Cherry Dawn of Tatarstan

Cherry Zarya of Tatarstan: description of the variety and characteristics

Cherry Dawn of Tatarstan: photo of the variety

The common cherry Dawn of Tatarstan was bred with free pollination, the Seedlings are referred to the Large-fruited culture at number 6. The originality of this variety was revealed by the Research Institute of Agriculture of Tatarstan. The authors of this work of gardening-A. M. Tviritinov, N. M. Rostochkov, L. A. Sevastyanova. In the State Register for the Srednevolzhsk region, noted since 1988.

Medium-sized tree, rounded crown shaping, average thickening, medium-sized leaf cover. Shoots at the time of full development reach majestic sizes and are colored gray with slight silvery, medium-sized bud, conical shape during vegetation, generative direction-ovoid, strongly deviate in relation to the main shoot. Leaf plates of Zarya Tataria cherry are obovate, green, even dark in color, lack of anthocyanin. A slightly rounded top of the tree, but at the base it creates the shape of a wide wedge, a slight serration along the edge, a double-serrate-crenate formation. A shiny surface of leaves, completely without pubescence, flat plates, weak addition in the form of a boat to the apex. The petiole is shortened, but rather thick; the anthocyanin is very weak at the base.

The size of the flowers of the common cherry Zarya Tataria is closer to the average, the direct contact of the petals is white, the stigma of the pistil is significantly high relative to the anther. Cup-shaped cup. Mixed type fruiting and flowering culture.

Fruits, broadly round in shape, grow up to 4.3 grams, up to 19 mm in length, and 20 mm in width. The funnel is of medium shape, finely grooved in the shape of the apex. Red pronounced color, the pulp is exactly the same color, the juice in the color range corresponds, but slightly clarified, the pulp is medium in density. Peduncles up to 38 mm in length, they are relatively short in size, thin; round-shaped stone with an average weight of 0.3 grams. As a percentage of the mass of the pulp, 6.8% is expressed. Light brown color, rounded apex, forms a perfect circle at the base. Average separation of the bone from the fruit pulp.

In terms of external parameters, the Zarya Tataria cherry is of a fairly good quality, medium-sized juicy pulp, mediocre taste, even predominantly with sourness. The chemical composition of the fruit: 12.5% ​​dry matter content, 10.34% are various sugars, acids are 1.85%, the amount of ascorbic acid per 100 grams of product is 14.6 mg. It breaks off very dryly from the stalks, but predominantly a suitable variety when using mechanized harvesting. Medium crack resistance at full maturity. Assignment of a variety of a universal direction.

Features of the cherry variety

In terms of flowering, it falls in the third decade of May, relatively early average ripening, but almost uniform. With industrial cultivation, the amount of the Zarya Tataria cherry harvest is expressed in the following figure - 12.5 tons per hectare. Late entry into the fruiting age, only in the 5th year after planting. In terms of durability, it refers to the average period. Refers to self-infertile varieties, pronounced resistance to severe cold, but the resistance of the generative bud of relatively severe frost is of more average quality, the same resistance and flowers are relatively spring frost.

The exposure of Zarya Tataria cherries to droughts is also of a medium orientation, the same direction and attitude to prolonged heat. Mediocre immunity to a disease such as coccomycosis, but to gum flow, that is, gommosis, resistance in a higher form. If the care is carried out in improper quality, then the culture can easily be damaged by the cherry mucous sawfly.

It is possible to use the Zarya Tataria cherry variety as a breeding resource, however, the variety is practically unsuitable for growing in intensive-type gardens.

Cherry Zarya Tataria: reviews of gardeners about the variety

• Evgeny Viktorovich, Perm region: “I have been growing the cherry variety Zarya Tataria for many years. Compared to other cherry varieties grown at their summer cottage, Zarya Tataria is the highest-yielding variety. I propagate this cherry variety with a green cuttings, it takes root perfectly. What for me, as an experienced gardener, is a slight drawback, is the self-sterility of the Zarya Tataria cherry. However, in all other respects this variety suits me completely. "
• Marina Vasilievna, Sverdlovsk region: “Cherry Zarya of Tataria, although for me it has rather mediocre taste, in the convenience of growing it significantly outperforms many varieties. Cherry Zarya of Tatarstan perfectly tolerates cold times, and also did not notice that this variety got sick. "