In this video you will learn about the largest-fruited varieties of honeysuckle, the berries of which have an exquisite sweet, sour taste. You will learn about the main methods of propagation and care of the plant. My favorite variety is the Bakcharsky Giant, one of the most common varieties of honeysuckle. It is popular not only because of the excellent taste of the berry, but also for its resistance to frost and disease. A distinctive feature of the variety is its large berries. Honeysuckle is unpretentious in care and can bear fruit for up to 18-20 years. The plant has a powerful and vigorous bush, which can reach two meters in height. Honeysuckle Bakcharsky Giant begins to bear fruit in the second or third year after planting. The first berries can be tried in June. On average, one bush produces from 1.8 to 3 kg of large fruits. The second variety is Delight. The berries are beautiful - elongated, about 5 cm long, with elastic skin covered with a thick coating. They fall off weakly. The bushes are compact, up to 1.5 m in height and width, picking berries and caring for the plants is very simple. This honeysuckle bears fruit the following year after planting. The yield from a bush is 5.5 kg. It needs cross-pollination and planting in a sunny place. The third variety is Honeysuckle Strezhevchanka Large elongated-oval berries with an excellent dessert taste, weighing up to 2.1 g. Thin dark blue, almost black skin with a weak waxy coating. The berries grow at the ends of the shoots, which makes it easier to collect, the yield is up to 6 kg per bush. Ripening is early, uniform, the fruits do not fall off. The bushes are tall, standard, with sparse branches. And the fourth variety, the very first one I planted, is Kamchadalka Honeysuckle. The berries are large and medium-sized. The length of the fruit varies from 2 to 3 cm. The diameter of the berry reaches up to 1 cm. The fruits are elongated oval-shaped, tapering towards the top. The skin is smooth, strong, blue. The superficial white coating gives the berry a light blue tint. The berry tastes sweet and sour with a pronounced forest aroma. It is advisable to plant young honeysuckle seedlings all in one place. Since one bush cannot bear fruit, at least three honeysuckle varieties of different varieties are planted on the site nearby for cross-pollination. A span of 2 m is made between the holes for each seedling. The depth and width of each hole is 40 cm. The planting period is early spring, but the optimal time for planting is still considered to be autumn, when the plant is dormant. The bottom of the holes is covered with a drainage layer of small stones. Part of the hole is filled with black soil mixed with an equal amount of compost. About 1 kg of wood ash is added to the mixture. Of the mineral fertilizers, 50 g of superphosphate is used. The seedling is carefully placed in the hole, the root system is straightened, and covered with loose soil. The root collar cannot be deepened. After filling, the honeysuckle seedling is watered. When the soil settles, add more soil and cover with mulch. First-year honeysuckle seedlings are watered regularly as the soil dries out. The bush should take root well. Adult honeysuckle is watered a maximum of three times a month. How to propagate honeysuckle? There are several methods of propagation. These are dividing the bush, bending the lower shoots and propagating by cuttings. I will focus on the last method - honeysuckle cuttings. After the honeysuckle bush has borne fruit, at this time, from mid to late June, it is very good to propagate it with green cuttings. For cuttings, we choose young shoots, the strongest ones, whose trunks have not yet become woody, but already have a hard core. We break off the selected branch from the mother bush, cutting it with scissors so that there is a heel with a piece of old wood at the end of the branch and this will be the best place where new roots will form. We remove the lower leaves, and cut the next ones in half so that they evaporate less moisture from the cutting. After 2-3 cm above the cut leaves, we cut our cutting from the branch, and it will be excellent material for propagation. In order to get several seedlings, it is best to prepare several such cuttings. To plant the cuttings, we will need a 2-liter bottle, cut in half. We pour soil into the lower part of the bottle with drainage holes. The ideal soil for rooting cuttings should be a mixture of peat, humus and sand. It is advisable to pour a 2-3 cm layer of sand on top of the mixture and plant our cuttings in this prepared soil, having previously dipped the heel in root powder. Compact the soil well, moisten and cover tightly with the upper part of the bottle. In this state, a microclimate is provided for rooting the cutting. Our future seedling should be placed in a shaded place. The temperature should be 20-25 degrees. As it grows, we can observe new shoots and the formation of roots. The roots of the cutting appear