Joshta (photo) planting and care: my feedback on the plant and the experience of growing
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Growing yoshty - many pluses and one minus, personal experience
Quite a lot of letters are coming, which contain requests for help in understanding whether it is worthwhile to tinker in the garden with this culture and with what it is eaten. Well, that's just a detailed report on this topic.
To grow, it is necessary to cut off
I want to talk a little about yoshte.
Opinions about it are ambiguous: someone likes it, someone doesn't, and someone just can't figure it out, because it just confuses the disagreement in opinions. This is the kind of doubters I want to help.
For me, yoshta is a favorite among berry bushes. But she appeared on my site eight years ago by sheer chance: she was looking for something unusual in the spring in the market, and I was offered a small bush of three branches, which was recommended as an extremely successful hybrid of blackcurrant and gooseberry. And I still agree with this opinion: yoshta does not have thorns, she has large berries that do not crumble after ripening (the leaves look like gooseberry leaves, only more beautiful).
Not knowing anything about this culture specifically, she looked after her the same way as for the currant. Planted the acquired seedling in a sunny place, in a loose ground. And the next year I tried the first berries. I note that the yosht grows rapidly, and some of its branches reach a length of 2 m, so shrubs need annual pruning.
By the way, after the planting, the saplings need to remove weak branches, then the development of bushes will go faster.
Flowers are plain-looking, appear a little before the leaves. To attract insect pollinators spray the bushes with water with the addition of honey or sugar. The most important thing is that there is no special care for shrubs. If, of course, do not count feeding. Every spring I make such a nutritious mixture: 300 g hydrated lime, 70 g superphosphate and two buckets of compost per each square meter. At the same time, I seal it only to the outside of the crowns, to the depth of the spade bayonet.
Since the yoshta bushes are sprawling, I tie up some especially overgrown specimens: directly in the middle I drive a 2-meter pole with a ring screwed to its upper end, to which I tie the fallen branches in a circle - and the berries are clean, and it is convenient to collect them. For two bushes I made wooden supports (photo 1). It turned out also not bad.
The only problem with yoshta is pests. My landings are occasionally damaged by the glass. Moreover, one can not even guess about the initial stage of infection: the caterpillars gnaw through the bark and penetrate into the branches, where they winter.
The next year they enthusiastically begin to deal with their black matter, and then the damaged shoots begin to lag behind in growth (especially this is noticeable at the end of flowering), and the berries that have become attached to them grow small and unattractive.
This "picture" can not be overlooked, but, as they say, it's too late to drink Borjomi. Remains under the base to cut all diseased branches and burn them (I do it for the transfer of the site, on the wasteland). I do not know another way to deal with glass bottles. Maybe someone from the readers will share ideas on this matter?
See also: Peach and yoshta - growing in the central and northern regions
Two methods of breeding yoshta - choose the taste
I reproduce ioshtu in a vegetative way. Separate branches peg to the ground, lightly peel the bark in places of adherence to the ground, then I sprinkle the fertile soil from the beds and rammage it. Then I slaughter a peg near and tie the tip of the pinned branch to it. And the next year I planted the roots of the bushes in a new place (photo 2).
I tried to multiply cuttings. I cooked them like this: I chose strong lignified branches, cut off the "blanks" of length 18-20 cm (cut places did obliquely), removed the leaves from the lower half and planted in the penumbra into well-fertilized soil humus, plunging into holes about 2 / 3 their length.
Such cuttings have got accustomed well, but long time were weak and very slowly went to growth. Then, in order to speed up the process, I tried to cover some cuttings with plastic bottles with cut off bottoms (but before that I darkened them with clay chatter and let it dry).
The result was a little bit better, but all the same time it took a lot of time to get a normal fruit bearing bush out of the cuttings. Therefore, I refused this method and now multiply only by layers.
What you can cook from yoshty
Mature yoshtas of dark color with a blue bloom. They hold fast to the branches, do not fall (photo 3). From them it turns out just a great jam. If one of the guests does not know, then he will never guess what it is made of: to the taste - currants, but smells like gooseberries. And I cook it in just 10 minutes. In a deep frying pan I pour the berries to half and weigh the same amount of sugar, put on a strong fire, stir. As soon as the sugar melts and the berries crack, everything starts to bubble - turn it off. Fill clean cans, roll up, cover until cool. You can’t leave jam unattended while cooking - it tries to run away.
