Ponca
Data: 2022-03-28, atualizado: 2023-04-14
Provavelmente, o Sweet-Ark Ponca é a variedade de amora mais doce do mundo hoje
Rubus subgenus Rubus Watson 'Ponca'
Originado de uma cruz de A-2406 x A-2253T
Denominação da variedade 'Ponca', testado como A-2538T
As plantas são sem espinhas
Os arbustos têm correção bengalas
O peso da fruta é 6 g
As bagas têm um arredondado forma
Sólidos solúveis - 13.4%
Acidez - 0.54%
O hábito de frutificar frutas floricaneiras (de verão)
A floração em floricanes começa no primeira semana de maio
Data de maturação (normal) - terceira semana de junho
A produtividade é 5 kg por planta
A resistência ao frio é bom
É originário de Estados Unidos
Patente US PP33,330 P2 datação Agosto 08, 2021
Situação atual - moderno ou amplamente utilizado
Ponca é uma variedade de amora sem espinhos, de médio porte, frutífera. Os arbustos são moderadamente vigorosos e muito prolíficos. As plantas são de baixa altura, cerca de 1,5 m quando basculantes corretamente. Primocanes e floricanes são eretos no hábito de crescimento. As bagas e cachos de flores são de tamanho médio-grande, cymose, e são em sua maior parte carregadas na periferia da copa da planta, proporcionando fácil acesso à colheita. As canas podem ser treinadas para uma sebe auto-sustentável, embora seja benéfico utilizar uma grade com arames de apoio para evitar que as canas caiam devido ao vento ou a cargas pesadas de frutas.
O período de floração da cultivar Ponca começa na última semana de abril. A fertilidade das flores é alta e os cachos estão bem cheios. As flores são grandes (cerca de 40 mm de diâmetro), têm a cor branca. As bagas amadurecem na primeira semana de junho. O período médio de frutificação das floricaneiras é de 55 dias. O rendimento de frutos em floricanes é, em média, de 5,8 kg por planta.
O peso médio das bagas é de cerca de 6 g, ligeiramente maior que o Osage e quase o mesmo que o Caddo. O fruto é redondo, de forma ligeiramente oblonga e brilhante, com um acabamento preto uniforme. O tamanho é bem mantido durante toda a estação de colheita. A cultivar Ponca apresenta excelente fertilidade da fruta com um conjunto completo de drupelet.
A fruta fresca tem um sabor muito bom e é um atributo notável da cultivar e é comparável ao Osage e ao Caddo. O sabor consistente foi notado em repetidas observações de frutas desta cultivar ao longo dos anos de avaliação, inclusive após eventos de chuva que podem reduzir o sabor e a qualidade geral da fruta. O sabor é doce e subácido.
O potencial de armazenamento da fruta fresca da nova cultivar é bom e comparável ao Osage e ao Caddo, as bagas são muito firmes.
A Ponca é resistente a doenças. Plantas e frutas não mostraram evidência de antracnose e nenhuma evidência de suscetibilidade à ferrugem da laranja. As plantas mostraram uma leve suscetibilidade à cana e à ferrugem foliar. A resistência ao inverno tem sido comparável à de Ouachita e tem mostrado muito pouco dano a um mínimo de -17 С.
Como cultivar o Ponca?
2. Summer tipping of primocanes at 1.1 m;
3. Use a hedgerow training system including a trellis;
4. A single application of liquid lime sulfur (94 L/ha) each spring at budbreak for control of anthracnose;
5. Use insecticides for spotted-wing drosophila control during the harvest season;
6. Plant spacing at least 0.6 m.
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Take a trip with me to Bob Wells Nursery at Sorelle Farms to get some new PONCA blackberries!
I think this is going to be a great new variety for the Homesteader/Backyard Gardener.
Ponca ripens early. It's very near Natchez season, one of our earliest varieties, and so it'll get into the market in the early season. Ponca's characteristics include: a berry size of about seven grams, which is comparable to Ouachita, a very important Arkansas variety, and larger than Osage, one of our most popular high flavored varieties. The berry chemistry is one of the best I've seen for a blackberry. Anywhere from 10 to 13 percent average soluble solids for the season, the sweetest one we've released. It has a sub-acid flavor which always complements the sweetness, and it has a tremendous aromatic profile.
The storage of Ponca is very good. It retains its black color very good with very limited reversion or reddening of the cells in storage. It maintains its shiny appearance, that sweetness carries through on flavor. I think for a storage berry and for shipping, it has great potential. And for local markets, your customers are going to come back and ask for Ponca.
Yield is very important in our blackberry breeding program because we want to have productive plants year in and year out. The yield for Ponca is approximately 15 to 20 thousand pounds per acre in our test plots, and is equal to that of Ouachita and Osage, two of our successful varieties that have been stable yield plants in the commercial market.
Ponca has a couple of unique plant characteristics that are new to our blackberry variety profile, and that includes the ability to produce the primary crop which ripens early very similar to Natchez in season, and the secondary crop which ripens anywhere from 14 to 20 days later. When we have a frost, we have a little bit of recovery crop potential because these buds break a little later. A unique aspect of Ponca is its plant type. It has a shortened internodes, and that's the space between leaves and shoots and flower clusters, and it allows a more compact type plant. This is the fruiting area which is about shoulder heigh to slightly lower, where the canes have been tipped to train them the prior year. However the primocanes on Ponca emerge above the fruiting canopy later, which is an added benefit in that tipping is not required early or during harvest in our trials, and it also allows the tipping to be done after harvest. This is a labor saving technique and reduces some management costs, which probably will be beneficial to growers of commercial blackberries.
In the berry category, blackberries have the greatest growth potential, and the only thing holding back is marketing and better varieties. Often times people say, "I don't like blackberries because they're tart or sour." Ponca is sweet. Berry to berry to berry consistency is better than any blackberry I've ever experienced. Give Ponca a try. I think it can expand your blackberry sales, and put smiles on customer faces.
We planted 1/4 acre of Ponca this fall. We are somewhat cautious since the new variety produces a small secondary crop and requires a different management technique when toping the canes. I suspect it’s going to be an excellent addition or terrible.
Placed the new Ponca side by side with Caddo, Ouachita and Von in a new field. Von ripens at the same time as Navaho. Since its a NCSU variety it has been tested a lot in my area. Brix, yield and flavor has been described as about the same as the Arkansas berries. It has better resistance to orange rust than Navaho.
Still have about an acre of Natchez, Ouchata and Navaho in the old field. I like the Navaho fruit a lot but the plants are consumed with orange rust and will be removed. These plants are 12 or more years old and we have noticed some decline in vigor and plant survival over time.