New honeysuckle cultivar ‘Sіnyavokaya’

Abstract

The article gives the description of a new cultivated variety of honeysuckle ‘Sіnyavokaya’ bred in RUE ‘Institute for Fruit Growing’ (authors: Z.V. Grakovich, M.L. Pigul). Variety selected by open pollination of Lonicera kamtschatica. It is characterized by early appearance of fruit (comes into fruiting in the third year after planting with two-year seedlings), winter hardiness (total degree of freezing in critical winters did not exceed 1.0 points).

The average yield of the new variety at 10 years old of plants is 2.5 kg per bush, which exceeds in 1.6 times the standard variety ‘Krupnoplodnaya’. The variety has nonshattering large fruit (the average weight – 1.0 g, the maximum fruit weight – 1.3 g). The variety is resistant to powdery mildew. It is characterized by high taste quality of fruit, tasting rating of fresh fruit – 4.5 points. Ripening period is medium. The level of profitability of cultivation is 140 %, which is higher than the standard variety ‘Krupnoplodnaya’ in 2.3 times. The cultivar has been passed to State variety trial network in the Republic of Belarus in 2014.