Remontant beardless strawberry Ruyana: description and cultivation of the variety

Strawberry Ruyan: characteristics and description of the variety

This is a remontant variety with miniature compact bushes, shaped like small balls. Plants can reach a height of 19-21 cm. One of the features of Ruyan strawberries is the tall peduncles that rise above the foliage part of the plant, which is not typical for remontant varieties of this berry crop. But this is an undoubted positive quality of the bushes, since ripening berries always remain clean - even after heavy rains or watering.

Ruyan strawberry bushes - photo

Interesting!

Gardeners call another advantage of Ruyan strawberries the absence of growing mustaches on the bushes.

The fruits have a conical shape, but there are also slightly deformed berries. Ripe berries are quite large in size - up to 7 g in weight, and up to 1.4 cm in diameter. The color of the fruit at the stage of full maturity is deep red. Small grains are located on the surface of the skin in small depressions. The pulp is delicate pink in color, dense, sweet with a characteristic aroma of wild berries.

Ruyan strawberry conical shape - photo

Fruiting of the Ruyana variety begins the next season after the seedlings are planted in a permanent place. The harvested crop can easily be transported over long distances without losing its marketability and taste. Shelf life in the refrigerator is at least 2-2.5 weeks.

Ruyan strawberries are highly resistant to most fungal diseases, as well as the ability to tolerate frosty winters without shelter.

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Advantages and disadvantages

The remontant variety Ruyana has both positive and negative qualities.

The advantages include:

• easy care of bushes, thanks to the absence of mustaches;
• resistance to severe frosts and sudden temperature fluctuations;
• resistance to fungal infections and parasites;
• high yield, stable fruiting over a long period.

Dense berries tolerate transportation well. They do not wrinkle and retain their presentation for a long time.

If the roots of the bush do not receive enough moisture, the fruits will be very small. This, of course, refers to the disadvantages of the variety. In addition, the plant will grow comfortably only in specially prepared soil. Depletion of the soil will lead to a decrease in yield, and the growth of the main bush will slow down.

Strawberry productivity Ruyan

Flowers appear on the bushes in mid-May, and gardeners can harvest the first “wave” of the harvest in the second decade of June. In the southern regions of Russia, ripe berries are collected from the bushes of this remontant variety until the end of November. And in colder regions, the end of fruiting of Ruyan strawberries occurs in the first ten days of October.

The productivity of the Ruyana strawberry variety is quite high - up to 2.4-2.6 kg of ripe aromatic berries are harvested from one square of strawberry plantation.

Important!

This variety does not produce high yields for long - only 4 seasons, and then the plantation should be renewed, as the berries subsequently become smaller and the yield sharply decreases.

Preparing for the winter season

Frost-resistant strawberries "Ruyana" do not require the construction of solid shelters for the winter. It tolerates frost well. To prepare for winter you need to:

• a month before the onset of stable cold weather, stop watering;
• trim old and damaged leaves from bushes;
• remove weeds;
• sprinkle soil on bare plant roots;
• replace the old mulch layer with a new one (humus or dry peat is best for the winter).

A berry bed with neat bushes of remontant alpine strawberries of the “Ruyana” variety will decorate any garden plot and, without causing much trouble, will delight you with tasty, aromatic berries from early spring until frost.

Advantages of the berry variety Ruyana

The main positive characteristics of the variety include:

1. certainly high yield;
2. large fruit;
3. extended fruiting from the beginning of summer until the first frost;
4. Ruyana strawberry - beardless;
5. is highly resistant to fungal diseases;
6. the harvested crop has good shelf life and can easily be transported over long distances;
7. bushes can survive cold winters even without shelter;
8. This variety copes well with periods of drought.

But Ruyan’s remontant strawberry also has a number of disadvantages:

1. this variety grows well and bears fruit only on light soils;
2. if the plant lacks moisture, the berries become smaller;
3. Once every 4 seasons the plantation has to be renewed.

