Honeysuckle Cinderella: description and characteristics of cultivation

Honeysuckle Cinderella is a perennial shrub whose properties are highly appreciated by folk medicine. Contained in its composition, useful substances and vitamins significantly improve health and strengthen the immune system. Oily broth of honeysuckle is used for inflammation of the throat, wounds and swelling; When dropsy acts as a diuretic. Juice and bark of honeysuckle are indispensable natural remedies for colitis. The branches have antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties; Infusions on their basis are useful for washing eyes, treating rheumatism and polyarthritis.

Honeysuckle Cinderella: description

Variety of honeysuckle Cinderella was bred in the Institute of Horticulture of Siberia and registered in 1983. In size, the plant is relatively small - 60-100 cm; Bushes are characterized by a dense crown. The shoots are light green, thin, straight. Leaves linearly oblong, 2-3 cm long, located on short petioles. Fruits are oval in shape, elongated, with a thin skin, the taste is sourish-sweet, with a tender note of strawberry. One bush gives 1.5-2.0 kilograms of almost black, with a blue bloom of berries, which hold well on the plant and practically do not crumble. The average weight of each is 2 grams. The fruits of honeysuckle are tasty fresh, they perfectly retain their qualities when frozen; From them very delicious jams, compotes and wine are obtained.

Honeysuckle in natural conditions

Numerous honeysuckle flowers appear near the beginning of summer (in the second half of May) - a period when the leaves of the plant are not yet fully developed. Therefore, the honeysuckle of Cinderella is very much appreciated as an early honey plant. The fruiting of the bush begins in the second year of planting, in June-July. In natural conditions, honeysuckle grows in Japan, Korea, China, the Far East and Eastern Siberia. The most comfortable areas for such a plant that loves moisture are the outskirts of marshes, river valleys, tundras, seaside sands, and parts of floodplain forests.

Reproduction

Honeysuckle Cinderella multiplies by the method of propagation. To do this, the cuttings taken from the young branch are required to be cut at an angle of 2/3 of its size. Beforehand, it can be held for several hours in a container of water. Also honeysuckle (Cinderella variety) multiplies by layers. To do this, it is required to prick the lower branch of the bush, attaching it to the surface of the soil with the help of a staple. In the seed method, from selected quality fruit of the bush, it is required to collect the dry seeds, leave them until the autumn, with the onset of which, mix with moist sand and place in a closed container on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Moisture of sand should be checked every 2 weeks. In the spring, plant the seeds in a box with fertile soil, cover with a film and leave in a semi-dark place. During germination of young shoots, the film should be removed, and in September it is possible to plant the seedlings in the open ground.

Growth conditions

Honeysuckle Cinderella (photo see in the article) is quite suitable for home growing due to its highly decorative and medicinal qualities. This plant loves the sun, so it is recommended to plant it on light areas, protected from winds. Optimal soil composition: sod land, peat or humus and sand. Although in another composition of the soil, honeysuckle will please good growth and high yields. In natural conditions pollinated by bees, bumblebees. If other varieties grow on the site, pollinators such as "Blue Spindle", "Kamchadalka", "Tomichka", "Gidzyuk's Memory", "Amphora", "Sinichka", "Roxana" are suitable.

Honeysuckle Cinderella: landing

Planting of shrubs is required in early spring or autumn, after the end of the growing season. Plus, the autumn planting is that the plant has time to take root before the frost and with the onset of spring will immediately move into growth. Spring planting is not very convenient, because at the moment of awakening of the bush the earth is often covered with a snow carpet. Before planting the soil should be well fertilized with organic fertilizers, potassium salt and superphosphate. The recommended distance between plants is at least 1.5 meters, to avoid shading. Honeysuckle Cinderella is very easily transplanted: it is enough to accurately tidy it without damaging the roots, dig it out and with an earthen lump to determine the permanent place of growth.

Features of care

Care of the honeysuckle is simple: the plant needs regular abundant watering, weeding and loosening of the soil. In arid days and during the setting and ripening of fruits, the supply of moisture must be increased, consuming 8-10 liters of water per bush. This operation does not allow the appearance of bitterness in berries. Also during flowering, it is recommended to water the honeysuckle with a solution of ash (1 liter per 10 liters of water).

Once every two years, one bucket of humus is recommended for each bush. To stimulate flowering, honeysuckle should be supplemented with such preparations as "Aquarine", "Master", "Rastvorin" (for 10 liters of water, 20 grams of the drug).

Adult specimens of honeysuckle are recommended to carry out sanitary pruning with the removal of withered, diseased, damaged branches (in spring or autumn). Old shrubs can be rejuvenated pruning, leaving the trunk with branches at a height of half a meter from the surface of the soil. Thanks to young shoots for 2-3 years honeysuckle will recover. In the spring it is recommended to cover the bush with material to protect the kidneys from spitting birds.

With proper care, you can easily grow a honeysuckle bush, which will be a worthy adornment of the garden and will bear fruit for two decades.

Fighting diseases and pests

Honeysuckle Cinderella, reviews of which among gardeners are positive, is a plant that is resistant to diseases, but sometimes it can be affected by aphids. Determine its appearance can be a yellowing of the bush. In this case, the preparations "Eleksar", 0.2% solution of "Aktellika", "Aktara" will help. As a preventive measure, spraying with pepper, tobacco or garlic can be used. With a strong thickening of the plantations, it is possible to kill with a honeysuckle tick.

If the leaves have dark spots that become brown at the end of the summer and dry up, plantings should be thinned and treated with a 0.2% solution of "Aktellik". Also, this drug will help in the fight with the scabbard, attached to the bark and sucking out the juice of the plant. The darkening of fruits not yet ripened, their wrinkling and shedding can be caused by the honeysuckle finger, against which the drug "Inta-Vir" is effective.