Vodogray grapes

Vodogray grapes
The main characteristics of the variety:
  • Authors: Zagorulko Vitaly Vladimirovich
  • Appointment: dining room
  • Berry color: pink
  • Taste: with nutmeg aroma
  • Ripening period: early middle
  • Ripening period, days: 120-125
  • Frost resistance, ° C: -21
  • Bunch weight, g: 600-800
  • Flower type: bisexual
  • Density of the bunch: medium loose
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The surprisingly beautiful pink table grape Vodograi is becoming more and more popular with gardeners. The variety is intended for fresh consumption and can serve as an independent decoration for a festive table. Due to their excellent presentation and amazing taste, the grapes do not linger on the shelves due to high demand.

Breeding history

Vodogray is another masterpiece of the breeder from Ukraine V.V. Zagorulko, who has many well-known patented varieties. Almost all of them have received high awards at international exhibitions. The originator received a hybrid as a result of crossing the varieties Arcadia and Luchisty raisins.

Geography of distribution

This grape is adapted for cultivation in the southern regions - in Ukraine, in the Central Black Earth region, as well as in the Volga region, in the south of Belarus.

Description

The hybrid variety is distinguished by a powerful vine - vigorous self-rooted bushes give an annual growth of great length. The young shoot has a glossy, light-colored crown of a pale green color, devoid of pubescence. The vine is covered with large and medium-sized, wide, five-lobed, medium dissected foliage. The outer side of the leaf is wrinkled-reticulate, the petiole is lyre-shaped, the petioles themselves are painted in light green shades with a pinkish tint at the base.

Ripening period

Vodogray grapes belong to medium early varieties - from the swelling of the buds to the moment of technical ripeness, the fruits will take 120-125 days. The required sum of active temperatures is 2550–2650 ° C.

Bunches

Bunches of conical shape of average density reach 600-800 grams on average, under ideal conditions they can grow up to one and a half kilograms. The berry rests on long, strong green comb.

Berries

Large papillary pink berries are covered with a thin skin, which is almost invisible while eating. Berry weight 9-10 grams, size 28-34 x 18-20 mm. The fruits are covered with a thin layer of pruin, the variety is almost not susceptible to peas, except with a strong overload.

Taste

Fleshy and juicy pulp with a pronounced nutmeg aroma has a pleasant, sweet and harmonious taste, clear juice, high sugar content 18–20 g / 100 ml and titratable acidity of 6–7 g.

Yield

The hybrid is capable of high yield and yields a large yield with good agricultural technology. The fruiting factor is 1.7.

The choice of planting material
Experienced gardeners recommend that beginners take cuttings and seedlings from those who made them from their vines and are professionally engaged in the production of such material.
You can evaluate the quality by cutting off a small amount of bark. When growing a bush from a cuttings and observing the rules of agricultural technology, survival rate is about 90%, the high quality of the plant is practically guaranteed. It is possible to control the development of grapes at all stages.
Subject to the rules of agricultural technology, survival rate is about 100%. The seedlings must be healthy. Pay attention to the absence of blisters, growths, or other signs of disease.

Growing features

Planting Vodograi is no different from the standard one, the time for planting young seedlings is spring, during the summer they manage to build up a good root system. Autumn planting threatens young plants with freezing.For planting, choose sunny areas, protected from drafts and northern winds. The culture needs the attention of the gardener, it is then that it gives the most complete harvest.

Landing

The place for planting plants is prepared in advance. They prepare pits 80x80x80 cm, arrange a drainage layer, fill the earth with nutrients - humus, complex fertilizers, in addition, wood ash must be added. A young seedling is placed on a prepared mound, the roots are carefully spread and covered with soil to the stem. After that, the plantings are shed, the next day the soil is loosened and mulched to avoid cracking and drying out.

Landing features
In order for the vine to give a signal harvest after 3 years, it is necessary to take into account many factors - from the type of soil on the site to the nearby plants.

Pollination

The grapes bloom with bisexual flowers and do not need additional pollination measures.

Pruning

Each bunch of Vodogray hybrid has a significant weight, which cannot but affect the integrity of the vine. To preserve the shoots, formative autumn pruning is carried out, leaving 4-8 eyes on each branch.

Pruning is one of the main grape care procedures. Depending on the purpose of pruning and the type of plant, the appropriate type of formation is selected.

Watering

The hybrid needs systematic watering, which is the key to the stable development of the plant and its fruiting. The grapes are spilled several times - in early spring, during the budding period, then during the fruit set, at the rate of 1 bucket per 1 bush.

Irrigation schemes
In order for the berries to be large and juicy, it is necessary to organize full watering and feeding. All standards must be adjusted for weather conditions and the rate of evaporation of the liquid.
With a frequent watering scheme, it is recommended to moisturize once every two weeks (that is, twice a month during flowering and the appearance of berries) so that the earth is saturated 50 cm deep so that the plant does not switch to superficial (dew) roots. This amount can be reduced by mulching the crop with straw.
With a rare irrigation scheme, choosing the age and ripening period of the grapes, you can use the standards presented in the table in another article.

Top dressing

An adult plant needs additional nutrition, since the introduced nutrients during planting are not enough for more than 3-4 seasons. After that, the vine is fed seasonally with mineral and organic fertilizers.

Frost resistance and the need for shelter

The hybrid has an average resistance to negative temperatures - it can withstand no more than –21 ° C. The vine needs shelter where it is such winters, it is also removed from the trellises, laid on the ground and covered with spruce branches, straw, agrofibre. In winter, it will be useful to warm up the snow from above.

Shelter for the winter is a very important step for the preservation of many grape varieties after wintering.

Diseases and pests

The hybrid has resistance to fungal diseases by 3.5-4 points, to mildew by 4 points, susceptible to mildew by 4 points. To protect grapes from fungal diseases, mildew, oidium, as well as pests, gardeners and farmers use preventive treatments with insecticides and fungicides.

Storage

For temporary storage of the crop, special storage cellars are used with good ventilation and an appropriate temperature regime.

General characteristics
Authors
Vitaly Zagorulko
Appeared when crossing
Arcadia x Radiant Kishmish
Appointment
dining room
Bunches
Bunch shape
conical
Density of the bunch
medium loose
Bunch weight, g
600-800
Berries
Berry color
pink
Taste
with nutmeg aroma
Skin
thin
Pulp
fleshy juicy
Berry shape
nipple
Berry weight, g
9-10
Berry size, mm
28-34x18-20
Growing
Frost resistance, ° C
-21
Flower type
bisexual
The power of growth
vigorous
Pruning vines, eyes
4-8
Resistance to fungal diseases
3.5-4 points
Mildew resistance, points
4 points (susceptibility)
Resistance to powdery mildew, points
4 points (susceptibility)
Maturation
Ripening period, days
120-125
Ripening period
early middle
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