Juice yoshty is perfectly gelled, opening the jar, get berries in jelly without adding gelatin. And what an excellent taste, color and smell is the compote of yoshty!
So I have only positive impressions of joshta.
GROWING YOSHTA - PLANTING AND CARE: FEEDBACK AND ADVICE
Synchronous harvest
Perhaps no berry does not cause as much controversy as this one. And the whole point is that some yacht dacha dwellers bear fruit well, but do not want others. Finally, it was time to understand what caused such whims.
All my acquaintances have ears buzzing about the fact that it's more expensive to communicate with a yosht, but I decided to put her at home. After all, all those who admire this culture can not deceive themselves and others. And after several years of communication with this berry I can share my impressions and experience.
So, I dropped two bushes in the far corner of the garden. They accepted well and began to gain strength rather quickly. And then they waved to a height of more than one and a half meters, and neither flowers nor berries were shown. Okay, I think, apparently, I was among those who were not lucky with the josh. But they did not uproot the bushes: firstly, they grow on the outskirts (although well lit) and do not interfere with anyone, and secondly, I have never complained about the lack of patience-there's nowhere to go, let them grow. Suddenly come to their senses?
As time passed, my plantings in the garden expanded. It came to the far corner, where the joshta grew. Next to her, I was forced to attach two old bush of white currant, which on the old meadow,
They began to wither away, appearing in the shadow of overgrown fruit trees. And then something amazing happened: in process of revival of these "old men" (in the currant instead of the remote, beaten life branches began to grow actively young, on which the flowers appeared without delay), the yoshti bushes also began to come to their senses, which also began to blossom.
And these processes developed synchronously. And it got to the point that last year I had already collected a bucket of currants and yoshts on the floor. And there is every reason to hope for more in the new season.
It turns out that the yoshta began to bear fruit not because its bushes have grown, namely because of the neighborhood with the currant.
You say a simple coincidence? I do not think so. And here is the argument. Between these bushes I planted in the year before last a well-developed, after rooting, a young brush of yoshty. What was my surprise when the next spring I saw flowers on it! I, of course, cut them off, leaving a couple of twigs, but the fact remains: the first bushes were not fructified for six years, and this one gave color in the second year.
One more interesting observation. Three meters from the yoshty, a black currant bush has long been growing, but its appearance was completely ignored (at least, it did not think it blossomed with this currant for the company). I did not notice the gooseberries and gooseberries, which I dropped on the other side, at a slightly greater distance. Hence the following conclusion: the neighborhood with both "parents" (because the joshta something appeared from crossing the currant and gooseberry) is not a panacea. So if this capricious will take an example, then only with the currant white.
So, dear holiday garden workers, if you want berries yoshty, then this is quite an achievable dream!
A.I. Celyadnikova
Yoshta or Josta?
This culture for many gardeners no longer seems to be some kind of exotically exotic, but questions about it still remain. Well, it's time to understand them.
I confess that at my summer cottage a lot of things are growing, but I am bored with dealing only with plants that are familiar and common in our area. You always want to buy some new product, especially if not only I have not heard about it before, but also my neighbors summer residents.
Therefore, I carefully look at the shops for gardeners and in the markets for the goods presented there. But I did not learn about the plant that I want to talk about now, not from erudite merchants, but from my fellow country workers - from readers.
It's about yoshta. After reading a few letters about her, I was eager to find out what kind of a curiosity she was, why did this hybrid of black currant and gooseberry conquer the hearts of gardeners?
She began to purposefully search for him at garden fairs, but all failed. Once I saw, finally, seedlings and bought it. But apparently, the sellers turned out to be unscrupulous and handed me the usual currants under the guise of yoshta, because it is very difficult to determine what is what by the type of cuttings. And the desire to grow yoshta only flared up. I even wrote to a gardener from the Baltic states after reading his article, and he sent a parcel with planting material. And grew out of it ... huge spiky gooseberry bushes with dark berries. I think that the gardener himself is still in error, what exactly is growing for him.
