The best varieties of black currant (Ukrainian selection)
Black currant on the backyard
We continue to acquaint you with the best varieties of black currant - in the queue sorts derived in Ukraine.
Black currant jam has long been considered the first cold remedy. Berries of the currant are frozen, they are made from sleep, compote, mors, cook jam, jams, make marmalade. When processed, they retain most of the nutrients.
There are a lot of pectins in currant, so it produces excellent vitamin jelly. And how great it is to collect a handful of fresh currant berries directly from the bush and eat them right away! Of course, if they are not sprayed with "chemistry" ...
The most useful and medicinal berries - grown at your dacha or in the garden near the house. Perhaps, the harvest will be modest, but environmentally friendly, obtained without the use of stimulants and chemical plant protection products. And if you plant a few bushes of different maturation periods, then your family will be provided with vitamins the whole season without a break. The main thing is to choose the varieties, which, according to their characteristics, are most suitable for your home or country plot.
Today, more than 200 varieties of black currant are cultivated in industrial and amateur fruit growing. In different regions of cultivation, they react differently to certain soil and climatic conditions and display their economically valuable characteristics.
The agrotechnics of their cultivation are also different, it depends on the indices of drought resistance, frost resistance and the ability of the variety to resist pests and pathogens of fungal diseases.
And of course, all varieties differ in terms of maturation, yield, taste and size of berries. If you grow a currant is not for sale, but for personal needs, a large plantation is not needed, it is enough to plant a few bushes of different varieties that could perepyllyat each other (for the currant is characterized by cross-pollination).
It is advisable to choose 3-4 varieties of different ripening periods - from early maturing to medium and late. Then it will be possible to feast on currants from the first days of summer until the onset of frost. There are "dessert" varieties, they have thin-skinned berries, they are recommended to be eaten fresh and ground with sugar for the winter. And there are varieties that give berries with a coarser pulp consistency and a dense skin, it is good to freeze them. This is accepted, but following these general guidelines is optional. For example, we always grind denser berries - then the vitamin mass turns out thicker and is stored longer in the refrigerator.
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On its site, we grow seedlings and black currant berries for sale on the market. About each variety that we grow, we can tell for a long time and detail, listing the advantages and disadvantages of each of them. But in this publication we will describe only the best, in our opinion, varieties of Ukrainian selection. Our farm is located in Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky district of the Kiev region (Forest-steppe zone), we grow the currant on chernozem soils. In areas with other soil and climatic conditions, all the varieties described can behave differently.
Opening day - early variety, we are ripe one of the first. Bushes are tall, erect, shoots are powerful. The berries are large and medium, at the end of the brush are small, round, shiny, the skin is dense, the flesh is greenish-brown. A very productive variety-about 12 kg of berries from a bush. A single Vernisage bush can provide even a large family with currant berries. For industrial cultivation this variety is not suitable - berries do not always come off dryly, and therefore are not transportable, they are poorly stored in fresh form. More suitable for recycling.
Jubilee Digging - one of the most productive varieties of black currant Ukrainian selection. Mid-late, but in our area ripens simultaneously with middle-ripening varieties. It is unpretentious to growing conditions, self-fertilizing, drought-resistant and frost-resistant. Compound-resistant to fungal diseases, but injured aphids (you need to take timely measures to prevent its colonization on plants). It is characterized by a consistently high yield. Shrubs are low, spreading, well retaining a lot of berries, suitable for mechanized harvesting. Brushes of medium length, dense. Berries 
large, up to 4,5 g, one-dimensional, round, black, matte, easy and dry tear off. The skin is thin, but strong and elastic. Flesh is green-brown, with a moderate aroma. Consumption of berries is universal. In bad weather (both in the rain and in the heat) the berries are kept on the bushes, but if overtaken, they can crumble.
Oriana - in our opinion, this is one of the best varieties of Ukrainian selection from the assortment of medium maturity. Bushes are powerful, upright, compact. Shoots easily hold a lot of berries. Harvest stably high. The berries are black, shiny, round oval. very large, up to 7 g. The flesh is sweet and sour, the skin is dense. The separation of berries is dry, the crop easily transfers transportation over long distances. Fruits are suitable for fresh consumption, as well as for processing. The variety has a high commercial potential, primarily due to the large size of the berries, this is surprising for consumers.
