Timur grapes: description and characteristics of the variety, history of selection and yield

Vine with an iron character - this is what gardeners say about Timur grapes. The hybrid has firmly won its place of honor in the gardens. Having 2 varieties, white and pink, the variety is also decorative. It can be used as a hedge, green framing of arbors, arches. This table type of berry crop is quite common and popular among winegrowers.

History of selection

For climatic zones with severe winters and short summers, when temperatures jump sharply, varieties with extraordinary characteristics have been bred. Created from a combination of the qualities of the Moldavian Frumoas Albe (White Beauty) and the famous Rapture variety, the hybrid at first went under the number.But later breeders gave him the name Timur, and he became the standard of table grapes.

Variety description

Known for the beauty of Timur grapes with densely spaced oval or nipple-shaped berries. The weight of one bunch reaches 500-700 grams. In the white variety of the variety, the berries are light green with crispy flesh. The percentage of sugar in them with an indicator of 25%, acids - an average of 9 g / l.

Pink Timur grapes with denser skin. And his bunches of berries are loose.

The variety can become a decoration of the garden due to the compactness and short stature of the bush with fast weaving shoots. Weak vine requires careful care. Beautifully look bushes with wrinkled carved leaves, decorated with clusters of light green or pink berries with a purple tint.

The description of the variety includes increased sugar content of fruits, heady aroma of berries. To strengthen the Timur grape vine, it is grafted onto stronger rootstocks.

Characteristic

Timur received many positive qualities from his parents.

Ripening dates

The main property of the hybrid is the early ripening of the vine. The white variety of the crop ripens after 110 days, the pink one a week later.

If a variety is used as a scion to strong types of berry crops, then the ripening time is slightly lengthened. Timur is distinguished by high yields - up to 20 kilograms and more from one bush with the correct formation of the vine , meticulous care.

Features

In addition to early ripeness, the variety is noted:

excellent survival;
medium resistance to infections - mildew, oidium;
excellent presentation of bunches of grapes;
resistance to transportation.

Large crops of berries must be removed from the bush in time, otherwise they may dry out. The disadvantage of culture is the low growth of the vine. In poor and wet lands, the grapes become tasteless, watery.

Frost resistance

One of the advantages of Timur grapes is its ability to endure persistently low temperatures in winter. The vine does not freeze even during frosts of 25 degrees. Low bushes must be covered in areas located in the north. They are laid in grooves before the start of frost, in October-November.

Agrotechnology

You can get sweet and juicy fruits from Timur grapes if you plant the crop correctly.

Planting grapes

For the hybrid choose the southern slopes of the site with loose and fertile soil. It is better to place the seedlings of the variety separately from the vigorous representatives of the culture. Otherwise, tall and strong shoots of other varieties will oppress Timur's weak vine.

It is best to plant grapes in open ground in spring before bud break or in autumn. You can immediately graft the cutting to a stronger stock. In this case, fruiting will be more abundant, and the taste of the berries will not change.

1-2 weeks before planting, they dig up a place for grapes, applying fertilizers in the form of compost or humus Mineral complexes containing superphosphate and potassium s alt will not interfere either. One-year or two-year-old shoots with a strong root system are planted in prepared pits, leaving 2 buds on them.

Important care rules

Timur seedlings take root quickly on any soil. But they require for better and abundant fruiting:

regular watering;
bush formation;
loosening the soil;
plantation weeding;
disease prevention, tick infestation.

If a gardener is experienced and watches the growth of his vine, he will receive juicy sweet bunches of berries in July.

Irrigation

It is important to moisten the planting of grapes during periods when the buds begin to bloom, the ovaries of berries appear. Watering should be stopped 15 days before grapes ripen.

To moisten the soil, settled water at room temperature is needed. Cold water should not be watered, otherwise the ripening of the grapes will be delayed.

If the leaves of the vine begin to wilt and wither, then this is a sign of lack of moisture. Excessive moisture will cause the leaves to turn yellow.

Before wintering, the plantation must be charged with moisture. This will help the grapes survive the hardships of the cold season.

Cutting

Form a vine with autumn pruning. After picking the berries, up to 10 eyes are left on each shoot. After removing the shelter in the spring, also remove some of the branches that will not bear fruit. Before bud break, each bush should carry no more than 30 eyes. You should not load the vine: there will be more berries, but they are small and tasteless. the bush will develop weakly.

Pests and diseases

If the Timur variety does not give in to diseases, then the grape mite can cause great damage to the culture. It is difficult to notice the pest; its appearance is determined by the bulges on the leaves, a grayish fluff on the surface of the plate from below. They immediately go to the fight against the tick, using insecticides such as Karbofos or Fufanon.The preparations contain sulfur, which has a detrimental effect on the insect and its larvae.