Honeysuckle variety "Nymph": description of bushes and berries

A unique variety of durable and unpretentious plant of honeysuckle "Nymph" will serve gardeners not only an excellent harvest of sweet and sour berries, but also hedge to decorate the garden plot. This is a fairly productive and profitable plant species, which gives a rich harvest for about 25-30 years, and does not require any special development costs.

Breeding history

This species was first bred at the Pavlovsk Experimental Station of the All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Industry named after N. I. Vavilov in St. Petersburg. It comes from a free pollinator of a variety called the Leningrad Giant. The title of authors for the breeding of this species was given to famous scientists - M. N. Plekhanova and A. V. Kondrikova.

Description of the variety

Honeysuckle "Nymph" - the brainchild of Pavlovsk breeding, deservedly bearing the title of one of the best varieties of durable berry bushes today. If you refer to a brief description of the variety, you can imagine a green shrub with bluish-blue berries, which have an unsurpassed taste. The resistance of the crop to low air temperatures is a distinctive feature of the plant, allowing it to survive not only cold winters, but also returning early spring frosts.

Bushes

The honeysuckle shrub of this species is upright and tall (reaches a height of 2 meters), has an oval sprawling crown with slightly pubescent shoots and large leaves of the same shape with sharpened ends.

The shoots are brownish-green, and the leaves are green in a dark shade. The main part of the sheet has a slightly wavy flat surface with a base in the form of a wide oval.

Berries

Excellent taste qualities of berries of this honeysuckle variety are presented. combination of sour and sweet taste with a certain hint of astringency, giving refinement and extraordinary fruit. Large spindle-shaped or ellipsoidal blue berries with a slight amethyst shade, as well as a waxy bloom of dense density, will delight gardeners with their appearance at the end of June.

The advantage of honeysuckle "Nymph" is a reliable attachment of fruits to the branches, which allows them not to crumble for a long time and delay harvesting (in case of lack of time).

Specifications

Fruit ripening period: late (end of June).

Bush: medium (1.5-1.7 m) and tall (1.7-2 m) with a thick oval crown.

Shoots: long and straight, slightly pubescent.

Leaves: large, elongated oval shape with a wide-round base and pointed ends.

Berries:

• average weight - 1.6 g, maximum - 3 g;
• shape and size: ellipsoidal-elongated / spindle-shaped form (average length of a berry is 28-30 mm, diameter is approximately 10 mm);
• surface: bumpy;
• taste characteristics: a pronounced sweet-sour taste and rich pleasant aroma;
• pulp structure: fibrous.

The maximum yield reaches 3 kg per bush. Skoroplodnost enough developed: the plant gives a harvest for the 3-4th year after planting and gives birth for 25-30 years. Features: high cold resistance.

Where to plant honeysuckle?

Due to its uncomplicated nature, the plant develops well after planting even in the spring-summer period, however, except for May and June (when there is an active growth of shoots). Still, gardeners recommend mid-fall (late September-October) as the best period to start development.

Since the plant loves the light, then you need to plant it on well lit and even better sunny areas of the garden, with loamy soil of neutral composition (mainly clay, sand).

How to care for a grade

The unique dessert variety of honeysuckle "Nymph" - kind of durable shrub with edible berries, not requiring special conditions for planting and its further development. Since the “Nymph” requires pollinating neighbors for its fruitfulness, the best varieties will be such varieties of honeysuckle, such as “Amfora”, “Chosen One”, “Pavlovskaya”, and also “In Memory of Gijuk.” Having provided a sunny part of the garden for the plant as a home, as well as abundant watering in the summer, you can see the positive results of your work in the very first years after planting.

Watering and soil care

Planted seedlings of this type of edible honeysuckle better before the onset of cold weather so that the plant has managed to take root and in the future normally endure the cold season. Landing sites should be well lit and protected from the wind, and the soil has been prepared beforehand: dug up and neutralized with lime materials.If rotted, broken or dry roots are found on the seedling, they must be removed, and their average length for planting should not exceed 30 cm.

