Yellow raspberry - one of the most unusual cultures, which is not often found in home gardening. And it is absolutely in vain, since once having grown this berry, it is already impossible to refuse it. Yellow raspberry has several advantages over the red and black varieties. Due to the low content of anthocyanins (dyes), it does not cause allergies in young children and is suitable for pregnant women. Also in the yellow raspberry less organic acids and more sugars, making it tastier and sweeter than other varieties. This berry is suitable even for people suffering from diabetes. This article presents the most popular varieties of yellow raspberry, with a description of the taste and nutritional qualities of their fruits.
Did you know? Yellow raspberry is widely used in traditional medicine due to its rich chemical composition. Its fruits contain sugar (glucose, fructose, sucrose), organic acids (citric, malic), fiber, minerals (iron, potassium, calcium, cobalt, magnesium, copper, zinc). For medicinal purposes, both fruits and leaves of the plant are used, they are used as an anti-cold remedy. Raspberry syrup is used as a sweetener for bitter children's medicinal mixtures. It is recommended to use yellow raspberry also for intestinal disorders and poisoning.
Apricot
Raspberry apricot is a sort of yellow raspberry, which got its name due to the unusual apricot flavor of berries. The bush is a plant of medium branching, not spreading, the shoots are straight, with thorns in the lower part of the stem. The leaves are medium in size, green, without pubescence, moderately sharp along the edges. Apricot raspberry berries of a dull-conical shape, golden amber-apricot shade, slightly pubescent, weighing about 3 g. Contains: 10.4% of sugars, 1.3%, acids, 36 mg of vitamin C.
The pulp of the berries is sweet and sour, tender, with a subtle aroma. The variety has high resistance to diseases and pests. Agricultural cultivation of a variety involves mowing the aerial part of the shoots before wintering in open ground. Apricot variety refers to yellow remontant varieties of raspberry for universal use. Fruiting plant from mid-summer and almost to the first frost. The average yield per apricot raspberry bush can reach 4 kg. Berries are widely used in cooking for the preparation of desserts, jams, as well as winter preparations.
Amber
The name of the variety "amber" in English means "amber". It really characterizes the color of fruits that have a beautiful, honey-amber shade. The plant has a powerful compact bush up to 2-2,5 meters high. Berries of Amber variety of medium-sized, weighing up to 4 g, are characterized by excellent dessert taste and pleasant sweetish aroma. The variety is medium late, not repairable, winter-hardy and practically not susceptible to diseases and damage by pests. With good care, the Amber variety of yellow raspberry produces about 3 kg of yield from one bush. The variety is one of the few that carries transportation without any problems.
Fugitive
The raspberry variety Beglyanka yellow is not distinguished by super-yield, but it is the easiest and most unpretentious in agricultural technology. The shoots of the plants reach a length of up to 1.7-2 m, upright, practically without thorns. The berries are small, up to 3 g in weight, golden in color with an apricot shade. They are characterized by excellent taste, with light sourness and pronounced sweet aroma. The variety is early ripe, the yield per bush is about 2 kg. The main disadvantage of a fugitive is its poor transportability. But the variety has a high winter hardiness, as well as good immunity to the main fungal diseases and pests.
Yellow giant
This variety was bred as a table berry for human consumption. Raspberry Yellow giant reaches a height of about 2.5 meters. It has powerful, thick stems, requiring mandatory garters. This is a semi-repair variety, so in the fall the shoots of the plants do not need to be cut. According to gardeners, this variety is the best of all yellow fruit. In addition to the possibility of obtaining a tasty harvest, this plant is also used for decorative purposes to decorate arbors and alleys. It is distinguished by unpretentiousness, high frost resistance, and is rarely subjected to diseases and pest attacks.
The main feature of the plant is its juicy, large fruits that can be enjoyed almost until the first frosts. This raspberry variety is named Giant because of the impressive size of its yellow berries, which reach a weight of 8-10 g. Some gardeners managed to get walnut-sized berries. Also, the Yellow giant has a high yield - up to 6 kg from a single bush. The plant gives a lot of shoots, therefore, it reproduces very well. The variety has its drawbacks: the main one is that during processing the berries quickly lose their original shape and are poorly transported. That is, the variety is not suitable for industrial cultivation.
Important! It is very important not to be late with the harvest, otherwise the berries will fall to the ground and crumble, becoming unsuitable for consumption.
Yellow Dessert
Raspberry Dessert Yellow is not too different species description of the variety from other yellow fruit. This variety was developed in the post-war years at the Mountain-taiga experimental station in Primorsky Krai, Russia. The variety is early ripe, frost-resistant, can winter without shelter. However, if you still cover raspberries for the winter, there will be more quality harvest. Raspberry Dessert is moderately resistant to fungal diseases and pests. The plant is medium in size and about one and a half meters tall.
