"Gift Zaporizhia" - This is a fairly new, but already well-known variety in viticulture.
It is famous for large and beautiful berries, remarkable taste, endurance and high yield.
With all the conditions for its cultivation, he is able to compete with many popular grape varieties.
"Gift Zaporizhia" (synonymous with FVC-3-3) is a table form of white grapes with early-average ripening periods. The variety is grown for fresh consumption and is very popular among amateur winegrowers.
Ataman, Ilya and Tukay also belong to table white varieties.
Known as a market variety. It is his many farms prefer to grow for sale. Large and beautiful clusters of "Gift Zaporozhye" have an excellent presentation and are in good demand among consumers.
Annie, Vodogray and Marcelo have the same signs of marketability.
Description grade "Gift of Zaporozhye"
Grapes "Gift of Zaporozhye" description. Bushes grape possess great power of growth. After planting, the bush quickly grows and begins to bear fruit the next year. Vine cover dark green leaves of three-lobed and poorly dissected form.
Bunches surprise gardeners with impressive size and weighing from 600 g to 2 kg. Their shape is conical or cylindrical with loose or dense arrangement of fruits. The grapes ripen with little or no pea, with large fruits as if picked.
Anthony the Great, Valery Voevoda and Helios also have large clusters.
The minimum weight of one grape "Gift Zaporozhye" is 10 g, and the maximum - 18 g.
In length, each berry can reach 32 mm, and in width - 28 mm. The color of the grapes is light green in the shade and almost white in the sun with a thin waxy bloom.
The fleshy and juicy pulp of the berries has a pleasant harmonious taste with light apple notes. The sugar content in fruits is from 16 to 18%, the amount of acid is from 6 to 8 g / l. During the tasting, experts rated the taste of the "Gift of Zaporozhye" berries at 8.4 points. The peel of the fruit is elastic, dense and does not undergo cracking in any weather.
Female flowers are varieties such as King, Ruta and Red Delight.
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Breeding history and breeding region
"Gift Zaporizhia" He was bred by the famous winegrower and amateur breeder E. A. Klyuchikov from Zaporozhye. The variety was the result of a complex crossing of three varieties: "Kesha-1" (FV-6-6), "Tsytsa resistant" (V-70-90) and "Ester" (R-65).
The variety was painstakingly created using the FV-6-6x formula (V-70-90 + R-65). The result of the work was an excellent in many respects complex-resistant variety.
It is cultivated in almost all regions of Russia where viticulture is developed. In an area with cold winters, bushes for this variety, as well as for the Vostorg Cherny, Pereyaslavskaya Rada and Richelieu varieties, require winter shelter.
Grape Features
Variety is different high and stable yields, which he gives for the second year. The indicator of its fruitfulness reaches 70%. Good yields are also demonstrated in memory of Dombkowska, Lydia, and Podarok Magaracha.
The coefficient of fruiting varieties ranges from 1.6 to 2 clusters per fructifying shoot. The grape harvest ripens in 135 days or a little longer.
The variety has an interesting feature - its berries first gain their maximum size and only then begin to ripen.
In the Volgograd region, the harvest of the Gift of Zaporozhye is harvested in late August or early September. Ripe berries can hang on a bush for a very long time until the last days of October. And the harvest is well preserved in the cellar until the November and even New Year holidays.
"Gift Zaporizhia" prone to crop overload, therefore, needs rationing inflorescences. Arkady, Galben Nou and Super Early Seedless possess the same sign.
The load on one bush should be from 40 to 45 eyes. For this grade is very important correct forming pruning. With a short pruning of fruit-bearing vines, 3 to 4 eyes are left on it, with a long one, from 6 to 8. It requires the obligatory removal of underdeveloped shoots.
The variety is not afraid of low temperatures. and is able to withstand temperatures down to -24 ° C. Nevertheless, it is recommended for growing in covering form with insulation for the winter. In the fall, the bushes are pruned, the vines are removed from the trellis or canopies and laid on the ground, having previously laid wooden boards or boards. Next, the grapevine is insulated with a covering material, and the top is covered with pine spruce.
Good frost resistance is also demonstrated by the Beauty of the North, Arched and Super Extra.
Grapes require careful handling during transportation. Its berries are loosely kept on a comb and easily crumbling under the weight of neighboring clusters. To avoid this, it is required to put the grapes in one layer.
The variety prefers to grow in well-lit areas. The composition of the land is not very demanding, but the best yield is on a light, fertile and moderately moist soil. Grapes do not tolerate stagnant moisture in the roots and close to the groundwater.
Diseases and pests
Grape variety "Gift Zaporozhye" differs in the increased resistance to fungal diseases. Especially he is not afraid of such a common disease of grapes as mildew.
To protect against oidium in the vineyard, prophylactic treatment of the bushes with a solution of ferrous or copper sulfate is carried out. Spray the plants should be in early spring after their discovery.
To protect the grapes from pests, plants are sprayed with drugs several times: in the spring after opening the bushes, during bud swelling, when 2-3 leaves appear, before flowering and at the moment when the berries become “with a pea”. Most effective:
- Against the sheet-maker - "Fury", "Decis", "Karate", "Talstar", "Lepidotsid", "Aktellik", "Kinmiks", "Inta-Vir".
- Against arachnoid and grape pruritus - colloidal sulfur, Nitrafen, Tiovit Jet, BI-58, Aktellik, Fastak, Konfidor, Detsis, Karate, Inta-Vir.
"Gift Zaporizhia" rarely attacked by wasps. Pests are not able to bite through the dense skin of the berries. But they are not averse to enjoy the sweet pulp of grapes, pecked by birds.
During the ripening of the grapes, the gardener faces a serious challenge - to protect the crop from birds. Without urgent action, feathered pests can destroy a significant part of the crop.
Vineyard is effectively protected by various rattles, shiny objects, scarecrows. But this is considered a temporary measure, as the birds quickly get used to them. Experienced winegrowers are advised to use protective nets that stretch over the grape bushes. Such devices can be bought in specialized stores.
According to many gardeners, the variety favorably differs from other varieties in reliability, taste, and presentation. With proper care, stable and high yields of this wonderful variety can be obtained even by a beginner grower.
Well suited for novice growers and such unpretentious varieties as Aleshenkin dar, Giovanni and Denisovsky.