Dimensions of landing holes in each individual case they depend on the size of the rhizomes themselves, but on average these characteristics are as follows: 0.4 x 0.4 m. A small mound is formed in the hole from the upper fertile soil layer where the seedling is placed, gently straightening the roots on an inclined plane in different directions , and fall asleep with the rest of the ground above. The depth of the root of the plant should not exceed 3-5 cm from the surface of the site. Well-compacted soil around a young shrub should immediately be poured abundantly, and then mulched.

It should be noted that in the process of plant growth, special attention should be paid maintaining soil moisture levels in which the plant develops, as insufficient watering affects the taste and quantity of fruits.

In the not hot period with an average rainy level, the number of crop irrigations should reach 3-4 times per season at a rate of 10-12 liters per bush.In late spring, when the weather is hot and dry, watering should be increased.

Top dressing

The first couple of years after planting, the plant does not need additional feeding, since the nutrients with which the composition of the upper fertile soil is saturated are quite enough for it. After that, the nymph honeysuckle begins to require additional care, for which organic substances are well suited: manure in rotted form, humus or compost. In spring, before the buds swell, the plant is fed 15 g of ammonium nitrate per square meter of land or 30 g of urea under a shrub. These substances are diluted with water.

Pruning

Pruning a plant is done after the crown begins to thicken, the plant's lifetime is about 3–4 years after planting. It is necessary to start pruning from zero stems (growing from the ground), then remove sick, dried, broken, short branches in turn. Pruning contributes to a better penetration of sunlight, making the plant better fruit. The processes of removal of excess branches are carried out mainly in the fall, and in the spring the sick parts of the plant are removed by frost and beaten (the so-called sanitary pruning after wintering).

Pest and disease control

This type of honeysuckle is well resistant to diseases and pests, despite the fact that it is affected by them no more than their own long-lasting similar shrubs. Among the insects that interfere with the normal development of honeysuckle "Nymph" include the following:

• creeper caterpillars (destroy the tops of young shoots and leaves during the period of ripening berries);
• fingerfly caterpillars (fed with seeds inside the berries);
• aphid (feeds on the juice contained in the leaves of the plant);
• willow shchitovka (sucking the juice from the honeysuckle bark).

A good tool in the fight against these pests are insecticides, for example, "Inta-Vir", "Alexar", "Fitoverm", "Agravertin" and others. Powdery mildew is the only disease that can befall the plant. But, using the solution of the microbiological antibacterial drug "Fitosporin", you can completely forget about this problem.

Wintering "Nymphs"

This variety of honeysuckle has high cold resistance that allows him to safely endure frosts, as well as develop in extreme conditions. In order to facilitate this process, it is possible to fertilize the soil with a mixture of compost, ash and superphosphate before the arrival of winter in the following proportions: 5 kg: 100 g: 40 g. The indicated amount is calculated per square meter of land.

The advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Among positive qualities inherent in this variety, the following can be called:

• high frost resistance;
• slow shedding;
• abundant yield;
• unusual taste of berries.

The main disadvantage of honeysuckle "Nymph", according to gardeners, is its tendency to rapid thickening of the crown.

After harvesting, it is necessary to be extremely careful when harvesting, as the skin on the berries is very thin, and damage to it can affect the taste. Moreover, fresh picked berries are not able to persist for more than a couple of days, even at cold temperatures. To delay the harvest and serves it high resistance to fall: you can even pick fruit a week after ripening, and then immediately use it or process it for other products. This dessert kind of honeysuckle - unpretentious in planting and care, it only requires adherence to some of the rules described above. Like any living creature, the “Nymph” honeysuckle is very responsive to care and care, so that with sufficient attention, the high yield and unique decorativeness of the plant are provided for both experienced gardeners and beginners.