It is difficult to choose the most suitable one for your site from more than two hundred varieties of black currant. There is the most large-fruited, productive, early, sweet - it is worth trying all the best that is bred by domestic and foreign breeders.

How to choose currants for planting on the site

When choosing a variety, consider the following:

• How drought tolerant is it?
• how adapted to frost and temperature extremes;
• the period of flowering and fruit picking;
• Is it demanding to care;
• how strong is the immunity to pests and diseases.

Correlate the characteristics of the variety with the temperature regime of your region, soil fertility and other features of your area and site, and then evaluate it according to personal preferences:

• what kind of currant do you prefer: sweeter or with bright sourness;
• whether your crop will be transported. To do this, it is important to know the thickness of the peel of the fruit and the indicators of dryness of separation.

The largest varieties

With a mass of one blackcurrant berry of more than 1.5 g, the variety is classified as large-fruited. There are among these varieties and frost-resistant, easily adapting to heat and low humidity.

Vigorous

Elite large-fruited variety of currant. The weight of the berries reaches 8 g. The Vigorous crop ripens at the end of July, about 6 kg are harvested from each bush. The advantages of the variety include:

• dense and elastic pulp;
• self-pollination;
• strong immunity to kidney mites.

Gardeners also note significant shortcomings of Vigorous:

• high requirements for care, systematic pruning;
• the need to update the plant every 5-7 years;
• non-one-dimensional berries on the brush;
• the impossibility of transporting fruits;
• sour taste of berries;
• susceptibility to powdery mildew.

The blackcurrant variety Vigorous is popular because of the large size of the berries.

And here are some of mine planted this year - the Vigorous variety, which is also not small. When my husband saw it on a bush, he asked - what is it, grapes :)

Dobrynya

The weight of the largest berries of the variety is 7 g. By mid-May, the currant blooms, harvesting begins after July 15. One bush can produce more than 2 kg of berries. The indisputable advantages of Dobrynya, in addition, include:

• dry detachment of fruits, as well as their dense peel. These features are important for ease of transportation;
• pleasant aroma;
• sweet and sour aftertaste;
• plant immunity to powdery mildew.

Disadvantages of the variety:

• young cuttings take root poorly;
• pretentious to the care and fertility of the soil;
• affected by a kidney mite;
• fruits ripen at different times;
• berries on the brush are heterogeneous in size and size.

I really like the variety Dobrynya. Large berry, delicious. Surprised by the number of berries in the first year of planting. I just want to eat this one, it’s a sin to let jam. She is very satisfied.

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Blackcurrant Dobrynya - video

Selechenskaya-2

This is an early currant with a fruit weight of about 6 g. It gives a good harvest, which is about 4 kg of sweet, with a slightly sour berry. In addition, they easily carry transportation. The bush is practically not sick with powdery mildew.

I have this variety. The bush is always very powerful. The shoot-forming ability is high, i.e. it reacts to pruning with an even greater number of young shoots. Growth is powerful. Pretty self fertile. With good agricultural technology, the harvest is excellent. The berries are tasty, with a thin peel, fragrant. Not all varieties can boast of the aroma of berries.

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Selechenskaya-2 - one of the best currant varieties - video

Black Pearl

The mass of the berry approaches 5 g. The yield is sufficient: one plant brings an average of 4 kg.

Other valuable qualities of the variety:

• fruits are easily transported. This is facilitated by the dryness of separation of berries;
• harvesting can be mechanized;
• undemanding to agricultural technology;
• resistant to diseases such as anthracnose and bud mites.

Cons of Black Pearl:

• phased harvesting due to non-simultaneous ripening of the brush;
• soft currant aroma;
• sour aftertaste.

Currant berries of the Black Pearl variety are round in shape and weigh up to 5 g.

The distinctive quality of the variety is the high content of pectins in the berries. This is true for those who actively use currants for jams and jellies.

The sweetest black currant

Currants are considered the sweetest, in which the largest amount of healthy sugars and the least amount of acids. Such varieties have a pleasant taste with a slight sourness, as well as high winter hardiness.

green haze

Variety characteristics:

• average ripening period;
• the berry weighs about 1.5 g;
• yield about 4 kg;
• carelessness.

The main disadvantage of currants is susceptibility to such a pest as a kidney mite.

The Green Haze variety has one of the highest sugar content in fruits (12.2%).

Bagheera

Variety of medium maturity, high yield. The mass of the berry is about 1.5 g, it contains 10.8% sugar. Bagheera has many advantages:

• resistance to heat and drought;
• self-pollination;
• the same size of fruits;
• friendly ripening of berries;
• suitability for transportation.

The main disadvantage of the variety is the weak resistance to currant diseases.

The variety is especially popular among those who are fond of herbal medicine, because the foliage of the plant remains almost until frost.

The ripening of currant berries of the Bagheera variety occurs simultaneously

pygmy

Characteristic features of the variety:

• large-fruited currant with a berry weight of up to 5 g and an annual high yield;
• the berries have a pronounced currant aroma;
• self-fertility;
• the fruits have a thin peel, so the transportability is low;
• not susceptible to powdery mildew and anthracnose, but affected by bud mites.

The sweetest black currant - video

In the Netherlands, a dwarf blackcurrant variety Ben Sarek was bred with a bush height of not more than 90 cm (with an average currant height of 1.2–2 m). The plant is adapted to a cool climate, has large berries with a winy, sweetish taste, gives a stable, evenly ripening crop.

The earliest and latest varieties

Varieties are considered early, the harvest from which you will begin to harvest in June.

Summer resident: early currant

This variety is distinguished by:

• stable yield. The bush is self-pollinating, therefore it is less dependent on weather conditions and insects;
• sweet taste. Currant lovers will appreciate the variety, since the characteristic sour aftertaste is practically absent in the berries of Dachnitsa;
• short stature. With a high yield, the lower branches will lie on the ground;
• resistance to winter cold. The plant tolerates temperatures down to -32 ° C well, but if flowering falls on spring frosts, the bush requires protection (smoke or shelter).

Sweet currant berries of an early variety Dachnitsa will be especially appreciated by lovers of sweets, since there is practically no sourness in them

Exotic: early variety

Grade advantages:

• large-fruitedness;
• good winter hardiness;
• sufficient yield (up to 3 kg per bush);
• the comfort of picking berries due to the presence of a straight thick axis of the brush, reminiscent of a grape;
• resistance to powdery mildew.

Exotic Cons:

• the plant does not tolerate drought well, so systematic watering is required in hot weather;
• in conditions of high humidity, the berries are prone to decay;
• the peel of the fruit is thin, so they will not tolerate long-term transportation;
• low immunity to fungal diseases (except powdery mildew).

The brushes of the early variety Exotica currant have a straight thick axis of the brush, which greatly facilitates harvesting.

Currant "Exotica" has berries the size of a cherry, I recommend it.

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Ultra early variety Sorceress - video

Lazy: late currant

The Lazy man got the name due to the fact that it ripens in August, when the currants of other varieties have already been harvested.

Variety characteristics:

• large-fruited, but the yield is low (about 1 kg);
• berries of dessert taste with a sweet aftertaste and a pronounced aroma;
• fruits do not tolerate transportation due to thin skin and medium density pulp.

Fruiting currant variety Lazy comes in late July-early August

I want to recommend another variety of blackcurrant - Lazy .. My bush is three years old, the “variety test” was fully completed this year, in the past the berries were smaller and very few .. Late, with sweet large berries, I harvested today and was pleasantly surprised taste .. I recommend it to all lovers of blackcurrant in central Russia.

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New varieties of blackcurrant

Recently, several new varieties of black currant have been included in the State Register of the Russian Federation:

• Agatha,
• Sadko,
• Iskitim gift,
• In memory of Kuminova.

Their main advantage is high immunity to diseases and pests. New varieties are well adapted to low temperatures and drought.

Varieties recently included in the State Register - photo gallery

The currant of the Memory Kuminova variety is distinguished by high immunity to all diseases and pests. The Sadko variety currant belongs to large-fruited varieties with one-dimensional fruits of sweet and sour, dessert taste.

What currants can be grown in the regions

When choosing a variety, it is important to take into account the advice of experts on currant zoning. After all, each region is characterized by its own climatic conditions, temperature regime, soil, prevalence of diseases and pests.

Blackcurrant for cultivation in the Moscow region

The State Register of Breeding Achievements for this region recommends more than thirty varieties of black currant, among them:

• Dobrynya,
• Lazy person,
• Selechenskaya-2,
• exotic,
• green haze,
• Moscow,
• Litvinovskaya.

Moscow

Early ripening currant with a high yield and a pleasant - with a sweet and sour note - the taste of berries. The variety is distinguished by a rather long (up to 10 cm) brush, convenient for harvesting.

Currants of the Moscowskaya variety have berries for universal use with a sweet-sour taste.

Litvinovskaya

Medium-early, frost-resistant currant. Other positive features of the variety:

• large-fruitedness;
• sweet taste and refreshing aroma of fruits;
• strong immunity to fungal diseases.

Currant berries of the Litvinovskaya variety reach a weight of 4 g

Varieties suitable for the Northwest region

Proven varieties for growing in the North-West region with its high humidity are:

• Bagheera,
• Selechenskaya-2,
• Lazy person,
• green haze,
• Summer resident.

Among the promising varieties can be called Nina. This is an early ripening currant with large fruits and a high sugar content in the berries. The variety is high-yielding and self-fertile.

Black currant for cultivation in the Chernozem region

• Black Pearl,
• Selechenskaya-2,
• Green haze.

Promising for zoning may be Belarusian sweet.

Belarusian sweet

Bred by Belarusian breeders. This is a mid-ripening, high-yielding variety. Its distinctive characteristics:

• high self-fertility;
• high content of pectin substances;
• berries almost do not crumble.

Variety Belarusian sweet is quite resistant to powdery mildew and anthracnose

For my taste, one of the sweetest is the Belarusian sweet. Her disadvantage is the wet separation of berries.

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Currant varieties for Siberia

The climatic features of Siberia require the selection of specially zoned blackcurrant varieties, although they are suitable:

• Vigorous,
• Bagheera,
• pygmy,
• Selechenskaya-2,
• Black Pearl,
• Dobrynya,
• Green haze.