Sanyuta - a variety of medium-term maturity. Bushes are high (in conditions of sufficient humidity, i.e. with regular watering) or medium height (if not watered). However, excess moisture provokes the development of fungal diseases in plants of this variety. Berries are large, more than 3 g, oval, black, shiny, with a moderate aroma, thin skin and sweetly sour pulp. Fruits ripen together. In our opinion, mechanized harvesting is possible, as Sanjuta has short and densely placed brushes, and the berries come off easily and dryly. But the cleaning should be carried out in the shortest possible time, as the overripe berries crumble.
Sofievskaya - the grade of the average ripening period, has complex resistance to fungus diseases and pests, drought and frost, is characterized by high yield. Shrubs of medium growth, semi-spreading. The berries are large, more than 4, black, shiny, with a thin skin, very tasty, sweet and fragrant.
Ripen together, come off dryly, stay on the bushes for a long time, do not crumble even in adverse weather, transportable. To enjoy them directly from the bush is a pleasure.
The Kiev Giant - medium to early ripening variety, resistant to powdery mildew. The bushes are medium-sized, sprawling, easily propagated by layering. By the size of the berries, it fully lives up to its name - they are very large, one-dimensional, shiny, shaped like small lemons. Some berries can be huge, but the yield of the variety is small, about 3 kg per bush. The berries are slightly sour, they are best used for processing - freeze, make jelly, jam, wine materials, fillers for yogurt from them.
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Cossack - a medium-ripening variety, but in our climatic conditions it ripens on a par with the early ones. Self-fertile, not demanding on growing conditions, resistant to fungal diseases and drought, has a stable high yield. Bushes are tall, powerful, upright. The brushes are long, close to each other. Oval berries, one-dimensional, large, about 4 g.
Ripen simultaneously, have a characteristic currant flavor and aroma, easily and dryly come off, with a thin peel retain high transportability. The disadvantage of this variety is that the berries in the rainy weather very quickly begin to crack and lose their appearance. But it matters only in commercial cultivation, and on the plot this problem is solved simply - you need to harvest the harvest before cracking the berries.
Cherry mid-ripening variety. It has resistance to powdery mildew, anthracnone, septoria, and damage by the mite. The bushes are tall, erect, with powerful branches. Brushes are long. The berries are large, more than 3 g, round, shiny. The skin is black, dense, but not 
stiff, loose berries dry. Unfortunately, in unfavorable seasons the yield of the variety declines, as it has an average self-fertilization and insufficient drought resistance.
Kazkova - medium-ripened, medium-strong, has complex resistance to fungal diseases, drought- and frost-resistant, high-yielding (more than 6 kg of berries from the bush). Bushes are semispread. Berries are large, up to 3 g, one-dimensional, round, shiny, with a dry separation, ripen together, transportable. Dessert taste, sweet and sour. The skin even in fully ripe berries has a black-brown color - this is a distinctive feature of the variety.
Rainbow - a sort of late maturity, self-fertilized, complex-resistant to fungal diseases, is characterized by high yield. The bushes are tall, compact. Berries are medium in size, up to 2 g, one-dimensional. The flesh is sourly sweet. The crop ripens together, the berries do not crumble for a long time, they come off dryly and retain good transportability. This variety can be successfully grown for sale, as the berries ripen after most varieties. There are no "competitors" on the market at Raduzhnaya.
Of course, we have varieties of foreign origin.
They grow and bear fruit without causing censure, but the domestic currant still gives better berries - with a good dry detachment, larger ones. Probably, it is appropriate to recall the saying "Where was born, there it came in handy."
After all, it is known that varieties bred in the same or similar soil and climatic conditions are best suited to a particular region. So when choosing varieties, it is advisable to focus on this particular indicator and not try to grow very “foreign” and capricious. In addition, we should not forget that a good variety is only half the success, much depends on the gardener's hard work, his love and attention to plants.
© Author: Valentina LIHOVID
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Do we really know about the currant? For example, the fact that in the Middle Ages this berry was used exclusively as a medicine, then it was valued by French winemakers, and only then were gardeners tried. Tasty! We must plant!
