Jostine
Variety of Jostaberry · Ribes x culverwellii
Most aromatic jostaberry with high sugar content and an upright, vigorous habit.
7🇩🇪 Germany 1989
Taste & characteristics
Taste
soursweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Schwarze Johannisbeere x Stachelbeere (Josta-Verwandtschaft)
- Breeder
- Rudolf Bauer
- Pollination
- self-fertile
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium-sized, dark-violet to black berries, very aromatic with pronounced acidity yet exceptionally high sugar (approx. 65 Oechsle) and high vitamin C.
Growth
Very vigorous, upright and spreading, thornless.
Yield
Fruits ripen in early July; productive and robust.
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