New varieties of blackberries may surprise you with excellent characteristics. They are bred by Russian and foreign breeders. Let's consider a description of the variety of blackberries Heaven Can Wait, its advantages and disadvantages, technology of cultivation, care and reproduction. How to protect a plant from infections and pests. When to collect fruits from bushes and how to properly store them.
- Description and characteristics of blackberries Heaven can wait
- Let's look at the pros and cons
- Cultivation
- Selection of location and timing
- Preparation and planting
- Further care of the variety
- Watering
- Trimming
- Top dressing
- Preparing for winter
- Diseases, pests and prevention against them
- Bush propagation
- Harvesting and storage rules
Description and characteristics of blackberries Heaven can wait
The variety was obtained quite recently - in 2013, in the USA. The blackberry bush is large, the stems are straight. The height of the stems of a 3-year-old bush is 2.5-3 m. Plants bloom in May, fruit harvesting begins in mid-June. The berries are 4-6 g, equal in size, black and shiny when ripe.
The bushes produce a lot of ovary, the variety is considered productive: 10 kg of berries can be harvested from an adult lush bush. The leaves of the plant are located so that they cover the berries from the sun, they do not get burned.
Let's look at the pros and cons
Cultivation
For a culture to grow successfully, it needs to choose the right location. And carry out planting in accordance with the requirements of agricultural technology.
Selection of location and timing
The site for the blackberry Heaven Can Wait should be sunny, but not hot or dry, the plant loves moist soil and moist air. You will need an area protected from strong, especially cold winds, because the variety is not frost-resistant.
Seedlings are planted in the spring, after the snow melts. The right time also comes in the fall, a month before the onset of cold weather.If the seedling is grown in a container, it can be planted in summer, in cool weather.
Preparation and planting
Saplings of the Heaven variety can wait, with bare roots, prepared for planting the day before. Cut off the tips of the roots, place the bushes in a bucket with a solution of a root formation stimulator. Planting holes are dug at a distance of 1.2-1.5 m in a row, leaving 2.5 m between rows. The dimensions of the holes should be 2 times the volume of the blackberry root system. Before planting, they are filled with drainage and a small layer of a mixture of the selected soil with humus and ash.
Sequence of planting bushes Heaven can wait: the seedling is lowered into the hole up to the root collar and sprinkled with substrate. Water and place a layer of fresh mulch on top, which will protect the soil from drying out quickly.
The best way to plant this blackberry is considered to be trench; in this case, it is more convenient to tie the shoots to a trellis and cover them in the fall.
Further care of the variety
The Heaven Can Wait variety is grown on a garter (on a trellis or a dense cucumber net), the shoots bear a lot of berries, under the weight of which the shoots often break. A garter will help solve this problem.
Watering
The variety is considered drought-resistant, but in hot weather, as well as during flowering and during berry set, additional watering is required. Blackberries do not like both dry and waterlogged soil, so the regime and abundance of watering must be taken responsibly.
Trimming
Bushes of the Nebesa variety can wait to be formed horizontally, since they need to be covered for the winter, and the shoots grow to a considerable length over the summer. Young shoots are pinned to the ground at a height of 0.3-0.4 m.
Blackberries are pruned every year, and last year's shoots are cut out, which have already borne fruit, are diseased, damaged, thickening, and grow inside the bushes. The shoots of the current season, which will replace the old ones, are pinched at the beginning of summer. After this they will begin to branch.
Top dressing
The first feeding is done in the second year of life of the seedlings. In the spring, add a bucket of humus, 1 kg of ash or a complex of mineral fertilizers. The second feeding is carried out after flowering and the third - in the middle of the period of fruit formation.
Preparing for winter
Due to the average frost resistance of the variety, blackberries need to be covered for the winter. The exception is the southern regions. The best material for shelter is dense agrofibre, which allows shoots and roots to breathe and reliably protects them from damage by cold.
Diseases, pests and prevention against them
The variety is definitely resistant to major infections, but preventative spraying will increase its resistance. The bushes and soil are treated in the spring with copper preparations or biological products like Trichodermin. When symptoms of diseases appear, more powerful drugs are used in a therapeutic dose.
Blackberries Heaven Can Wait are resistant to pests. But in order to protect plants from damage, they are also treated with insecticides prophylactically during the period when insects multiply intensively.
Bush propagation
Blackberries of this variety are propagated by rooted shoots: in early June, young shoots are bent to the ground, and in the fall they are transplanted to the site. In summer you need to water the rooting zone.
Harvesting and storage rules
Harvest the berries when they are black and shiny, but the pulp remains firm. Store in a cool, non-humid, dark place. Place in small boxes on paper.
Blackberry Heaven Can Wait is a promising new product that came from America, but is well adapted to Russian conditions. The plants are distinguished by vigorous growth and excellent taste of the berries.