But, finally, in two nurseries I was able to find what I wanted to have for so long. Only in one nursery the desired culture was called “yoshta", And in another -"jost". Moreover, the description on the labels of these currant-gooseberry shrubs was the same. What is the difference, while I do not understand. Unfortunately, I did not remember when landing which of them is who. I think this is still one and the same thing, since the outwardly the bushes are no different. The leaves are medium in size, slightly larger than the gooseberries, but smaller than the black currants, and do not have its characteristic smell. The bushes themselves are medium-sized, not yet tall, as promised in the description of the variety. But the main thing is that it is really a shipless and cold-resistant plant. Resists frosts to -35 °!
By the way, I chose a sunny place for my newcomers to plant, although for a short time the shadow of a fruit tree growing nearby grows there. Since the earth is loamy, I put half a bucket of peat and sand into the planting dug pits (dug them 50 × 50 cm in size), at the same time adding superphosphate to the matchbox. The distance between the bushes was 1 m. The care for them was usual, as well as for all my berry bushes: weeding and light loosening of the earth. In the spring I added several granules of nitrogen fertilizer (urea).
The first berries appeared only this season, i.e. in the second year after planting, and so far only on one bush. The fruits turned out to be slightly larger than the currants, dark in color (almost black purple, to be exact), with greenish and juicy pulp, which at the same time tasted like gooseberries and currants, but at the same time having a light “signature” acidity. At the same time, the berries of the yoshta ripened later than is customary with her “parents”. This first crop was very small, so far it has not been possible to treat all its friends-neighbors with its curiosity. I hope that next year I will be able to collect more of these berries, which taste good, and there are no problems picking them. In the photo on the left are the leaves and berries of yoshta, and on the right (for comparison) - black currant.
© Author: T.V. Semenovskaya, St. Petersburg
Dear Tatyana Vladimirovna! It is enough to glance briefly at the Internet to make sure that the colony-shaped forms are inherent not only to apple trees, but also to pears and other fruit trees. And yoshta is the Russian pronunciation of the word josta (josta). The hybrid was introduced in the 1970s in Germany by breeder Rudolf Bauer.
"SELF-PROPELLED" BUSHES
My big garden brings joy. I adore all my pets, but I have a special love for yoshta. She has been growing with me for a long time, her sapling was given to me by a neighbor who thought it was some kind of elite thornless gooseberry. Later I figured out what it was and enlightened her too
The most pleasant thing in Yoshte is that it grows by “self-propelled”, without requiring any special care, and the harvest always gives a good one.
Moreover, the taste of the berries is just excellent, besides, they are well tolerated in transportation and when they are harvested, even when they are in full ripeness, they do not burst when squeezed with fingers. The bush of yoshta has grown so wide in breadth that I not only distribute all the layers to my friends and acquaintances. And no one has regretted that he planted a yoshta!
© Author: Vera Ivanovna SELEZNEVA Tomsk
"COLLECTED" THE CURRANT WITH A GOISBERRY
Traditional gardening has always been a boring affair for me. At first I planted ordinary vegetables in small quantities (if only for a family was enough), greens and herbs. And then I realized that this is my land, and on my own land I can grow anything and conduct any kind of experiments. I will tell about one of the most interesting, in my opinion, about the landing of yoshta!
Bet on seed
The name "Yoshta" sounds easy and fun! This unusual berry is a hybrid of black currant and gooseberry, a sort of culture for those who cannot decide which berry they love more. The first managed to cross so remote forms of plants German breeders. Vfcnexa they achieved in 70 of the last century.
I will not talk for a long time about how well the bush overwinters in our area, and that it is also resistant to heat and is immune to diseases and pests. What can I say: breeders tried their best! I chose to plant a variety Odzhebin. Since in our city it was hard to get yoshta saplings, I wrote out the seeds by mail. But from the moment of their receipt began the most interesting and difficult.
Stratification
Seeds need to be stratified. This process imitates their natural maturation under a layer of soil in the winter and spring periods. Some gardeners keep stratified seeds in the fridge, but I just bury them in the snow next to the house so as not to clutter the shelves. For the stratification of the yoshta, I took calcined fine sand, mixed with the sphagnum prepared beforehand, which has antiseptic properties, and with the seeds themselves. Poured the mass in a small box. On the 2-3 of the day, I wrapped it in a bag so that the ground did not dry out and left it warm. After that, he closed the box well and buried it in the snow. If you do this in November, by April it will be possible to plant seedlings in open ground.