New varieties are specially adapted to the conditions of the region, such as:

• Agatha,
• Iskitim gift,
• In memory of Kuminova.

From black varieties Selechenskaya-2, our Siberian favorite. Resistant to gall aphids, early ripe, powerful sprawling bush, large and sweet berry.

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Blackcurrant for cultivation in Belarus

• Enchantress,
• Belarusian sweet,
• Lazy person.

Varieties promising for cultivation in the republic include:

• Belorusochka,
• Memory of Vavilov
• Ceres.

All of them are frost-resistant and have sufficient yields.

Varieties for cultivation in Ukraine

In recent years, unfavorable conditions for currants have been noted here. High spring temperatures lead to rapid evaporation of moisture from the soil. In summer the weather is hot and dry. Currant varieties for cultivation in Ukraine should be selected according to the degree of adaptation, first of all, to drought and high temperatures.

Suitable for cultivation in all regions of Ukraine varieties:

• pygmy,
• Lazy person,
• Vigorous.

Among the promising ones are Jubilee Kopanya and Krasa Lvova.

Anniversary Digging

A medium-ripening variety of selection of the Institute of Horticulture of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with an annual high yield. Sweet and sour taste, large and one-dimensional berries, as well as resistance to changes in climatic conditions, diseases and pests make the variety especially popular among Ukrainian gardeners.

The fruits of the currant variety Yubileinaya Kopanya are large, one-dimensional, ripen together

I would call Yubileinaya Kopanya an excellent variety on a 5-point scale. Among the late-ripening Ukrainian varieties on my site, only Krasa Lvova is better.

ABBA

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Beauty of Lviv

A variety of local selection, therefore it is well adapted to the climatic features of Ukraine. This large-fruited currant with a dessert taste and a high yield has a strong immunity to major diseases and pests.

Currant berries of the Krasa Lvova variety grow shiny, black, medium in size, with a strong elastic skin

To achieve the maximum effect in the cultivation of blackcurrant, do not stop at one variety, experiment. Plant plants with different fruiting periods. By doing this, you will prolong the presence of fresh berries in your diet, understand your taste priorities and accurately determine the most promising variety for your site.

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White currant

Over the past 20 years, Poland has come out on top in the industrial production of blackcurrant berries. A dark concentrate was made from this currant for coloring products in the food industry - this is more useful than using chemical dyes.

Large-fruited varieties of black currant

• - This is a breeder scientist with a capital letter. In love with currants, before releasing the variety into production, she tested it for a dozen signs. All varieties of T.P. Ogoltsova have complex resistance to fungal, viral diseases and bud mites. She always achieves in her varieties a high content of vitamins and antioxidants, plasticity in different zones, resistance to drought and heat. Gives importance to the beauty and size of the bush, self-fertility (pollination without bees). Its varieties usually produce tasty large-sized berries. Until now, in my garden, her Zusha, Lazybones, Exotica are champions in the combination of all these signs.
• from A.A. Astakhov from the Research Institute of Lupine (Bryansk) - Gulliver, Nara, Sevchanka, Selechinskaya;
• Expect that your landings will take up a lot of space. The bush is vigorous, sprawling. A very productive variety, from one bush you get more than 3 kg of berries. It belongs to the most large-fruited of all late-ripening varieties. If you are looking for the best blackcurrant varieties for the Moscow region, then consider that your search is over.​
• Nestor Kozin;
• curiosity;
• At first, blackcurrant was used by man as a medicinal plant and only in the 15th century began to be used as a dessert berry. Already in the 19th century, Europeans began to breed the best varieties of black currant, and now it is difficult to find a summer cottage and a garden where this berry would not grow.

Will please with the taste of the following varieties: White Fairy, Belaya Potapenko, Belyan

Early varieties of blackcurrant

But now all these farms are going bankrupt - currant prices have fallen 10 times. The farmers from Turkey are to blame, who began to grow black carrots and make a concentrate with carotenoids and anthocyanins from it. Such a concentrate is many times cheaper - compare the prices for carrots and currants. And the food industry now adds not currants from Poland, but carrots from Turkey to dark-colored juices.

It is most intensively consumed when the bushes come out of dormancy, when the buds open. And by the time of flowering, its consumption is halved and remains at the same level for two to three months, until the berries ripen. After harvesting, by the beginning of leaf fall, the intensity of nitrogen use increases again - it is needed for the development of roots and is stored in wood for the winter. In addition to nitrogen, currant bushes require

• ​Unmatched for outstanding yields of large, sweet and sour, pear-shaped fruits that do not flake or rot until September.​
• I could not say the same about the largest-fruited varieties Vigorous, Pygmey and Selechenskaya, fashionable for that time. Yes, their berries were the largest, but not aligned in the brush: at the beginning - large, then - very small. In addition, the bushes were sick, falling apart, it was difficult to adapt to our climate.
• From L.N. Zabelina (Altai) and the Research Institute of Horticulture of Siberia named after Lisavenko (Barnaul) - Vigorous, Late Altai, Hercules, Crane, Black Stork.
• Probably, everyone is most interested in sweet blackcurrant varieties for the Moscow region. Large tasty berries will become a favorite delicacy of the whole family. This variety was bred by the National Academy of Horticulture of Belarus. This is a real find for amateur and industrial gardening. Bushes very quickly enter the fruiting phase, already in the second year after planting seedlings, you will pick berries. This is the highest indicator of precocity of all that exists today. Plants do not care about winter frosts, however, late frosts can destroy some of the flowers and significantly reduce the yield. The variety is resistant to diseases such as powdery mildew and anthracnose. The bush is quite large, sprawling and very productive. Like all large varieties of blackcurrant, it suits the Moscow region very well, while each bush can provide the gardener with 4 kg of magnificent berries. The variety is mid-season, the fruits have excellent taste.
• Tisel.
• Exotic;
• In order to choose the right blackcurrant variety for planting on your site, you must take into account that they differ in frost resistance, ripening period, berry size, yield and much more. In order to decide which varieties of blackcurrant suit you best, you should familiarize yourself with their main characteristics.
• But also
• Gennady Fedorovich, thanks for the article, the following question remained unclear to me - how to deal with fallen leaves, clean it up or not, and if you clean it up, then when to do it in spring or autumn.
• potassium
• After a story about old and new varieties, about their authors - outstanding breeders, let's talk about the agricultural technology of this beloved by many berries. Agricultural technology in the arid south and in the rainy Non-Chernozem region is different, so I will only talk about my experience. Currant has features - for example, a very high early maturity: rooted cuttings, and after 2-3 years you harvest. This is its advantage, but there is the same drawback: diseases from neighboring infected gardens fly to the currant with the wind, with pests - first of all, glassware, mites, viruses and pathogens of fungal diseases, so old bushes are a hotbed of diseases.
• More than 20 years have passed. Now the assortment has changed significantly. Among amateurs, the industrial varieties of T.P. Ogoltsova are gradually disappearing, and

Dessert varieties of black currant

Then other varieties from all over Russia appeared:

• When choosing blackcurrant varieties, you need to look at reviews only if the person is talking about growing currants in your area. If he is at least 150-200 km away from you, his opinion and advice may be of little use for your dacha and the blackcurrant variety that you want to grow. As you can see, a lot depends on agricultural technology, but a lot also on regional affiliation, which affects many other factors.​
• His homeland is the city of Orel. This is an early maturing variety that is great for desserts and fresh consumption. The berries are large, sweet, thin-skinned, very tender and tasty. The bush is easy to handle, compact, upright. It is distinguished by good winter hardiness and resistance to powdery mildew, as well as bud mites. This is a fast-growing, self-fertile and productive variety, from each bush you can get up to 3 kg of excellent berries. If we talk about the best varieties of blackcurrant for the Moscow region, then it is necessary to include the early-ripening variety Exotica and the late-ripening Effect in its list.
• Almost all dessert varieties of blackcurrant are early and medium ripening berries.
• Nara;
• According to different characteristics, the following groups of blackcurrant varieties are distinguished: dessert, early and late, large-fruited and small-fruited.
• blackcurrant
• Tatyana. Why are the leaves removed, because this is a breeding ground for pests and diseases, so they must be removed in the fall. However, this is not always the case, but only with the abuse of mineral supplements and a minimum of organic matter in industrial gardens. Imagine my garden, every year I add organic matter as mulch from above after leaf fall. From below, hundreds of worms and other spider bugs rush to the damp, fallen leaves covered from the light. The leaf passed through their stomach no longer contains pathogenic fungi and bacteria. The leaf is eaten, leaving bare eggs and cocoons of pests. They do not lie for a long time, they are eaten by ants. beetles and other predators. thus, coprolites and beneficial insects accumulate, and pests and diseases disappear.​
• I do not like to tilt branches from old varieties for rooting. Before propagating and planting a variety in the main garden, I check it for diseases. To do this, in the summer I choose the most healthy shoots with strong growth and cut ten green cuttings from them. They take root easily, in separate beds under a non-woven material that retains moisture and protects against flying pests. In autumn, I do not select all seedlings, but only three out of a dozen, but with the best growth - they are known to be free from viruses and fungi. I plant them in the garden.
• varieties from A.A. Astakhov from the All-Russian Research Institute of Lupine (Bryansk)
• YuUNIIPOK (Chelyabinsk) - Sybil, Pygmy, Venus, Sudarushka; ​

It doesn’t matter what kind of blackcurrant (Bagheera, Pygmy, Dove, Gross, Titania, Lazy, Veloy, Zhemchuzhina or others) you choose for your dacha, be sure to read our material, where we talked about growing blackcurrants, its reproduction, boarding and care. This information will help you correctly determine the place and soil for planting a bush, choose a good seedling, learn how to properly form a bush, how to deal with currant pests, and so on.

Another stunning cultivar showing the highest resistance to winter frosts. It can grow even in Siberia, it is not afraid of winter thaws with a subsequent drop in temperature. Drought-resistant, can go without watering for a long time. Resistant to most diseases such as powdery mildew, anthracnose, rust and thorn. The bush is compact and very productive, it can produce up to 5 kg of berries. Fruits taste with pleasant sourness.

phosphorus

Fall planting is always best

- for example, Litvinovskaya, which takes 1st place at all exhibitions in Moscow in terms of size, taste and quality of berries. In addition, this is the only fairly winter-hardy Astakh variety in my area. It is worth noting the Dar Smolyaninova variety - a record holder for the combination of the most important qualities: very large and at the same time very sweet berries, with high yields and disease resistance.

