Cherry "Bull's Heart": отзывы, описание

Cherry bones were found in places of settlements of primitive tribes, and its name ("cerasi" in Latin), it received thanks to the city Kerasut in ancient Anatolia 10,000 years before our era. In ancient times it was called Kerasutta fruit.

Kinds of sweet cherry

• Cherry is an ancient cherry, first mentioned by Theophrastus, an ancient Greek botanist, who lived in the 4th century BC. Today there are 4,000 varieties of this tree, which are divided into 3 types:

  Bigarro - this sorts of medium and late maturity with dense and juicy fruits. This kind of fruit is appreciated for their excellent taste qualities not only in raw, but also canned form. This sort of sweet cherry includes "Bagration", "Gaucher", "Dniprovka", "Zhabule", "June early", "Nectar" and many others.
• Gini is a more tender sort of sweet cherry, which does not tolerate transportation and is a table kind of fruit. She has a soft and juicy pulp and colorless or slightly dyed juice. This is early ripening of the early maturation period.
• Dyuki is a hybrid species of cherry, formed by crossing with a cherry. The concept of the Dyuk was introduced in the 17th century, when the first hybrid "May Duke" was derived, which in English means "my duke". At the end of the 19th century Michurin dedicates new varieties of Dukes, and then his followers continued the work in the 20th century. So there were such varieties as "Princess of the North", "Miracle of Cherry", "Night", "Nurse" and others.

Cherries are one of the earliest fruits that are associated with the arrival of heat and summer. For example, cherry "Bull's Heart" ripens one of the first in June.

Choice of a place and a ground for a sweet cherry «Bull's heart»

Cherry trees are thermophilic, so selecting a place and quality of land is important for proper planting.

Cherry "Bull's Heart" loves fertile soil, light in composition and not overloaded with fertilizers. It is important that the soil allows free penetration of roots deep into the soil, so it will not survive on clay soil and cold peat bogs, but will not bear fruit on sandy soil.

Cherries "Bull's Heart", the reviews confirm this, requires soil with good water permeability in a sunny place. It is better if it is a small hill. If there is not one on the site, it should be created artificially.

Another requirement, which puts forth the cherry variety "Bull's Heart", is protection from cold winds in winter. It can be, as a natural protection, for example, other trees, and artificial. Competent gardeners plant this tree on the south side, taking into account that next to the growing trees do not obscure it for a long time.

Planting of cherry seedlings "Bull's Heart"

Autumn is the best time for planting, so that it could take root in the new place of the sweet cherry "The Bull's Heart". The description of the variety, especially the tree crown, shows that it is better to plant several trees at a distance of 3-3.5 meters from each other.

This is done for cross-pollination, while you can plant different varieties of cherries or cherries, which bear fruit at one time. Planting seedlings requires simple action:

• If the planting of seedlings is scheduled for the spring, the pit should be prepared from autumn. The prepared pit should be at a depth of more than half a meter and 80 cm in width.
• The bottom of the hole should be loosened and fertilized with 1-2 buckets of organic fertilizer mixed with fertile soil, and in this form left until spring.
• Before the kidneys begin to swell, superphosphate (300-400 g), potassium sulfate (100 g) mixed with fertile soil are added to the prepared pit.
• Cherry "Bull's Heart" usually sits at the age of two. After the roots are sprinkled with earth, the seedling branches should be cut to ¼ of their length. This will allow the root system to evolve and form the crown correctly.

It is important to remember that pruning of the branches during planting is possible only if it occurred early in the spring before the onset of swelling of the kidneys. Otherwise, pruning should be postponed to the next year.

Care for cherries

Those substances that were introduced into the planting hole, cherry "Bull's heart", the reviews of gardeners say this, enough seedlings for 3 years. Fruit-bearing this variety begins for 4 years. Until that time it is necessary to "feed" the tree with nitrogen fertilizers, preferably urea. It must be scattered on the ground around the tree and dug right away to cover with a moist layer of soil.

For 4 years of life, fertilizers and water have to be taken out of the near-barrel circle, as the roots of the tree have grown. To do this, you can make a groove along the width of the crown, lay urea in it from the expenditure of 150-200 g per circle and pour.

In autumn, superfosphate (400 g) and potassium sulfate (120 g) are recommended to be added to the same furrow. It is important to remember that the cherry "Bull's Heart", a description of the variety to this confirmation, does not like both an excess of fertilizers and a defect.

In the following years, it is enough to add urea in spring, and organic fertilizers in autumn so that the tree grows well and yields high yields.

Cherries "Bull's heart" is very fond of moisture, so it is very necessary to water it during the bud budding, fruit ripening and in dry season.

Description of the variety "Bull's Heart"

This tree belongs to the category of medium height with an average density of the pyramidal crown. Its fruits are considered record holders among other varieties, since their weight is 8 g, which is quite a lot for this kind of fruit.

The color of the sweet cherry is dark red, almost black, the taste can be from sweet with sourness to very sweet. Cherries "Bull's Heart", the description of this variety confirms it, does not like wet weather with a hot wind, because the fruits begin to crack. This variety does not tolerate transportation and can not last long, but the flavoring qualities outweigh these shortcomings.

Benefits of sweet cherry

The list of useful properties of sweet cherry tops its low caloric content with a high content of carbohydrates. This is a wonderful dietary product, which includes:

• Salicylic, folic, malic and citric acids;
• Useful for the whole cardiovascular system potassium (250 g per 100 g of fruit);
• Iron, manganese, zinc, boron, iodine, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus;
• ascorbic acid;
• Vitamins of the group PP, B, A and E.

All this together gives beneficial to the body of the fruit, which positively affect the immune system, increase metabolic processes and lower blood pressure. For the prevention of obesity and other diseases, doctors recommend to spend unloading days with the use of cherries, kefir and mineral water.