The variety is often called Izobilnaya Kazakova raspberry, since raspberries were bred by breeders Kazakov and Kichina by crossing a representative of the Stolichnaya variety with one of the British varieties - No. 39116/94. The variety is intended for temperate continental climates.
The name Izobilnaya raspberry variety implies a fairly high yield, large fruit size, sweetness of the berries and ease of care. The stability of a high yield is guaranteed under very hot conditions in summer and fairly cold weather in winter.
Description of the variety
Izobilnaya raspberry belongs to the remontant varieties and allows you to obtain harvests from both one-year and two-year-old shoots.
Bush
The bushes are semi-spreading, compact, height 2.5-3 m, thornless. Can form 10 shoots and 5 root shoots. The trunk is elastic, thick and light brown in color. The foliage has a rich dark green color.
Annual bushes are elastic, strong, covered with a felt coating, partially waxy in the lower part, internodes are shortened.
The strength of the shoots has its downside: they do not bend very well, and they may break when covered for the winter or when removed from the trellis.
Two-year-old raspberry seedlings Izobilnaya reach 3-3.5 cm in diameter, strong and powerful. There are at least 20-25 and up to 35-40 berries on the fruit branches.
Fruit
The berries are large, up to 12 grams, have a glossy surface and bright red color. One bush gives up to 8 kg of a full harvest.
The fruit has a dense structure and tolerates transportation well and does not lose its quality during storage in refrigerated chambers. Raspberries are used for consumption, both fresh and for preservation.
General characteristics
The variety is frost-resistant, withstands periodic frosts of -30 degrees. Ripening begins at the beginning of July and ends by the end of the month.
If the temperature is too low, there are cases of freezing of shoots up to 50 cm from the ground and freezing of the root system. Without shelter, a mild snowy winter with t -25C is not scary.
The high temperatures of the south are no less negative: the berries bake, and without shading and drip watering, adult plants and young raspberry seedlings may fall out.
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Reviews from gardeners
Maria, Volgograd: “In my opinion, the main advantage of this variety is the sufficient density of the berries. The harvest is good, it doesn’t require special care, the main thing is to water it on time.”
Ivan, Moscow region: “The yield of my Abundant is simply crazy. The berries are large and very tasty. True, the Beauty of Russia still surpasses it. It reproduces very quickly by shoots. I grow them on trellises. But for the winter, the shoots need to be untied, laid on the ground and covered.”
Maxim, Krasnodar: “Izobilnaya couldn’t stand the heat of this summer. Despite watering, everything fell down. I decided to uproot all the bushes and plant a different variety. Although before this this variety showed good yield.”
5/5 — (1 vote)
Advantages of the variety
- High, regular yield;
- Good taste and commercial characteristics of berries;
- Raspberry resistance to most types of diseases and pests;
- High frost resistance;
- Lack of thorns on the shoots;
- Self-fertility.
Flaws
- Tall shoots must be tied up;
- The strength of the shoots makes it difficult to bend them down for shelter;
- The need to cover bushes in regions with little snow in winters;
- The berries are baked in the sun;
- The dependence of the taste and quality of the crop on climate and soil.
Landing
No matter how undemanding the raspberry variety is, certain conditions are necessary for its favorable growth and obtaining a good harvest. One of them is proper landing.
Soil preparation
Infertile soil in a raspberry patch will not be able to provide the shrub with sufficient opportunities for normal growth and fruiting. Deep digging of the soil and application of fertilizers is necessary. It should be organic and mineral complex.
The right choice of seedlings of the Izobilnaya variety
For planting, it is best to purchase annual plants. There should be 2-4 shoots on the roots. The height of the bush should not be more than a meter. The root should be branched, and the trunk should not be damaged, without any foreign spots.
Selecting a site for planting
The area prepared for planting Izobilnaya seedlings must have a distance of more than 1.5 m to groundwater. If planting is done in the spring, then the land is prepared in the fall.
Raspberries do not like acidic soils; for this it is necessary to reduce the acidity level. This can be done by using lime or wood ash.
Raspberries of the Izobilnaya variety do not like piercing winds, so they need to be planted in a quiet place. This is a light-loving plant, but to avoid burns, the location should not be chosen in direct sunlight.
Disembarkation scheme
Planting can be done both in holes and in trenches. After the autumn preparation of the site, the specific holes or trenches for planting the crop are prepared. The earth taken out of the hole (trench) is mixed with organic matter and the addition of nitroammophosphate and wood ash.
A quarter of the mixed soil is poured into the bottom of the dug holes. The bush descends, but before that its roots are sprayed with the growth stimulator Kornevin and dipped in mash. The root is covered with earth, the hole is compacted, but not very much.
Then the planting is watered, one bucket of water per bush. The soil around the planting is mulched. For this, sawdust, rotted straw, and pine needles are used.
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The dimensions of the holes and trenches are within 40/40/50 cm.
Garter and circumcision
Remontant raspberry
Caring for a berry garden includes preserving fruit-bearing shoots. Long powerful branches, covered with fruits, will bend towards the ground and even break. Therefore, you immediately need to worry about tying, taking into account the following nuances:
- Two-meter pegs are evenly driven in around individual bushes, onto which a nylon thread or wire will be attached;
- when planting in rows, the supports are driven in along the entire tape (on both sides) with such a step that the wire or twine does not sag (this is about 3.5-5 m);
- Considering the growth of the plant, it should be tied up three times - at a height of 0.7; 1 and 1.7 m.
Raspberry garter
In the first year after planting, the tops are pinched when the seedlings grow to 1 m. Usually the procedure is performed in May. It is necessary to ensure rapid growth of side shoots. But this will affect the amount of harvest: this year it will not be as generous as planned.
