Why do farmers like early varieties? The answer is simple - berries ripen so quickly that they do not have time for fungi.
Yes, and have to wait just some three months - and now the vine bends under large, fragrant clusters, which can be cut off right now, and you can leave it hanging until September - let them pick sugar.
And if the variety is also resistant to low temperatures and does not require special care, this is a real treasure for the farmer. These include Purple early.
What kind is it?
Early purple - table-wine variety. Especially love winemakers for the rich taste with a distinct muscatel and pink hints, as well as - high sugar content.
Galben Nou, Saperavi and Libya can also boast a high sugar content.
Used in a blend of red table and dessert wines, among them is the well-known vintage dessert wine Steppe Rose. It is also suitable for fresh consumption, as well as in juices, liqueurs and desserts.
Harvest can be harvested in early September, if the wine - to wait until the third decade, so that the fruits podnakopili sugar. Significant for winemakers is the high score of tasters - 8.9 points.
In the blend often use such varieties as King, Asya and Romeo.
Early purple grapes: variety description
The growth force of the bush is above average. Clusters of medium size (about 150g), cone-shaped, moderately friable.
The leaves are light green, rounded, small, three- or five-lobed, medium-cut, rarely whole, sometimes funnel-shaped. The surface of the sheet is smooth, sometimes bubbly, the edges can be bent down. The lower surface of the leaf is slightly pubescent.
Hermaphrodite flowers. Young shoots are pale green, matured one-year-olds are light brown, in brown nodules. Vine brown color, powerful.
Hermaphroditic flowers also differ Richelieu, Montepulciano and Julian.
The berries are medium and below average in size, dark blue with a violet tinge, rounded, covered with a gray-bluish wax bloom. Long grassed leg of light green color. The skin is dense, medium thickness, the flesh is juicy, very sweet, with 2-3 large seeds inside.
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Purple early photo:
Breeding history
Purple Early variety was created in the laboratory of VNIIViV them. Potapenko, the city of Novocherkassk in 1947. Obtained by crossing a variety of Severny with Muscat Hamburg.
It feels best in the southern regions, is very common in Ukraine, Moldova and the Caucasus.
In the same scientific institute Harold, Red Delight and Denisovsky were born.
Specifications
The variety has a high frost resistance (capable of withstanding minus from 21 to 27 centigrade), but low resistance to phylloxera, leafworm, and powdery mildew.
To the frost-resistant varieties also belong the Beauty of the North, the Arched and Pink Flamingo.
The level of sugar content is about 20 g / 0.1 l. Low acidity - 3.8 g / l. The berries are very sweet, with a pronounced nutmeg taste and a pleasant aftertaste with pink notes. It survives well both on flat territories and on slopes.
Unpretentious to soil conditions. It grows even on heavy soils of salt marshes.
Yield early Purple - average, regular. In order to maintain stable yields, it is necessary to prune excess shoots and stepchildren. Shoots maturation - 78%.
Pink, Aleshenkin and Favor are also unpretentious to the soil conditions.
Diseases and pests
What is it worth to guard against? Adversity is not so little:
- Phylloxera.
- Mildew and Oidium.
- Threatened moth.
- Bacterial cancer.
- Birds.
- Wasps (to a lesser extent).
Listovertka - very dangerous and annoying enemy, they say about her that it is easier to poison yourself than to erase it. However, this can be done by spraying with insecticides (cymbush, sumicidin, tokution, sevin, cydial).
These drugs can be mixed with fungicides and thus a double blow will be dealt - on arrogant caterpillars and fungal infections.
Against phylloxera (and just aphids) good use carbon disulfide drugs. And here it is important not to overdo it, since it is poison not only for voracious insects, but, unfortunately, for the bush itself.
Powdery mildew, or oidium, can be lime, sprinkling the vineyard with a solution of sulfur-containing drugs, as well as fungicides - Topsin M, karatan, rubigan.
Osu will be stopped by sticky poisonous baits, insecticides, or special nets in which clusters are hidden. A bird is a rigid mesh barrier that would stop a feathered hunter, not letting you get confused and not interfering with flying away.
Not so easy with bacterial cancer. If diseased shoots and bushes are found, the only way out is to root out the affected parts and burn. Regular watering and mineral fertilizers are a good prevention against the disease.
Also, preventive measures against anthracnosis, bacteriosis, chlorosis and rubella, which are very common grape diseases, do not prevent at all.
If you decide to plant at your site Early Purple - you will become the owner of a real treasure appreciated by everyone - from a simple philistine to a professional winemaker. But, as in the case of any treasure, for him to fight and not take the time and effort to protect the vine from fungi and moths.
