2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Admiring the abundant cherry blossoms, we invariably begin to draw in our imagination huge buckets with bright juicy berries. However, the reality is sometimes far from reality - despite the abundant and pleasing to the eye flowering, cherry fruits do not always give or give them in a minimal amount. Why is this happening, and where do you need to look for the root of evil? This question worries many summer residents, which means it's time to look for answers to it. It turns out that it's not just pests or diseases that can affect cherries
The absence of a pollinator variety on the site
This is one of the most common reasons for the lack of full fruiting of cherry trees. The fact is that the overwhelming majority of varieties of this culture are self-infertile, in other words, these varieties are simply not able to pollinate with the help of pollen from flowers of a similar variety. That is why in the absence of a pollinator variety on cherry trees, juicy fruits do not form, even if the trees bloom very profusely. In order for the cherry to bear fruit perfectly, it makes sense to plant several different varieties in the garden at once, and among them pollinating varieties must be present. So, pollinators for cherry trees of the Early Sweet variety are such varieties as Griot Victory, Nezyabkaya or Mayak, the Griot Victory variety will be happy to be adjacent to the Early Sweet varieties, as well as Zakharovskaya or Polevka, next to the Polfir variety, you can safely plant the Early Sweet varieties, popular the Vladimirskaya variety or the Mayak variety, the Zakharovskaya variety gets along well with the pollinators of the Early Sweet, Nizhnekamskaya or Mayak varieties, and it will not hurt to add the Early Sweet, Vladimirskaya or Mayak varieties to the Nezyabkaya variety. But for summer residents who do not know which kind of cherry grows on their site, of course, it will be much more difficult to decide which varieties should be planted next to the existing trees. In this case, you will have to be guided by trial and error. Ideally, there should be at least one pollinator next to each cherry variety!
Another option is to plant self-fertile cherry varieties that do not need pollinators at all. These include Orlitsa, Stoicaya, Generous, Ural Ruby, Mtsenskaya, as well as Shokoladnitsa, Mayak and Obilnaya. Feeling great without pollinating neighbors, these varieties themselves can act as pollinators for other cherry varieties!
Spring frosts
This is another negative factor that can adversely affect the fruiting of cherries. It's no secret that with the onset of spring, cherry blossoms quite early, respectively, its flowers can be damaged by sudden spring frosts that do not spare anyone or anything. To protect delicate flowers from them, some summer residents try to delay the awakening of the buds and the subsequent flowering of trees. To this end, in the spring, while the snow has not yet melted, the soil under the trees must be covered with a sufficiently thick snow layer. And so that the snow does not melt longer, it is additionally covered with light mulch, like sawdust or straw. With this approach, the ground under the fruit trees will remain frozen longer, as a result of which food will begin to flow to the roots much later, and flowering will begin in about four to seven days, that is, after the end of the frost.
Damage to flower buds
Unfortunately, vulnerable flower buds can be damaged not only by unexpected spring frosts, but also by severe winter frosts. Sometimes summer residents in the spring remark with surprise that the cherry began to bloom only below, and at the same time there is not a single flower at the top. This is direct evidence that only the flowers remained intact in the cherry, located below the snow cover and reliably sheltered from frost by a luxurious snow coat. As for the flowers above, they simply froze under the influence of the merciless winter cold. In order to avoid such troubles in regions characterized by severe frosts, it is recommended to plant bush cherries, the height of which does not exceed two or two and a half meters. Such bushes can always be safely covered with snow even before frost breaks out. Compliance with these simple rules will surely help save cherry trees from additional troubles and get juicy and tasty fruits at the height of the season!
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