Hall’s Beauty
Date: 2020-12-20, updated: 2022-05-12
High-quality variety with extremely large, attractive, ornamental double flowers and glossy black fruit
Rubus subgenus Rubus Watson 'Hall’s Beauty'
Originated from a cross of NZ 9629R-1 x ORUS 1939-4
Variety denomination 'Hall's Beauty', tested as ORUS 3453-2
Plants are thornless
Bushes have trailing canes
Fruit weight is 6 g
Berries have a conical shape
Soluble solids - 15.3%
Acidity - 1.25%
Fruiting habit floricane fruiting (summer-bearing)
Flowering on floricanes starts in the first week of May
Ripening date (regular) - third week of June
Productivity is 5 kg per plant
Cold hardiness is good
Country of origin United States
Patent US 2018/0288915 P1 dated October 03, 2018
Current status - modern or widely used
Hall’s Beauty shares two grandparents with Columbia Star and Columbia Giant and all four grandparents with Columbia Sunrise. Blackberry Hall’s Beauty thornlessness is derived originally from Lincoln Logan, and therefore the canes are entirely thornless. The primocanes of Hall’s Beauty cultivar are as vigorous as those of Marion and Columbia Star, but are less vigorous than for Chester Thornless and more vigorous than those of Black Diamond.
The average fruit weight for a season is about 6 g. Average yield is about 6 kg/plant. The harvest season is similar to Columbia cultivars family, from the middle of June to the middle of July. Hall’s Beauty fruit flavor is excellent, but the acid–sweet balance is tipped toward sweet, which is often more desirable for fresh market consumers but less so for processing. Fruit color is comparable to the other thornless trailing cultivars; it is not as dark as Chester Thornless but blacker/less purple than Marion. Fresh fruit of Hall’s Beauty are rated as having better firmness than Marion and Black Diamond and being as firm as Columbia Star.
This variety is rated excellent for heat tolerance because it had fewer heat and ultraviolet light injury symptoms than Black Diamond, Chester Thornless or Marion.
Cultivar | Berry weight, g | Yield, kg/plant | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||
Hall's Beauty | 6.5 | 4.68 | 3.59 | 6.07 |
Black Diamond | 6.0 | 7.02 | 2.09 | 3.17 |
Columbia Star | 7.6 | 7.48 | 5.92 | 8.18 |
Marion | 5.5 | 6.44 | 4.75 | 4.92 |
Cultivar | Berry weight, g | Yield, kg/plant | |
---|---|---|---|
2016 | 2017 | ||
Hall's Beauty | 6.9 | 7.40 | 6.21 |
Black Diamond | 6.6 | 6.73 | 6.32 |
Columbia Star | 6.9 | 7.24 | 6.92 |
Marion | 5.7 | 4.50 | 4.72 |
Cultivar / trait | Hall's Beauty | Black Diamond | Marion | Columbia Star |
---|---|---|---|---|
Drupelet fertility | 7.6 | 7.0 | 5.9 | 8.6 |
Firmness | 8.0 | 6.7 | 4.6 | 7.9 |
Color | 8.3 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 8.2 |
Shape | 7.2 | 7.3 | 5.3 | 8.5 |
Texture | 7.8 | 6.7 | 8.1 | 8.1 |
Flavor | 7.6 | 6.3 | 8.3 | 8.2 |
Glosiness | 8.3 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.1 |
Toughness | 8.0 | 6.6 | 4.5 | 8.1 |
Heat damage | 7.8 | 6.3 | 6.9 | 8.4 |
Cultivar | Ripening | ||
---|---|---|---|
First (5%) | Peak (50%) | Last (95%) | |
2011 - 2013 | |||
Hall's Beauty | July 3 | July 10 | July 24 |
Columbia Star | July 3 | July 12 | July 24 |
Columbia Giant | July 3 | July 15 | July 19 |
Marion | July 8 | July 15 | July 24 |
Black Diamond | July 3 | July 17 | July 26 |
Chester Thornless | Aug. 5 | Aug. 28 | Sept. 25 |
2016 - 2017 | |||
Hall's Beauty | June 24 | June 28 | July 12 |
Columbia Star | June 18 | July 1 | July 8 |
Triple Crown | July 18 | Aug. 5 | Aug. 26 |
Marion | June 24 | July 1 | July 15 |
Black Diamond | June 18 | July 4 | July 15 |
Chester Thornless | July 22 | Aug. 8 | Aug. 26 |
Cultivar | Soluble solids, % | Titratable acidity, % | pH |
---|---|---|---|
Hall's Beauty | 12.84 | 1.38 | 3.33 |
Columbia Star | 12.64 | 1.48 | 3.26 |
Columbia Sunrise | 13.41 | 0.76 | 3.69 |
Black Diamond | 10.2 | 1.26 | 3.39 |
Chester Thornless | 11.72 | 1.04 | 3.30 |
Marion | 12.43 | 1.51 | 3.23 |