Landing
The landing pit must be dug deep - 50x50x50 cm. Do not forget about fertilizers. The distance between the bushes I did the usual for the berry - 1,5 m. All care-loosening, weeding, watering. The soil around the seedling should be mulched with humus and peat. I carefully weed everything around the bush so that there are no weeds. The soil should be moist and loose. The bush overwinter without any problems, and begins to bear fruit in about 1-2 years.
At first, it seemed to me that the bush was growing poorly, but in the second year the situation had improved. In general, I really liked the berry. There were no thorns that strain so much in the gooseberry: until you gather, you will remain without hands. And the taste was softer than that of currants. So I will continue to cultivate my yoshta bushes and follow the harvest!
Note
After successful hybridization carried out by German experts, gooseberry and blackcurrant hybrids were created in other countries - Russia (Zvyagina hybrid), USA - Krondal, Sweden - Krom, Hungary - Rica. These plants have a lot in common, although there are significant differences in the shape of the bush, the size, weight and taste of berries, as well as winter hardiness and productivity.
The most interesting Swedish hybrid called chrome, obtained by crossing gooseberries with currants of the Karelian variety. The result is a fast-growing, very productive hybrid with thick branches, like a real tree. Therefore, they do not require garter to the trellis. In the first half of summer, the fruits of this plant resemble gooseberries in taste, and in the second - black currants.
Nikolai Fedorovich MARCHENKOV, Penza region, Nizhny Lomov
SPOTS APPEARED ON THE LEAVES OF YOSHTA, THERE WILL BE MOLD (IN PHOTO).
Two thirds of the bush are affected. How to save him?
Olga Tokareva, Kiev
Yoshta is a hybrid of gooseberries and black currants, inheriting the disease of “parents”. And one of them is powdery mildew, the signs of which are visible in the photo (foci of white plaque, similar to powdery powder). If you do not deal with the problem, the berries become inedible, and the bush may eventually die.
Control measures
In the new season, treat the bushes (before budding) with a solution of copper sulfate (75-85 g per 10 l of water) as a preventive measure.
One of the best and proven drugs for powdery mildew is Skor, which is used as a prophylaxis (before flowering) and treatment of the disease at an early stage. Effectively cope with powdery mildew and Topaz, Topsin-M (all - according to the instructions).
When the leaves appear and the formation of the ovary, the bushes can be treated with Fitosporin biofungicide.
From popular methods, a soap solution with soda ash is effective: in 5 l of hot water, dilute 25 g of soda ash, add a little liquid soap (5 ml). With this composition 2-3 times with a weekly interval, treat diseased plants and the topsoil.
To prevent powdery mildew on yoshta, currants, gooseberries, plant plants in a sunny, ventilated place, cut out old shoots in time and be sure to feed bushes with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers.
FORMATION OF YOSHTA - PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
I noticed long ago that Yoshta growing as an ordinary bush is unproductive, and covers a large territory. So I formed a tree.
It is necessary to break off all the shoots from below to a height of 70-80 cm, and when planting, put the stem vertically - this is the future stem.
My yoshta is 3 m high, 7 cm in diameter at the base, and the crown begins at 80 cm. There was a larger “tree” - 4 m in height, 10 cm in diameter at the bottom. But I, succumbing to persuasion, sold the plant.
Yoshta in our climate is frost-resistant and drought-resistant, more resistant to diseases and pests than currants and gooseberries, and gives a good harvest every year. Some recommend planting gooseberries and currants next to it in order to get more berries from cross-pollination, but I did not notice such a benefit, although cross-pollination always gives positive results. In the first years, it is necessary to carefully remove the stump shoots that disfigure the plant and take on part of its energy. I apply fertilizers at the same time as for currants, and of the same composition.
© Author: E. VERETENOV Krasnodar Territory
YOSHTA - SPIKING REBUS
Why do you, friends, ignore such a wonderful berry culture as yoshta? After all, this hybrid took from its "parents" - black currant and gooseberry - all the best! And this despite the fact that yoshta is considered some kind of exotic, since it received planting material from a gardener from the Baltic States. But the main thing is that since then there have been practically no stories about this berry. Therefore, I decided to fill the gap that had arisen.
