Raspberry Atlant: variety description and characteristics, planting and propagation technology

Remontant types of berry crops have gained popularity among gardeners because you can enjoy their fruits all season long. Many plant hybrids have been bred, among which the description of the Atlant raspberry variety is interesting. Given the positive qualities of the crop, you can breed it on your site, getting harvests of delicious berries every year.

Description and characteristics of raspberries

Before choosing raspberry seedlings, you need to familiarize yourself with the characteristics of the variety. For a gardener, it is important that the plant is unpretentious, well tolerated by a decrease in air temperature. It is also necessary to pay attention to the resistance of the hybrid to diseases.

Yields

A distinctive feature of the raspberry Atlant is its high yield. Berries are picked for the first time in mid-summer, July. Harvest ripens on biennial shoots. The second harvest takes place in August. They ripen on shoots that appear in the spring. If you properly care for the bushes, you can collect 3-4 kilograms of juicy and sweet raspberries from the bush.

Description of the bush and berries

Remontant raspberry variety Atlant has:

• weak spreading bushes;
• developed root system;
• shoot height up to 1.6 meters;
• thorns on the branches at the bottom of the bush;
• dark olive color of young shoots, and old ones with a slight wax coating;
• large dark green leaves, wrinkled, with jagged edges;
• berries dark red with a glossy sheen.

Raspberry fruits of an elongated oval shape grow up to 6-8 grams each. The pulp contains more sugar than acid. Tasters give 4.2 points to the taste of berries. When ripe, raspberries do not crumble, hold firmly on the branches.

Resistant to diseases and pests

Summer residents growing Atlant raspberries on the site note that the variety rarely gets sick with fungal and viral infections. To protect the bushes from the attack of pathogenic microorganisms and pests, it is necessary to carry out preventive measures on time, to properly care for the crop.

Frost resistance

The variety tolerates winters with severe frosts and heavy snowfalls. But in the steppe regions with little snow, it is necessary to cover the shoots, after bending them to the ground.Straw, spruce branches are used as the material. If pruning of bushes is carried out in the fall, then you can not cover the plantation. The roots tolerate cold snap successfully.

And the variety is resistant to drought, as the root system of the plant is branched, powerful. The only thing is that the berries will be small and sour.

Use

Juicy raspberries fit for:

• fresh use;
• drying;
• preparing jams, compotes;
• freeze.

Stability of crops, high transportability and presentation of the fruit allow you to choose a crop for growing on an industrial scale.

Advantages and disadvantages of the Atlant variety

The positive feature of the berry plant is that it:

• does not need a garter;
• tolerates heat and drought well;
• fruits until frost all summer with a short break;
• does not require special care;
• yields the first year after planting.

Raspberry fruits do not fall to the ground when ripe, but stay firmly on the bushes. They rarely rot, lose their shape. They can be transported over long distances.

The disadvantages of the hybrid are that the taste of the berries is inferior to the usual, non-remontant types of raspberries. Although the plant itself is pollinated, but for a better setting of berries, other varieties of raspberries should be planted nearby.

Rules for growing raspberries

The laying of a plantation of remontant raspberries must be carried out competently and on time. Proper planting is important for the further development and growth of the crop, it plays a role in obtaining high yields.

Date of planting

The time for disembarkation is chosen depending on the climate. In the south, seedlings can be placed in open ground in the fall. The late start of winter will allow the raspberries to get stronger, adapt and start growing.

In Siberia, in the Urals, in central Russia, it is better to plant a remontant hybrid Atlant in the spring. Over the summer, the bushes will have time to grow up, to be fed with useful microelements. Then they will survive the winter successfully.

How to correctly choose seedlings when buying

For cultivation, one-year-old seedlings are purchased, in which the thickness of the stem at the bottom of the root collar reaches 0.8-1.2 centimeters. Shoots should be:

• no damage;
• with 4-5 kidneys;
• with roots moist without rot, cracks.

If the roots are long, then they are cut off. Their length during landing is at the level of 10-15 centimeters. Acquired shoots are shortened to 15-20 centimeters before planting.

Selecting and preparing a site

You should be careful about choosing a site for a plantation of remontant raspberries. After all, in one place the plant will develop for 12 years. It is necessary to pay attention to sufficient lighting of the site. You can stop the choice in the penumbra. Raspberries do not like drafts and direct sunlight. The groundwater level should be 1.5 meters. Only then will the crop receive enough moisture, which is important for it.

The soil is cleared of weeds. Creeping couch grass and sow thistle have a particularly detrimental effect on the growth of berries. One month before planting, they dig up or plow a plot 30-35 centimeters deep. Before that, up to 5-6 kilograms of manure, 30-40 grams of superphosphate are scattered per square meter.Acidic soils need neutralization with ground limestone (0.2 kilograms).

It is better to carry out work in the fall, and after the snow melts, add 15-20 grams of ammonium nitrate for cultivation.

