Cherry Triana: variety description, characteristics
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The article presents the Triana felt cherry: description of the variety, characteristics, advantages, disadvantages.
Felted cherry Triana: variety description
Felt cherry Triana: photo of the variety
Triana cherry was obtained by merging the Letniy variety and a cross between scarlet and pink pollen at a breeding point in the Far East in 1997. The creators of the species are considered V.P. Tsarenko and N.A. Tsarenko. It was added to the main variety register of the country in 1999.
Cherry Triana: photo of the variety
The Triana felt cherry bush grows up to 1.3 m in height, in the form of an elongated oval. Old shoots are powerful, dirty gray in color, flaky, with a lot of small lentils. Young branches are red-brown, with a fringe. The eyes are tiny, sharp, connected by 3 pieces together and slightly pressed against the branch, multiply quickly, with slight pubescence.
The leaf plate of the Triana cherry plant is oval, bent inward, 4.7 × 3 cm in size, dark green in color. The base and upper part of the leaf are sharp, the plate itself is rigid and corrugated, from the inside with a felt swelling, from the outside - with a short undercoat. The edges are serrated, the stalk is 0.5 cm long, thin, greenish, with serrate, slightly pubescent stipules.
Flowers, usually 1 or 2, saucer-shaped, corolla-shaped, medium-sized, about 2.2 cm; with five pale pink petals. It has a single pistil and about 26 stamens, the bud itself is pubescent, and the ovary too. The head is just below the anthers. The bowl has the same shape as the crown, has a strong anthocyanin and external pubescence; the flower has 5 sepals, with pubescence and slight serration. The plant blooms and bears fruit in a continuous type along the branch: on a tree of any age with the help of inflorescence and fruit branches.
Description of Triana Cherry Fruit
Felt cherry Triana: photo of the variety
Felt Triana cherries are colored dark pink, large, weighing about 3.7 g, dimensions 1.6 × 1.8 × 1.7 cm, resembling an oval with a beveled top with a small funnel at the base. The skin has a weak, almost imperceptible pubescence. The inside of the fruit is rough, tasty, slightly sinewy. The stalk on which the berry is attached is short, about 0.5 cm long, thin, with pubescence. The bone is large, weighing 0.17 g (this is approximately 4.6% of the weight of the entire fruit), cream-colored, oval in shape with a sharp end; hardly separates from the fetus.
Fresh Triana cherries contain: sugar (about 6.5%), acids (about 0.7%), powders (about 11.6%) and about 21.6 mg / 100 g of ascorbic acid fruit. The fruit looks very attractive. On the cusp, the berries are sweet and slightly sour. The score of a professional taster is approximately 3.8 points. The fruit is separated from the cutting rather dryly. The fruits are practically unsuitable for transportation and are not suitable for machine harvesting. The fruits can be eaten both fresh and after heat treatment, for example, in the form of compotes, preserves, jams, juices, etc.
Flowering, fruiting, yield of the variety
Triana felt cherries bloom at the end of May, 19-24. Fruits ripen in the twentieth of July, all berries at the same time. After grafting, seedlings begin to bear fruit a year after planting, self-rooted seedlings - for 3-4 years. The Triana felt cherry can bloom and bear fruit for 17 years. In addition, the variety assumes the pollination of plants either by other pollinating plants, or with the help of insects in connection with its self-infertility.
Triana cherry gives a good harvest, about 10.6 kg per bush. The trunk of the bush itself and its old and young shoots tolerate winter low temperatures well, flowers - spring frosts.The Triana felt cherry variety also tolerates drought well, but does not tolerate too much moisture, that is, it must be grown in greenhouses with prolonged rains. Has a high tolerance for coccomycosis and slightly lower for the development of clasterosporia. With an excess of moisture, the plant can get sick with moniliosis.
Felt cherry Triana: reviews of gardeners
- Ksenia Maksimovna, Samara region: “Triana felt cherry is one of my favorite cherry varieties. Triana cherry has excellent cold tolerance and excellent yield. The berries ripen quickly, are large and attractive to the eyes. And their taste is excellent. This is not the first season I have been growing Triana felt cherry, and every time I am satisfied with the result. "
- Victor Alexandrovich, Moscow region: “I know about Triana felt cherry because of my work. I grow Triana in a nursery and in a technical garden next to the points of further processing of fruits. I can say that this variety is ideal for this. Among other things, the Triana felt cherry has a large berry size, an interesting harmonious taste and always brings a large amount of harvest as standard. But nevertheless, I will note one drawback in the variety ... Triana felt cherry does not tolerate such a terrible ailment as moniliosis. "