You can't do without sanitary trimmings. They are carried out during the period of snow melting, even before the start of sap flow. Remove frozen, broken, dry branches. You should also get rid of weak growth. Shoots that have grown more than 2.5 m over the past year are slightly shortened. When thinning the bush, it is necessary to leave no more than 15 strong branches, completely removing all fruit-bearing branches.
Caring for Izobilnaya raspberries
Watering
Raspberries of the Abundant variety are moisture-loving, but the norm must be observed. This crop favors sprinkling irrigation. It also needs watering during the period of fruit development and ripening.
Up to three buckets of water per bush is enough. It is best to water before or after the heat subsides. During dry periods, it is better to increase the frequency of watering.
Loosening the soil and weeding
Loosening and mulching the soil is best done after each watering.
Weeding is carried out after they appear, and also in conjunction with loosening.
Top dressing
Abundant is demanding of fertilizers. The first feeding is done in the spring in April, diluting 1 kg of organic matter per bucket of water. The trunk part of the plant is watered.
The second feeding is carried out in June, applying a layer of up to 5 cm under the mullein bush. The third feeding is wood ash, ammonium nitrate, peat or compost.
Site preparation
It is best to prepare the site in late summer or early autumn. The soil needs to be deeply plowed, removing debris, roots of previous plants and weeds, and large clods must be broken up.
Add fertilizer. For 1 sq. m, it is enough to add no more than 10 kg of humus or compost. If the soil has high acidity, then it can be reduced with wood ash per 1 square meter. m add 0.5 kg.
Raspberries can be planted either in holes or in a pre-prepared trench. If the soil is a little dry, you can lightly sprinkle it with water.
Disease Control
Raspberry Abundant is resistant to many diseases, but additional prevention will not hurt it.
Anthracnose
Affects leaves and shoots. The reason is stagnation of water in the area where it is grown. Prevention includes reducing planting thickening and avoiding stagnation of water under plants.
To prevent the disease, spray with a 3% solution of Bordeaux mixture (400 g of quicklime, 300 g of copper sulfate per 10 liters of water).
What is needed: sufficient illumination of the bushes, soil drainage, combating stagnation of water under the bushes.
Powdery mildew
Both shoots and foliage are affected. To avoid its appearance, before buds open, the bush is treated with a 1% solution of copper sulfate.
Timely application of fertilizing containing phosphorus and calcium and mulching the soil with horse humus in the spring will help.
During flowering, twice with an interval of 14 days - treatment with Fitosporin (3 tsp per 10 l of water).
Root cancer
Leads to yellowing and premature falling of leaves and reduced yield. For preventive purposes against root cancer, before planting, a thorough examination of the roots and treatment of the root system with a 1% solution of copper sulfate (100 g of substance per 10 liters of water) is carried out.
Purple spot
Forms in the form of actively growing brown spots. Leads to a decrease in winter hardiness and death of the bush. 2 weeks before flowering, you need to spray the raspberries with Rubigan (4 ml per 10 liters of water).
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It is also important to regularly loosen the soil and apply mulch, remove weeds and root growth.
Winter shelter
Although “Abundant Kazakova” has been shown to be frost-resistant, the root system may not be able to cope with temperature changes in late winter. To prevent weakening of the roots, covering with agrofibre or spruce branches is sufficient. Mulch can provide additional protection. It can be made from horse or cow manure with the addition of sawdust, placed on the tree trunk circles in a small layer of no more than 7 cm.
On a note! Don’t forget to remove the bushes from the trellis, pull the branches into a bunch and bend them to the ground, and only then cover them.
Don't do this too early, otherwise the bushes may dry out in autumn temperatures. And such plants, having reached frost, will weaken and become fragile. Therefore, the optimal time is after the leaves fall, before the first frost.
Pests of the Izobilnaya variety, how to fight
Raspberry shoot aphid
It affects the inner surface of foliage and shoot tips. It sucks out nutrients, causing leaves to curl and die.
How to fight: before flowering begins (several times every 10 days), treat with one of the following solutions:
- Fufanon (10 ml per 10 liters of water),
- Fitosporin (3 tsp per 10 liters of water),
- Nitrafen (200 ml per 10 liters of water).
It is recommended to alternate medications.
And also: pruning and destruction of areas damaged by the pest, collecting aphid oviposition, spraying with a solution of baking soda (1 pack per 10 liters of water).
Raspberry beetle
It attacks fruits by feeding on them. Leads to a decrease in yield.
Every 2 weeks during the growing season (until the pest is destroyed) it should be sprayed with a solution of Karbofos (300 g per 10 liters of water) or Fitosporin. Along with this, the following is produced:
- Collection and destruction of fruits damaged by the pest.
- Digging the soil under the bushes.
- Regular removal of weeds between rows.
- Thinning raspberry bushes for air circulation.
Strawberry-raspberry weevil
It feeds on the inside of the buds, which causes them to dry out and fall off.
To cope with this pest on raspberries of the Izobilnaya variety, after buds open and before flowering begins, the bushes must be sprayed with a solution of Karbofos (300 g per 10 liters of water), damaged buds must be collected and destroyed.
Daily treatment with mustard tincture during the flowering period (200g per 10 liters of water) will also help.
Spider mite
Damages leaves by entangling them with cobwebs. Causes curling of leaf plates, drying out and death of the entire bush.
14 days before the start of flowering, spray with a solution of 1% colloidal sulfur (100 g per 10 liters of water), and treat with a four-day infusion of garlic (100 g of garlic per 1 bucket of water + 40 g of laundry soap).
Collecting and burning all fallen leaves in the fall.