Process and scheme

There are several ways to plant Atlant raspberry shoots:

1. Seedlings are placed in trenches at a distance of 90 centimeters from each other. Rows are laid at 1.5 meter intervals.
2. Nests are made in the size of 35 x 35 x 30 centimeters. 2-3 seedlings are placed in each. This is how you get a strong bush that bears fruit well.
3. Curtains have groups of seedlings of 2-3 each with a distance of 60-70 centimeters.
4. Use a triangular fit, placing the raspberries at the corners. The sides of the figure are 0.5 meters.

It is better to plant plants vertically so that the surface roots are located at a depth of 4-5 centimeters. Holding the shoot of the culture with the right hand, fill the hole with the left. Then they compact the soil and water the plantation.

Subtleties of plant care

To achieve the optimal ripening time for raspberry Atlant, it must be properly looked after. Agrotechnical measures taken in a timely manner will help plants to be resistant to natural disasters and diseases.

Water and fertilize

Moisturize plantings of berry crops abundantly in the first year. Although the Atlanta variety is drought-resistant, the fruits will be small and dry if the plants do not have enough moisture. Therefore, they are watered 3 to 5 times per season. For each bush use 2-3 buckets of water. If the site is mulched, then 3-4 buckets per square meter are enough.

Berry yields rise when fertilizer is applied annually. In early spring, it is necessary to feed with ammonium nitrate. 15-20 grams are bred in half a bucket of water and watered the bushes.

Before ripening, raspberries need to be watered with a solution of slurry. From mineral fertilizers, you can take potash s alt (15 grams), s altpeter (10 grams) in a bucket of water. It is permissible to replace potassium s alt with 30-50 grams of wood ash.

After picking berries in autumn, top dressing of raspberry bushes consists of superphosphate and potassium s alt.

Weeding and loosening

Weeding a plantation of remontant raspberries should be done regularly, do not wait until it is overgrown with weeds. In the summer 4-5 times, row spacing is processed to a depth of 5-7 centimeters.

It is necessary to loosen the soil on the plantation after heavy rains and watering. If the soil is too dense, then the roots will not receive nutrition, air.

Mulching plants

In dry areas, it is advisable to mulch the entire raspberry plantation. Lay mulch with ribbons, filling rows of plants with a layer 8-10 centimeters thick, up to 70 wide. Usually manure, humus, tops of garden plants are used. Spread the mulch in a timely manner on moist, weed-free ground. In spring or autumn, they dig up the layers, embedding them in the soil.This will solve the problem of top dressing. And the mulched rows need to be watered less.

Cutting

The bushes are formed by removing shoots annually. In the 3-4th year of a raspberry's life, up to 15 shoots are formed in it, not counting the fruiting ones. The rest are cut at the base. Removal is carried out by those offspring that are weak, densely located to each other. In June, before flowering, the rationing of the bush is necessary. Strong offspring leave 12-15 pieces so that they are 15-20 centimeters apart from each other.

Old bushes are gradually replaced by young ones formed from root shoots.

Preparing for winter

Remontant raspberries are pruned before wintering. Then the roots will overwinter successfully. If only the shoots were shortened, then they should be bent to the ground, sprinkling the ends with earth. This work is carried out until mid-October.

As soon as the snow begins to fall, they try to cover the plantation with a fluffy snow blanket. In winters with little snow, coniferous paws, vegetable tops, and straw are used as covering material.

Diseases and crop pests

One of the common diseases of the raspberry variety Atlant may be purple spotting. It is necessary to fight it by spraying Bordeaux liquid 2-3 times during the summer, starting from the period of bud exposure. Then every 2-3 weeks. Effective against pathogenic fungi drug "Rubigan", ammonium sulfate.

From pests, aphids, spider mites, raspberry weevil, raspberry beetle can affect the plantation.

Fight against aphids by spraying with tobacco decoction. A kilogram of tobacco dust is infused for a day in 5 liters of water, then boiled for an hour. After settling, take 0.5 liters of broth, pour it into a bucket of water, add 100 grams of laundry soap. It remains to properly process the raspberry bushes.

The spider mite nests on the underside of the leaf. The surface is pollinated with sulfur powder to eliminate the parasite.You can destroy the pest by processing using infusion of onion peel. Raspberry beetle larvae hide in the soil, so you need to dig up the ground in August before winter. It is better to fight the weevil with insecticidal preparations.

Breeding methods

To propagate the Atlant raspberry variety, you need:

1. Prepare cuttings in the spring. They are laid in trenches, sprinkled with earth, covered with foil. Transplanted when young shoots appear.
2. Fix the side shoot, sprinkle with earth. When it has roots, it is separated from the mother bush.
3. Dig up root suckers and transplant them to another site.
4. Prepare or purchase seeds. Plant raspberry seeds in the ground, keep in a warm place until sprouts sprout. Then put the seedlings on a lighted windowsill or in a greenhouse.

Quicker and more successful breeding of raspberries Atlant in vegetative ways. At the same time, plants retain varietal characteristics.

Cleaning and storage rules

Raspberries are harvested as they ripen, first in July, and then at the end of August - September. Within a month after the appearance of the first ripe berries, the crop is harvested. Fold the berries without the stalk in the basket. You can immediately process raspberries into jam. In a cold place, it will keep for 4-6 days. It is better to collect fruits every 1-2 days. Then they will be moderately ripe, firm, well-preserved presentation.

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