hybridizing the Montmorency variety with an unknown Russian variety (it could be “Vladimirskaya" or "Shubinka"). They took it away in 1944. Sent to the state test in 1985.

Cherry Meteor: variety description and characteristics

Cherry tree Meteor - medium stature, sparse crown, flat, round, bark covering the main branches, dark brown in color. Shoots are vertical, growing upward, brown in color. Cherry leaves of the Meteor variety are medium-sized, eighty-two by forty-eight mm, flattened, in the form of an oval or egg, green in color, half matte, a pointed apex, a wide base, in the form of a wedge, small denticles, in the form of obtuse teeth. The petiole reaches thirty-seven mm in length, the glands are absent. Cherry inflorescence Meteor contains three to four flowers, twenty eight to thirty mm in diameter, petals are wide, in the form of an oval, the top is bifurcated, the corrugation is average, the petals do not touch each other. The stigma of the pistil is at the same height or lower than the anthers. The flower stem is shortened, it is twenty-five mm. Fruiting of Meteor cherries like cherries in the form of a tree, for the most part, occurs on bouquet branches for two to five years.

Description of cherry fruits of the Meteor variety

Cherry Meteor: photo of the variety

Meteor cherry fruits are large, light red in color, weigh four and a half grams, rounded, slightly wide in the shape of a heart, rounded apex, a wide funnel, deep in the middle, the abdominal side is pressed, the abdominal suture is weakly expressed. the inner content is creamy pink, tender, juicy, sweet-sour, good taste, slightly pinkish juice. The fruits of the Meteor cherry in the south contain: dry matter (fourteen percent), sugars (10.1%), free acids (1.3%), ascorbic acid (17.8 mg per hundred grams of wet weight). The size of the seed is ten by six by four mm, weighs 0.23 grams, oblong, oval or long in the form of an egg, smooth, takes up five percent of the weight of the berry, the seed can be easily separated from the pulp. The fruit stem grows up to thirty mm, thin, medium attached to the berry, the place of separation is dry. Meteor cherries are good to eat fresh and can be processed.

Features of Cherry Meteor

The grafted trees of the Meteor cherry variety begin to bear fruit from the second or third year after planting. The variety blooms late, ripens medium late. Partially self-fertile, good yields are achieved with the help of Meteor cherry pollinators - Northstar andOblachinskaya". The yield indicator is worthy: in the climate of Krasnodar, from the ninth year after planting, the average yield reaches sixteen kg of berries from one cherry, the maximum is twenty kg. The variety is resistant to low temperature conditions: when freezing at a temperature of minus thirty-two degrees, seventy-five percent of unharmed generative buds remain, at minus forty - thirty-seven percent. The resistance of Meteor cherry to drought and heat is average. It is immune to diseases such as clotterosporosis, coccomycosis, these diseases affect a tree up to two and a half to three points.

Although the resistance of the Meteor cherry variety to low temperature conditions is good, but the variety is unreliable in the northern climate, therefore it is recommended for cultivation only in the south and in the Central Black Earth Region.

Cherry Meteor: reviews of gardeners

• Anastasia Viktorovna, Krasnodar Territory: “I like the Meteor cherry variety very much to my taste, but the appearance, it seems to me, is not very attractive. The berries are light in color, and the juice is completely colorless. This somewhat lowers the commercial properties of the berries ”.
• Katerina Vladimirovna, Chelyabinsk region: “I like Meteor cherry both in terms of taste and as a crop for growing. The yield is always very decent, and the tree itself is resistant to low temperature conditions. Also, the Meteor cherry variety is suitable for mechanized fruit harvesting, which facilitates the harvesting process. "