Despite the shortcomings, Ruyan strawberries are still popular among Russian gardeners, who continue to grow this berry crop on their plots to this day.

Pre-landing preparations

Strawberries of the described variety are propagated by seeds, which are planted not in open ground, but as seedlings. The germination rate of Ruyana is high, and the sowing stages are quite simple, even a novice gardener can easily cope with them.

Having bought a bag of strawberry seeds, you cannot plant them immediately; you need to stratify and germinate the seed. How to do this correctly?

To germinate, the seeds must be placed in a bag made of fabric; a cotton piece or gauze will do. After this, the bag is placed in water that has settled for 24 hours, or in bottled water. The seeds should be kept in water for two days, and the water should be changed twice a day. The room temperature should be comfortable, room temperature.

After soaking, the seed is spread using tweezers onto a damp cloth or paper, which is placed in a plastic bag. In this form, the seeds are placed in the refrigerator for stratification so that they sprout faster. The temperature in the refrigerator should be from 2 to 5 degrees Celsius, the seeds should remain there for three weeks. After this, the package can be taken out and placed in a bright place for further germination. When embryonic sprouts appear, the seeds are planted in prepared containers. Sowing time lasts from February to May.

Diseases and pests of berry crops

Ruyana is highly resistant to the main diseases characteristic of other varieties of garden strawberries. And among the pests, most often the plant can only be affected by spider mites. You can fight this insect pest using traditional methods, treating the bushes with onion, garlic infusions or dandelion-based decoction. Of the fungicidal agents, the most effective drug in the fight against spider mites is Actellik

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Sowing Ruyana for seedlings

There is nothing unusual about sowing strawberries. It proceeds in the same way as the sowing of any small-seeded civilization. Usually the procedure begins in February, since strawberries take a long time to emerge and develop slowly.

How do they plant Ruyana as seedlings anyway?

1. Containers are filled with soil mixture.
2. The mixture is moistened and lightly tamped.
3. Seeds are placed on top (it’s convenient to do this with tweezers).
4. The seeds are not sprinkled with anything, they are only slightly pressed to the ground with the pads of dry fingers.
5. Containers are packed in polyethylene or covered with glass.
6. They should stand in the light in a warm room, shuttered, moistened, until shoots form.

Strawberry shoots

Ruyana strawberries: cultivation, planting and care

The site for this variety should be well lit, protected from drafts and gusts of cold wind. Ruyana strawberries grow and bear fruit better on light soils - sandy loam or loamy soil. Heavy soils should first be well fertilized; up to 20 kg of humus and the same amount of river sand are added to each square to loosen the soil. Wood ash, dolomite flour or lime should be added to acidified soil in the fall.

Planting Ruyan strawberries in the ground - video

It is better to plant this berry crop in rows. The distance between the bushes should be about 20 cm, and the row spacing should be about 0.35 m.

Landing

The best time to plant and transplant strawberries is early spring and mid-autumn. With a lump of earth, transshipment can be done in the summer. The survival rate of Ruyana is very high.

The site for remontant strawberries is chosen to be sunny, but slight shading is also allowed. The soil must be dug up with compost, adding a bucket of organic matter per m2 of bed. Considering that Ruyana does not tolerate clay soil well, sand is added to the soil to loosen it. High acidity is neutralized with ash, lime or dolomite flour (up to 0.5 kg/m2).

It is advisable to plant the plant in rows, maintaining a distance of 20-25 cm. Leave about 30-35 cm between rows. The variety does not produce mustaches, so strawberries can be planted along the garden path.

Ruyana is successfully grown indoors in a flower pot. In winter, the plant is provided with artificial lighting. With the onset of summer they put it on the balcony

Reproduction of wild strawberries Ruyan

Since the remontant strawberry variety Ruyan does not produce runners, this berry crop has to be propagated either by dividing the bushes or by seeds.