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The best varieties of blackcurrant for the Moscow region: reviews, description, photo

​VSTISP (Moscow) - Mystery, Openwork, Vologda;

Instead of an introduction

Choosing blackcurrant varieties for the Moscow region

Today we are considering the best varieties of blackcurrant for the Moscow region. Reviews of gardeners become a good help when choosing, as they convey the personal experience of people. All varieties presented in the article have the highest ratings, amateurs and professionals praise them for their excellent harvest, large tasty fruits, and unpretentiousness. But I would also like to note such a variety as Sudarushka. It will appeal to those who love a very sweet berry. Bred in Chelyabinsk, it is relatively winter hardy. In severe frosts, you need to additionally use a covering material. But this inconvenience is compensated by the yield - one bush gives up to 5 kg of fresh currants. Mid-season variety, its tasting score is 5 points.​

Zhemchuzhina - early ripening (in early July), berries weighing up to 6g, very sweet, bred in Siberia.

Varieties of blackcurrant with large berries for the Moscow region

heiress;

These include:

The effect is the choice of most gardeners

According to the opinions of amateur gardeners, the sweetest of the blackcurrant varieties are Otlichnitsa, Nina and Bagheera. Of those grown personally, I especially liked the large-fruited and complex-resistant Yubileinaya Kopanya and Venus, Selechenskaya and Belarusian Sweet also have an excellent taste, but these two varieties are not large-fruited and not resistant to diseases.

Valery. Now in Moscow there are no problems with the acquisition of new products. Search the PX website for currant lovers, there are hundreds of them. There are annual exhibitions with tastings in the society of nature explorers. For Moscow, Orlovsky and Bryansk varieties are perfect. I don't send cuttings. Medicine feeds me.

Currant Belarusian sweet

in a ratio of 1.5:1. With the insufficiency of these elements in the early spring period, many defective flowers are formed, the growth of shoots slows down, and in autumn the plants enter a dormant period prematurely. Knowing this, agronomists recommend mineral supplements during the season.​

Sort Exotic

planting in the spring.

Veloy, Leningrad sweet

Outstanding large-fruited and sweet Ural and Altai novelties have appeared, for example

Variety Sudarushka

VNIIS named after Michurin (Michurinsk) - Bagheera, Green Haze, Constellation, Black Pearl; Sverdlovsk SSS - Slavyanka, Romance, Rhapsody. ​

Dobrynya

Each of us is interested in large varieties of blackcurrant, and you can’t argue with that, because it’s always more interesting to harvest a quality crop than to try to find berries among the greenery. But here it is worth considering one point - all large-fruited blackcurrant varieties, well, at least most of them, were bred not so long ago, which means that it is very difficult to accurately characterize each seedling and the correct conditions for growing it in a bush. Therefore, we give summer residents advice on how to choose the right currant variety in order to get a good harvest, and not continuous losses due to wasted time on useless care and the wrong choice of seedlings.

Currant Vigorous

Bred in the city of Bryansk and received recognition from many gardeners in the country and neighboring countries. This is a large-fruited variety that requires very good care, the highest fertility of the land. The harvest will depend on this. Relatively winter-hardy, feels better during drought, well resists spring frosts. Immune to powdery mildew and a number of other diseases. The bush is small, upright. The berries are very large, for which gardeners love this variety. The taste is sweetish with a pleasant sourness. This is one of the best large-fruited varieties. Do not forget that not only berries are useful. Be sure to prepare fresh currant leaves for the winter in order to drink delicious tea in winter that will support immunity.

Black Boomer - early ripening (in early July), the berries are very, very large (5-7g) and sweet, very loved by children.

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The best varieties of blackcurrant for your summer cottage

Exotic;

Beauty of Lviv;

Currant

Plants don’t feed me either ... There are many novelties, but everything disappears. I am typing in Yandex site PX. The first thing that opens is EMPTY CHALLENGES Got it....​ I have a lot of experience in organic fertilizing, and I know: I need to create living soil on the berries, then the roots, in symbiosis with soil living creatures, will take everything they need from organic matter.

Although the currant grows along the banks of the rivers, it does not tolerate stagnant water in the garden, does not like both dense clay and sandy soils, and does not like the shade of trees. I take this into account. Currant roots are superficial, their bulk is at a depth of 15-40 cm and does not go beyond the crown. Therefore, if annually pour loose organic matter along the projection of the crown with a layer of up to 10 cm, then

Early varieties of blackcurrant

varieties from Zabelina, Research Institute of Horticulture of Siberia named after Lisavenko (Barnaul)

It was interesting to conduct variety tests, to adapt these varieties to my conditions. But I have listed only the most outstanding varieties from our best breeders. Varieties from different places also had a different character: they endured harsh winters differently, reacted differently to rainy summers, but all responded well to organic top dressing. Most of these acquisitions are still bearing fruit for me. Well, how to part with varieties

Mid-season varieties of blackcurrant

Try not to consider the newest blackcurrant varieties.

Bred in the city of Barnaul, well adapted to the conditions of Siberia and central Russia. The plant needs good care, be sure to fertilize every year. Resistant to frost of any intensity. Relatively resistant to common diseases (powdery mildew and others). The bush is quite compact, medium-sized, semi-spreading. This is the most large-fruited of all late-ripening varieties. The berries are very beautiful, black and shiny, with a characteristic sourness. Regularly collects excellent reviews from gardeners, however, the cooler the climate in which you live, the smaller the berries will be.

Late varieties of blackcurrant.

Raisins - early ripening, large berries with sweet and fragrant pulp, tasting score - 4.7 points. Differs in high and regular productivity.

Nick;
Dobrynya;

very valuable culture. You can not only use its berries, but also leaves, twigs. There is a benefit in everything.

First, about Yadrenaya. Across the country, many varieties are sold under the name Vigorous. It is not a fact that a seedling of this particular variety will be purchased. Vigorous shows itself as well as possible only here in Altai. And even our severe frosts are not afraid of her. If grown in the right place. Currant does not like open spaces, she needs places where the snow can completely cover the bushes. And in the spring, do not melt quickly. Then the harvest will be provided every year plentiful. When your neighbors collect a berry from each bush one by one, that is, a dozen from this bush, and eight berries from this piece, yours will treat you with buckets of berries. Vigorous - sour currant. But currants are used differently. For food, let grow varieties with very sweet berries. And for jam it is suitable with more sourness. It is better to dry the most fragrant one in order to enjoy the smells of winter.

Therefore, I do not dig the earth, but

Any soil will become suitable for the growth of this crop

• - Lucia, Ruslan, Zoya, Mirror;
• Vigorous
• Choose only adapted varieties, in the second, third and higher generations.
• We have presented you the most popular blackcurrant varieties for the Moscow region (with photos and descriptions). This information will help you find exactly the one that will grow on your site and delight with fresh berries every year. In order to provide a family with a harvest, you only need a few bushes.​
• Legend - a very early ripening period (at the end of June), large berries (up to 3.5 g) are considered the most delicious among early varieties. The bushes of this variety are highly productive.
• Sevchanka;

Comfort - very unpretentious in cultivation;

Varieties of currants for giving (video)

There is a lot of vitamin C in currant berries.

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Blackcurrant in organic farming

Hee ... so I ask where to buy and what, so as not to be mistaken again. Life is short for experiments. I ask everyone for advice. I still have almost all currant seedlings disappear. I don't know what is growing. I took it from friends. No results! I buy currant berries in the market. For that, I have evergreens growing. Decided to rebuild. Cut down the hazel and pine trees and plant an orchard. For now, I can only dry cones from fir trees
I mulch all the time

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. Currant is not an apple tree, it loves the annual deepening of the root collar - then it grows as a bush, and not as a bare stem: sprinkled buds in spring give powerful zero shoots. Timely cutting out old three-year-old branches, you will always have a young bush.
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Which has berries larger than cherries, or

• Buy only strong and high-quality planting material, regardless of the currant variety.
• Absolutely everyone loves blackcurrant, from a child to an old man. Absolutely everyone loves a blackcurrant, from a child to an old man, and therefore we propose to consider the best varieties of blackcurrant, from which you can choose a fragrant bush for growing in the country.

Lazy man is a blackcurrant variety of the latest ripening (late July - early August), but the berries are very large (up to 6g) and sweet, great for use in desserts.

• Sybil.
• Sanyuta;
• There are a lot of currant varieties. There are large-fruited varieties, there are very sweet ones.

It would be better not to cut down the pines. We have a garden neighbor. surgeon, head of department. He has a botanical garden in miniature, divided into two zones - the old "cottage" and a new area with pine trees, where there are almost no cultivated plantings, but there is a recreation area .. The undergrowth was removed, something was planted around the perimeter, but not a single pine and he did not cut down the birch, and his advice is “You only need to plant what grows well on the site.” We have sandy soil, a reservoir of 50m. Only tomatoes grow well. Everything else requires strength and money, does not grow, but suffers. I do not apply manure (not rotted) and mineral fertilizers from the second year, so that the currant does not become watery and tasteless. The roots that are superficially located in organic matter do not like flat-cutter and chopper, so the whole family takes 1-2 times at the beginning of summer. Blackcurrant grows near my porch and in a large garden. - A gift from Ilyina, Hera; Sibylla Try to observe as much as possible the agricultural technology for the plant that you have identified for planting on the site. Various varieties of blackcurrant are famous for their taste, and therefore it is almost impossible to choose the only one for your dacha. We offer an alternative method - choose the sweetest and largest blackcurrant varieties, but several at once, plant them in the country and see which one is most suitable for your growing conditions. Having studied agricultural technology, having tasted berries of all varieties and having determined which currant suits you the most, you will be able to choose the best variety of black currant. , Kozatskaya, Jubilee Kopanya, Suite Kievskaya, Vernissage, Sanyuta, Chereshnevaya, Amethyst, Chernecha, and Russian - Oryol Serenade, Gift of Smolyaninova, Charm, Rakhil, Ant, Selechenskaya-2, Pygmy, Venus. These varieties include those which have a tasting score of berries above 4.5 points, they are divided into sweet and sour and sweet.
Large Litvinova - a very vitamin variety;