In our city, it is customary to plant flowers, shrubs, trees near the entrances, under the windows of high-rise buildings. A neighbor from the first floor suddenly planted a yoshta. The bush turned out to be short, but every year it bore fruit well, and the berries grew very tasty on it. In general, I decided to take a stalk from him in the summer and plant it in the country. No sooner said than done. It took root perfectly, and by the fall I already had a decent bush with a height slightly less than the mother's.
Spring came, and I was looking forward to when the yoshta would bloom (in the city it bloomed with amazing yellow flowers), but my expectations were in vain: the bush remained without "decorations". During the summer, I did not particularly approach him, since there was enough trouble in the country without him. But at the end of summer, I gasped: the height of the yoshta has already reached 2 m, and its crown is 5 m wide! Not. not a single berry. And the whole bush is in thorns.
I looked at him, thought about it and said: "If you don't give me berries next year, I will uproot them!" But at the same time she dug in one small twig, hoping, in the event of its rooting, to transplant it somewhere in the corner of the site.
However, in the new season, a surprise awaited me: the bush bloomed, although the flowers were not yellow, as on the mother plant, but white. But that year there were a lot of berries on it. I couldn't even imagine such a harvest! And she propped up the branches and tied them up. But all the same, it was difficult to collect the fruits because of the terrible thorns.
And that dug-in branch also sprouted, which then bloomed and even gave berries, only a little smaller than on a large bush. But the most interesting thing is that the branches on these seedlings were no longer so prickly.
I was very surprised, but, I will not hide, with great pleasure I transplanted them to another place. And she cut and thinned a huge thorny bush - in short, domesticated. And now, in the fall, my entire freezer is crammed with delicious sweet berries.
But maybe one of the summer residents will explain why a thorny bush grew from the cuttings, and from its cuttings - practically without thorns?
© Author: O. Melyantseva, Smolensk
I SHALL FOR YOSHT!
After reading negative reviews about yoshta (a hybrid of black currant and gooseberry) on horticultural forums, I decided to try this plant myself. Planted a few years ago in the first half of September. This season, she harvested the first crop from two bushes. And here is the verdict: you should be on my site!
The berries of the culture are quite large (about 5-7 g), with a dense skin of a rich black-purple color. The taste did not disappoint either: the fruits have less acid than currants, they are sweeter, juicier, with an unusual pleasant nutmeg aftertaste. Yoshta bears fruit with tassels, the crop does not crumble. My bushes are about 1,5 m high. Their shoots are spreading, but without thorns.
By the way, Yoshta was not sick with powdery mildew and spheroteka, unlike the same gooseberry. There was no kidney mite, like on currants. True, the aphid annoyed a little, so when it appeared, the Iskra insecticide was used.
For good yields, I took an open, sunny place for the yoshta. Planting pits 40 cm deep and about 60 cm wide were filled with a mixture of humus (10 kg), superphosphate (150 g), potassium sulfate (50 g) and dolomite flour (about 200 g). The dosage is per pit. The distance between plants is 2,5-3 m.
One of the frequent complaints of summer residents to yoshta is that the bushes grow strongly, and the cat cries out for the harvest. And here an important point must be taken into account: yoshta is an interspecific hybrid, and for better yield, it is advisable to plant large-fruited currants and gooseberries next to it.
During the growing season, yoshta needs additional fertilizing: in April I add ammonium nitrate (30 g per 1 sq. M) for loosening, in June - nitrophosphate (30-40 g per 1 sq. -200 g per plant for embedding).
Yoshta berries can burst with a sharp change in weather and fluctuations in humidity, therefore, to maintain a constant level of moisture, I mulch the soil under the bushes with grass or humus.
© Author: Julia KUPINA, Belgorod region. In the photo - the author
AND AGAIN ABOUT YOSHTE
5 years ago, an article by T.P. Ogoltsova “Do you need yoshta?” was published. ". In it, the author talks more about the negative properties of the plant.
I am sure that yoshta is needed in the garden. The original taste of its berries differs from the usual taste of currants or gooseberries. The berries in the bunch do not ripen at the same time, so their collection is stretched. But this is not bad, since they do not crumble for a long time. And children love to eat them both green and ripe, but you can’t fool children - they won’t eat tasteless.
