Bakchar honeysuckle - characteristics, description, yield

Honeysuckle Bakcharskaya is the general name of the varieties bred at the Bakcharskoe horticultural enterprise in the Tomsk region. Here they grow unique planting material with high adaptability to the harsh climate, resistance to diseases and insects. We have prepared a description the best varieties of honeysuckle: Jubilee, Bakchar giant, Pride of Bakchar, Tomichka, Yugan, Morena, Delight, Silginka.

Description of Bakchar honeysuckle

Honeysuckle Beauty Bakchar, or Turchaninka, is a mid-early varietyobtained at the Research Institute of Horticulture of Siberia named after M.A.Lisavenko. The work used seedlings of Turchaninov's honeysuckle No. 15/63 - an elite form, free from pollination, bred at the Far Eastern experimental station of VNIIR im. N.I. Vavilov. Honeysuckle Bakcharskaya belongs to the type of Turchaninov's honeysuckle. Authorship belongs to IK Gidzyuk and ZI Luchnik.

The culture was added to the State Register in 1987 with admission to growing in the open field in the following regions:

• West Siberian - Altai Territory, Kemerovo, Tomsk Regions;
• East Siberian - the Republic of Khakassia and the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Bushes are medium-dense, semi-spreading... Young shoots have an anthocyanin coloration. The crumbling rate of the culture is low.

The fruits are teardrop-shaped, elongated with slight tubercles on the surface.... The skin has a dense structure, is blue-blue, abundantly covered with a waxy bloom.

The pulp is tender, sweet and sour in taste, with a pleasant bitterness and a weak aroma... 100 g of fruit contains 27.2 mg of vitamin C and 510 mg of P-active substances. The tasting taste score is high - 4.2 points.

The yield per bush is on average 1.5-3.8 kg per year... The variety belongs to early-growing crops and is suitable for mechanized harvesting. Honeysuckle Bakcharskaya is self-fertile and needs additional pollination.

For a rich harvest it is recommended to plant next to several different varieties... The best pollinators are: Strezhevchanka, Daughter of a Giant, Silginka, Yugan, Bakchar giant. The Bakcharskaya honeysuckle variety is resistant to frost down to -50 ° C, fungal infections and insects.

Reference. The variety is sometimes called Bogucharskaya or Bakhchisaraiskaya honeysuckle because of the similarity of names. However, Bogucharskaya honeysuckle is a separate early ripening variety, bred in 1982 in the Moscow region, and Bakhchisarai honeysuckle does not exist.

The best varieties

The most popular varieties are considered: Jubilee, Bakchar giant, Pride of Bakchar, Tomichka, Yugan, Morena, Delight, Silginka.

Anniversary

The breeders of the Bakcharsky stronghold of northern gardening in Tomsk worked on the creation of the Bakcharskaya Yubileinaya honeysuckle variety. Now this enterprise is called the Bakcharskoye Federal State Unitary Enterprise. Honeysuckle Yubileinaya continues the so-called "Kamchatka line"... The variety was included in the State Register in 2013. It is popularly known as Honeysuckle Jubilee Bakchar.

Distinctive characteristics of the variety:

• bushes are wide (1.2 m), rounded, medium-sized - up to 1.6 m high;
• branches are strong, straight, red-brown without edge;
• the leaf blade is elongated, dark green, dull, slightly pubescent, dense;
• flowers are small in size, pale yellow;
• flowering period - early May;
• ripening period of fruits - end of June;
• the beginning of fruiting - 3 years after planting;
• ripening of fruits - stretched;
• fruits are large, oblong-oval, weighing 1.5 g;
• the taste is pleasant, sweet and sour, with a slightly perceptible bitterness;
• tasting taste assessment - 4.3 points;
• yield - 3-4 kg from one bush;
• transportability is high;
• the best pollinating varieties: In Memory of Gidzyuk, Amphora, Azure, Pride Bakchar, Nymph.

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Bakchar giant

Bakchar giant is a large-fruited variety of medium early ripening... The culture was brought out by the employees of FSUE Bakcharskoye. The authorship belongs to N.V. Savinkova, I.K. Gidzyuk, A.P. Pavlov.