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My soil is primitive sand. But there is a box 1.5x1.5x1.5 with hatches at the bottom of the walls, in which I “grow” compost, pouring food waste and greens with earth. In addition, I bring free perennial humus soil from the community center. It is clear what my beds are made of. I cut currant branches from friends, and then root them first in water, then in the ground. I plant in pits 0.8x0.5 - I hold the seedling and fill it with earth. I water thoroughly and mulch. Periodically I water under the root ... The currant turned out not Michurin, but normal. Gennady, I read your entire article from beginning to end. She got me interested. I have 5 currant bushes. Of these, 3 are black. One bush grows for about 5 years, others only 2. I don’t know what varieties. But, while the berries are medium, fragrant. No pain, I'm happy. More and more crops every year. I take care of the bushes, as I know, but after reading your advice, I realized that it was not entirely correct. You need to feed better. It’s good that you explained what to feed, otherwise you don’t want to lose the aroma. A neighbor grows a yoshta bush - very large berries, but the aroma is not the same. And I even cut off the branches and tear the leaves at the end of the summer - I dry it for tea. weed out all the weeds with our hands Close to home
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Whose bushes are characterized by unprecedented productivity, or Do not forget about watering, fertilizing, pruning and shaping bushes. Of course, you will also need to focus on the region, because among the hundreds of varieties offered, not everyone will be able to develop normally on your site. Therefore, we recommend that you ask the sellers for which regions the seedlings are intended, where they were grown and how long they acclimatize at the point of sale. Thus, you can choose blackcurrant varieties for the Moscow region, the Urals, Siberia and even Ukraine.​
Very tasty sweet and sour blackcurrant berries of any variety can be used both fresh (as a separate dessert or in combination with ice cream) and processed (compote, juice or jam). Centaur; Cherry; "Belarusian sweet" I also have sweet varieties of currants: "Raisin" is an early berry, sweet can hang on branches for a long time, drying becomes like raisins. "Vigorous" - very large with a quail egg, sweet, fruitful branches bend under its weight. "Perun" is also a sweet variety, but the berries are not very large, "Dobrynya" will be larger than those of "Perun", the berries are sweet, oval, easy to harvest, but for maximum yield it requires attention and fertile soil, good feeding. And immediately lay them out like mulch under a bush, this attracts earthworms. I water it if it doesn't rain for a couple of weeks. I am not against mineral supplements if there is no good organic matter. But that's not my topic; I will only say: I only land - Good Jean, Pilot. I have Ural and Altai varieties turned out Lazy Harvest on time and store it properly.​ By planting blackcurrant bushes in your garden plots, you will provide yourself and your family with a complex of necessary vitamins and minerals. Perun;
Anniversary Digging. ​,​ Currant is one of the gardeners' favorite berries due to its wide range of species, health benefits, and exquisite and unique taste, which is sour, sugary-sweet, watery and sweet. According to gardeners, the most delicious varieties of currants are white and red of the following categories:

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The sweetest and largest varieties the most winter hardy On which large brushes of sweet berries hang until September, capable of competing with grapes, or
Naturally, it is advisable to study the descriptions of blackcurrant varieties before buying, but it is much more important to follow these tips of professional summer residents who have been successfully growing currants for several years. Many of you will now frown. Whether it's sweet raspberries, why do we need this black fine sour meat! In fact, you are wrong, modern blackcurrant varieties for the Moscow region make it possible to get a very large, tasty and infinitely healthy berry. Today we will talk in detail about what kind of shrub to choose for your home garden.
Mriya; The newest large-fruited blackcurrant variety is Vigorous, bred in Siberia. Very large berries (up to 7.8 g) ripen in mid-July, but are considered very sour. The disadvantage is that the bushes of this variety must often be rejuvenated and it does not reproduce well. Redcurrant:. In the past, I have successfully fed shrubs on poor soil by locally applying OMF with a predominance of potassium and phosphorus in holes along the crown perimeter. But my 40 years of experience in growing currants says: in pursuit of the harvest, in pursuit of the size of the berries, with the abuse of mineral water, we always lose taste, and - both the earliest and very late. The strawberries have not yet departed, and the children are already starting to compete a little, who will find the sweetest and largest currant berry - and so on until September. If a child (and an adult) constantly puts unwashed berries from a bush in his mouth, he simultaneously receives very useful and necessary live fungi and bacteria for the body, and he develops an intestinal microbiome that protects the body from harmful microbes. And in fresh currants, moreover, there is not only vitamin C, as in concentrates, but hundreds of useful biologically active substances that are not found in store products. For example​ Raisin The characteristics of blackcurrant varieties are very important, because it is on them that you can choose a bush that suits your requirements, but then you have an even more difficult task - the correct cultivation of a plant that will require certain skills, effort and time from you. We recommend reading the article about red currant.​
So, the best varieties of blackcurrant, which we will briefly describe to facilitate your choice. Having a small summer cottage, we are very limited in time and area, which means we cannot plant one variety after another, selecting the one by elimination, which will be the most efficient. Modern breeders offer a variety of blackcurrant varieties for the Moscow region, and it is very difficult to choose among them those that you like the most. According to the register, there are more than 170 species. Therefore, let's define the criteria that should be followed.​ ​Selechenskaya and Selechenskaya-2;​ These varieties include those whose berries ripen in the second half of June - early July:​,​Ural souvenir I managed to grow the largest and most delicious berries only on living, organic-rich soil

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Good genie , whose berries can be eaten from a bush at least every morning, and it will not get bored indefinitely ... We have always planted currants, all forty years of gardening. She grew up with all the neighbors, and there was nothing easier than asking for layering or rooting a green cutting from the bushes you liked. But disappointment quickly came. The early varieties include the following blackcurrant varieties: Selechenskaya, Brown Far East, Aleander, Karachinskaya, Vigorous, Overtyura, Exotica. The first indicator is productivity. The characteristic of the variety must contain at least 3 kg of berries. This is not so much, but if 5-10 bushes grow on the site, then the harvest will be quite sufficient. The second thing to pay attention to is frost resistance. Despite the fact that the climate in this region is milder than in many other areas, in winter the temperature can drop by up to 40 degrees. The third indicator is resistance to late spring frosts. And finally, the last thing: blackcurrant varieties for the Moscow region should be quite self-fertile, that is, even under bad weather conditions, when insects practically do not arrive, they should tie about 60% of the crop. Nadia; Yarynka - the very earliest variety; "Bagheera" Meat red
​.​I try to grow- very early, with large tasty berries, belongs to the group of varieties most resistant to bud mites and powdery mildew.
At this time, I re-read all the monographs about currants and realized that there are amateur (sweet and large) varieties - and there are industrial ones (for machine harvesting). The latter are characterized by high productivity, simultaneously ripening berries with a dense skin and easily separated stalks; all the berries on such bushes are aligned, of medium size.
Berries from neighboring bushes were small, low-yielding. The bushes are infected with bud mites, as a result - with viruses. In wet summer, plantings were completely covered with powdery mildew. Neighbors loved to share the secrets of folk methods to combat these diseases, and we sprayed currants with everything that was recommended, but the result was zero. ​

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But that's not all: we need varieties with large and sweet berries, with a good dessert taste. And finally, what is also important is the high content of vitamin C, which is so necessary for obtaining excellent medicinal jam. Based on the above, we need to choose the most suitable varieties for your garden.​

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If a variety starts to get sick or gives low yields, I throw it away, I never treat it. I have a lot of varieties, new items for testing are constantly appearing, there are beds with growing new seedlings. By constantly rejuvenating the bushes and planting more and more disease-resistant varieties, I can

Every gardener wants to grow only the best varieties of plants in his garden plot. To get good blackcurrant crops on your site, it is recommended that you read the article.

Despite the advice of experts to plant only zoned currant varieties, gardeners prefer the largest and sweetest varieties. Fortunately, breeders are not sitting idle, and now blackcurrants can grow in every region, varieties of super large, sweet and fruitful (description, photo) berries can now be grown very simply.

Variety Bagheera - blackcurrant

Bagheera - sweet currant, medium ripening, medium-sized bush 1 - 1.5 m high. The berries are relatively large, ripen together and do not crumble for a long time, sugar - 9 - 12%, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) 155 - 190 mg per 100 g . Begins to bear fruit the next year after planting. The variety is very winter-hardy, tolerates heat, drought, moderately resistant to diseases. Productivity 3 - 4.5 kg. berries from 1 bush. Fruit weight 1.1 - 2.2 gr. Blooms in the second decade of May. Harvest ripens in mid-July.

Advantages: excellent drought and frost resistance, sweet, tasty berries that ripen together and are well transported.

Disadvantages: resistance to powdery mildew, anthracnose, bud mites is average.

Variety Vigorous - mid-ripening black currant

A variety with large berries weighing up to 6 g. Berries are collected in clusters of 8-10 pieces. Thus, the weight of one brush can reach 60 g. And 20 good brushes can make up more than 1 kilogram of the crop.

The yield indicator is 6 kg of berries per bush per year. Their taste is sweet with sourness (they contain 9% sugar and only 3.5% acid - for comparison, sweet varieties of sugars have almost the same amount - from 10%), the peel is dense. Bushes grow up to 1.5 m in height.

Vigorous - a well-deserved record holder among large blackcurrant varieties. She needs an annual rejuvenation. The branches are greatly depleted during the fruiting season, therefore, they require a cut and replacement with new pagons.

What you need to know the disadvantages: different sizes of berries, their size may vary. Another drawback is that the bush is aging and needs to be replaced after a few years. The number of years of good fruiting depends on the quality of care. With good soil and sufficient watering, bushes can retain yields of 6-7 years.

Variety Excellent blackcurrant

According to the results of many years of research conducted by specialists of the All-Russian Research Institute for the Selection of Fruit Crops, this variety leads the top three in terms of sugar content in berries (11.1%). The bushes are quite tall, sprawling and dense. The berries are coal-black, large, with a slight sourness. The variety is moderately hardy, resistant to spring frosts. But his ability to resist diseases and pests is average.

