- a valuable crop, widely grown in Central Asia and in Ukraine, southern Russia, Moldova and Belarus. Back in the days of the USSR, numerous varieties of walnuts with high yields, excellent frost resistance and non-capricious disposition were obtained and proven themselves well. Today breeders different countries continue this work, so the range of varieties interesting for gardeners has expanded significantly.
Walnut Ideal, photo and description
Among Russian varieties There are many worthy walnuts, but only Ideal was able to conquer the gardens of the Black Earth zone, the regions of the Middle and Lower Volga, and even some areas of the Non-Black Earth region. The reason for this popularity is its excellent resistance to cold, the compactness of the crown, which does not grow above 5 meters, as well as the quick yield of the crop. As you can see in the photo, the Ideal walnut begins to bear fruit already in the first or second year after planting the seedling in the ground.
Walnut Ideal tolerates frosts down to 30–35 °C. Not only bark and perennial wood, but also last year’s shoots withstand winter well.
If cold weather can cause damage to this variety, it happens in the spring during recurrent frosts. In this case, the situation is saved by prolonged repeated flowering, which compensates for the loss of flower buds that opened in May.
The harvest of clustered, even oval nuts weighing 10–12 grams is harvested from mid-September. The large kernel makes up more than half the weight. The shell of this walnut variety is thin and easily separated from the kernel.
Walnut Giant
Another popular variety among Russian gardeners is the Giant walnut, named for its truly large fruits, the weight of which can reach 35 grams. In terms of yield, this crop is close to the previous variety. The trees are also quite compact, and their spreading crown does not exceed 5–7 meters in height.
The Giant variety is resistant to common walnut diseases, is not afraid of harsh Russian winters and bears fruit well in moderate moisture and nutritious soil.
Walnut variety Graceful
Gardeners in the middle zone are prevented from getting a harvest of nuts by the long growing season of the plant and its fear of cold weather.
Thanks to the work of breeders, varieties have emerged that solve both of these problems. These early-ripening, unpretentious varieties include the Elegant walnut, whose fruits of excellent quality and sweet taste are ready for harvest in mid-September. At the same time, trees:
- are not afraid of drought and common diseases;
- rarely affected by pests;
- a well-leafed crown up to 5 meters high can be easily maintained in a private garden.
However, with high yields, reaching 20 kg per tree, plants do not survive frosts well, during which the buds are damaged, skeletal branches and the trunk suffer.
Walnut Harvest
Trees of this variety grow up to 6 meters in height, are unpretentious to growing conditions and winter well even in harsh conditions. The Harvest walnut got its name due to its excellent fertility. Already from the fourth year of life, plants are capable of producing 10 kg of selected nuts weighing more than 10 grams. Their collection begins in mid-September and, depending on the planting region, ends towards the end of October.
Walnut variety Aurora
Among the frost- and disease-resistant early-ripening varieties, the Aurora walnut receives increased attention from gardeners. Unlike the Ideal or the Giant, these trees are much more powerful and taller. The first ovaries on plants appear at the age of four, and as they grow older, the plantings produce increasingly large yields best quality. On average, the weight of the nut reaches 12 grams, the kernel with a good table taste makes up more than 50% of the weight.
Walnut variety Zarya Vostok
Another low-growing walnut that quickly enters the fruiting season forms a crown 3–4 meters high. Although the nuts of the Zarya Vostok variety cannot be called large, their weight is 9–10 grams, the crop pleases with yields of up to 25 kg per tree.
Walnut Breeder
A little less, about 20 kg of walnuts is provided by the Selector variety. For a culture oriented southern regions, characterized by stable, annual fruiting with a predominantly vertex location of the ovaries. Despite resistance to diseases and pests, plants do not tolerate frost well. After a harsh winter, not only the buds suffer, but also perennial wood, the bark of skeletal branches and trunks.
Tall walnut varieties for pollination, grafting and landscaping
Since most walnut varieties are completely or partially self-sterile, they need pollinators.
As such plants, breeders offer the following varieties:
- Spectrum with winter-hardy trees up to 14 meters high and heavily ribbed large nuts;
- Orion, which also reaches a height of 16 meters and produces 11 gram egg-shaped nuts with a light shell;
- Marion, equally tall and powerful, produces 12 gram thick-shelled nuts.
These walnut varieties are often used not only as pollinators, but also as strong rootstocks, and also, thanks to their powerful, well-leafed crown, for landscaping.
Ukrainian and Belarusian varieties of walnuts
In the south of Russia and Ukraine, varieties of Ukrainian selection are cultivated. These varieties include:
- Bukovinsky 1 and 2;
- Bukovina Bomb;
- Prykarpatsky;
- Transnistrian and more than a dozen interesting fruitful varieties with medium or large nuts.
Walnut selection in Lately Belarusian scientists are working closely. The most famous of their varieties is the Pamyat Minova walnut.
