Winterbacher
Black cherry, Prunus avium
Large, firm fruit with very good suitability as an industrial cherry.
As a black cherry not the highest sugar content.
Blossom
Blooming date
medium early to medium
Fertility
self-sterile
S-allele, sterility group
S1 S4, group 9
Pollinator
Zinkkirsche (practical experience), Schwarze Schüttler, Feuerkirsche, Benjaminler, Schüttler vom Albtrauf
Incompatible with
Dollenseppler Kiefer, Dolls Langstieler
Fruit
Ripening time
3.-4. cherry week, at the same time as Dollenseppler
Scale, shape
20-22 mm, kidney-shaped, short to medium long stalk
Colour
deep black red, glossy
Fruit flesh
black-red, when fully ripe medium firm, juicy
Taste
at full maturity sweet-sourish, slightly bitter
Cracking sensitivity
stable to cracking
Stalk detachment
stalk abcission is dry
Tree
Vigour
medium strong to strong, widely spreading, well garned and branched, no tendency to blind wood, dark green and healthy foliage
Crop load
early setting, ideal to high