Variety Nina-blackcurrant

In terms of sugar content in berries (11%), Nina is only slightly inferior to Excellent. This is a medium-early variety that bears fruit abundantly. The bushes are low, dense, form a lot of basal shoots. The berries are quite large, up to 1.3 cm in diameter, rounded and one-dimensional. 100 g contains 180-270 mg of ascorbic acid, which is equal to 2-3 daily intakes for an adult. But, unfortunately, this currant is not stored or transported for a long time. Among the positive characteristics of the variety, we also note winter hardiness, self-fertility and resistance to powdery mildew.

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Variety Dachnitsa - black currant

Summer resident - more suitable for the European regions of Russia. This type of currant is distinguished by high yields, large-sized berries (from two to three and a half grams), and short ripening periods. The bushes are so short in size that, with abundant harvests, the branches are adjacent to the surface of the earth. Berries have good taste qualities, without characteristic sourness. Their ripening is uneven, which makes it possible to harvest for a long period. The variety is known for its resistance to powdery mildew and anthracnose, as well as rust and bud mites.

Variety Exotic - blackcurrant

Exotic - refers to varieties that have large berries, fully ripens in the regions of the middle lane. The variety was bred as a result of crossing Blueberry Seedling and Bredthorpe. The weight of the berries reaches three grams, their taste is sour-sweet, the skin is shiny. The berries, when separated from the branches, remain dry, are collected easily and quickly, and can be stored in the refrigerator for several days. The bush gives a high yield, is characterized by medium growth and straight forms of branches, not too dense. The foliage is large-sized, the axis of the berry brush is straight. Up to ten berries are tied on it. It resists powdery mildew, but is affected by anthracnose. The variety tolerates winter cold very well. The yield is not very high - one bush gives up to a kilogram of berries, which are distinguished by manufacturability.

Variety "Dobrynya" - blackcurrant

It belongs to a large-fruited variety of blackcurrant, has an average ripening period. The weight of the berry is 3-7 g, the size of the fruit is not uniform, different. The pulp has a sweet and sour taste, the skin is firm. In 100 gr. berries 200 mg of vitamin C, sugar content - 6.9%.

The plant is medium in size, the height of the bush is from 1.1 to 1.6 m. "Dobrynya" tolerates frost and drought well, resistant to the spread of powdery mildew. From one shoot per season, you can harvest from 1.7 to 2.5 kg of crop. The flowering period begins in mid-May. The first crop is harvested in the second half of July.

Advantages:

• Large and tasty fruits;
• Medium sized plant;
• It tolerates frost and drought well;
• Not susceptible to the spread of powdery mildew.

• Average yield;
• Non-one-dimensionality of berries;
• Susceptible to bud mites and anthracnose.

Variety "Green haze" - blackcurrant

Representatives of the species have an average ripening period. The plant bears fruit only a year after planting. The bush is not very tall, medium sprawling. Currant has a pleasant aroma, one berry weighs from 1.6 to 2.6 grams. 10 grams of pulp contains 193 mg. vitamin C, and sugar - 12.3%. "Green haze" tolerates low temperatures well and does not suffer from powdery mildew. From one shoot per season, you can collect from 4.1 to 5 kg of crop. The plant begins to bloom in the second half of May. A mature crop can be harvested in mid-summer.

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Advantages:

• Tasty and sweet berry;
• yield;
• Frost resistance;
• Refers to fast-growing species.

• May be severely affected by bud mites.

Variety Selechenskaya - 2 - blackcurrant

Selechenskaya - 2 currants with very large and tasty berries (up to 6 gr.). The taste is sweet with sourness, the sugar content is 7.3%, ascorbic acid is 160 mg. per 100 gr. Early ripening, bush is tall, upright 1.5 - 1.8 m. The variety is winter-hardy, easily tolerates drought, resistant to powdery mildew. Productivity is from 2.5 to 5 kg. large berries from 1 bush. The mass of berries is from 3 to 6 gr. Blooms in the first decade of May. Harvest ripens in the first decade of July. Advantages: large, tasty (considered one of the most delicious) berries, winter hardiness, resistance to powdery mildew, good yield.

Disadvantages: average resistance to bud mites, anthracnose.

Variety Batka minai - blackcurrant

Early variety of blackcurrant, self-fertile. Resistant to frost and frequent weather changes, needs abundant watering. It is immune to almost all diseases. Low-yielding. The bushes are compact, dense and tall. The leaves are large and green. Berries are round, matte black when ripe. Separation is dry. The taste is sweet and sour. The variety is suitable for long-term storage in the freezer.

Variety Delicacy - blackcurrant

Mid-season variety of blackcurrant, self-fertility is very low. This variety is great for the difficult weather conditions of the Urals, as it has excellent resistance to frost, and is practically immune to diseases. Needs abundant watering. Plants are tall, medium sprawling, very dense. The leaves are small but dense. The brushes are thin and long. The berries are medium-sized, flattened, black when ripe. The taste is sweet, dessert. Widely used in cooking and canning.

Variety Black pearl - blackcurrant

It is characterized by a spreading bush of medium height and rarely growing leaves. Rounded black berries with a hard skin weighing up to one and a half grams with a "pearl" sheen reach a diameter of up to 7 cm.

It is characterized by high winter hardiness, early maturity, productivity, moderate resistance to diseases.

This large-fruited variety is characterized by stable fruiting, a high content of healing vitamin C, pectin. Well suited for manual and mechanized fruit picking in mid-July.

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Early varieties of blackcurrant

Those who wish to enjoy healthy berries from the beginning of June, when some types of currants are just blooming, should pay attention to early ripening varieties:

Currant - early ripening currant (mid-June) with large and tasty fruits, self-fertile, resistant to cold, but susceptible to damage by bud mites;

The Little Prince is a cold-resistant currant of early ripening (mid-June), the fruits are small (2-3 g), quite tasty (sugar content 10.7%), disease resistant, but can be affected by bud mites;

Overture - currant of a very early ripening period (early June), dense clusters, consisting of 10-15 small fruits (up to 2 g), resistant to cold and disease, bred at VNIIR them. Vavilov as a universal highly productive crop suitable for growing in the non-chernozem zone;

Nara - the time of full ripening comes in mid-June, resistant to cold, drought, fungal diseases, mites, medium-sized fruits (2-3 g), juicy with a sweet and sour taste.

Whichever currant you choose, it is important to know that maximum productivity is maintained for the first 7-10 years. Then the fruits become small, and the bush itself gradually degenerates. In order to receive an abundant harvest of a useful product every year, it is necessary to regularly cut branches that are more than three years old. Thus, the shoots will be regularly updated and give a high yield.

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​Fig. Blackcurrant bush in the third year after planting. Shortening zero shoots by 3-4 buds.

Before planting, it does not hurt to prepare a clay talker. It is done simply - several shovels of clay or the top layer of soil are poured into a hole filled with water, or an old container, mixed until a liquid mass is obtained, into which the root system of the seedling is dipped before planting.

Unpretentious currant bushes are very fond of moisture and warm areas with abundant sunlight, therefore, when planting seedlings in the fall, one should evaluate what climatic properties the planting site has in the spring and summer;

There are three types of currants: red, black and golden. There are early, middle and late currant varieties that differ in the size and color of the berries.

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• curiosity; Those blackcurrant varieties are considered large, in which the weight of one berry exceeds 1.5 g.
• The following varieties can be attributed to the early ones: Dikovinka, Selechenskaya, Aleander, Vigorous, Karachinskaya, Exotica. Consider just a few. Arcadia
• Grace Many gardeners still grow old small-fruited currant varieties. For example, sometimes I am asked if I grow Golubka currants. Yes, it was once, about fifteen years ago, considered large-fruited: it has berries of 1.5-1.8 g. And today it is an outdated variety, considered small-fruited.
• After flowering, the plants are again fed with a solution of mullein filtered through gauze, pouring one to one and a half buckets under the bush. At the bottom of the pit, the upper fertile soil mixed with fertilizers is poured into a mound, and the roots dipped in a talker are placed on it. The seedling is placed with a deepening of the stem by 5-7 cm, obliquely at an angle of about 45 degrees, they throw a couple of shovels of earth, after which with both feet
• Planting single-varietal bushes in one area is inappropriate, many biologists have proven that large yields are obtained when several varieties of currant bushes grow on the site, high and high-quality yields are ensured by additional pollination of currant inflorescences of other varieties; Among the common varieties of black currant you can find "Odzhebin", "Lama", "September Daniela", "Black Pearl", from varieties of red currant - "Heros", "Jonker van Tets", "Dutch Red", "Rote Shpetlese", "Rondom", from varieties of golden currants - "White Versailles", "Venus".
• Sweet; Exotic;

These include:

• "Dikovinka" ripens early, in early July. The bush is medium, not very sprawling, sparse. The variety is not afraid of frost. Does not tolerate drought, requires abundant watering. High self-fertility and productivity. The berries are oval, medium in size, with a strong skin. They have a sweet and sour taste. The mass of the berry is 2 grams. The variety is resistant to powdery mildew, bud mites. According to the characteristics of the authors - G. A. Plenkina, T. P. Ogoltsova - it combines large-fruitedness with high resistance to powdery mildew and bud mites.

- fast-growing, large-fruited and high-yielding variety of medium early ripening. The berries are large, dessert taste. The bush is strong, upright. The yield is high. This variety of gardeners pleases with the fact that it is not at all affected by powdery mildew and is resistant to bud mites.

Care Secrets

In autumn, sanitary pruning is carried out, removing dry, broken and interfering branches, and again they cover the space under the bushes with a 10-centimeter layer of semi-rotted manure before winter.

Planting a blackcurrant seedling to form it as a bush with trimming long roots, pruning the aerial part, leaving 5 cm stumps and deepening the conditional root neck by 5-7 cm.

Bushes that are more than ten years old gradually lose their ability to bear fruit and produce high yields, so in the fall the young shoots formed are dug in order to form young seedlings, and in the spring the old bush is removed, and the planted accustomed shoot develops into a young bush, thus the garden updated with new bushes;

In order to get a high yield of any variety of currant every year, you need to learn how to properly care for the planted bushes.

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Variety "Exotica" is also universal, large-fruited. The bush is fruitful, early-growing, upright, medium tall. The berry is round, tasty, dessert, sweet and sour, up to 5 g, with thin skin, perfectly stored in the refrigerator for several days. The variety is frost-resistant, it is slightly affected by diseases and pests.

