Are you picking up early grapes for your summer cottage?
Look at the "Beauty", she has a good combination of sugar and flavoring acids, and the taste is decent! Grape "Pretty Woman"
The grape variety "Pretty Woman" was bred by the famous breeder Yevgeny Pavlovsky.
This grape belongs to the amateur varieties, since not different varieties were used for pouring, but fruit forms.
Variety description
The variety "Pretty Woman" is a table grape that starts ripening early. The shoots and the vine are fully ripened. Grape bushes sredneroslye, flowers - bisexual. Shrubs variety "Beauty" are multi-layered and deep root system that allows it to grow and ripen quickly.
Grapes has the most beautiful and largest berries, wonderful and seductive appearance of grapes. The weight of one berry is about 7 grams. In shape, they are elongated, the tip is slightly sharp. The color is dark pink, the tips are purple. The grapes taste is pleasant, harmonious, dominated by nutmeg aroma.
Berries are sweet, juicy. The finish is refreshing, gentle, sometimes there is a sour taste. Peel is easily eaten. Sometimes they can burst. Grapes are used to make juices, dried fruits. Seeds in the berries almost never occur.
The grape variety "Beauty" has an impeccable presentation. Resistance to mildew is average, and resistance to frost has not yet been fully investigated.
Bunch
Clusters of "Pretty Woman" varieties are beautiful, of medium density. Weight can reach 700 grams. Their form is long and narrow.
Yield
Productivity is average, stable.
Term ripening
Grape variety "Pretty Woman" is a variety of early berries ripening. After 110 days from the start of the first bud blooming, you can begin harvesting.
Virtues
The advantages of the variety "Beauty" are:
I. Decorative view of bunches.
Ii. Beautiful grapes with an unobtrusive taste of nutmeg.
Iii. Excellent product quality berries.
disadvantages
To the minus of grapes "Beauty" refers:
I. The average resistance to certain diseases.
Ii. In rainy years, grapes can crack.
Landing features
Grade "Pretty Woman", like other grape varieties, is considered a sun-loving and light-loving plant. He needs a lot of heat. Any soil is suitable for grapes, but be sure to choose a plot with excellent drainage. Soil acidity is average. For planting grape cuttings suitable southern and south-western slopes. In the northern regions, the variety Krasot should be grown along a fence or wall.
Do not plant grapes in areas where cold air stagnates.
Ideal for planting grapes are sandy or chernozem soils, rocky or gravelly soils. It is on these types of soil that the quality of the berries stands out. Plots with highly saline and marshy soils will not work, areas where the groundwater level reaches 1.5 meters from the ground surface.
Before the start of planting work you need to prepare the ground. The site digs up, carried out the liming of acid soils. The soil is fertilized with manure, humus, a complex of vitamins of fertility is applied on impoverished soils.
In the planting pit, to improve the quality of the soil and to improve its aeration, rubble mixed with soil or sand is introduced. In the soil, which contain little phosphorus, often clayey soils or heavy chernozems, superphosphates are added to the pit.
When choosing a place with sandy soil, it should be remembered that they contain a small amount of nitrogen fertilizers. Therefore, nitrogen is additionally added, but drainage is not done from stones, since sandy soils have good breathable properties.
Before planting grapes "Pretty Woman" sandy soil fertilized with manure or humus, you can make peat or compost. In addition, the planting pits are fertilized with superphosphate for a better survival rate.
Landing depth
Saplings varieties "Pretty Woman" planted in depth from 50 to 60 cm to protect the root system from freezing. This is considered to be the optimal depth, so the soil warms up quickly, and its surface is fertile, the amount of water and mineral fertilizers decreases.
When planting a seedling in the ground, you need to be very careful, make sure that the place of grafting of grapes (if any) is above ground level. A grape bush planted must be tied to a support, which was inserted in advance in a hole, watered with three buckets of water on one bush, and mulch the soil to preserve moisture.
When planting grapes near a wall or fence, bushes are planted from each other at a distance of 1.2 meters, and in an open area with an interval of 1.5 meters.
Landing dates
Grapes "Pretty Woman" begin to be planted in the spring before the start of bud break.
Care
To care for grapes "Pretty Woman" is pretty easy and simple. He needs irrigation, mulching of the soil, sheltering for the winter, carrying out measures for pruning, introduction of fertilizing and fertility vitamins, protection from pests and diseases.
Watering
During the first year of growth, the grapes are constantly watered. On cloudy and rainy days, the rate of watering is once every seven days. But when it is hot outside, the heat and dry air of the grapes are watered every other day.
Since the second year, apply two types of regular watering: water recharge and vegetative. Water the grapes before blooming buds, after it has faded, and during the growth of the berries. Finish watering varieties "Pretty Woman" a week before the full maturation of the clusters.
