Grape Delight: photo, description of the variety
The Delight grape is a table variety. It is fruitful, disease resistant, and its fruits are sweet and juicy. Once you learn how to grow it, you can feast on delicious berries from your garden.
Description of the grape variety “Delight”
This is a very early variety. The berries ripen in 105-115 days. The grapes of this variety have high performance in almost all characteristics. The berry taste score is 5 out of 5 points. The variety is frost-resistant, tolerates frosts down to -25˚C without shelter, has an increased resistance to diseases.
The younger the “Delight” grape bushes, the larger the grapes
Delight produces good yields. Up to 85% of the shoots are fruiting. From a bush, you can get 5-8 kg of fruit. Berries are stored on bushes for 1-1,5 months. They do not deteriorate or fall off. The fruits of the grapes “Delight” are shown in the photo.
Characteristics of berries:
- Bunches of conical shape, very large, up to 530 g. There are specimens weighing up to 2 kg. The berries are snug against each other.
- The grapes are oval, 24-26 mm in diameter and weighing 6-7 g. Color is white; if the grapes have enough sunlight, then the fruits acquire a golden hue.
- Berries have sweet flesh, sugar content is 19-26%, acidity is 5-9 g / l. The skin is dense and tough.
The berries tolerate transportation well, they do not rot and retain their appearance for a long time.
You can plant seedlings in spring or autumn. In the first case, the bushes require more careful maintenance. When planting in autumn, the seedlings have time to take root before winter, and in the spring they increase the green mass.
Plant “Delight” in a sunny area, preferably in fertile soil – black earth or loam. Be sure to put a layer (20 cm) of broken brick or expanded clay on the bottom of the planting pit, add earth mixed with a handful of wood ash and 30 g of superphosphate on top. If the soil is heavy, thin it with sand in a 2: 1 ratio. Plant the bushes 4 m apart.
Grape care:
- annually in the spring, shorten the shoots by 4 eyes;
- water the bushes with mineral fertilizers once a year;
- water the grapes before and after flowering, be sure to mulch the soil;
- for the winter, cut each shoot into 8-10 eyes, lay the vine on the ground.
If a lot of snow has fallen, then you do not need to cover the grapes. In snowless winters, be sure to make a shelter from spruce branches.
To grow large bunches, no more than 30 eyes should remain in the vineyard. Bushes can be infected with phylloxera and powdery mildew. Treat vineyards with fungicides as a preventive measure.