How to grow grapes

How to grow grapes from a handle

Cutting is one of the most common ways of grapes breeding. You can prepare the cuttings yourself or buythem in the nursery. If you decide to prepare cuttings yourself, you will need to cut them off from the bushes you selected in the fall. Cuttings should be about 8-12 mm thick. The vine itself should be without obvious signs of damage. Cut cuttings should be folded into a prepared trench, sprinkled with a layer of sand 10-15 cm thick. Top the trench with earth.

In February, you can get the cuttings, cut them so that each one has 3-4 buds. Prepared cuttings should be soaked in water with a diluted growth regulator. To find out when to pull the cuttings out of the water, it's enough to make a fresh cut on one of them. The cut must be a light green color, and droplets of liquid will be emitted from it.

Prepare a container for planting the cuttings. For this, a 1.5-liter plasticbottles cut off the top and fill them with earth. Do not forget to make holes in the bottles of bottles, so that water does not stagnate in them. To grow grapes from cuttings was successful, you will need to take humus, turf, sand and sawdust in the following ratio: 1.3: 1: 0.5: 1

Before planting the cuttings, the upper cut should be dip in hot paraffinso that no excess moisture evaporates from it. Plant the seedlings in the bottles and pour them well. Now you can wait for the first shoots to appear.

After the cuttings you will need special care. The land in bottles should not be too wet or dry. And after the appearance of the first shoots, organic fertilizers should be applied to the cuttings.

Growing of grape seedlings

So, you yourself have grown grapes seedlings or purchased them in the nursery. What to do next? How to grow grapes on your site? First, you should choose the right place for the growth of grapes. It is best to plant grapes in a sunny place, which will be protected from strong gusts of wind.

Carefully refer to the choice of soil for growing grapes. Grapes do not grow on any soil. Light sandy soils are suitable for growing grapes best. But it will not grow on clay or waterlogged soils. Also, grapes can not tolerate acidic soil.

Planted grape seedlings in the spring, when the snow has already come down, and the earth has warmed up quite well. It is best to plant grapes from the end of Apriluntil the middle of May. But the seedlings that you raised at home, it is better to plant together with a clod of land only in mid-June. In each hole prepared for the seedling, it is required to add humus. Seedlings of grapes are planted to a depth of 20 cm. On sandy lands, the depth of planting can be increased to 50 cm.

The distance between the seedlings will depend only on the the method of forming a bush, variety and place of growing grapes. We recommend that you leave between the seedlings a distance of 1 to 2.5 m. At the beginning of summer, near each seedling should be left propped.

In the southern regions, the seedlings will need frequent watering. It should also be noted that on sandy soilsOrganic fertilizers should be applied to grapes: humus or compost. It is also very useful to carry out foliar dressing of grapes with a solution of boric acid (0.1%) in order to prevent shedding of the ovaries. In this case, the processing of the grapes will have to be carried out twice: during its flowering and growth of berries.

For the winter, grapes have to be sheltered so that it does not freeze. For shelter use the ground or foamedpolyethylene. Remember that after wintering it is not recommended to open grapes too early. Even small frosts can cause damage to the kidneys and wood trunk. Wait until the average daily temperature drops below 0 ° C.