What can be said about this masterpiece of Moldovan selection? Not handsome, that's for sure - the clusters are very plump, dirty-reddish, not too pleasing to the eye.
If the buyer is scared away, offer him a berry to the taste - one hundred percent, and buy it, and come tomorrow! It is simply impossible to remain indifferent to such berries!
What kind is it?
Senator - hybrid table subspecies early-average ripening. Table hybrids also include the Dawn of Nesvetaya, Korinka Russian and Valery Voevoda.
Important: not to be confused with the sentimental grade Senator Burdak!
Berries ripen to the beginning of autumn. It is usually left to hang more, so that sugar will accumulate more. Berry normally transfers storage and transportation.
Especially popular with winemakers for a rich drop-out nutmeg bouquet with sour, sweet and tart notes, rich aftertaste with strawberry flavor. Very popular and fresh - the berries can be stored for a long time, without losing nutmeg, which is especially valuable.
Muscat summer, Muscat Novoshakhtinsky and Nesvetay Gift can also boast with muscatel flavor and aroma.
Grape Senator: variety description
The power of tallness is above average. It has a good survival rate of cuttings. A cluster of moderately large, round, very dense, on a long light green stem.
Hearing is observed very rarely. Weight from 600 g to one and a half kilogram. The berries are oval or ovoid, rather large, 10-12 g, dirty pink or light red with violet.
Not prone to pea and Aleshenkin darling, Victoria and Galben Nou.
The skin is dense, with food almost not felt. The flesh is juicy, fleshy, with two or three small full seeds inside.
Gardeners should be mindful of fragile stems and handle clusters carefully. Flowers of both sexes. Ripened shoots strong, light brown, with reddish knots. The leaf is large, dark green, rounded, strongly cut.
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Photo grapes "Senator":
Breeding history
Created by E.G. Pavlovsky, whose main goal has always been to create grapes, not too afraid of winters and resistant to disease. At the same time that he preserved the sweetness and refined aroma.
The senator was such a gift for winegrowers. Parental varieties - Gift Zaporozhye and Maradona.
It belongs to the covering varieties, therefore the best of all is, of course, in the south - Crimea, Pridonie, the Caucasus, the Krasnodar Territory. In mid-latitudes, it is not common because of possible severe winters that can be disastrous for the Senator.
Romeo, Sponsor and Pharaoh belong to the hand of the same breeder.
Specifications
This "dignitary" tolerates very cold (though it requires to be covered) - up to -23-24 degrees Celsius. A strong sun is also afraid - the clusters need to be covered with leaves so that the berries do not get sunburn. Not afraid of fungal attacks.
The Black Raven, in memory of Dzheneev and Kishmish Jupiter are also distinguished by the same signs.
According to farmers, phylloxera are not afraid either. It is well compatible with most stocks, likes extra care - watering, fertilizer. Aging shoots are very good, almost the entire length. Wasps, according to gardeners, are also almost unbeaten.
Diseases and pests
The wasps will not take this "VIP-person", but the birds - with dear soul. To save the vineyard from them is easy - a tough net fence will help.
The probability of such a terrible disease, like bacterial cancer, is low, but still it is. Grape oncology is a very terrible enemy, if you miss it, you can easily lose the whole vineyard. Moreover, unfortunately, they have not learned to treat it yet.
Rather, chemists have invented drugs that, according to them, will cure bacterial cancer completely, but so far they are at the experimental stage. Therefore it is necessary to cope with what we have.
The main weapon in the fight against any cancer - prevention. So, carefully inspect the cuttings and seedlings, feed them with mineral fertilizers, handle them very carefully so as not to cut the bark.
We also have to make sure that the bush is well blown out with fresh air. Well, and if the disease did come, the sick part is uprooted and destroyed.
Do not neglect prevention against anthracnose, bacteriosis and chlorosis. Despite the resistance to fungi, do not forget to inspect for the appearance of mildew and oidium, all kinds of rot.
Who will surely enjoy it is a felt mite, otherwise it’s a grape pruritus. Eats and shoots, and leaves, and ovaries and berries. Because the vineyard needs to be sprayed with drugs - Bi-58, Fufanon, Kleschevit, Tiovit-Jet is also good.
Grape Senator - a real miracle of selection, a gift to all growers, especially those who know a lot about good wine. Externally, a bunch can not hit its beauty, but it is not for nothing that they say that it is not good, who has a good face.
It is enough to try this berry once to want to regale it all year round. And this sort of care, despite the “status” name, requires not a complicated one, but the ordinary one, with which any gardener is familiar.
More clearly with the grapes "Senator" you can find below:
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