Currant is a moisture-loving crop. With timely watering, the berries are much larger. Critical periods are the beginning of the formation of berries and the time of their filling. Drying out the soil at this time can lead to crushing and even shedding of berries.

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Briefly, all types of pruning that were mentioned above can only be repeated here to once again recall the sequence:

At the very top, the lower barren horizon is left. After planting, they compact the soil again, level it, making a "roller" around the bush, and water about one and a half buckets per bush. After that, the soil under the bush is mulched with peat or simply dry earth. After that, all the shoots are cut with secateurs, leaving 5-7 centimeter stumps. Can also be planted in the spring. Everything is done in the same way. But in the spring it is important not to be late and plant when the buds have not yet blossomed.

In autumn, attention is paid to the prevention of the development of fungal diseases and harmful insects that can infect the foliage of currant bushes and thereby reduce the yield of berries; to prevent their development and reproduction, all dry foliage that has flown from the bushes is burned, it is in it that the larvae of harmful insects can live, and also if diseases were noticed on the foliage, the soil can retain pathogens and infect the bush that has blossomed in spring again with an undesirable disease.

Early varieties

The most important period for caring for currant shrubs is the time after fruiting, when the crop is harvested, and the bush is fully ready to give its strength to the shoots, root system and foliage. This time falls at the end of August, beginning of September, depending on the variety of currant.

• Tisel.
• heiress;
• Comfort - very unpretentious in cultivation;

Medium varieties

Currant varieties with medium maturity include: "Fidelity", "Black Pearl", "Perun", "Green Haze".

• In dry weather, I usually water currants once every 8-10 days, pouring 5-6 buckets of water under each bush. I water only under the root, without moistening the bush itself, so as not to provoke the development of powdery mildew.

Late varieties

- high-yielding and large-fruited variety. Berries weighing 3.5-5 g, uniform along the entire length of the brush, very pleasant to the taste. This is perhaps the most large-fruited variety of early ripening blackcurrant for the conditions of central Russia. The bushes are powerful, vigorous, upright. The branches, even under the weight of a bountiful harvest, lean slightly towards the ground. The variety is early-growing, on my breeding beds, even some cuttings of the autumn planting period for the next year bloom and try to bear fruit, but I naturally remove such flowers. Shoots of the first year are thick, powerful. The variety is resistant to powdery mildew. I believe that this variety has the right to take a place in every garden.

• Currant is one of the most plastic crops. Therefore, here we can afford to choose varieties to our liking - in our gardens they will grow well and bear fruit. After testing the varieties of the Chelyabinsk, Altai, Bryansk, Orel breeding, I decided to stop at the varieties of the Oryol VNIISPK breeding. These varieties attracted me with their early fruiting (literally in the second year), large-fruitedness, pleasant taste of berries and high resistance to major currant diseases and pests. Some varieties, with high agricultural technology, literally overload themselves with a crop, while others are able to bear fruit annually and bear fruit well with a minimum of care.
• After planting, the removal of all annual shoots of the seedling, leaving stumps about 5 cm in height (2-4 buds).

Second important point. You remember that you planted a seedling 5-7 cm deeper and immediately cut it off, leaving a five-centimeter "stump". For what? An additional tier of the root system is formed on the deepened 5-7 cm part, and pruning of the aerial part ensures ease of engraftment and stimulates the spilling of rhizome buds and stems located at the base and the rapid formation of a bush. If not cut, it may happen that the bush will grow with several branches and will be weak.

Compliance with the elementary rules of autumn care for currant bushes - fertilizers, pruning and planting - as a result of painstaking work, you can get the highest yields of various varieties of the most delicious and healthy berries.

If the bush managed to form a lot of shoots, then they need to be cut off, leaving the strongest in the amount of three to four pieces or eight to ten. This will in no way damage the bush, but will create a condition for strengthening the remaining shoots into strong branches, on which clusters with decent-sized berries will appear in a year. Shrunken and old branches are also removed.

Almost all dessert varieties of blackcurrant are early and medium ripening berries.

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Black currant - varieties

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Variety "Fidelity" ripens by mid-July. Self-fertile, winter-hardy, medium yield (from a bush - 2.6 kg). It gives large sweet berries, rounded, black, weighing 3-5 g. The taste is sweet-sour, dessert. Bush of medium density, slightly sprawling, medium height. Medium resistance to pests and diseases.

Large-fruited varieties of black currant

If autumn turned out to be dry, in late September - early October I carry out water-charging watering of plantings.

Of the varieties of red and white currants, the following turned out to be large-fruited: Jonker Van Tets (red), Dutch Pink and Versailles White. These varieties have another positive quality - the berries hang until winter without crumbling, and we feast on currants right from the bush when there are no other berries in the garden.

• Separately, about the size of the berries. For comparison: the berries of the previously common variety Pamyat Michurin have a mass of 0.7-0.9 g, and the weight of the berries of the Oryol and Altai varieties I tested is from 2.5 g to 5.5 g. One of our gardeners, looking at them in my garden, exclaimed: "Varieties are praised, large as cherries, but here they are like grapes!" Therefore, I decided to dwell on their characteristics in more detail.
• Annual July pinching of the tops of annual shoots and August pinching of the lateral branches of the first and second order.
• Sometimes you have to watch an interesting picture of how a novice amateur gardener chooses currant seedlings. He tries to choose a 2-3 year old plant and, most importantly, that the branches and shoots are longer and even better when with leaves. All this is wrong.​
• Among the varieties of black currant, it is considered the record holder for the content of vitamin C, Belarusian sweet, whose berries in some years can accumulate over 300 mg per 100 g of vitamin C pulp.
• Bushes of red and black currant are very fond of humus and nutrient-rich moist soil. It is in autumn at the beginning of October that the earth around the currant bushes is dug up and fertilized with organic, mineral - phosphorus, potassium mixtures in the following proportions: one hundred grams of superphosphate - forty grams of potassium chloride - twelve kilograms of organic matter. Fertilized bushes overwinter well in autumn and present the highest yields in summer.
• The sweetest and largest (i.e. the best) varieties of black currant are considered:
• Nick;

Large Litvinova - a very vitamin variety;

Early varieties of blackcurrant

There are also varieties that are quite late, but they are perfect for canning and fresh consumption. These include: "Vigorous", "Kipiana", "Venus", "Mermaid" and others.

If, before planting a seedling, the planting pit was well filled with organic and mineral fertilizers, then currants can not be fertilized before fruiting begins. An indicator of a sufficient amount of nutrients is a good growth of shoots.

• Lucia
• Annual cutting in July of all weak, frail, thin and inconspicuous annual shoots (small root shoots) leaving only 3-4 of the most powerful and strong. Cutting after fruiting 5-year-old branches, as well as diseased, dry, broken and interfering.
• You need to choose a one-year or two-year-old seedling. The main thing is that it has 2-3 annual shoots, a dense, well-branched root lobe, and most importantly, there should be 10 or more buds at the base of the shoot in the zone of the conditional "root collar". Two or three buds should also be on the thickest roots. After all, as stated in the previous tip, annual shoots are pruned so that the seedling takes root faster, the buds wake up at the base of the shoots and on the rhizome, and a bush is more likely to form.
• The most delicious and sweet berries are distinguished by varieties: Cantata-50, Memory of Vavilov, Belarusian sweet.
• Caring for blackcurrants in the fall involves its propagation by lignified seedlings.
• Zhemchuzhina - early ripening (in early July), berries weighing up to 6g, very sweet, bred in Siberia.
• Sevchanka;
• Cherry;
• "Kipiana" is a variety of medium-late maturation. The bush is slightly sprawling, medium tall, yields up to 5 kg of berries. The berries are round, with a skin of medium thickness, almost black, sweet and sour, dessert taste, medium size. The variety is resistant to bud mites and powdery mildew.
• Fruiting currant consumes a lot of nutrients. In autumn, under each bush, I add 100-120 g of superphosphate, 30-40 g of potassium sulfate. I apply nitrogen fertilizers (40-50 g of ammonium nitrate or urea) in early spring before mulching the soil with rotted manure. The first time I feed immediately after flowering with an infusion of bird droppings (1 bucket of droppings for 18-20 buckets of water), and sometimes with mullein infusion (1 bucket of organic matter for 5-6 buckets of water). I add a half-liter jar of ash to each bucket of infusion. I pour 1 bucket of prepared fertilizer under each bush.
• ​Jonker Van Tets​
• - a variety of medium ripening, early-growing, very high-yielding. The bushes are low, medium sprawling. The berries are large and very large (3.6-5.5 g), one-dimensional, large both at the beginning and at the end of the brush. The variety is resistant to many common diseases. Due to the annual high yields, it consumes a lot of nutrients and is demanding on agricultural technology. With insufficient agricultural technology, bushes can quickly age.

Dessert varieties of black currant

Following this rule, you will get a bush in which 20-25 branches of different ages will grow and bear fruit well.

• So - definitely, do not choose a seedling with long shoots, because when planting they still need to be shortened. The leaf on the seedling must be "sniffed" to reduce the evaporation of water and prevent the seedling from drying out. If you need a long time to transport plants to the country, moisten the roots, wrap them with a wet rag, and tie a film on top. In this form, they remain viable for a long time.
• The Katyusha variety stands out with beautiful black, shiny, dense pear-shaped berries.
• Currant cuttings are best taken in places open to the sun's rays, which are thoroughly protected from wind drafts.
• Black Boomer - early ripening (in early July), the berries are very, very large (5-7g) and sweet, very loved by children.
• Sybil.
• Anniversary Digging.
• The Vigorous variety ripens late, but its round or oval berries can reach 8 g in weight, they are larger than cherries! However, in the middle zone of the country, the berries are not so large. The berries have a dense, refreshingly sour pulp. Not for sweet lovers! The bush is semi-spreading, medium-sized. Up to 3.5 kg of berries are harvested from one bush. It is the most popular variety, resistant to diseases and pests. Requires regular anti-aging pruning.​
• Blackcurrant responds with a good yield increase for foliar top dressing with microelements. I do the first top dressing before flowering. In 10 liters of water I dissolve 20-30 g of urea, 7-8 g of boric acid, 1 g of zinc chloride, 0.5 g of copper sulfate (copper sulfate) and 0.3 g of potassium permanganate. I feed in the evening in calm weather.
• Hercules
• The easiest way to do this is with lignified cuttings taken from annual shoots. Over the summer, grown annual shoots in the 1-2 decade of September are cut with pruners at the base and cut into cuttings about 20 cm long (4 buds). The lower cut is oblique, at an angle of 45 °, the upper cut is perpendicular to the shoot. The cuttings in a bunch are placed in water for the night, and the next day they are planted. A slot (groove) is made along the cord with a shovel to the depth of the bayonet of the shovel. They fill it with wet peat (low-lying, neutral). Then the cuttings are placed obliquely at an angle of 45 degrees so that 1-2 buds remain on the soil surface. After that, the planter rams down with his feet, tramples the soil to the left and right of the cuttings, moving with a “chicken step”, pressing the soil with the toes of his work shoes, and carefully watches, being careful not to damage or knock down the kidneys. After planting, rows of planted cuttings on both sides are mulched with dry peat or earth.

