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Repaired raspberries have long been popular among gardeners. Breeders are constantly working on new varieties that are distinguished by excellent taste, continuous fruiting, disease and pest resistance.
Raspberry Pokhvalinka is a new promising variety, recently bred by Nizhny Novgorod breeders and recommended for widespread cultivation in Russia. It was entered in the State Register of Breeding Achievements of the Russian Federation, approved for use in 2019, but is already gaining popularity due to its characteristics.
Description of the raspberry variety Pohvalinka
According to the description, Pohvalinka raspberry belongs to remontant mid-season varieties. The originators characterize it as high-yielding, frost-resistant, and universal.
Raspberry bush of the Pohvalinka variety is powerful, upright, medium-sized (130 - 150 cm in height), gives a large number of new shoots per season.
The leaves of the plant are large, bright green, moderately wrinkled, twisted, slightly pubescent. Annual shoots are brown and slightly waxy. Short, violet-brown thorns on a green base, strongly developed at the bottom of annual shoots.
Raspberry flowers Pohvalinka are large, the berries have an average weight of about 6.5 g, maximum - 10.6 g. Their shape is elongated-conical, the color is bright red. The pulp of the fruit is sweet and sour, with a pronounced aroma, juicy. Sugar content - 7%, acid - 1.3%. Tasting assessment of fresh berries - 4.2 points. Indicators of keeping quality and transportability of berries are high.
The variety is distinguished by average resistance to diseases and pests, heat and drought. The plant tolerates light autumn frosts, while the foliage, unlike berries, may suffer slightly. Raspberries are used both fresh and for conservation.
Pros and cons of remontant raspberry Pohvalinka
The main advantages of the variety include:
- fast growth of shoots;
- the possibility of obtaining a large number of seedlings the next year after planting;
- drought resistance of the variety due to the highly developed root system;
- immunity to pests and diseases;
- frost resistance;
- thorns do not cause any special inconvenience when harvesting;
- high taste of berries;
- keeping quality and transportability of raspberries;
- the fruits are very large;
- the possibility of growing in open and closed ground;
- high adaptation of plants to different growing conditions;
- resistance of bushes to strong winds;
- versatility of the use of berries.
Among the disadvantages of raspberry Pohvalinka:
- strong development of root shoots when loosening, causing a weakening of the bush and a decrease in yield;
- the need to limit the spread of the root system so that raspberries do not capture neighboring areas;
- the inability to completely harvest the crop in regions with early frosts;
- high price of seedlings.
Planting and caring for raspberries Pohvalinka
Experts recommend planting Pohvalinka raspberries in the fall in the southern regions and in the spring in the middle lane, the Urals and Siberia. If the seedlings have a closed root system, then this can be done throughout the season. When planting in spring, it is possible to harvest in the first season.
Raspberries of the Pohvalinka variety do not require excessive attention to themselves. She needs timely watering, feeding, pruning. Qualitative and quantitative indicators of productivity depend on the correctness and timeliness of care.
Selection and preparation of the landing site
For planting raspberries, you need an area that is well lit from all sides. When located in the shade, young shoots stretch out, drown out the plants of the second year, as a result of which the yield decreases.
Light fertile soils, chernozems or loams are suitable for the repairing raspberry Pohvalinka. Its location on hills, in lowlands or slopes, where there is a lack or excess of moisture, has a bad effect on the development of the plant. The landing site should be flat, for example a slight slope. After growing in one place for about seven years, it should be replaced. You can return to your previous place not earlier than after 5 years. Legumes or grains can be used as precursors to raspberries. It is not recommended to plant it after potatoes, tomatoes, peppers. The optimum soil acidity is 5.8 - 6.3 pH.
Planting in autumn is carried out in late September - early October, spring - after the snow melts. Due to weather conditions, you can be late with the dates, in this case, the survival rate of raspberries will significantly decrease.
Landing rules
Planting of raspberries of the Polkhvalinka variety is carried out in the fall, before the soil freezes, or in the spring, before bud break.
The seedlings should be healthy in appearance, with a root collar thickness of about 1 cm, and a root system length of about 15 cm.
You can plant Pohvalinka raspberries by bush or tape methods. In the first case, holes are prepared, in the second, a trench is dug. The distance between the rows is 1.3 m, between the plants - 0.5 m.If the seedling has several shoots, all but one, the strongest, should be cut off, the height of which does not exceed 0.3 m.
Before planting, the roots of the seedling are dipped into a "chatterbox" to prevent them from drying out. If the root system has dried up during storage, it is immersed in water for 10 hours.