This variety, which underwent variety testing 15 years ago, is classified as large-fruited. The ovary on powerful large trees is formed annually, mainly at the tops of the shoots. The first fruiting from this variety should be expected 6 years after planting. The harvest takes place in the second half of September.
The further south the walnut is grown, the taller varieties are used by gardeners. For example, trees reaching a height of 20–25 meters are not uncommon in Moldavian gardens. But even these plants of local varieties are far from the powerful black walnut native to North America, which grows up to 40 meters in height.
This culture is increasingly of interest to gardeners who know about beneficial properties the fruits of this tree and the decorative qualities of its wood. Despite the similarity in appearance, walnut and black walnut are two different species with different characteristics and agricultural techniques.
Video about a young walnut garden
Among the variety of walnut varieties, preference should be given to those that will perform well in the conditions of the middle zone.
Diversity m frost-resistantvarieties
Among the variety of walnut varieties, preference should be given to those that will perform well in the conditions of the middle zone. A few nuts picked up from the ground in a neighbor’s garden are much more reliable for sowing than beauties bought at the market, which probably took a long time to be transported from the hot south, and which are unlikely to survive the first winter.
Of the Russian varieties in the middle zone, the Ideal walnut is the most common in dachas.
Walnut variety Ideal
Unlike other varieties, the tree of which reaches more than 25 m in height, this variety is low-growing - the plant height is 4-5 (up to 8) meters. The variety is distinguished by good winter hardiness (down to minus 35°C) and fantastic early fruiting: even one-year-old seedlings sometimes produce 2-3 full-sized fruits. More than 120 kg of fruits per year are harvested from one 10-15 year old plant. The average fruit weight is 10 grams. The nut has a thin shell and a sweet-tasting kernel.
Variety Giant
The Giant variety is the second most popular and productive walnut variety. Unlike Ideal, it begins to bear fruit 5-6 years after planting. The tree quickly reaches a height of 5m. The crown is medium dense, widely spreading. The fruits are round, large, weighing 10 grams. Fruiting is regular, abundant, up to 100 kg of fruit per plant. "Giant" is suitable for planting throughout Russia and Belarus.
Krasnodar precocious
The variety is productive, early-fruiting, and relatively resistant to diseases and pests. The tree is winter-hardy and vigorous. The nuts are medium-sized (8-10 grams), with a thin shell, and ripen in the third decade of September.
Uchkhoz Kuban
The variety is productive, relatively resistant to pests and diseases, and begins to bear fruit in the 5th year. The tree is winter-hardy. The nuts are medium (8-10 grams), with a thin shell, and ripen in the third decade of September.
Belarusian varieties were created specifically for cultivation in the middle zone. They are winter-hardy, resistant to brown spot, and are distinguished by their yield, good removal of kernels from the shell and quality of the fruit.
Variety Pinsky
The tree is vigorous and produces good, fairly regular fruit. The average yield is about 50 kg. The nuts are 8.6 g, oval, ripen in the first half of September. Shell thickness is 1-2 mm. Dessert variety.
Samokhvalovichsky-2
The tree is vigorous, bears fruit well and quite regularly. Average yield is about 38 kg. The nuts are 8.3 grams, round-oval, ripen in the first half of September. Shell thickness is 0.8-1mm. Dessert variety.
Memory Minov
The tree is powerful, fruiting is good and fairly regular, occurring in the 6th year after planting. Average yield 27 kg. The nuts are large (15.2 grams), flattened, without ribs, and ripen in the first half of September. The shell is thin (1 mm). Table variety.
Frost-resistant walnut varieties are the key to successful planting and growing walnuts in the country, as well as the use of beneficial and medicinal properties walnut. published
Walnut– well known to us, with valuable taste and healing properties, product. It is propagated in villages and gardens in the southernmost territories of the Russian Federation and the countries of the former USSR. The height of a free-growing giant by the age of 30 can be forty meters. It has a spreading crown and a heavy and massive trunk. The bark is grayish-brown in color. The leaf is large, compound, with odd-pinnate lobules, arranged alternately on the shoot, the edge is even, smooth, and the tip is sharp. The flowers of the plant are separate. Male flowers are concentrated in spike-shaped inflorescences, collected in groups of 2–3 pieces. Pistillate flowers are arranged in groups of 2-3, rarely more. The fruit is a large single-bud drupe with a dying, juicy pericarp. The achene does not open until it pecks.
The nuts are separated and the rudiment “kernel” is used for food, mainly in unprocessed form. No special preparation required. It is widely used in the confectionery industry in the production of cakes, cookies, halva, pastries, and sweets. Good oil comes out of nut kernels if you apply pressure to them. It is suitable for both food and industrial purposes. The cake is suitable both for food and for feeding farm animals.
