Raspberry seedlings Amir

Remontant raspberry variety Amira was bred by Italian breeders from the Berry Plant nursery. They crossed two efficient varieties Tulamin and Polka and got a species capable of producing two high yields per season even in cold climates.

Amira received the best qualities from her grandparents: from Polka – large-fruitedness and high productivity, from Tulamine – reference raspberry taste, as well as the ability to bear fruit and ripen in the northern regions.

Varie Features

Amira's bushes are compact, not very tall (up to 2 m), dense. As a support for them, V-shaped trellis structures are often used. Minus bushes – heavily thorny stems.

The fruits of Amira are sweet, bright red large, weighing 6-8 grams. They are perfectly separated from the stalk, which simplifies the collection of raspberries, while being almost prone to shedding. The consistency of the berries is dense, so they perfectly tolerate transportation and storage.

Due to the excellent raspberry taste and aroma, Amira makes delicious jams, jams, jellies.

Amira's yield is high – at the height of the season, up to 3 kg of raspberries are removed from one Amira bush.

The variety belongs to the early varieties, bears fruit twice a season: in July and early autumn. The summer harvest gives shoots of the second year of growth, and the second (autumn) – matures on the shoots of the current one. The first berries begin to ripen at a time when the fruits of many other varieties are not yet available. Therefore, on their sale, farmers receive the maximum profit. 80% of the total harvest falls on July. It is important that in colder regions the first fruiting will shift towards the end of July, and in the southern — back to top.

Planting and care

Planting. Amira can be planted both in autumn and in spring. However, experienced gardeners prefer the autumn season, so the seedlings take root before frost, and in the spring they are already growing.

Raspberry seedlings are planted in a bush or trench way. Seedlings are placed in planting pits 30-50 cm deep, leaving 70-80 cm between the bushes, and the row spacing – at least 1.5 m.

For planting Amira, sunny areas are chosen, since in the shade its yield and taste are noticeably reduced. They also make sure that the soil is not swampy, otherwise hills are chosen for seedlings or high beds are created. It is not recommended to plant Amira in place of the old raspberries or plants of the nightshade family.

Top dressing. Raspberry Amira loves organic fertilizers, responds well to top dressing with a cowshed, diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 2.  Recommended 2 dressings — in spring and summer, in autumn such top dressing is not carried out. Nitroammophoska is used as mineral fertilizers; it is applied in the spring – 50 grams per 1m². Mulching with hay and peat has a beneficial effect on Amira's yield.

Irrigation. The variety is watered abundantly, the soil should be soaked 25-30 cm deep or more. Amira is generously watered before flowering, during the ripening of berries, and in the fall, abundant moisture-charging watering is carried out. The best option for moistening the soil in raspberries is the organization of drip irrigation. Moisture retention and air exchange in the root system will be facilitated by regular loosening of the soil around the bushes.

Pruning Amira bushes is done in autumn and early summer. When growing a variety as a remontant, only 2-year-old fruiting shoots are removed before winter. If Amira is used as an annual – bushes are pruned at the root in order to get a crop on young shoots next year. At the beginning of summer, thickened bushes thin out a little – remove excess shoots and root offspring. So plantings will not shade each other and will evenly use nutrients, which means that you will harvest a quality crop.

Preparing for winter.  In late autumn, Amira bushes are removed from the trellis and bent to the ground. If the bushes are cut flush with the ground, the roots are insulated with a dense layer of mulch. In the southern regions  for the winter, raspberries, as a rule, are not additionally covered. In contrast to colder climatic latitudes, where agrofiber, peat, and coniferous spruce branches are used to shelter bushes.

Preparations