The Institute of Horticulture of Poland has developed a dessert raspberry variety Skierka

Published 2023년 3월 22일

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The Institute of Horticulture in Poland has introduced a new dessert raspberry variety called Skierka, which is known for its good taste and high yield. This variety is unique as it produces fruit from both one-year and two-year-old shoots, with the first berries ready for harvest around mid-August from the annual shoots, and continuing until autumn frosts. The harvest from the biennial shoots starts in late June and lasts about a month. The Skierka plant is tall, medium compact, frost resistant, and produces berries that are large, conical, bright red, and have a dense pulp with a good taste. These berries are also resistant to mechanical damage and rotting, making them ideal for both commercial plantations and household plots.

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The Institute of Horticulture of Poland has developed a dessert raspberry variety Skierka, which bears fruit on one-year and two-year-old shoots. The new variety is distinguished by good taste of berries and high yield. Breeders recommend growing it both on commercial plantations and in household plots. On annual shoots, the first berries begin to ripen around mid-August, and the last - until the autumn frosts. On biennial shoots, raspberry picking begins in the second half of June and lasts about a month. The Skierka bush is tall, produces an average number of annual shoots up to 2.5 m high and an average number of root offspring. Young shoots without anthocyanin color in the apical part; older shoots are brownish-purple, of medium thickness, rather flexible, arcuately curved at the top. Bushes are medium compact. The variety is frost resistant. ...

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