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    This document discusses sweet and sour cherries grown in Denmark. For sweet cherries, it lists the main cultivars grown, their typical harvest weeks, fruit size, cracking tendency, and other comments. Important quality parameters for sweet cherries are identified as ripening period, cracking tendency, fertility, yield, and disease resistance. For sour cherries, it lists common cultivars with their harvest periods and fruit qualities, and notes important production and quality parameters. Stevnsbær is highlighted as a sour cherry cultivar with high color, sugar, and acid that has been used to produce liqueur since 1812.

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    This document discusses sweet and sour cherries grown in Denmark. For sweet cherries, it lists the main cultivars grown, their typical harvest weeks, fruit size, cracking tendency, and other comments. Important quality parameters for sweet cherries are identified as ripening period, cracking tendency, fertility, yield, and disease resistance. For sour cherries, it lists common cultivars with their harvest periods and fruit qualities, and notes important production and quality parameters. Stevnsbær is highlighted as a sour cherry cultivar with high color, sugar, and acid that has been used to produce liqueur since 1812.

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    This document discusses sweet and sour cherries grown in Denmark. For sweet cherries, it lists the main cultivars grown, their typical harvest weeks, fruit size, cracking tendency, and other comments. Important quality parameters for sweet cherries are identified as ripening period, cracking tendency, fertility, yield, and disease resistance. For sour cherries, it lists common cultivars with their harvest periods and fruit qualities, and notes important production and quality parameters. Stevnsbær is highlighted as a sour cherry cultivar with high color, sugar, and acid that has been used to produce liqueur since 1812.

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    Cherries

    Fruit and Berry course at KU


    Torben T-A.

    Main cultivars of sweet cherries in DK


    Cultivar

    Harvest
    Week

    Fruit size g

    Cracking
    tendency

    comment

    Nabigos

    2-3

    8,5

    High yielding
    Early season

    Summerset

    4-5

    9,0

    2-3

    Not on weak
    rootstock

    Kordia

    5-6

    > 9,0

    Frost sensitive

    Techlovan

    5-6

    11,7

    4-5

    Got to be on
    weak rootstock

    Skeena

    8,9

    1-2

    Self pollinating

    Regina

    6-7

    9,0

    Need special
    pollinator

    Sweetheart

    9,1

    1-2

    Self pollinating
    Frost sensitive

    Week 1 = end june, week 2= 1-7 july.

    Important quality parameters in


    sweet cherry

    Ripening period (harvest time)


    Cracking tendency
    Fertility
    Yield
    Resistance to diseases (bacterial cancer
    and botrytis
    Frost resistance
    Fruit size, Colour and Sweetness

    Important quality parameters in


    Sour cherries
    Production quality:
    Yield
    Resistance to diseases (bacterial cancer)
    Suitability for mechanical harvest (loose stalk)

    Quality for use (juice, vine, liquor):

    High colour
    High acid
    High soluble substance concentration
    High aroma
    Low cyanin
    (Small berries)

    Main cultivars of sour cherries in DK


    Cultivar

    Harvest

    Fruit size Quality

    Comment

    Stevnsbr

    8/8-22/8

    small
    3.2 g

    High colour,
    sugar and
    acid

    Healthy
    variable
    yield

    Kelleris 16

    20/7
    10/8

    Average
    4,8 g

    Low colour
    Low sugar
    Low acid

    Good yield

    Fanal

    25/7
    12/8

    Large
    5,5 g

    High colour
    High acid

    Sensible
    bacterial
    cancer

    Sumadinka

    End
    august

    average

    Good

    Stalk does
    not loosen
    High yield

    Stevnsbr

    Produced from Stevnsbr since 1812 by Heering.


    Export to more than 140 countries. The winery was
    unfortunately closed a few years ago.

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