Usually cherry berries are colored red or dark burgundy, but breeders have bred varieties with yellow fruits. These varieties are quite fruitful, adapt well to different climatic conditions, providing gardeners with a bright, juicy harvest.
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Yellow types of cherries: description and characteristics
Yellow cherry differs from its relative with red fruits not only in color, but also in excellent sour-sweet taste and higher yield. But the most important advantage is that yellow fruits are much less likely to lead to an allergic reaction. Bunches of sunny berries against a background of bright green foliage look very attractive, which makes cherries a wonderful decoration for the garden.
Bunches of yellow berries against the background of foliage look very attractive
The tree can grow to a large size - 5–7 m. The crown of yellow-fruited cherry varieties is usually spherical. The skeletal branches are strong and rough.
Due to its significant size, it is recommended to restrain growth through proper pruning and plant formation.
The leaf blades of yellow cherry are slightly elongated, rather large and pointed. The fruits have yellow skin of different shades and light flesh. The taste of berries is sweet with a pleasant sourness. The bone is easily separated from the pulp.
Among the varieties of yellow cherry are:
- early (Household yellow);
- late (Drogana yellow, Bryansk, Aelita, Leningrad yellow);
- sweet (Household yellow, Amber);
- winter-hardy (Dachnitsa, Leningrad yellow).
Table: the main advantages and disadvantages of sweet cherries with yellow fruits
| Advantages | disadvantages |
| Stable high yield. | Poor transportability. |
| Excellent berry taste. | |
| Large fruit size (5–6 g). | Cracking of the skin of berries with excess moisture. |
| Disease resistance. |
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Yellow cherry varieties
Breeders have developed varieties of sweet cherries with yellow berries of different shades - from light cream to golden amber. Some of them have blush.
Leningrad yellow
The berries of the Leningradskaya Yellow variety are painted in a magnificent amber shade, making tall trees with a spherical crown look very decorative during the fruiting period. The variety is late, the fruits ripen at the end of summer, but after ripening they do not lose their presentation. The trees have excellent winter hardiness and fruit rot resistance. The undoubted advantage of the Leningrad yellow is also the fact that cherries are not damaged by a fruit fly.
Cherry berries of the Leningradskaya Yellow variety are painted in a magnificent amber shade
Golden fruits have excellent taste with juicy and tart pulp and light sourness.The variety requires pollinators, which can be cherries:
- Dawn;
- Leningrad black;
- Leningrad pink.
Summer resident
Large cherries of the Dachnitsa variety ripen in mid-June. Their average weight is 6–8 g. The shape is rounded-heart-shaped. The very thin skin has a beautiful yellowish tint, while the flesh has a creamy tone and colorless juice.
Large cherry berries of the Dachnitsa variety ripen in mid-June
Backyard yellow
The color of the skin of the sweet cherry variety Priusadebnaya is yellow - amber with a light red blush. The rather dense pulp has a pleasant sour-sweet taste. The backyard yellow does not require pollinators, which is an undoubted advantage of this variety.
Home garden yellow cherries do not require pollinators
Drogana yellow
This variety of yellow cherry, which is one of the most common in garden plots, has other names - Late yellow, Bigarro Drogana. The fruits are cream colored without blush. Although the pulp is firm, the transportability of the fruit is low due to the thin skin. The size of the berries is above average, the weight of individual fruits reaches 8 g. Among the advantages of Drogana yellow, one can single out a high and stable yield, and the most serious disadvantage is its susceptibility to damage by gray fruit rot. Also, the variety is often attacked by the cherry fly.
During the fruiting period, the branches of the Drogana yellow cherry variety are strewn with golden fruits
Drogan yellow for good fruiting requires pollinators, which can be varieties:
- Bagration;
- Early Cassini;
- Napoleon pink;
- Denissena yellow;
- Gaucher,
- cherry Griot Ostheim.
Amber
The name of the sweet cherry speaks for itself. The fruits of Amber are colored in a beautiful golden yellow hue. The pulp is dense with an excellent sweet taste and light sourness.
The fruits of Amber are colored in a beautiful golden yellow shade
The variety is self-fertile. Next to the Yantarnaya seedling, it is necessary to plant other trees that will pollinate the plant. This role can be assigned to such varieties as:
- Ovstuzhenka;
- North;
- Iput.
Franz Joseph
In the literature, the variety can be found under other names, it is also called Francis and Bigarro Franz Joseph. The tree of this cherry variety has good winter hardiness. The pulp is pinkish yellow, sweet and tender. The fruit has a beautiful amber hue and is covered with a reddish blush. The following varieties are suitable as pollinators for Franz Joseph:
- Zhabule;
- Drogana yellow;
- South embankment red.
A feature of the Franz Joseph variety is a beautiful blush on yellow berries
Bigarro yellow (Denissena yellow)
The tree of this cherry variety has a wide crown and drooping branches. The berries ripen late and have a very delicate pulp and thin skin, so they often wrinkle. Because of this feature, they should be handled with great care and not transported over long distances. The undoubted advantage of the variety is the excellent taste and aroma of the pulp.
The undoubted advantage of the variety is the excellent taste of the fruit.
To get a good harvest, the plant needs pollinating varieties:
- Gedelfingen;
- South embankment;
- Early Cassini;
- Drogana is yellow.
General's
The cherry fruits of this variety have a yellow skin covered with a carmine blush. The pulp is dense and tasty - colored in a creamy shade. The berries are of little use for long distance transportation, but they are very tasty and aromatic.
Generalskaya berries are of little use for long-distance transportation, but they are very tasty and fragrant.
