Grapes Timur: description and subtleties of care

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Timur grapes are the best variety for sowing in the country. It has a beautiful appearance and unique taste.

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History of appearance

This grape is a hybrid that was formed by crossing the Frumoasa Albe and Delight varieties. It belongs to the type of table grapes and pleases summer residents with its early ripening. Timur has many advantages that made him famous among the best winegrowers and people who love to pamper themselves with delicious berries. Timur grapes come in two types: white and pink.

Varieties and description of fruits

Timur

Description of white grapes Timur:
  1. Fast ripening variety, which gives a person its berries after 100-115 days. The grapes have medium vigor. One bunch of it has a cylindrical or conical shape and often weighs 600 grams.
  2. The amber-green berries of the grapes are oval in shape. One berry can weigh up to 10 grams. Its pulp is dense and aromatic, has a slightly nutmeg smell.
  3. Grape shoots grow and ripen quickly, actively bear fruit, but require proper care, otherwise they may die.
  4. If you grow this variety on heavy soils, you can get good yields on them too. Then the berries will have a tart taste, which will disappear after the fruits are fully ripened.
  5. The grape skin is thin and breaks easily. Grapes contain up to 25 percent sugar accumulation.
  6. Timur is highly resistant to frost (can withstand -25 degrees Celsius) and resistant to various diseases (unaffected by gray rot).
Description of pink grapes Timur:
  1. The grapes ripen in 110-130 days, in mid-August. This plant variety bears fruit quickly, but not much. A bunch of grapes weighs about 800 grams, the berries are very large, and the structure of the bunch is loose.
  2. Pink variety has a high calorie content (70 calories), and the grapes taste sweeter than their white counterpart.
  3. The pink-purple fruits have an elongated shape. The skin of the berries is dense, but you can eat it.
  4. The white Timur and pink Timur varieties are very similar in appearance, but differ sharply in taste.
  5. If a person is overweight, then he will have to choose the first grape, since it contains fewer calories.
  6. Pink Timur is affected by a tick.
  7. The grape vine is pruned with an average of 7 buds.

Grape care

Timur

There is no need to put Timur close vigorous varieties. Grapes love soft and loose soil, but strong bushes grow on viscous soils, the berries of which have an unsweetened taste. You can feed Timur with nitrogen fertilizers, then the plant will ripen faster and the berries will quickly fill with juice. The bush needs to be rationed, otherwise the fruits will lose their good qualities due to an overabundance of the harvest.
Grapes propagate easily and do not require special care.
Advantages of this variety:
  • Large berry size.
  • The fruits are sweet and tasty.
  • Nice looking grapes.
  • Early ripeness (the fruits ripen quickly).
  • The grapes enter the fruiting phase after 2 years.
  • Bush resistance in mildew.
  • The average acidity of the fruit is 8 g/l.
  • You can cut to different lengths.
  • Suitable for sale.
  • Timur grapes can be grown throughout Russia.
  • Grows on chernozems and clay soils.
  • It can be used as a hedge, as the grapes entwine well around various objects.
  • A low-growing plant - it occupies a small area and is easy to grow.
  • Excessively wet soil affects the taste of the skin - it becomes more tart.

How to protect grapes from frost?

Timur cannot spend the winter in all places in Russia, because sometimes winter frosts bring cold weather, and at temperatures below -25 degrees the grapes die.
You definitely need to know how to create favorable conditions for Timur in the winter.
The best method of covering grapes - using a hillock of soil. You need to take spruce branches or reeds. First, they are laid on the ground next to the grapes, and the vines of the plant are placed on top. They are covered with another layer of branches or reeds. Now you need to put polyethylene and press it down with stones or bricks. Everything is covered from above with a layer of earth (30-50 centimeters).
The Timur variety is suitable for beginning winegrowers and summer residents. The berries can be dried to create delicious raisins. Some people can make aromatic wine from Timur grapes, or eat fresh berries, add them to porridge, or make a fruit salad. You will find a use for these grapes.
But know that the taste of Timur’s berries did not leave anyone indifferent - on the websites of professional winegrowers you can find “bright” reviews about this variety. Grow Timur and delight your family with the sweet taste of grapes!
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Comments

I had these very tasty grapes growing in my garden, but unfortunately they froze last winter.

Good grapes: sweet taste, light aroma.In some ways it looks like lady fingers. By the way, are his bones big?