Grapes Gift to Zaporozhye: features and care. Secrets of a successful winegrower

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No one would refuse to try delicious grapes, and even more so if they are grown without pesticides in an environmentally friendly place. There are many popular table varieties, one of which is Podarok Zaporozhye. What kind of grapes are these and how easy it is to grow them yourself, let’s go into detail.
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Description of the grapes Gift to Zaporozhye

The variety Gift to Zaporozhye appeared thanks to the breeder Klyuchikov. It is a table grape and is characterized by the following features:
  • Ripening time – average (up to 140 days)
  • Weight of bunches – 0.6-2.0 kg
  • It has light green berries, each – 10-20 g, length – up to 4 cm
  • Sugar content – ​​16-18%
  • Tastes like an apple
The variety is considered vigorous. Having planted a seedling of this type of grape, gardeners note that it grows quickly and bears fruit the very next year. When flowering, pollination proceeds well in any weather; functionally, it is the female type.
The clusters have a conical or cylindrical-conical shape, and delight their owners with juicy, large fleshy berries. The color of an overripe fruit also remains green. The berries have a dense skin that does not crack when exposed to natural precipitation. Podarok Zaporozhye bears fruit well, the figures reach 70%.
Disadvantage: grapes require careful transportation. It is necessary to place the clusters in a row in containers, without piling one on top of the other, otherwise the berries will come off the stem.
Advantages of this variety:
  1. Has an attractive market profile
  2. Resistant to fungal diseases such as oidium, mildew, etc.
  3. Not afraid of a strong drop in temperature. Withstands -24 degrees.
  4. All berries are the same size.
  5. Not afraid of rainy weather.
  6. When propagated, all cuttings take root.
Please note that such indicators can be achieved with proper care for grapes and following all expert advice.

How to care for the variety

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Podarok Zaporozhye grapes require good and regular care, which will allow you to achieve high yields from the young bush. You should start with the soil: fertilize, irrigate and remove all weeds.
The growing vine must be tied to a stake so that it develops vertically. The newly planted plant is pruned (3 shoots are left on each branch), everything else is removed.
In autumn (at sub-zero temperatures), the variety is prepared for wintering:
  1. Leave the vine up to 1 m long.
  2. Bend the plant to the ground.
  3. Make a mound of soil over the vines.
  4. Cover with a layer of pine sawdust.
When spring heat arrives tie the vine on the trellis. Remove all new growths - dew rhizomes that are located near the surface of the soil on underground trunks. Such roots prevent the lower roots from fully developing, and are also vulnerable to low temperatures. If the plant is young, then it is necessary to repeat the catarrhization procedure in the summer.
Using an iron brush, carefully remove a layer of old bark from the above-ground trunk so as not to damage the wood.Another stage is the execution of chasing the shoots (shortening to a leaf with normal development). To do this you will need a garden knife or pruning shears. The optimal time for the procedure is July-August.
Minting is necessary to enhance the nutrition of the wintering eye and improve the conditions for the ripening of vines and the ripening of clusters of the variety. Do not delay with this nuance of care. A gift to Zaporozhye will be able to please with active and healthy growth if cuttings are carried out in a timely manner. It is worth shortening the bush that is characterized by excessive growth of shoots, for example, in autumn humidity. This is also prevention against disease.
Such rules will not cause difficulties even for a novice gardener, and the result will be tangible: a strong bush with active flowering and fruiting.

Rules for pruning bushes

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Pruning before frost is divided into 2 stages in order to make sure that the remaining vines are strong and can provide high yields. After you have harvested the entire crop, you need to clear the branches of links, weak shoots and tops. The optimal time for this is two weeks after the leaves fall. The main thing is that at the time of pruning there is no temperature of -4 degrees, otherwise the vine will be brittle.
Procedure:
  1. At the beginning of September, remove young shoots to the level of the first wires (0.5 m from the soil).
  2. Shorten the shoots located on the next wire by 10-12%, cut off the shoots on the sides.
  3. In mid-autumn, when the leaves have fallen, leave 2 strong shoots at a similar height.
  4. It is necessary to trim the lower shoot that has grown outside the sleeve. Leave 3-4 eyes. This will be a substitution knot.
  5. Cut the top one (on the back side) to 5-12 eyes. This shoot will be a fruit arrow.
  6. Leave 1-2 buds in reserve, in case there are severe frosts and there is a possibility that the branches will freeze in the area of ​​the cuts.
  7. Please note that during circumcision cuts were made on the inner sides of the shoots (which “look” into the middle of the bush). Such wounds heal faster. Otherwise, sap flow will decrease and the harvest will not be what you expect. Cut smoothly to avoid any roughness.
Based on theoretical knowledge, you will be able to prune grape bushes correctly, due to which the harvest of the variety will be high.
Grapes Gift to Zaporozhye is quite popular due to the presence of many positive characteristics. But in order to bring them to life, you need to regularly, and most importantly, properly, care for the plant and then it will become the main pride of your garden.
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Comments

I have been planting and growing grapes for several years now. And I can say with great confidence that the Gift of Zaporozhye grape variety is one of the most delicious grape varieties.