Blackberry Chester gigante senza spine tardiva

Blackberry Chester gigante senza spine tardiva. Tra le Cultivar senza spine è la più resistente ai freddi invernali. Pianta molto vigorosa, con tralci assurgenti, di diametro elevato ed ottima produttività. Frutto medio, di colore nero che scolora con le radiazioni solari troppo intense, sodo, dal sapore dolce.

BLACKBERRY Rubus fructicosus (Rosaceae)

Shrubby plant, heights between 80 and 250 cm, with perennial strain and partially erect biennial branches and fruiting branches in the second year. The production takes place exclusively on fruiting branches. Persistent foliage, finely sunk. Excellent for decorating walls, pergolas, planters... Produce very sweet and thick black fruits during the summer. We have a different variety, erect or creeping shape.

Plantation: It can be grown throughout Italy, prefers loose terrain, on heavy soils add fertilized peat in the hole. The plants are placed in rows with a distance of 40-50 cm in rows and 200-250 cm between rows. It is appropriate to predispose one row composed of poles arranged at a distance of 200 cm of separation from each other and three threads which will support hooking to the main branches.

Cultivation: Rustic crop, requires little care, irrigation relief in the summer period and balanced mineral fertilization with sulfur prevalence in summer and organic fertilizer in autumn. It can also be grown in pots ensuring that irrigation is frequent and fertilize with slow release fertilizers or with fertigation.

Pruning: Pruning in winter the two-years branches that have fruiting and if necessary pruning the branches that grow from the base and they are one year old.

Treatments: In dry environments and recreational plantations are not needed anti fungal treatments, although two interventions are recommended the first and second autumn when rebuke vegetative activity with copper salts and sulfur to prevent the main adversities. on of juices and jams. Ripening from June to July.