Distinctive characteristics of the variety:

• vigorous bushes - 1.7-1.9 m in height, 1.3 m in width;
• the crown is oval, spreading, loose, which greatly facilitates harvesting;
• branches are straight and thick;
• young shoots are colored light green without anthocyanin coloration, length - 0.6 m;
• leaves are large, pubescent, matte, dark gray-green color;
• fruits are large, weighing 1.8-2.5 g, 4-5 cm long, 1.2 cm in diameter, asymmetric, elongated-oval, slightly hilly surface;
• skin of medium density, dark blue color with a waxy coating;
• the pulp is tender, dessert, sweet and sour;
• tasting taste assessment - 4.8 points;
• ripening period - end of June;
• the beginning of fruiting - 2-3 years after planting;
• yield —1.7-4.5 kg per bush;
• transportability is high;
• the best pollinating varieties: In Memory of Gidzyuk, Amphora, Azure, Pride Bakchar, Nymph.

Bakchar's pride

Bakchar's pride is the variety bred in the Bakcharskoye nursery. Included in the State Register in 2006.

Reference. Honeysuckle Bakchar's pride bears fruit for 30 years after planting.

Culture characteristics:

• bushes are medium-sized, spreading, wide, up to 1.6 m high, 1.5 m wide;
• young shoots are long, light, lowered to the ground, not pubescent;
• leaves of medium size, matte, dark green color, slightly pubescent;
• berries are large, 5.5 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter, weighing 2-3 g;
• the skin is dense, violet-blue, with a white bloom;
• the pulp is tender;
• the taste is sweet and sour, with a slight bitterness;
• tasting taste assessment - 4.3 points;
• ripening of fruits - in the second half of July;
• ripe berries quickly crumble and require timely collection;
• yield 3-4 kg from one bush;
• transportability is high;
• pollinating varieties: Amphora, Azure, Bakchar's Pride.

Tomichka

Variety Tomichka bred under the guidance of plantation workers at the Bakcharsky support point of the N.I. M.A.Lisavenko - I.K.Gidzyuka and Z.I. Luchnik. The variety was included in the State Register in 1987.

Culture characteristics:

• the bushes are medium-sized - 1.6-1.7 m, spreading at the base, the lower branches are omitted;
• medium-sized plastic sheets, oval with a pointed tip, light green or green in color;
• flowers are small, pale green;
• fruits are cylindrical, drop-shaped or pitcher-shaped, with a flattened, slightly depressed apex;
• berry length 2.3-2.5 cm, weight 2-5 g;
• the skin is thin, dark purple, with a waxy smoky bloom, the surface is bumpy;
• ripening period - mid-June;
• the pulp is tender, juicy, the taste is pleasant, sweet and sour;
• ripe berries quickly crumble and need timely collection;
• yield - 2-2.5 kg per bush;
• the beginning of fruiting - 4 years after planting;
• medium transportability;
• pollinators: Amphora, Pride of Bakchar, Azure.

Yugan

Yugan's honeysuckle variety was bred in 2010 in Bakcharsky FSUE on the basis of varieties Kamchatskaya and Turchaninov's honeysuckle. It is on trial, therefore it is not included in the State Register yet.

Variety characteristics:

• the bushes are medium-sized, semicircular, 1.5 m high, 1.9 m wide;
• young shoots are covered with bristly hairs, are green in color without anthocyanin;
• the fruits are pitcher-shaped, the top is often thickened, less often oval with a rounded tip;
• fruit weight 1.4-1.8 g, length 1.2-1.4 cm;
• the skin is dense, dark purple;
• dessert taste, sweet and sour;
• tasting score - 4.9 points;
• yield - 3.5-6 kg from one bush;
• ripening period - mid-June;
• the beginning of fruiting - 3-4 years after planting;
• manual collection is recommended 2 times a season;
• excellent transportability;
• high winter hardiness - up to -50 ° С;
• pollinating varieties: Bakcharsky giant, Strezhevchanka, Delight.

Moraine

Morena is an early ripe variety, bred in St. Petersburg at the Pavlovsk experimental station of the VIR them. N.I. Vavilov. Elite forms No. 101 and No. 21-5 were used for crossing. The authors of the selection are M.N. Plekhanova and A.V. Kondrikova. The variety was included in the State Register in 1995. Other names are # 689-42 and The Little Mermaid. The variety is recommended for cultivation in the Northwest region.

