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Grapes have been grown since ancient times. This plant is famous not only for its taste, but also for the possibility of creating decorative structures in the garden. Grapes are an excellent raw material for compotes, juices, wine, not to mention the use of fresh berries. Grapes have found wide application in cosmetology and medicine.
As a rule, a place for a vine in a garden is chosen next to the wall of the house or around arbors. You can use grapes to divide the territory into zones by making arches and pergolas. Arched grapes (look at the photo), just such a variety with which you can create various architectural forms to decorate the garden.
A little history
Variety Arochny is a hybrid of selection. The authors are scientists of the VNIIViV them. ME AND. Potapenko. In some sources, Arched has other names: III-14-1-1, Pink Friendship or Colored. For crossing, according to known information, the grape variety Intervitis Magaracha and white-berry Druzhba were chosen.
botanical properties
The vine of the Arched grape variety is vigorous, with good care it reaches three meters. The variety is early ripe, frost-resistant. Grapes are well propagated by cuttings. Having planted a vine, already in the second year you can get the first harvest.
Not every gardener will risk making new plantings without knowing the details about the plant. Therefore, we will present our readers with a description with a photo of Arochny grapes. In this photo, the plant is three years old.
Description of fruits
- The clusters of Arochny are large, with medium-sized berries, their weight reaches 400-600 grams. They have a standard cylindrical shape. Grapes are almost the same size, there is no pea on dense clusters.
- Berries 18×25 mm in size, weigh about 6 grams. The shape is oval-nipple. The color of the berries is interesting, flowing from pink to red. Particularly bright, as gardeners write in the reviews, are the fruits of Arochny grapes growing on the sunny side.
- The pulp is juicy, tasty and fragrant. Tasters give Arochny a 7,7 out of 10.
- But not everyone likes the dense skin and a large number of seeds of this grape variety.
- There is enough sugar in the berries – 16-18%, acid about 5 g / l.
Useful Properties
The description of the variety would not be complete if we did not talk about the beneficial properties of grapes. Berries are rich in chlorine and sodium, sulfur and zinc, iodine and chromium, boron. In addition, they contain glucose, fructose, ascorbic acid and pectin.
Using grapes of the Arched variety, you can:
- strengthen the immune system and normalize blood pressure;
- get rid of pain symptoms in the joints;
- forget about insomnia.
Doctors advise fresh grape juice for many diseases.
In the photo: Arochny will soon ripen.
Technical specifications
And now – the characteristic features of the Arochny variety:
- Due to the density, the berries can remain on the bushes for a long time, do not lose their taste and aromatic qualities. It is possible to transport cut bunches of grapes over long distances, while the shape is not lost, the berries do not flow.
- The vine is frost-resistant, able to withstand – 25 degrees. Even if some of the eyes on the vine freeze in winter, fruiting remains in duplicate buds. That is why the Arochny variety is recommended for cultivation in the northern regions.
- Harvest stable from year to year, high.
- Vine variety Arochny is resistant to many grape diseases.
- The fruits make excellent wine.
Peculiarities of growing
Grapes are a heat-loving plant, but more and more often the vine is grown in more severe climatic conditions. And judging by the reviews, it is quite successful. In order for the vineyards not to die, you need to know how to plant them correctly, choose the soil, and take care of them.
Cooking pit
Arched grapes require sandy and sandy loamy soils when planting. The root system of grapes goes to a great depth, so when choosing a place, you need to take into account the height of groundwater to the horizon. The close location of water has a detrimental effect on the development of the vine. The Arochny variety feels good on the sunny side, namely in the southwest or southeast.
The size of the seat specifically for Arched grapes is a meter per meter.
A few days before planting the grapes, drainage is laid in the pit. You can use pieces of brick, expanded clay or crushed stone. Pour the nutrient mixture on top: sand, peat and humus in equal amounts.
Sprinkle each layer with mineral fertilizers, such as:
- potassium superphosphate – 100-200 grams;
- ammonium nitrate – about 30 grams;
- potassium salt – 100 grams.
Fertilizers should not be poured onto the last layer of soil, otherwise burns form on the root system. Fill the hole with warm water up to two buckets and let the soil settle a little.
We plant a vine
Arochny grape sapling can be with an open or closed root system. Preparation and planting will be somewhat different:
- A vine with an open root system is soaked for two hours to awaken the roots and saturate them with moisture. It is best to carry out this procedure in a solution of heteroauxin.
- In the central part of the pit, a hill is made of soil about 15 cm high, on which a bush of grapes “sits”, like on a chair. Roots are neatly straightened. Make sure that the roots are pointing straight down!
- Arochny grape seedlings with a closed root system are easier to plant, you just need to make a depression of the right size in the center of the pit.
- After planting, the plants are watered abundantly. Then mulching is provided to retain moisture.
- Subsequent watering of the grapes is carried out weekly, pouring from 10 to 20 liters of water under the bush. This procedure stops in August so that the plant prepares for wintering.
In the photo, a two-year-old seedling of Arochny grapes.
Video review of Arochny grapes:
Formation and pruning of the vine
One of the characteristics of the Arochny grape variety is its strong growth. Therefore, it must be properly formed. Otherwise, the branches will be very thickened, you will not have to wait for the harvest.
The vine planted in the first year is not touched, the first pruning is planned for next spring. Two lashes are left on the plant, which are cut in different ways:
- the first is a fruit link, 5 to 8 buds are left on it;
- the second branch is called the replacement knot. It is cut into two kidneys.
On the third spring, the vine of the Arochny variety is already trimmed with a replacement knot. The work is carried out by analogy: on one branch there are 5-8 buds, and on the other, a replacement knot with two buds is formed again. The following year, a fruiting twig forms on it again.
Pruning grapes in autumn is also necessary: after collecting brushes, the vine is cut into a stump. Berries, if the vine is formed incorrectly, if old branches are not cut, become small and tasteless.
Wintering
As already mentioned, the Arched vine is frost-resistant. But in the first years of life, more often in the southern regions, not to mention the zones of risky farming, the vine needs to be covered for the winter.
It is carefully removed from the supports, laid on the ground. You can cover with agrospan or spunbond. These covering materials not only allow oxygen to pass to the grape bushes, but also create favorable conditions for wintering.
In the northern latitudes, the plant requires careful shelter. Spruce branches are thrown on top, and even sprinkled with soil.