The yield of yoshta is at the level of traditional blackcurrant varieties. But its main advantage is its absolute resistance to kidney mites and fungal diseases. It has been growing for me since 1985, and during this time the plants have never been sick. In the “wet” years, when the gooseberries were black and completely inedible from powdery mildew, the yoshta fruits remained clean, although I did not use any chemical treatments.
Yoshta can be grown in standard form. I had such a bush-"tree". The height of the stem is 50 cm, the crown is about 1,5 m. It looked very good in the garden. There are no thorns on the yoshta. Those who collected gooseberries, for example, the Smena variety, know what a test it is. But harvesting yoshta is a pleasure. The mass of some berries is 5-6 g, up to 5 in a brush.
Yes, T.P. Ogoltsova is right that yoshta is not hardy enough. In some winters, the tops of annual branches freeze slightly. But this does not affect the yield and health of the bush. And so that the plants do not freeze, it is necessary, depending on the weather conditions of autumn, to pinch the ends of annual branches in late August and early September.
Yoshta reproduces well with green and lignified cuttings. I sowed yoshta seeds from free pollination, and now several dozen seedlings are growing in the garden. Maybe some of them will produce even bigger and tastier berries.
And the only pity is that with the simplicity of reproduction, it is difficult to buy yoshta seedlings. But I am sure that over time this hybrid of blackcurrant and gooseberry will take its place in amateur gardens.
© Author: N.F. Ladskikh Oryol region, Volkhov
POLLINATOR FOR YOSHTA - MY EXPERIENCE
One day a bush of yoshta caught my eye. I bought it out of curiosity fueled by conflicting reviews. The bush looked cheerful, and it was clear that he was going to grow and please with fruits.
I planted it in a sunny place near the fence, fed a lot, as a result a huge bush grew - 3 × 3 m, but there were no berries. Three years have passed since planting, four: no flowers, no berries. Although the bush remained vigorous, inspiring hope.
I read somewhere that white currants are needed as a pollinator. I planted a bush nearby - there are no berries.
And what do you think? Bloomed at last! Pretty flowers stuck around the branches, resembling something of a golden currant.
However, I spun in the hustle and bustle of summer business and forgot to check yoshta. Closer to August, she began to collect the last currants and at the same time decided to cut the cuttings: one of the neighbors asked.
Yoshta has a remarkable property - it is easily propagated by cuttings. You stick it into a damp place on the site, and in the fall a ready-made bush.
So, having looked around at all the plantings of currants, I picked up the branches of yoshta. Here they are, the long-awaited berries! So our conversation was not in vain. Plants are still smart and know that it is better to listen to a person.
There were many berries, even the neighboring small two-year-old seedlings bore fruit: apparently, they were afraid that they would be removed from the garden. There were many berries, and all large, the size of a grape. The taste is sour, but refreshing, generally pleasant. Just right for jams and compotes!
Yoshta does not get sick with anything, breeds easily, and the berries are easy to pick due to the lack of thorns. The only drawback is the tightness of the harvest, but, as you can see, I managed to agree with her.
Now I'm going to improve the taste of yoshta berries. They are certainly tasty, but sour, so I will try to plant a couple of bushes on the stones. I have two piles of broken bricks. Once I planted two bushes of sour green gooseberries on similar stones - the berries became honey! I have never eaten such delicious gooseberries in my life!
By the way, he never gets sick on stones: not a single cobweb sticks to him, which cannot be said about ordinary bushes that need processing all the time.
Now I want to experiment with yoshta.
© Author: Nadezhda KRYLOVA p. Difficult Mari El
YOSHTA: THE FLAVOR OF GOOSEBERRY AND THE TASTE OF CURRANT
Our personal plot is small, but there is a little bit of everything: grapes, blackthorn, cherry plum, currant, yoshta. The last one was 6 years ago. Then it was a small seedling, and now it has turned into a luxurious shrub. They planted a bush in a sunny place in loose soil - and the next year they tried the first berries.
Yoshta is a hybrid of black currant and gooseberry. It grows rapidly, some of its branches can reach up to 2m in height. The leaves are similar to gooseberry leaves. But the most important advantage is the absence of thorns. On young shrubs there are a lot of flowers that appear a little earlier than the leaves.
The bush does not require any special care, except for pruning. Three-year-old branches must be cut out, as the berries on them become less and less, the bark darkens and becomes rough.
To attract pollinating insects, you need to spray the bushes with water with the addition of 1 tsp. honey or sugar.