The shoots are thin, with weak spikes of light green color. Fruit branches are small, form an average of 8-12 berries. The fruits of Dessert Raspberry are quite small - up to 2 g, conical, white and white-yellow in color. Tastes are excellent - juicy, sweet berries with aromatic pulp. With good care, the plant allows you to collect up to 2 kg of crop from a bush or more.
Golden autumn
Golden Raspberry Repair variety. Golden autumn was counted as the elite in 2004. The plant is a bush, medium spreading, reaching a height of 2 m. It is a very winter-hardy raspberry variety that easily tolerates severe frosts up to minus 30 degrees. Young branches are dirty gray or brown, leaves are usually dark green, and young leaves are lighter. Golden autumn berries are medium in size, their weight ranges from 5 to 7 g. They have a beautiful, slightly elongated, cone-shaped shape and a pronounced sweet taste with a slight sourness and delicate aroma.
Compared with other traditional raspberry varieties, Golden Autumn is most rich in vitamin C. The plant has an average yield of about 2.5 kg of berries from one bush. The variety ripens in the second half of August and bears fruit until the first frost. Raspberry Golden Autumn is quite whimsical: it needs a loose and fertile soil, and its planting and care requires regular adherence to all agrotechnical recommendations. Otherwise, there is a risk of lower yields and deterioration of its quality.
Orange Miracle
The raspberry variety Orange Miracle is considered one of the best, thanks to its ease of cultivation. Remontant, universal variety, medium ripening. The plant is powerful, tall, medium sprawling. Light brown shoots, with slight pubescence and wax coating. Thorns are small, greenish, located at the bottom of the shoots. The leaves of the plant are green, wrinkled, slightly pubescent. Fruits reach a mass of 5-6 g, sometimes up to 10 g. Berries of bright orange color have an elongated conical shape, moderately hard, with tender pulp. Contain just over 3% sugars, 1.1% acids and 67 mg of vitamin C. In the southern latitudes, the yield reaches 2-2.5 kg per bush. Among the shortcomings can be identified poor transportability, because of which the variety is not suitable for industrial cultivation. The variety is light-requiring, the northern regions are not always suitable for full ripening of berries.
Important! The raspberry variety Orange miracle does not tolerate too humid climate, as well as excessive watering.
Sweet yellow
Sweet yellow is another noteworthy raspberry variety. Medium early variety dessert destination, which has a high yield. With good care you can get from 3.5 to 8 kg of berries from the bush. The plant bush reaches a height of no more than 1.6-1.9 m, medium sprawling. Gives enough shoots and root shoots. Fruit branches are quite large, on average form 15-20 berries. Fruits are oval-conical shape, weighing about 3-6 g each. The berries are light yellow in color, with sweet, juicy flesh and a pleasant aroma. Winter hardiness is average; in middle latitudes, wintering in the open ground will require shelter.
Morning dew
The raspberry variety Morning dew differs in short fruit branches, due to which the bush seems to be richly covered with raspberries. The shoots of the plant reach a height of 1.5-1.7 m, upright, with stiff spikes. Leaves wrinkled, bright green. This is a remontant variety, characterized by high yield. Fruits in mid-August and until the first frost. The berries are large, golden-yellow, about 5-7 g each, sometimes the mass reaches 10 g. The taste is pleasant, sweet, with a slight sourness. In the dry season, the sugar content of the fruit decreases, the acidity increases. Therefore, in the southern latitudes, it is possible to plant the morning dew only under the condition of abundant watering in a hot period. The plant multiplies rapidly, gives a lot of shoots, seedlings perfectly take root. Even when planting after spring you can get a harvest in late autumn. The variety is highly resistant to fungal, viral and other diseases.
Did you know? The Morning Dew variety, or Porana Rosa in Polish, was bred by breeder Jan Danek at the Institute for Horticulture and Floriculture in the city of Bziezdn (Poland).
Yaroslavna
The raspberry variety Yaroslavna is also known as Brusviana yellow and Rosyanitsa - a product of Ukrainian selection. It is a mid-season, remontant variety that grows well in all regions. The bush is a plant of medium height - not more than 1.7 m. It bears fruit from the beginning of August until the beginning of the first frost. The berries are bright yellow, reach sizes up to 3.5 cm. The raspberry variety Yaroslavna is characterized by high yield: from one bush you can get about 4 kg of berries. Tasting grade grade reaches 4.5-5 points. In order to preserve the plant in winter and get a high yield for the next year, the whole ground part of the raspberry shoots should be cut off in the fall.