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Giant- fast-growing, reaches a height of five meters or more. The foliage is of mediocre density, wide, spreading. The nut is rounded, large, weight 10-13 grams. The harvest is stable and abundant, up to a hundredweight per tree. The giant is suitable for planting in most parts of the Russian Federation. |
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Harvest– tall, up to 6-7 m tall, with a wide oval crown. It begins to bear fruit 3-4 years after planting. The nuts will be ripe by the second decade of the first month of autumn. The variety is frost-resistant, with mediocre resistance to brown spot and other diseases. Fruitful. One tree produces up to a quarter of a quintal of delicious taste with a weight of 9-10 grams of nuts. Suitable for growing in all areas. |
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 Five-year plan- a tree growing 5-7 meters. The variety is frost-resistant, with high disease resistance. The collection is regular and moderate. It begins to bloom in May. Formation of the harvest in the first month of autumn. Nuts develop on the tops and lateral shoots. From a tree up to a quarter of a hundredweight of fruit. The weight of the nut is up to ten grams.
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Medium ripening walnut varieties
Walnut varieties:
Memory Minov, Pinsky, Samokhvalovichsky 1, Samokhvalovichsky 2
Memory Minov 
Tree powerful, fast growing.
Peculiarities:
Nutsvery large, average nut weight – 15.2 g, largest – 18.5 g. Kernel yield – 37.4%, kernel extractability – 4.8 points, taste – 4.0 points, kernel yellow color. The nut is thin-shelled, shell thickness is 1.0 mm.
Consumption period: end of September.
Dignity: The variety belongs to the large-fruited variety of walnut. Fruiting is good and fairly regular throughout the years.
Flaws: Relatively stable To .
Pinsky
Tree powerful, fast growing.
Peculiarities: begins to bear fruit in the 5th and 6th year after on the seed rootstock.
Nuts small, medium one-dimensional, oval, slightly ribbed. The average nut weight is 8.6 g, the largest is 9.5 g. Kernel yield is 40.5%, kernel extractability is 3.3 points, taste is 3.8 points, the kernel is yellow-brown. The nut is thin-shelled, shell thickness is 1.2 mm.
Consumption period: end of September.
Dignity: Fruiting is good and fairly regular throughout the years.
Flaws:
Samokhvalovichsky 1 
Tree powerful, fast growing.
Peculiarities: begins to bear fruit in the 5th or 6th year after planting in the garden on a seed rootstock.
Nuts very small, medium one-dimensional, oval, slightly ribbed. The average nut weight is 7.2 g, the largest is 8.8 g. Kernel yield is 39.6%, kernel extractability is 4.0 points, taste is 4.3 points, the kernel is yellow-brown. The nut is thin-shelled, shell thickness is 1.0 mm.
Consumption period: end of September.
Dignity: and quite regular over the years.
Flaws: Relatively resistant to brown spot.
Samokhvalovichsky 2
Tree powerful, .
Peculiarities: begins to bear fruit in the 3rd or 4th year after planting in the garden. It is distinguished by late (mid-May) abundant male flowering.
Nuts small, medium one-dimensional, oval, slightly ribbed. The average nut weight is 8.3 g, the largest is 10.5 g. Kernel yield is 52.9%, kernel extractability is 4.3 points, taste is 4.0 points, the kernel is yellow. The nut is thin-shelled, shell thickness is 0.8 mm.
Consumption period: end of September.
Advantage: Variety has increased winter hardiness. Refers to a fast-growing variety of walnut. Fruiting is good and fairly regular throughout the years.
Flaws: Relatively resistant to brown spot.
You can purchase varieties of walnuts, as well as other seedlings of fruit and berry crops
Material prepared by: horticulture specialist Buinovsky O.I.
This fruit has long been famous for its range of vitamins and nutrients. Today there are many varieties of nuts. They have their own characteristics, taste, and different yield indicators.
We invite you to familiarize yourself with the varieties that are better than others for growing in the country.
"Aurora"
The plant tolerates winter well and grows quite actively. The fruit core has a mass of 8-10 g. The shell is thin and breaks easily.
"Memory of Minov"
The fruits of this variety are quite large, the tree grows rapidly. Fruiting occurs according to the apical type. The first harvest begins to appear 5-6 years after planting. Resistant to brown spot.
Nuts large sizes, slightly flattened. Core weight – 15 g.
At the end of September you can start harvesting. 
"Prykarpatsky"
The variety has high, stable yields and is relatively resistant to marsonia. The plant stands out with a large rounded crown. Fruit formation occurs on the apical buds.
Medium-sized fruits - from 11 to 13 g round shape. The tree's yield is about 70 kg.
"Harvest"
The variety is presented quite tall tree– up to 6 m. It has a wide, oval crown. The first fruits appear three years after planting. The variety belongs to the mid-season group, and it is recommended to harvest at the end of September.
