Superlarge cherry
Characteristics
Before purchasing a cherry tree for your plot, you need to take into account the main criteria for its selection - when you can expect the first harvest, its quantity and regularity, the culture's resistance to both severe weather conditions and possible diseases, how it tolerates drought and how much it needs into the sun.
Cherry varieties Vstrecha has excellent characteristics. This beautiful mid-season variety with large fruits was bred in 1966 by the Institute of Irrigated Horticulture UAAS. The specialists of this institution N.I. Turovtsev and V.A. Turovtseva were able to get a new cherry variety by crossing such high-quality varieties as Lyubsky and Kievskaya-19. If we talk about the description of the fruit tree of this cherry, then it is a slightly growing culture of small size, which has a characteristic rather dense crown with drooping branches.
The crown of the Meeting is distinguished by an interesting spherical shape.
The tree can grow up to two meters in height.This cherry can bear fruit no earlier than three years after planting. Fruits appear on bouquet branches, as well as on growth that is one year old. Since the tree of the Vstrecha variety itself is sterile, it has pollinators, which are valuable varieties called Somsonovka, Lyubsky, Shalunya. The fruits of this fruit tree are super-large in size, and in shape they are flat-round. 
The weight of each cherry can vary from 8, 6 to 15 g. The fruits have a beautiful dark red color, rather dense, but thin skin. It has a shine and can be removed from the berry without any problems. The pulp of the fruit has a characteristic rich red color, and in terms of taste, it is juicy and very tender, it just melts in the mouth. The stone has a round shape, somewhat flattened from the sides, and it will not be difficult to separate it from the pulp.
During tasting, the experts determined that this wonderful cherry variety has a pleasant sweet and sour dessert taste, for which it received a high rating of 5 points. The content of nutrients in fruits is quite high - there are about 16, 8% dry, sugars - 11, 64%, vitamin C about 7, 6 mg per 100 g of raw weight, as well as organic acids - 0.8%. The ripening period of the fruits is average and falls in the third decade of the first summer month. The main advantages of this variety, for which it is highly valued by all gardeners, are its excellent yield - many kg of cherries can be harvested during the season, large berries with excellent taste, resistance to troubles that often affect fruit trees such as coccomycosis and moniliosis, increased immunity to low temperatures (trees are able to withstand even frosts down to minus 25 degrees), easily tolerate prolonged drought, fruits can be transported without problems over long distances.
Agrotechnics
Almost all varieties of cherry trees are not particularly demanding in terms of planting and care.The tree can not only grow on almost any soil, withstand weather changes, but also does not require good lighting, as it is shade-resistant. But, despite all this, in order for your garden pet to grow comfortably on the site and in the season to please its owner with an excellent harvest, you should still follow certain rules. Planting of the Vstrecha variety is carried out in loamy, sandy loam, loose soil, where the culture will surely develop comfortably.
It is worth noting that sandy loam soil has an almost neutral acidity index, so it is an ideal place for planting this variety. It is also necessary to be guided when choosing a place on the western, southern and southwestern slopes. Such conditions will help the remnants of melt water to freely go into the soil, and cold air will flow around the planted culture. The groundwater at the landing site must be at a depth of at least one and a half meters.
A hole dug for each seedling is made about half a meter in diameter, and it is recommended to pre-hold the root system in water for about 4 hours, because during planting it loses a quarter of the available moisture. During planting, it is necessary to take into account the fact that the root collar must necessarily be above the soil level, because the earth shrinks, and a special depression is created near the seedling so that when watering the water does not go beyond the edges of the circle. During the first 3 - 5 days, trees are advised to actively water. Mandatory mulching is also carried out using humus or peat.
When growing cherries, you should not make common mistakes - do not take into account the peculiarities of the climate, water the seedling a little and plant it too deeply, introduce untimely mineral dressings in an insufficient amount, not protect the plant from pests and unpleasant diseases. Proper care of the variety includes feeding the tree before the autumn digging with compost, applying nitrogen fertilizers in an amount of 50 - 70 g (the first is carried out after flowering, the second - after a couple of weeks), the rate of application of phosphorus fertilizers is no more than 200, it is best to replace potash and nitrogen mixtures with complex preparations. Also, the variety does not tolerate loneliness, so it is best to plant several cherry trees of a different type or sweet cherries nearby.
The use of bird cherry as a rootstock will help prevent the disease of the culture with coccomycosis. Shoots grow quickly on cherries, therefore, in order for the berries to be larger and the foliage to be healthier, the crown should be thinned in time. For this purpose, only those shoots that have grown by more than 50 cm are cut off. It is also important to remove the root shoots in time, which can later be used for rootstocks. If you ensure the necessary watering of the seedlings and regularly carry out all the recommended manipulations for caring for the Vstrecha variety, then we can expect the emergence of a strong healthy tree in the future, which will delight its owners with increased yields.
Video "Cherry pruning rules"
On the recording, the man talks about the types of cherries and how to properly prune each one.