Dividing bushes

This method is most convenient when Ruyana bushes are already growing in the garden. This propagation procedure should be carried out in the spring before the buds appear or on the 20th of August so that the divisions take root better.

It is better to divide plants in the evening or on a cloudy day. The bush is divided into several parts so that each has a full root and 3-4 leaves.

Separate parts are planted in a pre-prepared place, watered well and protected from bright sunlight. When the strawberry bushes have completely taken root, the shelter can be removed.

In the spring, you should remove all old foliage in the beds, loosen the rows, and water the plantation with a solution of copper sulfate to prevent the development of diseases.

In the spring, fertilizing containing nitrogen and phosphorus is applied to the ridges. And during flowering, fertilizers containing phosphorus and potassium are applied under the Ruyan strawberry bushes.

The strawberry plantation should be watered regularly to prevent the top layer of soil from drying out. And although Ruyan strawberries can withstand a period of drought, the size of the berries may then become smaller.

It is best to water in the evening, after the sun has already set.

During the flowering period, it is better to protect the berry bushes from possible spring cold snaps; to do this, you need to cover them with agrofibre or polyethylene at night.

Picking Ruyan's strawberries - video

Growing Ruyan strawberries from seeds

Seed material is sown in containers filled with nutrient substrate. Containers must have drainage holes.

Seeds of the Ruyana strawberry variety can be bought in a specialized store or collected independently from ripe berries.

Sowing is carried out from the first ten days of March to the second ten days of April.

After planting, the containers are covered with film to create a greenhouse effect inside - in such conditions, sprouts will appear faster.

If necessary, seedlings need to be supplemented with light, since the length of daylight in March is still very short.

If the seedlings have sprouted quite densely, then after they have 4 true leaves, the picking procedure should be carried out. When replanting, do not cover the root collar with soil until the plants are completely acclimatized.

Strawberry seedlings are planted in a permanent place in late May - early June.

How to care for strawberries

After six leaves appear, the seedlings are ready for planting in the ground.

In terms of care, the Ruyana strawberry variety is unpretentious.

• Watering is carried out throughout the warm season, until autumn. In autumn, if there is a lot of rain, watering is stopped. Moreover, if for some reason it was not possible to water, the strawberries will not immediately begin to hurt or dry out; a short drought will not harm them. It is necessary to water the bushes in the evening, when the sun has already set.
• Loosening the soil improves oxygen access to the roots. It is carried out at least once a week. During this procedure, weeds are also removed.
• Since strawberries are without arbores, the arbors are not cut off to increase yield. But the old leaves are red or dry, once picked from the bushes, they only draw water, but no longer provide any benefit to the bushes.

Important!

You cannot feed alpine strawberries, including Ruyana, with fresh manure!

• Mulching is highly recommended. It allows you to retain water in the ground and prevents the growth of weeds. But, the mulch needs to be changed from time to time, otherwise it will begin to rot. For this reason, many gardeners abandon this method.

  In terms of care, the strawberry variety Ruyana is unpretentious

• Fertilizing is carried out from 2 years after planting. The first feeding is needed in early spring. Use 40 g of ammonium nitrate per 10 liters of water. When buds appear, the bushes are fed with nitroammophoska (1 tbsp per bucket of water). When the first fruits appear, add nitroammophoska (2 tbsp.) and potassium sulfate (1 tbsp.) to a bucket of water. In the future, you can use herbal infusions to prolong fruiting.
• Ruyan strawberries have immunity to other diseases, but problems may arise with dense plantings. The main one is snails; powdery mildew and rot also develop due to the abundance of moisture. Insecticides and fungicides are used to get rid of pests and diseases. Spraying is carried out 1-2 times per season.
• A month before the onset of frost, watering is stopped. Damaged, dry leaves are removed from the bushes, and the bare roots are sprinkled with earth. If there is mulch, it must be replaced with new one.

Once every 4-5 years, the plot with strawberries is renewed. Old bushes are removed and others are planted to replace them.

