Sweet cherry "Julia" is a large tall tree with attractive and tasty fruits, it is very popular among gardeners of the northern regions and the Black Earth region.
Selection
The variety "Julia" was obtained at the experimental gardening station in Rossosh (Voronezh region) from the seeds of the local selection "Guin Red" after pollination with the "Denissen yellow" sweet cherry variety.
Did you know? Cherry trees can reach truly gigantic sizes - more than 30 meters in height.
Subsequently, the variety was zoned for the Lower Volga and Chernozem regions.
Tree description
A vigorous and fast-growing, adult tree reaches a height of 8 meters or more. The spreading, medium-dense crown is very well leafy, pyramidal in shape with slightly lowered branches of the lower tier. The bark is slightly rough or slightly flaky smooth, gray with a cherry tint color. 
Small shoots with long internodes. Buds are quite large, vegetative - long and pointed, generative - ovoid. Flowers with snow-white petals are collected by 2-3 in small inflorescences. The leaves are oval, elongated, pointed, with large notches and glossy surface, the reverse side of the sheet is slightly pubescent.
Fruit Description
Fruits weighing about 5 g (in young trees are larger - up to 8 g), about 2 cm in diameter. Rounded, slightly flattened laterally, the fruits have a juicy fibrous pulp and are covered with a creamy yellow skin with a pinkish blush. The taste is sweet with a barely noticeable acidity.
Familiarize yourself with the cultivation of the cultivars of such varieties as “Krupnoplodnaya”, “Valeriy Chkalov”, “Regina”, “Bullish Heart”, “Diber Black”, “Bryansk Pink”, “Iput”, “Fatezh” “Chermashnaya” and “Leningradskaya” black. "
Pollination
"Julia" is a self-productive variety, next to which a pollinator tree should grow. Good pollinators for "Julia" - "Revna", "Raditsa", "Iput" and "Ovstuzhenka." 
Important! Most cherries are self-productive and need a neighborhood of pollinating plants. For maximum pollination, you must have at least three varieties of cherries in your orchard with the same flowering periods.
Fruiting
Grafted to the antipka stock, the trees grow quickly, but begin to bear fruit only in the fourth or fifth year after planting, on infertile soils - by the eighth year. In adulthood, the average yield, the increase in yield is gradual. Skoroplodnost small. 
Important! Thickened crown - the enemy of yield, for good fruiting cherry needs sunlight.
Flowering period
Flowering occurs in the early average (usually beginning of April) terms.
Gestation period
“Julia” is a mid-late cherries, in the south it ripens in the middle of summer (end of June - beginning of July), in the Middle Belt its maturation may be delayed until August.
Yield
The variety is slightly higher than average fruit, usually the harvest is about 20-25 kg, in the most successful years 50-55 kg of fruits can be harvested from the tree. 
Did you know? There are many varieties of sweet cherries, but less than two dozen of them are massively grown.
Transportability
Fruits with dense fibrous pulp, provide high transportability of this variety.
Disease and Pest Resistance
The tree has a very high resistance to diseases caused by fungi.
At observance of terms of processing with plant protection products resistance to gray rot and coccomycosis - very high, the disease is not observed moniliozom. 
Drought tolerance
The variety is distinguished by heat tolerance and drought resistance while maintaining average yield.
Winter hardiness
Winter hardiness of "Julia" is high, both in frost resistance of generative buds and in tissue freezing.
Application of fruits
By appointment, "Julia" is a universal sweet cherry, it is suitable for eating in a canned form, and for eating fresh berries.
Did you know? Once the resin of the cherry tree wood was used as a kind of chewing gum.
Advantages and disadvantages
From the above, the advantages and disadvantages of "Julia" become apparent.
pros
- the density of the fruit, providing a high transportability;
- has a pleasant taste;
- high winter hardiness of generative buds and the tree itself - the variety is well suited for northern areas.
Minuses
- the tree is very large and too tall;
- low yield;
- small harshness.
Cherry "Julia", as can be seen from the description of the variety, is well suited for cultivation in the northern regions, but it should be chosen only for gardeners who have no restrictions on the location on the site for this large tree and there are pollinators for it.