Fertilizers introduced into the planting pit in the fall when planting currants are enough to get 2-3 crops. In the spring, weeds are removed and, after rains, the top 2-3 cm layer of soil under the bush is loosened to prevent the formation of a crust and immediately mulched with peat or dry soil. During the summer, in the first year after planting, it grows, depending on the variety, 6-10 or more shoots.

Powdery mildew resistant: Pilot A. Mamkin. New varieties of black currant - Tserera and Kupalinka - are distinguished by high yields. In general, it should be noted that all these varieties are high-yielding and large-fruited (the average weight of a berry is 1.0-1.2 g). Of the early varieties, the Dove Seedling variety was zoned, however, it has one drawback - if the berries are not removed in time, they crack (thin skin) and crumble. As an alternative to it, you can call the Naslednitsa variety.

I do the second foliar top dressing during the formation of ovaries with a mixture of 0.5% urea solution (50 g per 10 l of water) and 2% superphosphate solution.

Jonker van Tets

- a variety of late ripening. The bush is powerful, with thick shoots, upright, consistently high-yielding. The berries are large (3-3.6 g), one-dimensional, dessert taste, with a thin skin. It attracts gardeners with high winter hardiness, and also with the fact that it is not very demanding on growing conditions.

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Currant - care after harvesting in the autumn

​Fig. Propagation of currants by lignified cuttings. Planting cuttings leaving one bud on the soil surface.

In July-August, an audit of the grown annual shoots is carried out, while cutting out, first of all, at the very base without stumps, all thin, frail and weak. At the same time, the growth points of each annual shoot are pinched, thereby stopping the apical growth and giving impetus to the growth of the lateral axillary buds, causing branching of the annual wood. During the "summer pinching", nutrients are directed to the formation of mechanical tissues, the "maturing" of wood and the laying of flower buds. Having, as a rule, a small number of bushes, an amateur gardener is quite capable of carrying out a "summer pinching" of annual shoots, to carry out this little trick. What does she give? Firstly, we help the plant stop the growth of the shoot in length and become woody faster, which will improve its overwintering, since the tops of annual shoots of a number of varieties that are soft, non-lignified due to the late end of growth freeze slightly.​

In 1994, two new Belarusian varieties of black currant were bred - Svityazyanka - early ripening and Rogneda - late ripening.

After the planting pit is ready, you should mix the compost with mineral fertilizers, mix the resulting mixture well with the soil dug out of the pit (ratio 1: 1);

Legend - a very early ripening period (at the end of June), large berries (up to 3.5 g) are considered the most delicious among early varieties. The bushes of this variety are highly productive.

Caring for currants after harvest

Centaur;

These varieties include those whose berries ripen in the second half of June - early July:

Caring for currants in autumn

Dessert, sweet varieties are better suited for eating, with a thick skin - for canning or freezing for the winter, with a thin one - for rubbing.

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​) - a variety of early ripening. The bush is vigorous, upright (more sprawling with age), dense, quickly formed. Begins bearing early. Differs in early flowering, resistance to powdery mildew. Weakly affected by anthracnose, mid-bud mites and gall aphids. Berries of medium size 0.7-1.4 g, bright red, with a dense, transparent skin of a pleasant delicate taste.

Stages of planting blackcurrant:

• Treasure

• In the spring, when the cuttings take root and the leaves appear, they are fed randomly with ammonium nitrate, locally on the left and right sides of the row at the rate of 10 g / m2. Immediately close up in the soil with a hoe. It is advisable to fertilize before the rain.

• Secondly, more flower buds will be laid, from which flowers and berries will appear next year. Thirdly, the berries will be larger and the harvest will be larger. In August-September, you can also pinch the tops of branching shoots, i.e. shoots of the first and second orders. Some varieties (for example, Kupalinka) produce strongly branching annual shoots, which indicates a rich harvest potential. They also pinch all the apical endings in early September.

• You can also recommend the following varieties for lovers: from Russia - Perun, Selechenskaya, Zagadka, Naslednitsa, Stranger (of unknown origin), Vigorous, from Ukraine: Suite Kievskaya, Sanyuta, Chernecha, Chereshneva.

• A seedling sits in a hole in such a way that the root system is below the horizontal level applicable for the propagation of currants; the root system of the seedling is cut, dry roots are removed, only the healthiest ones remain;

Lazy man is a blackcurrant variety of the latest ripening (late July - early August), but the berries are very large (up to 6g) and sweet, great for use in desserts.

Perun;

The main features of the autumn care for varieties of red and black currants:

• Yarynka - the very earliest variety;
• If the site is poorly watered, choose a drought-resistant variety. We pay attention to productivity, winter hardiness, dependence on diseases. In different areas, the same variety may well have different yields, color, taste, size of berries, depending on the care, weather conditions, and watering on the site.
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• Versailles White
• - early maturing variety. The berries are large, 2-4 g, sweet and sour taste. The bush is undersized, semi-spreading, the yield is high. Resistant to diseases and pests.​

In July, a second top dressing is carried out with ammonium nitrate in the same dose or slurry (1: 3) at the rate of 1 - 1.5 buckets per 1 running meter.

How to care for currants (video)

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Agrotechnics of blackcurrant

What varieties of blackcurrant are the most fruitful?

​Fig. Formation of a blackcurrant bush: a) - pruning immediately after planting the aerial part, leaving 5 cm stumps; b) - shortening of zero shoots in the second year after planting by 3-4 buds.

Currant does not like acidic soils, but grows well on slightly acidic and almost neutral soils with a pH of at least 6. In this regard, acidic soils are limed 1-2 years before planting, depending on the pH level (based on the data of the agrochemical laboratory) on average 300-600 g of lime materials per 1 m2. It is better to apply dolomite flour, as it regulates the normal absorption of magnesium by plants.

After measuring the correct planting height of the seedling, the pit is covered with a prepared mixture of earth and compost; at the same time, the root system of the seedling should be moistened with a clay solution - this is the main protection of the roots from wilting and drying out;

It can be noted that the following varieties of blackcurrant were bred by Ukrainian breeders and most widely used in Ukraine: Sofievskaya, Kozatskaya, Yubileinaya Kopanya, Suite Kievskaya, Vernissage, Sanyuta, Chereshnevaya, Amethyst, Chernecha, and Russian - Orlovskaya Serenada, Dar Smolyaninova, Charm , Rachel, Ant, Selechenskaya-2, Pygmy, Venus.​

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How to prepare the soil for blackcurrant?

Therefore, we recommend a simple method: choose the most interesting varieties in your opinion, several at once, plant them on the site and observe which one is best suited for your particular conditions. Having tried the berries of grown varieties, you can easily choose your currant variety. Bon appetit.​

Blackcurrant is one of the most common berries in our gardens. It can be seen in any suburban area. This berry not only has an original unique taste, but also a valuable chemical composition. Its fruits are a source of vitamin C. They also contain beta-carotene, vitamin E, vitamin K, organic acids, pectins, sugars, tannins, trace elements and fiber. This wonderful berry has always helped the gardener, even in an unfavorable year it gives a harvest of berries from which you can make winter preparations.

When and how to plant blackcurrant?

- a variety of medium ripening. Grows well even on poor soils. Bush srednerosly, sprawling, wide, irregular shape. The brush is long. Berries of medium size with a long petiole, light cream, rounded or slightly squeezed from the poles, transparent (veins and seeds are visible), sour taste, juicy. Ripening is friendly. Winter hardiness is average, not resistant to anthracnose.

Lazy

Good, powerful seedlings can also be obtained using layering. To this end, in the spring, before the buds open, separate branches and shoots are isolated from the currant bush, with the help of hooks they are “pinned” to the ground, and in the middle part they are buried in the soil. These shoots spud 2 times during the growing season. By autumn, benign seedlings with a well-branched root lobe can be obtained from them.

In dry weather, plants are watered at the rate of 1.5-2 buckets of water for each plant, doing this in the evening and not forgetting to loosen and mulch the soil under the bush. In autumn, before frosts, semi-rotted manure is placed under each bush with a layer of 10 cm for better overwintering and preventing weeds in the spring.

The site is dug up with a shovel, carefully choosing all the roots of the weeds. Under plowing, you can add 10 kg of semi-rotted manure, compost or humus per 1 m2. It is not bad to sow green manure (lupins, peas, rapeseed) on green fertilizer, followed by their plowing in the budding phase (approximately in June). Good precursors of currants are buckwheat, rapeseed, corn, rye, beets, carrots, potatoes, etc.

On the bushes planted earlier, which have already given the first fruits, a lot of young shoots are formed that can be useful for reproduction, in the fall it is enough to dig one of them into the ground, it will take root and in the spring it will be possible to separate the new seedling from the main bush.

Very tasty sweet and sour blackcurrant berries of any variety can be used both fresh (as a separate dessert or in combination with ice cream) and processed (compote, juice or jam).

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How to choose a currant seedling?

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At first, blackcurrant was used by man as a medicinal plant and only in the 15th century began to be used as a dessert berry. Already in the 19th century, Europeans began to breed the best varieties of black currant, and now it is difficult to find a summer cottage and a garden where this berry would not grow.