Strawberry Ruyan: reviews from those who planted the variety

Below are reviews from those gardeners who have been growing Ruyan strawberries in their gardens for more than one year:

Nelly, 40 years old, Samara:

This is not the first season I have been growing remontant strawberries Ruyan on my plot. Ripe berries are large, very tasty, and tolerate long-distance transportation well. We use the harvested crop for food, prepare jam, and freeze it for the winter.

Olga, 49 years old, Ulyanovsk:

Ruyana started planting strawberries several seasons ago - the seller at the nursery recommended me to buy seedlings of the variety. And I didn’t regret my choice at all - the compact small bushes bear fruit well, and the flowers are located above the foliage, so the berries always remain clean. I can also say that this berry crop has never suffered from any illness during the entire time it has been growing in my beds.

Marina, 30 years old, Volgograd:

I liked the Ruyan strawberry variety because fruiting is extended and continues from the beginning of June until frost. The bushes are easier to care for, as Ruyana is a beardless variety. In addition, this plant does not require shelter for the winter in our warm climate; not a single plant froze in my winter.

Tatyana, 44 years old, Ryazan:

A neighbor at her summer cottage gave me several bushes of this variety; I planted them “at random” - they will grow, they will grow. It turned out that this variety is quite productive; the next season I grew more of these strawberries with seeds. Now I have a fairly large plantation of Ruyan strawberries, from which I collect enough berries, which are enough for fresh consumption and for making jam. We freeze part of the harvest for the winter.

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Harvesting and processing

Ruyana strawberries are harvested as they appear, every 2-3 days. Harvesting usually occurs early in the morning, after the dew has dried. These strawberries can be stored much longer. The berries are picked carefully, preferably together with the stalk, otherwise they may leak juice.

Strawberries collected from the plot can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week, but it is advisable that they be kept in a wicker basket or similar container with ventilation. The best storage temperature is +2 degrees.

Important!

If you wash strawberries after picking, their shelf life will be reduced by 2 times!

Ruyana strawberries are harvested as they appear every 2-3 days

Ruyan strawberries can be consumed fresh or used for preparing preserves (jams, compotes, jams). You can also make aromatic pastries and desserts from it. If necessary, the berries are frozen. Frozen strawberries do not lose their taste and after defrosting they will be almost the same as fresh ones, only they need to be defrosted in the refrigerator, on a shelf, and not at room temperature, then they will not lose their shape. And if the berries are dried, they can then be used to make fruit tea.

Seedling care

Garden strawberries Ruyana need sufficient lighting and optimal temperature. For good development of seedlings, the air temperature in the room is maintained from 22 to 25 degrees Celsius.

Watering should be moderate, using a spray bottle and settled water. If you over-moisten the soil, the risk of seedlings becoming infected with fungal diseases, including blackleg, will increase.

Picking seedlings is needed after four to five true leaves appear on it. When the seedlings become stronger after this procedure, they need to be hardened off. To do this, containers with seedlings are taken out daily into a cool, darkened room or outside. It is necessary to start hardening with a fifteen-minute “walk”, gradually increasing the time. It is also necessary to gradually adapt seedlings to open sunlight.

Further care

Watering is the main factor affecting the size of the fruit and the yield in general. Although Ruyan's strawberries are drought-resistant, lack of moisture leads to crushing of the berries and a decrease in their quantity. Stable watering is necessary throughout the growing season. If the summer is too hot and dry, the soil and bushes are moistened daily in the evening.

Loosening the soil between rows is necessary as needed; it will allow the soil to be enriched with oxygen. Don't forget to mulch after loosening.

Do not allow the beds to become overgrown with weeds. They carry diseases, thicken plantings, and take away many useful substances needed by the cultivated plant.

You need to remove old red leaves from strawberry bushes. You can protect the plant from pests by sprinkling the leaves with ash.

Before winter, watering should be reduced and old leaves removed. If necessary, the bushes are covered with warm material; during the winter, a layer of snow is thrown over the beds.