In a hot climate, like ours, yoshtu needs to be watered periodically.
We propagate yoshta vegetatively. Her bush is sprawling, so we pin individual branches in a circle to the ground, after slightly cleaning the bark at the contact points, and then sprinkle it with soil and tamp it down. Having hammered a peg, we tie the upper part of the pinned branch to it. Already next year, a rooted bush can be transplanted.
Yoshta and cuttings propagate well. In this case, it is necessary to remove the lower leaves from them and cover them with cut plastic bottles on top. But this method of reproduction is longer.
JAM FROM YOSHTA
Ripe yoshta berries are dark with a bluish bloom, hold firmly on the branches, do not fall off. They make wonderful jams. Tasting it, guests always wonder what it is made of: it tastes like currants, but it smells like gooseberries! Jam can be prepared in just 10 minutes! It is necessary to fill a deep frying pan up to half with berries, put the same amount of sugar (by weight), put on fire, stir. As soon as the sugar dissolves, and the berries burst and everything starts to bubble, turn it off. The juice is perfectly gelled, therefore, without gelatin, berries in jelly are obtained.
© Author: Lyudmila BALOSHOVA, Elista
YOSHTA - LANDING AND CARE VIDEO
© Author: Lyudmila Dmitrievna Belashova G. Elista. Kalmykia
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Live blackcurrant jam with yoshta
Jam prepared according to this recipe retains the taste and benefits of fresh berries.
We will need 1 kg of black currants, 0,5 kg of yoshta, 1,5 kg of sugar.
Cover the berries with sugar and put them in a cool place overnight. During this time, the sugar should almost completely dissolve, mixing with the berry juice. All that remains is to grind the berries with a blender. Place in small sterilized glass jars, sprinkle a little sugar on top, and close with lids.
It is advisable to store such jam in the refrigerator or cool cellar. If you plan to keep it at room temperature, then for 1 kg of berries you should take about 2 kg of sugar.
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Yoshta is 7 years old. The berries have always been healthy and clean, but this year they are cracking, not growing to maturity. Some wither. Maybe we overfed them with fertilizers or it was rainy weather and some kind of fungal disease? Help, please, what to do?
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You are right, the wet weather that has settled in the Moscow region brings various diseases, including fruit rot. Due to excess rain, the berries crack, brown rot spores appear in them. Now it's too late to fix something, it was necessary to treat the plants in advance - for prevention. Affected berries should be cut off and discarded. And be sure to prepare the berries for next year. In autumn, during the period of leaf shedding, the yoshta plant should be treated with a 7% solution of urea or a 1-3% solution of copper sulphate. They will destroy the spores formed during the decay of the fruit. AND
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Yoshta is gone. I planted it last year in the fall, and in the spring it was gone - it broke off 2 cm from the root. By itself, no one touched her. This is the second time this has happened to Yoshta. I planted it back in 2012 - the same story happened. What is the plant missing? Or does it freeze? Maybe you need to somehow plant in a special way?
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Dear Iraida Stepanovna! All currants are affected by currant gall midge, the mosquito lays eggs in the shoot, gnaws from the inside, then mushrooms appear in this place and destroy the shoot completely. Oh, how difficult it is to kill a mosquito, it is necessary to water the bushes with Aktara in early April. Therefore, in the fall and spring, I spray all the bushes with biological preparations from mushrooms and mosquitoes "Boveria", "Metarizium" and "Trichoderma".
Another reason is possible: wetting of the stem at the root due to high snow. This year there was a lot of snow, it lay on the thawed earth, a deep layer in many gardens caused suffocation of shoots. Perhaps the same thing happened with yoshta. This phenomenon is especially observed on young shoots.
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Grows in my garden and yoshta. Until I planted gooseberries next to her, she would give me a handful of berries, if not nothing at all. And this year I even mashed it and froze it for tea. It is sourer than black, but tastier for fruit drink.
The summer was hot, I only drank fruit drinks. Honeysuckle, raspberries, red currants, black - everything fits and it turns out delicious.
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I planted a strong healthy yoshta sapling three years ago. Now it is already a good branched bush with a height of about 1 m 70 cm. But it does not bloom and does not bear fruit. What is the reason? How can I persuade Yoshta?
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Yoshta does not bear fruit ...
