Black currant Sayan souvenir
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How to choose the most suitable blackcurrant variety for your garden? After all, every gardener wants to annually collect a rich harvest of sweet and sour very useful berries and not worry about whether the plant will survive the next winter or die. It is very important to study as much information as possible before buying seedlings and make sure that the selected variety is right for you: it is zoned for your area and high yield is one of its advantages. After all, these indicators have a genetic basis, and it is almost impossible to "tame" a southern variety in the northern region, just as it is impossible to achieve high productivity from a plant with initially low productivity.
Black currant Sayan souvenir is one of the five best varieties recommended for growing in Siberia and the Urals, and we will tell you about this variety in this article.
Breeding history
Black currant Sayan souvenir is a selection product of the MOOSSB of the Krasnoyarsk Research Institute of Agriculture. The variety was obtained as a result of crossing currants "Fluffy" and "Festival", and scientists VF Cherkashin, LP Muravyova, GA Muravyov worked on its creation. Since 2006, the Sayan souvenir currant variety has been undergoing state testing.
Black currant Sayan souvenir: variety description
Black currant Sayan souvenir: photo of the variety
Black currant Sayan souvenir is a tall, moderately spreading shrub. Young shoots are straight, plump, colored in a light shade of green and have an anthocyanin coloration in the apical part, there is no pubescence on them. As lignification progresses, the shoots become light brown, dull, and slight pubescence appears. The buds are medium in size, oblong-pointed in shape and light green in color.
Large green three-lobed leaf blade matt and wrinkled, the central lobe is larger than the lateral ones.
The flowers are medium in size, the sepals are a light shade of pink, the fruit cluster is medium in length.
Currant berries Sayan souvenir of an oval shape, with a thin black skin, wet tearing (that is, their skin is damaged during harvesting). Their weight is from 1.4 to 2.8 grams, and a pleasant sour-sweet taste is rated very high by tasters - by 4.8 points. The berries are very aromatic, have a universal purpose - they are good both for fresh consumption and for any kind of processing (drying, freezing, jam, compotes, liqueurs and much more). The yield can be characterized as average, from one bush you can collect from 1.5 to 1.9 kg of berries.
Black currant Sayan souvenir: advantages and disadvantages
The Sayan souvenir currant has both advantages and disadvantages. The undoubted advantages include the following qualities:
- Self-fertility and early fertility.
- Winter hardiness (which is very important for the Siberian region, for which this variety was created).
- The Sayan souvenir currant variety has a complex resistance to the main "currant" diseases and pests (powdery mildew, anthracosis, septoria, kidney mite).
Drought resistance is characterized as medium, so it cannot be attributed to either the advantages or disadvantages of this variety.
If we talk about the disadvantages of black currant Sayan souvenir, then there are not many of them, but it is still important for a gardener to know about them before buying a seedling:
- The thin skin of the berries and wet tearing during harvesting are the reason for extremely low transportability and very short shelf life (as a rule, they must be eaten or processed within 24 hours).
- The average yield may seem low to some, and no care can provide you with a richer harvest - we talked about this at the beginning of the article.
But nevertheless, despite some shortcomings, the black currant Sayan souvenir is one of the most popular varieties among Siberian gardeners, as it firmly endures any weather conditions and annually yields a harvest of large and tasty berries.
