Gooseberry Bright

Medium-ripening variety, developed at the Southern Ural Research Institute of Fruit and Vegetable Growing and Potato Cultivation from crossing the varieties Smena and Chelyabinsk Green. Author V.S. Ilyin. Under state variety testing since 2005.

Medium-height bush, medium-spreading, dense. Growing shoots are thin, slightly curved, light green with anthocyanin coating along the entire length on the sun-exposed side. Thorns are distributed along the entire shoot length, medium in length and thickness or thin, colored at the base, solitary, arranged perpendicularly to the shoot or slightly downward.

Leaf five-lobed, medium-sized, green, blade smooth, concave along the midveins. Lobes slightly pointed, central exceeds lateral ones, with additional protrusions. Angle between midveins of lateral lobes is straight, rarely acute; lateral lobes widely spaced. Basal lobes moderately developed and weak. Leaf base of medium depth, triangular. Teeth medium, blunt. Petiole thin, medium length, green. Buds medium-sized, solitary, ovate-rounded in shape, sessile or positioned at a slight angle relative to the shoot. Petiole trace narrow, rounded.

Flowers medium-sized, bell-shaped, arranged in single- or two-flowered inflorescences. Sepals wide, rounded, bright pink or pink, separate, reflexed. Pedicels thin, long, light green, glabrous.

Berries medium-sized (3.0-5.6 g), oval-rounded, one-dimensional, pink with a bluish bloom. Seed count medium. Taste sour-sweet, pleasant, rated 5 points. Receptacle round, medium-sized, closed. Berry stalk long, thin, green. Berries suitable for all purposes.

Cold-hardy variety, high-yielding, average multi-year yield is 10.0 t/ha, maximum — 26.0 t/ha (3.0-7.8 kg/plant), self-fertile, resistant to powdery mildew and anthracnose.

Advantages of the variety: disease resistance, high yield, taste qualities.

Disadvantages of the variety: medium resistance to septoria.