Culture characteristics:

• bushes are medium-sized, wide, 1.7 m high, 1.7 m wide;
• the crown is neat, squat, oval, not prone to thickening;
• the leaf blade is large, lanceolate, the base is wedge-shaped, the color is light green, the structure is dense;
• young shoots are thin, slightly curved, without edges, brownish-green in color;
• fruits are large, 2.5-3 cm long, 1.1 cm in diameter, weighing 1-3.5 g;
• the shape of the fruit is elongated and pitcher-shaped;
• the skin is thin, translucent, slightly tuberous, blue-blue with a strong waxy coating;
• taste sweet and sour, dessert, without bitterness;
• the pulp is tender, the aroma is weak;
• tasting taste assessment 4.5 points;
• the proportion of dry matter - 13.6%, sugar content - 7.8%, acid - 2.3%, vitamin C content - 54 mg per 100 g;
• transportability is high;
• ripening period - mid-June - early July;
• ripe berries do not fall off and remain fresh;
• yield 1.2-2.5 kg from one bush;
• winter hardiness is above average;
• the best pollinating varieties: Viola, Pamyati Kuminov, Malvina, Blue Spindle, Kamchadalka, Amphora, Blue Bird, Start.

Delight

The honeysuckle variety Vostorg was bred in the Bakcharskoe nursery, is not included in the State Register of the Russian Federation due to variety trials that began in 2012.

Culture characteristics:

• vigorous bushes, 1.7 m high and wide, the number of skeletal branches is insignificant;
• young shoots of green color without edge;
• leaves of a dark green color, cylindrical, matte surface;
• the beginning of fruiting - 3 years after planting;
• fusiform berries, dark purple skin with a thick waxy bloom;
• fruit weight 2.6 g, length 1.3-1.5 cm;
• tasting taste assessment - 4.8 points;
• the taste is sweet and sour, without bitterness, resembles the taste of blueberries and blueberries, the aroma is pronounced, the aftertaste is pleasant, the sugar content is 8.9%;
• ripening period - second half of June;
• berries firmly adhere to the bush, ripen together, the dark color of the skin is a signal of the beginning of harvest;
• dense skin provides a high level of transportability;
• yield 2.5-5.5 kg;
• the best pollinating varieties: Bakcharsky giant, Strezhevchanka, Yugan, Silginka, Giant's daughter.

The yield of the Delight variety increases with age.: at the beginning of fruiting, about 1.3 kg are harvested from the bush, at the age of 7-15 years the yield reaches 5.5 5 kg.

Silginka

The breeders of the Bakcharsky nursery worked on the creation of the Silginka variety. To obtain the variety, the varieties Turchaninov and Roxanne... The culture saw the light of day in 1978 and is considered one of the first "cultivated" varieties.

Variety characteristics:

• the bushes are compact, medium-sized, 1.5 m high;
• young shoots are thin, curved, light green in color, acquire a darker color as they mature;
• the leaf plate is oval, slightly elongated, the base is concave;
• large fruits - 1.4-2.1 g, 2.5 cm long;
• the taste is pleasant, refreshing, sweet and sour without bitterness;
• the shape of the berries is cylindrical;
• the skin is thin, not felt when used, has a dark blue or purple color with a waxy coating;
• the pulp is tender and juicy with a pleasant aroma;
• tasting taste assessment - 4.8 points;
• ripening amicable, in mid-June;
• the beginning of fruiting - 3 years after planting;
• medium transportability;
• yield 1.5-3 kg from one bush;
• pollinating varieties: Bakcharsky giant, Strezhevchanka, Yugan, Giant's daughter.

Conclusion

Honeysuckle varieties Yubileynaya, Bakcharsky giant, Pride Bakchar, Tomichka, Yugan, Morena, Delight, Silginka are combined under one name - Bakcharskaya. Cultivars have similar characteristics: self-fertility, requiring cross-pollination, early or medium-early ripening, sweet berry taste with a slight acidity, delicate pulp and dark purple skin, high resistance to frost, diseases and insects. The yield is medium or high, depending on the variety; berry picking begins in June.