Three years ago we planted 3 yoshta bushes in the sun. However, the plants do not flower or bear fruit. Is it worth waiting for yoshta fruiting at all? What is she missing?
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- Usually, growth to the detriment of fruiting occurs when the plants are fattening, that is, from excess nutrition, primarily nitrogen. This effect is obtained if you apply high doses of humus or other fresh organic matter. Try sawdust to reduce the nitrogen content of the soil.
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Now everyone knows that yoshta is a hybrid of gooseberries and black currants and that he surpassed his parents in many ways. The shrub turned out to be tall, powerful, without thorns (unlike its parent - gooseberries), forms little root shoots, therefore it does not require strong pruning. Root shoots also do not form. The hybrid feels good under the southern scorching sun (unlike black currants).
Yoshta can be watered less often, a glass case is not so dangerous for her. The hybrid is practically not affected by pests and diseases (I did not observe such a thing on my landings). Therefore, it is not necessary to spray bushes with pesticides, and we eat berries that are environmentally friendly. But her parents are often struck by brown spotting, powdery mildew, rust and atrocnosis. They are often attacked by a spider mite, which requires constant treatment of bushes with insecticides.
When I got yoshta, I uprooted blackcurrants and gooseberries (old plantings), leaving only 2 bushes of modern varieties that are resistant to disease.
But I tried to propagate yoshtu and not in vain. Another advantage of yoshta is that it begins to bear fruit on the 2-3 year after planting and continues to produce good yields until the 17-18 years. With good care from each bush, you can collect a bucket of large tasty berries, which are also useful. For example, they contain vitamin C in 4 times more than in blackcurrant berries. Yoshta berries remove radionuclides from the body, are a barrier to the formation of tumors and leukopenia. They are consumed fresh and processed into jam, jelly, juice and even wine.
Some gardeners complain that their yoshta gives a small crop of berries. I think that everything is in the right agricultural technology. From my own experience I know that it is impossible to achieve a crop in the shade, because yoshta bears fruit only in sunny places and requires potassium top dressing.
And finally, one more condition - to increase the yield, it is necessary to plant gooseberries and black currants next to it for cross pollination. Follow these conditions and get a decent harvest.
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Ioshta - a hybrid of gooseberries and black currants - became known in our country in the last century.
Today, several varieties of this culture have been selected, which are gaining popularity among gardeners.
Rext - grows even in partial shade and looks very decorative. Its fruits are black-violet, tasty and very fragrant.
EMB is a relatively small shrub with strong stems, resistant to many diseases and pests. Fruits with sourness.
Crohn - does not need a garter, as it has strong stems. The berries are black, do not fall even after ripening.
Yohini is a large bush from which you can get up to 10 kg of delicious berries. So that the fruits do not grow smaller, you need to constantly remove the root shoot.
Moro is a tall but not sprawling variety with aromatic fruits.
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I learned about yoshta from my aunt, who brought a glass of berries for a test. They were small and sour, but she praised them so much that in spring she brought me a broom from cuttings (twigs with thread of sprouts). The hand did not rise to throw away planting material - the aunt nevertheless tried. I handed out the cuttings to my neighbors, and I kept the most liquid one for myself. She planted apple trees in the most unsightly place (in the openwork shade of the apple tree), once watered with a stimulator of root formation, and forgot, engaging in more promising crops - currants and gooseberries.
Kustik quickly grew up, straightened up: I planted it at an angle, like a currant. Nothing hurted and the next year became a bush with openwork leaves. It blossomed amicably, the insects circled it endlessly, pollinating from morning till night. At the end of July, the berries were filled to the size of a large cherry tree, became gray with a whitish bloom. I tried them: the taste is sweet and sour, fragrant, refreshing, with a sweet aftertaste of currants, although it initially looked more like gooseberry.
Of the pests, I noticed only small caterpillars in the cobweb - I collected them manually.
The berries do not ripen amicably, they hang firmly on the hand, do not crack. From ioshty I cooked jam, which amazingly conveys the taste, color and aroma of fresh berries. After such a gift, I thanked the bush: cut out unnecessary branches, dug them, fed them with ashes. In the early spring she sprinkled with a weak urea solution, sprinkled over the overgrown manure into the drunken circle, drank abundantly. This summer it was already a blooming, fragrant, handsome man!