More than 200 currant varieties have been bred for different regions of the country. Their main advantages are large-fruited, good resistance to diseases, pests and excellent taste. However, choosing the right variety for your site and taste can be difficult. According to the descriptions, one variety is more beautiful than the other.​

How to care for currants in the first year after planting?

​Dutch Rose​

- despite its name, it turned out to be an excellent high-yielding, medium-late variety: the berries are large, up to 3-3.5 g, the taste is pleasant, sweet (4.8 points), the yield is high. The bushes are quite powerful, somewhat sprawling. After harvesting early ripe varieties, it “treats” for a long time with its sweet berries directly from the bush.

Black currant is a moisture-loving crop. It bears fruit very well and gives high yields if it grows along irrigation and catchment ditches. If the summer is dry, then it is very important to water the plants during the period of setting berries and growing shoots (June) and laying flower buds (August-September). These are the two most significant periods when currants need water the most.

This is the first year of fruiting. They still weed, loosen the soil near the bush. Grow new annual shoots. In July, the formation of uneven-aged branches in the bush begins. Of the grown annual shoots, 3-4 of the most powerful are selected, which do not grow too close to each other and do not shade each other. The rest of the small root shoots are removed. Do not forget about the "summer pinching" and the tops of annual shoots (in July and August - side branches of 1-2 orders). Thus, from 3-4 annual shoots left annually, a bush will eventually form, consisting of branches of different ages, in which the oldest (optimal limit, upper age limit) will be 5-year-old branches. After fruiting, they are cut at the base. Before winter, all plants are covered with manure.

The best time for planting currants is autumn (October), as it blooms early in spring (March-April). The distance between plants in a row should be 1-1.5 m.

How to care for black currants in the second year after planting and in subsequent years?

Caring for red currants is identical to caring for black currants.

By planting blackcurrant bushes in your garden plots, you will provide yourself and your family with a complex of necessary vitamins and microelements.

Nadia;

Mriya Kievskaya;

In order to choose the right blackcurrant variety for planting on your site, you must take into account that they differ in frost resistance, ripening period, berry size, yield and much more. In order to decide which varieties of blackcurrant suit you best, you should familiarize yourself with their main characteristics.

Of course, we all want to grow only the best blackcurrant varieties: high-yielding, winter-hardy, resistant to powdery mildew, bud mites and other pests. I would like the berries to be large and the yields to be high.​

- a variety of medium ripening. The bush is vigorous, slightly sprawling. The brush is long. The berries are quite large (0.9-1.1 g), bright pink, transparent, sweet, dessert flavor. Self-fertile and productive - up to 9 kg per bush). Responds well to care. Moderately resistant to anthracnose, fairly resistant to other fungal diseases. Winter hardiness is average.

How to cut and shape a currant bush?

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Often in dry years, currant berries are smaller and crumble ahead of time. Therefore, if you want to have constantly large berries and a large harvest, make it a rule to regularly water the plants during the period of setting berries. And regular watering (1-1.5 buckets of water per bush) will ensure a good laying of flower buds, and hence the harvest of next year.

In the 3rd year of fruiting in the second half of April, the plants are fed with slurry diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 3. This solution is filtered and poured into the grooves made with a hoe crosswise, at the rate of one to one and a half buckets per bush. or hoe into the soil.

A hole is dug about half a meter deep and the same width. The upper fertile layer of soil is placed on one side of the pit, the lower one on the other. A bucket of semi-rotted manure, humus or lowland peat, thoroughly mixed with the top fertile layer and mineral fertilizers (70-80 g of double superphosphate, 30-40 g of potassium sulfate or 100 g of wood ash per 1 m2) is brought into each pit. Doses of fertilizers are set depending on the degree of soil fertility on the site.

In order to protect the root system of currants of any variety, it is worth digging up all the bushes with soil until late autumn, and when the snow falls, spud them in order to create a certain fur coat, such actions will save the roots from sudden changes in temperature and severe frosts.

How can currants be propagated?

In every garden there is a place for currants, which give a rich harvest of delicious berries. This is one of the most valuable crops. Currant berries contain a large amount of vitamin C, calcium and iron.

Venus;

Dove;

According to different characteristics, the following groups of blackcurrant varieties are distinguished: dessert, early and late, large-fruited and small-fruited.

Of course, only zoned varieties give consistently high yields, so let's consider the best blackcurrant varieties for central Russia.

Do currants need water and when should they be watered?

I continue to test other new ones. In the spring I'm going to plant a completely new very large-fruited variety -

- in many respects it is similar to the previous variety, but differs from it in earlier ripening - the ripening period is medium. Berries are sweet. This is the highest yielding variety in my garden.​

In autumn, be sure to cover the spaces under the bushes with a rotted, well-decomposed manure layer of about 10 cm.

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During the flowering period, microelements are fed, in particular boron and manganese (2 g of boric acid and 5 g of manganese sulfate are taken per 10 l of a bucket of water). A very important moment, when the solution is poured into the sprayer, lower the spray bar down and turn it over so that the lower part of the leaves is sprayed, that is, sprayed in the direction from the bottom up.​

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Throughout Russia, blackcurrant grows near every house. Undemanding to the composition of the soil, accustomed to severe winters, it yields even in the subarctic zone.. This horticultural culture bears fruit even in Yakutia and the Khibiny, it has reached Sakhalin in the east and the Krasnodar Territory in the south.

She inherited such a universal adaptability to the vagaries of the weather from her wild ancestor - the forest currant. There are a lot of varieties and varieties, so it is very difficult for a novice gardener (and not only) to make a choice.

How the varieties differ:

1. Appointment,
2. ripening time,
3. berry size,
4. yield,
5. The taste of berries
6. resistance to diseases and pests,
7. Winter hardiness…

Dealing with the purpose of the variety is very simple:

• berries are delicious on their own - this is a dessert variety,
• thin-skinned, but overly sour - cook jam or grind with sugar;
• berries with dense strong skin are frozen,
• universal (of course).

In order not to be mistaken, it is necessary to choose only zoned varieties. Only on such bushes can you consistently and without much effort get a high yield.

Ripening time, size of berries, their taste may differ not only from the growing region, but even from watering or soil composition. Already at a distance of more than 200 kilometers, the characteristics of the variety can change significantly.

If you live in the middle lane, you should take a closer look at these varieties:

Among the fruit-bearing first, Selechinskaya, because he combined the best qualities of his ancestors - wild currant and gooseberry.

Most varieties have an Achilles' heel - they cannot grow without abundant watering. But copes well with both summer drought and frosty winters, which makes his choice suitable for any region of Russia.

To all this, to add five kilograms from a bush of large berries the size of a cherry. There are no special advantages in varieties intermediate between early and late. They give fewer berries, and this is not because the varieties are not good enough.

Just the period of their fruiting falls on the period of summer heat and dry wind.

The main purpose of these varieties is to fill a niche in front of the late, most productive varieties.

Ripening of berries of late varieties lasts from the end of July to. end of autumn. Wherein Kipiana variety has a yield of up to 5 kg and resistance to powdery mildew and is not afraid of bud mites.

When choosing a super-large-fruited variety, one should not forget that usually such plants require additional top dressing and watering, especially in dry summers and if they are planted on sandy soils.

The most resistant varieties

Practically do not get sick, which means - the crop is ecologically the cleanest in varieties:

• drought-resistant- Dobrynya, Gulliver, Raisin;
• disease resistant- Sybil, Gross, Gamma, Gulliver, Sevchanka, Globe, Ant;
• frost-resistant- Sybil, Venus, Romance, Globe, Pearl, Rhapsody, Vigorous;
• pest resistant- Orlovia, Cypiana, Grace, Gamma.

Frost-resistant blackcurrant variety Zhemchuzhina

Gourmets also have plenty to choose from

With a score above 4.5 points, the variety is included in the dessert category: Centaur, Perun, Selechenskaya, Selechenskaya-2, Nadia, Venus, Orlovsky waltz, Slastena, Beau Monde, Nestor Kozin, Tisel, Ural sweet, Raisin, Black eye.

The Izyumnaya variety has an interesting feature: after ripening, the berries do not crumble from the stem, but gradually “raisin”, hence the name of the variety.

The best taste of the early varieties- Pearl, Black Boomer, Raisin, Legend.

Lazy person– late variety with very large berries up to 6 grams.

What's new for residents of the Moscow region?

The weather of the Moscow region is characterized by relatively mild winters and fairly warm, humid summers. It is this climate that blackcurrant likes. However, the soil composition differs even in the districts of the Moscow region.

It is necessary to select varieties not according to yield or taste, but exclusively adapted to the specifics of the soil composition of the region.

The most famous varieties among summer residents are: Veloy, Memory of Lisavenko, Sudarushka, Dobrynya, Vigorous.

To enjoy berries all season long, you need to choose from the following varieties:

It should be noted that late varieties for the Moscow region are far from the best choice. Summer residents simply may not have time to take advantage of all the best qualities of the same, for example, Lazybones - the berries may not ripen.

Variety Vigorous, as already noted, summer residents highly appreciated for many literally unique qualities:

• high yield,
• very large plum-shaped berries,
• compact bush,
• self-fertility,
• winter hardiness,
• precociousness.

Even if you are shocked by the size and taste of berries, you need to find out some more of its characteristics.

What characteristics should you pay attention to first of all:

• self-fertile (no need for an additional pollinator variety),
• susceptibility to diseases and pests,
• resistance to spring frosts and other weather factors.

If you plant several varieties nearby (even self-fertile), there will be much more berries.

So, stress-resistant Gulliver will not create problems in case of weather vagaries, but The gift of Smolyaninova will please with an early harvest even without chemical treatments against pests and diseases.

Another gift for fans of ecological products - variety Orlovskaya serenade, which is practically not afraid of a kidney mite, and from fungal diseases - powdery mildew.

The Selechenskaya-2 variety, with its increased ecological plasticity, will not be afraid of a lack of water and unsuitable soils. As a result, the summer resident will receive his prescribed 5 kilograms of cherry-sized berries from the bush.

Conclusion

Choosing the right variety of blackcurrant bush is very difficult., but the correct solution to this problem for an ordinary summer resident exists. This is to acquire zoned modern varieties of different ripening periods. Their high productivity, unpretentiousness, harmonious taste qualities have already been confirmed in household plots throughout the country.