Blackcurrant Memory Michurin

Black currant Pamyat Michurin belongs to the herbaceous group with an early ripening time, was obtained at the All-Russian Research Institute of Genetics and Breeding of Fruit Plants named after I.V. Michurin using free pollination of Siberian planting material of a currant variety with European varieties, thanks to the work of breeding specialist I.A. Tolmachev. The black currant variety Pamyati Michurin was included in the state register for breeding achievements, allowed for cultivation in the Central, Volga-Vyatka, Central Black Earth, Lower Volga, Ural and Middle Volga regions.

Blackcurrant in Memory of Michurin: variety description and characteristics

Black currant in Memory of Michurin: photo of the variety

Fruit shrubs of currant varieties Pamyati Michurina are usually of medium size, spreading is assessed as ordinary, but rather rare. The growing branches are thick, straight, light green in color. Buds are medium to large, ovoid in shape, located on a thick stem, receding from a branch or parallel. The leaf scar is narrow and rounded.

The foliage of the currant bush in Memory of Michurin has five lobes, medium or large in size, the color is dark greenish, leathery, with wrinkles. The leaf plate does not have any irregularities, glossy, weakly concave, folded along the main vein, and wavy foliage along the edges. The blades have a certain sharpening, the shape of the main blade is wedge-shaped, strongly developed. The basal lobes are sufficiently or not sufficiently developed. The base of the foliage is heart-shaped, the notch is medium or deep. Medium serration, sharp. The petiole is medium in size, with long villi at the base of the foliage.

The flowers of the black currant in Memory of Michurin are of medium size, bell-shaped, red sepals, bend down, there are twisted specimens. The brush is small, about five and a half centimeters, the petiole has villi, medium size, rather dense, drooping. The axis is thin or ordinary, with a blush.

Black currant in Memory of Michurin has the highest immunity to minus temperatures, bears a large number of fruits, is self-fertile, usually it is possible to collect up to ten tons from one hectare or two and a half kilograms from one fruit shrub.

The cities in which the black currant of the Pamyati Michurin variety is cultivated most successfully:

• Saratov.
• Volgograd.
• Orenburg.
• Magnitogorsk.

Description and characteristics of the fruits of the Pamyat Michurin variety

Currants in Memory of Michurin are medium or large, approximately seven-tenths - one gram, round shape, all fruits are of the same size and shape, color is black, glossy, the peel is tender, but thin, there is an average amount of seeds, sweet to taste with a slight sourness, taste assessed as pleasant, tasters rated the taste of fresh fruit at three and a half to four points on a five-point scale. The calyx is rounded, medium size, half open, the fruit stem is medium in size. The fruits contain:

• • thirteen percent dry soluble substances.
  • nine percent sugar.
  • three and a half percent titratable acid.
  • one hundred and eighty milligrams of ascorbic acid per hundred grams of fresh fruit.
  • four hundred and sixty milligrams of p-active substances per hundred grams of fresh fruit.
  • three tenths of a percent of pectin substances in dry form.

Currant in Memory of Michurin: reviews of gardeners

Black currant in Memory of Michurin: photo of the variety

• Kristina Igorevna, Volgograd region: “I can say a lot about the blackcurrant variety in Memory of Michurin, the variety has more than enough advantages, so I will single out the most important advantages for me. The fruits of the Michurin Memory currant always ripen at the same time, and also at one time, even being not a fan of harvesting, it is always possible to collect a huge amount of Michurin Memory Black currant berries ”.
• Anastasia Mikhailovna, Saratov region: “There are four different varieties of black currant growing on my garden plot at once. Each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages. Undoubtedly, the high yield and taste characteristics of black currant in Memory of Michurin cannot but rejoice, however, the low immunity of the variety to many diseases, as well as the small size of the berries, upset. Despite this nuance, black currant in Memory of Michurin takes a worthy place on my site. "