Altai early cherry

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The Altai early cherry was obtained from combining such varieties as "cherry pick", "Vladimir", "pink bottle" in the Scientific Research Institute of Horticulture of Siberia named after M. A. Lisavenko, thanks to the work of selection specialists G. I. Subbotin and I. P. Kalinina ... This variety was added to the state register in 1989.

Cherry Altai early: description of the variety

The cherry shrub of the Altayskaya early variety grows of ordinary size, has many trunks, and reaches a height of approximately one meter and eighty centimeters. The crown has a wide spreading shape, rather thickened. The bark of the branches is brownish with a red tint, does not have any irregularities. Lentils have a yellowish white color, large size, are rare. The branches grow straight, have a light red color, average thickness, small internodes. The kidneys are in the form of a regular cone, do not have any sharpening. The foliage is of ordinary size, with an oblong shape and a wedge-shaped base, the upper part is pointed. The foliage does not have any irregularities, a light green color with a silvery bloom, a double-crenate serration along the edges, small in size. The petiole is purple, and the glands are light yellow, not pronounced, no stipules are observed. The flowers of the Altai early cherry variety of ordinary sizes, in the amount of two to five specimens, resemble a rose in shape, the color is snow-white, width, about twenty to twenty-five millimeters, the petals are in the form of a regular oval, the size is about five to six millimeters by eight to ten millimeters , pink buds, sepals about four to five millimeters by five to seven millimeters, in the form of a regular oval.

Fruit characteristics

Cherry Altai early: photo of the variety

Cherries of the Altai early variety have the shape of a regular circle, slightly compressed, the height reaches fifteen millimeters, and the diameter reaches thirteen millimeters, the mass of one fruit most often reaches two whole and nine-tenths of a gram, the color is uniform bright red. Pulp of ordinary density, pink color, juice of the same color. The fruit stem is small in size, about thirty to thirty-five millimeters, the thickness of an ordinary one is about two to two and a half millimeters. It tastes sour and sweet at the same time. The Altai early cherry is usually attached to the fruit stem. The stone is small in size, in the shape of a regular oval, and has a mass of seventeen hundredths of a gram. The harvest contains:

dry matter - sixteen point and six tenths of a percent.
sugar - eleven points and one tenth of a percent.
acid - one whole and three tenths of a percent.
tannins - two tenths of a percent.
vitamin C - twenty milligrams per hundred grams.
vitamin P - two hundred and eighty milligrams per hundred grams.

The fresh harvest of the Altayskaya early cherry variety was rated by the tasters at four points on a five-point system, and the fruits after technical processing were rated by tasters at four point and five tenths on a five-point system.

Cherry Altai early: features of the variety

The early Altai cherry harvest ripens in the first ten days of the second summer month, the completion of the leaf fall process falls on the second week of the second autumn month, has a high level of heat resistance, has a high level of drought resistance, has an ordinary level of resistance to debate.The amount of the crop is not the same, ordinary, from each shrub it is possible to get two kilograms and eight hundred grams, and sometimes four kilograms and eight hundred grams.

The Altai early cherry variety has an ordinary level of resistance to cold, immediately after freezing in the cold winter seasons, it regenerates quickly, universal use, this variety is self-infertile, susceptible to many diseases. It is used in combination with other varieties due to its early ripening. It is recommended to plant pollinating varieties nearby:

— «Altai swallow».

— «desired».

— «subbotinskaya».