Today in the State Register there are about 170 varieties of black currant. Each of them with its own taste tones, but all are rich in glucose and fructose, pectins, lemon, malic and tartaric acids, potassium salts, calcium. Well, how can you not plant a real bush with vitamins. If the hands did not reach earlier, then you can take care of the currant even in November.
Shrub wakes up early in spring, so autumn pruning is preferred. I remove all 7-year-old branches on old bushes, they are located low to the ground and practically do not give a crop. I lighten the middle part of the bush, remove all the weak annual shoots and side branches that go inside. I also cut the ends of the shoots with dried leaves. Branches after trimming are also a thing - I lay out strawberries on the beds to hold snow. Now it's time to tackle the leaves.
I am preparing the solution (half a glass of urea for a bucket of water), stir and spray from the spray gun from head to toe. And the next day I prepare a weak solution of potassium permanganate and also water the bushes directly on the branches.
For those shrubs that cause particular anxiety (bloating, growths, different spots), we prepare a special solution: for 1 liter of water - 25 g of Bordeaux liquid, pour into a spray bottle and mix thoroughly. We spray the branches, which then become a gentle blue color, like this we kill the virus that causes spotting.
Then around each bush of currant I scatter on a bucket of sawdust and I pour them ash on top.
Advice! If the bush is old, but the variety is valuable and you want to keep it, then make a full pruning in autumn, leave only a few young shoots, then next year the currant will give new sprouts.
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Since we became involved in horticulture, I give my wife for the birthday of seedlings of unusual flowers or fruit plants.
3 years ago bought a bush of currant Pink pearls, deceived by an unusual name. However, the purchase turned out to be a true jewel! If before the berries of red currants went to us mainly in processing (the fruits had a pronounced sourness), then the harvest from this bush is all eaten fresh. Yes, and it looks like summer, all hung with clusters of sparkling transparent berries, very elegant.
Pink pearls are one of the new varieties of red currant with unusually sweet yellowish-pink berries. Sometimes this variety is called pink currant. In addition to the excellent taste of berries, the variety is characterized by high productivity and resistance to powdery mildew.
The bushes grow powerful, spreading, so the annual sanitary pruning for them is mandatory. My first bush is already cramped in the space allotted for it, so in the future, when propagating the variety, I will give the plants more space - at least 3 square meters. m for each.
Get seedlings is not difficult: like any currant, pink is perfectly multiplied by layers or rooting cuttings. But after transplanting the seedlings of pink currant need a lot of moisture, so they must be watered.
In the future, care is usual: nitrogen fertilizing in spring and early summer, potassium-phosphorus - in August and autumn.
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We have been growing for several years with the same sort of Altai selection - Memory of Shukshin. Amazing variety, our seedlings were not sick, berries of wonderful taste with very small seeds that are almost not felt in the blanks.
In short, everyone was good at currant, but I noticed late that it is not renewed by young replacing shoots and does not grow seedlings.
This is its drawback, apparently, therefore, there is no longer a sale of this variety. Over time, the bushes grew old, had to be removed. No matter what varieties I planted, I did not like currants, and that’s all. There were large-berry vaunted varieties, but sour and with such large seeds that you can’t get them. But the biggest minus is that they are all affected by the gall aphid, which I never learned to cope with. By autumn, all the leaves dried up, and the bush died. Changed varieties - the same story. For this reason, many of us refused to grow currants.
But a few years ago I found a seedling near the fence in place of my favorite currant. By autumn it turned out that this is a currant, and I left it to grow until next spring. Planted in the spring next to the plums, I did not think that would please me.
But the currant very quickly went into growth, now this shrub 1,5 m in height, has grown, gives a good harvest.
True, the fruits do not exactly resemble my favorites, but also with small seeds, good taste, although they are small. The most valuable thing is that she is not sick, gallic aphids do not strike her, so I preferred her to all other varieties. Cutting her cuttings so far failed. Young shoots grow well, have already updated, carving old ones. Spring prikopal twig, I hope that it will give roots to multiply. In the spring of next year will be seen.