Mulching
Mulch the soil around the vines. This event helps to preserve the life-giving moisture of the soil, reduce the amount of weed development, strengthen the processes of nitrification, that is, accumulate nutrient nitrogen compounds that are formed as a result of the action of beneficial soil bacteria. You can mulch everything: straw, dung, humus. Mulching can enhance the growth of grapes and increase its yield.
Mulching vineyards with straw must be borne in mind that rodents, such as mice, may appear. To prevent their occurrence, they preliminarily set traps or hoarse poison.
Harboring
Since it is not fully understood the resistance of the variety "Pretty Woman" to severe frosts and cold weather, it is advised to shelter it, especially if there are snowless winters in the region. A small depression is made around the grapes, its trunk is covered with earth and a layer of sawdust, somewhere one bucket. Sawdust retains heat well. Cut vine is harvested and tied up in a bundle, which is placed securely in the ground. Above it is covered with cardboard, corrugated cardboard from boxes of cookies, sweets will also suit. The edges of the cardboard should be sprinkled with earth or sawdust.
Shelter grapes are removed after the snow melts, but not before April.
Pruning
Pruning a vine has a beneficial effect on obtaining high-quality yields every year.
• In the year of planting, in the first half of August, the top of the shoots are removed. After the leaves fall on the vine, 3 or 4 buds are left, all that is higher is cut off.
• In the second year, in the fall, 4 of the most powerful vines are selected on the vine, 5 buds are left for them. All weak and dry shoots pruned.
• In the third year of plant growth in the autumn pruning on the vine they leave one of the most powerful sprouts, which is cut into 5 buds.
With proper pruning, the four-year-old "Pretty Woman" vine must have 4 fruit vines. Increase the strength of the bush by increasing the fruit shoots on the same vine by 3 pieces, and at the same time it is necessary to increase the number of vines that depart from the roots.
Fertilizers
Grape variety "Beauty" needs fertilizer and fertilizing. In the first year after planting, the grapes do not need fertilization, because it feeds on those beneficial elements that were introduced during the laying of vineyards.
At different periods of the growing season, grapes need different amounts of fertilizer. For example, at the beginning of spring there is an intensified build-up of the root system, shoots and green mass, the grapes need a large amount of nitrogen fertilizers. During the period of flowering and ripening of grapes, the variety “Pretty Woman” has a need to add phosphorus and potassium, which improve the accumulation of sugar in the berries, and contribute to the better maturation of the shoots.
Once every three years, simultaneously with the autumn digging of the soil, organic matter is introduced: manure, compost or peat.
But mineral fertilizers, in dry and liquid form, are made annually. In the spring, before removing the shelter from the bushes, ammonium nitrate, superphosphates and potash salt are introduced. Grapes are also fed a month before the beginning of its flowering, at the end of May. Mineral fertilizers are applied: ammonium nitrate, superphosphate and potassium salt, having previously dissolved them in water. Pour this solution into the shallow grooves that were dug between the rows.
Grade "Pretty Woman" is fed up and before the start of ripening grapes. Fertilizers are applied in the form of solutions. Potassium salt and superphosphate are used. Sometimes instead of potassium salt wood ash is used.
Feeding grapes can and should be organic fertilizers. Ideal are slurry, bird droppings, compost, manure that are diluted with water. Under each bush make 1 bucket of the mixture.
It is also interesting to read about the best varieties of early grapes.
Protection
Grapes "Pretty Woman" needs prevention and protection from wasps, mildew, gray rot and oidium.
• Wasps
The wasps are very striking bunch of grapes. Chemical products can be used for protection, but they, besides positive results (getting rid of insects), can harm a person by eating berries.
The easiest and safest way to protect grape plants is considered bags of gauze, which are easy to sew yourself. Gauze bags are easy to put on bunches. As a result, all the berries are intact.
You can arrange and traps for wasps. To do this, use a small jar filled with water, 250 grams, in which you need to dissolve the sugar, about 3 tablespoons. Syrup jars are placed on the ground near the bushes, wasps, getting inside, die, because they can not get back.
• Mildew
Mildew is manifested in the form of spots on the upper part of the leaf, and is covered with a touch of mycelium below. It spreads on the leaves, ovaries, then they dry out and fall off. Spray the vineyards of Radomil or Amistar.
• Gray rot
Gray rot is manifested in the form of a fungus. All green mass is affected - leaves, brown spots appear on them. Especially the risk of rot increases during the rainy period. For the protection of grape leaves for the season they spend 3-4 treatments, spray them with fungicides like Ronilan, Rowral, Sumileks.
• Oidium
Another dangerous disease of grapes is oidium. It is dangerous during the entire growing season. Manifested in the form of light spots on the leaves, which increase in size. The grapes are covered with bloom, begin to crack and rot. Affected berries and leaves fall. Shrubs are sprayed with fungicides like Thanos or Profit.
