Currant Gubenko Memory

Medium-ripening variety, obtained at the South-Ural Institute of Fruit and Vegetable Growing and Potato Growing through open pollination of the 'Fayya Plododorodnaya' variety. Breeders: V.S. Ilyin and A.L. Gubenko. Since 2000, it has been included in the State Register of Selection Achievements approved for use in the West Siberian region.

Medium-height, loosely branched, dense bush. Growing shoots are medium-thick, light-green, hairless. Medium-sized buds, elongated-oval, with a sharp apex, sessile. Petiole scar is narrow and rounded.

Five-lobed leaf, with deep notches, medium-sized, dark-green, glossy, leathery, with a concave blade along the midrib. Lobes are pointed; the central lobe is almost the same size as the lateral ones, but more concave, apex deviated sideways. The angle between the midribs of lateral lobes is acute, lateral lobes are widely spaced. Teeth are sharp, not curled. Petiole is long, medium thickness, hairless, with anthocyanin coloration.

Flowers of medium size, saucer-shaped, with weakly expressed perianth ridge. Sepals are light-yellow, not closed or slightly touching, reflexed. Inflorescences of medium length (6 cm), not dense. Axis is thin and green, hairy; petiole is thin, long, green, hairy.

Berries medium to large (0.5-1.0 g), one-dimensional, round, red. Seed quantity is small. Taste is sour-sweet, rated 4.5 points. Berries are of universal use. Receptacle is round, closed; pedicel is short and green.

Cold-resistant variety, high-yielding, average yield over several years is 7.0 t/ha, maximum is 17.3 t/ha (2.1-5.2 kg/plant), self-fertile (51.5%), weakly affected by powdery mildew and anthracnose.

Advantages of the variety: disease resistance, high yield.

Disadvantages of the variety: insufficient berry size.