For raspberry seedlings of the Pohvalinka variety, they dig spacious pits measuring 40x40x40 cm.The top fertile soil layer must be mixed with 5 kg of compost, 40 g of superphosphate, 40 g of potash fertilizers and poured onto the bottom of the pit. A seedling is placed on the mound, the hole is covered with soil, it is tamped a little and watered abundantly (about a bucket of water). To preserve moisture, it is worth mulching the soil with peat, humus or needles. In the autumn planting, seedlings should be spud 10 cm up so that the roots do not freeze in winter.
Watering and feeding
The meatiness and juiciness of raspberries. Praise can be achieved only with regular moistening of the soil. The best way of irrigation is drip, in which moisture goes directly to the roots. Sprinkling in sunny weather leads to foliage burns, in cloudy weather - to the development of fungal diseases. It is convenient to water the raspberries using the pre-prepared grooves along the rows. They let water flowing directly to the root system of the seedlings.
Watering the remontant variety requires maintaining moisture throughout the season, since the Pohvalinka raspberry bears fruit for a long time, up to frost.
A few years after planting raspberries, the soil under them is depleted. Top dressing helps to make up for losses.
Nitrogen should be applied under Pohvalinka raspberries in early spring. It helps ensure shoot growth.
During flowering, you should feed with an infusion of chicken droppings, diluted in a ratio of 1 to 20.
Potassium with phosphorus affects the next year's harvest.
Pruning
The Praise Raspberry can be trimmed in two ways.
The first is that two-year-old shoots are cut out after fruiting in the middle of summer. All the forces of the plant are directed to annuals, from which they later harvest. They are also the main source of berries next year.
According to the second method, the crop is harvested only from the shoots of the first year and at the end of the season they are completely cut off. In the south, this is done in the fall, in the northern regions - in the spring, in order to facilitate snow retention on the site.
The second method is the most preferable, because after complete pruning, the likelihood of developing a number of diseases, damage to raspberries by pests, decreases. With this method, it is easier to prepare plants for winter, and its yield is not at all less.
Preparing for winter
Repaired raspberries of the Pohvalinka variety are frost-resistant varieties that can withstand frosts down to -30 ⁰C. Despite this, the harvest of the next year depends on the quality of preparation for winter.
The preparation method depends on the way the plants are pruned. If it is carried out completely, then mulching with a thick layer of peat, leaves, compost is used to protect the raspberry bushes from frost. This turns out to be quite enough for the plants to successfully overwinter and give strong shoots in the spring.
If only two-year-old shoots are cut off, then in the fall the shrubs are abundantly watered and bent to the ground. In the conditions of Siberia and the Urals, experts recommend covering them with non-woven material. This is especially true for young seedlings.
Harvesting
Judging by the description, photos and reviews, the Pokhvalinka raspberry variety is distinguished by large fleshy juicy berries. Their weight can reach 20 g, length - 5 cm.
The yield of the variety is 1.5 t / ha in the first year, in the second - up to 10 t / ha, and from the third - up to 20 t / ha.
The fruiting period of the Pokhvalinka raspberry variety is long. When picking berries only from annual shoots, it begins in August and ends with the arrival of frost. If the harvest is carried out from the shoots of the first and second years of life, then it is divided into two parts - summer and autumn.
Reproduction
Raspberries of the Pohvalinka variety give a large number of shoots. Thanks to this feature, it is not difficult to reproduce it. In order to get more planting material, you can specially damage the raspberry root system with a shovel, which will provoke the appearance of new growth.
In the spring, the shoots are carefully separated from the mother plant and planted in a permanent place. Already in the current season, you can get a harvest of berries from them.
Reproduction of raspberries Pohvalinka is possible in a more laborious way - with the help of cuttings. They are cut during pruning of berry bushes and added in drops for the winter. In the spring, the cuttings are periodically moistened. After the appearance of the first leaves, the seedlings are ready for transplantation to a permanent place.
Diseases and pests
Breeders claim that the Pokhvalinka remontant raspberry is resistant to pests and most diseases of berry bushes:
- anthracnose;
- chlorosis;
- curliness;
- rust.
Since the berry is practically not sick, chemical agents are not used when growing, the product is ecologically clean.
For the purpose of prevention, a distance should be observed in planting raspberry bushes of the Pohvalinka variety so that they do not thicken. To avoid the spread of fungal infections, watering should be carried out only at the root.
Conclusion
Raspberry Pokhvalinka recently appeared in the nurseries of the country.Judging by the description and reviews, the variety is large-fruited, productive, resistant to diseases and pests. It is easy to propagate, quickly get a whole plantation of berry bushes. The demand and popularity of Pohvalinka raspberries are growing, because due to its unpretentiousness and yield, the variety can be grown both on personal plots and on an industrial scale.
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