Generalskoy needs pollinators, so next to this variety of cherries, you can plant varieties:
- Ovstuzhenka;
- Iput;
- Tyutchevka.
Appetizing
The berries of the yellow-fruited sweet cherry are of medium size and heart-shaped. The whitish thin skin is covered with a light red iridescent blush, making the fruit look elegant. The delicate pink pulp has an excellent dessert taste with a slight sourness. The variety is capable of producing high yields annually and is immune to coccomycosis.
Sweet cherry berries look very elegant
Aelita
The color of cherry fruits of the Aelita variety is yellow-pink, round shape, weight is 9–10 g. The pulp is colored in a light yellow tone and has a sweet taste with a pleasant cherry aroma.
The color of the cherry fruit of the Aelita variety is yellow-pink, the skin is thin, and the flesh is very juicy
The tree is medium-sized, so the crown does not need intensive pruning. Aelite requires pollinators, which are varieties:
- Valery Chkalov;
- Ethics;
- Early pinkness;
- Annushka;
- Drogana yellow;
- Sister.
We plant yellow cherries according to all the rules
For yellow cherries, it is very important to choose the best place for planting. The culture requires excellent lighting and does not tolerate cold and strong winds. Therefore, it is worth choosing a site on the south side of the garden. Cherry soil prefers loamy and moderately moist.
The culture does not tolerate high groundwater levels.
For planting, choose 1–2 year old seedlings with a developed root system and 3–4 branches. The bark should be smooth, free from any damage or build-up.
The bark of a cherry seedling should be smooth, without damage and growth
It is advised to arrange seedlings of yellow cherries at least 3 m from each other. For planting, they dig holes about 60–70 cm deep. The top layer of soil is poured onto the bottom, mixed with two buckets of rotted manure, 100 g of potassium sulfate and 400 g of superphosphate. Then they cover this layer with ordinary soil to avoid contact between the roots and fertilizers.
The cherry seedling is covered with soil and compacted, making sure that the root collar of the tree rises 5 cm above the ground
Before planting a seedling in the ground, its roots are soaked in water for 12 hours, and then the root system is dipped in a mash made of clay, mullein and water. A peg is placed in the hole, a seedling is placed, covered with earth and compacted, making sure that the root collar of the tree rises 5 cm above the soil surface. The plant is tied to a support and watered.
How to care for yellow cherries
The main agrotechnical methods for growing crops are weeding and loosening the near-stem circle, watering and fertilizing.
Moisturizing and feeding
Yellow cherries prefer regular watering, which should be carried out throughout the growing season. Usually it is enough to pour 2 buckets of water under the tree once a month, but in the absence of rainfall for a long time, the amount of watering is recommended to be increased to 1 time per week.
The first 2-3 years of a young cherry's life are not required for feeding, since the fertilizers that were placed in the planting hole during planting are enough for it.
Adult cherries need both organic and mineral supplements
As the tree grows, it is recommended to carry out 3 dressings per season.
- The first is held in April. To do this, small grooves about 25 cm deep are dug around the crown perimeter. Urea (200 g under one tree) is poured into them, covered with soil and watered abundantly.
- The second feeding is in late July or early August. During this period, potassium sulfate (100 g) and superphosphate (300 g) are poured into the grooves dug along the perimeter of the crown.
- In the fall, before digging the trunk circle, it is recommended to pour 2 buckets of humus under each cherry. Then it is mixed with the ground and the nutrient substrate is watered abundantly.
Pruning and shaping the crown of a tree
Many varieties of yellow cherries are large, so it is advised to restrain their growth by pruning. Experienced gardeners recommend pruning the tree in the spring, giving the crown the desired shape. Shoots are shortened by about a third. This technique stimulates the laying of new fruit buds.
Reviews of gardeners growing yellow cherries
We had a straight joke, two cherries / cherries grew side by side, one yellow, the other red. So the birds ate only the red one, and the yellow one was always whole.
Drogana yellow is self-fertile, late - in our zone begins to bear fruit in late June - early July. For pollination, another variety with the same flowering time is needed, for example, Franz Joseph. However, you don't have to worry about the flowering period - all cherries, early, middle and late ones, bloom almost at the same time, and even the earliest Valery Chkalov and Aprilka can be pollinators for Drogana.
I have a dacha in the suburbs, 15 years ago I planted a yellow cherry Malysh and 2 more cherries for pollination. There are no self-fertile, there are partially, but very few. So my Kid grew up into a huge tree with three thick trunks, bore fruit every year, and in recent years birds began to pick all the berries - they recognized the yellow color and it was impossible to cover such a thug, I had to cut it. Now I form all the new cherries in the "Spanish bush" - they turn out to be low, fluffy - you can cover them with a net or an old tulle.
On the old site, we have a yellow cherry, Polish, I don't remember the variety, it withstood frosts better than cherries and plums, the main thing is to protect from the sun in February-March, their trunks burst strongly from temperature changes.
Drogana Yellow is my favorite variety - both fresh, and for compote, and for liqueur. But deleted. Each cherry contains a cherry fly worm.
In terms of annual yield stability, Drogan yellow is the record holder. If you work correctly on moniliosis and on a fly, then the berries will ripen to full condition and will cease to taste bitter. Drogana completes the cherry season with an indescribable taste and aroma of berries!
Yellow cherries are a real find for a summer resident. Unlike the classic red berries that birds love to feast on, yellow fruits do not attract birds. In addition, these varieties have excellent yields and are able to decorate the site, since bright amber berries look very decorative.
