Home-made wine, juices, fresh grapes ... Who among us does not like it? To carry out this dream will help American neskounny izabelnye grape varieties.
They are unpretentious, do not require special frills in care, perfectly intersect with the more "high-born." These include the Buffalo grape variety.
What kind is it?
Buffalo is a universal table variety of American selection, the term of maturation is early-medium. Differs in winter hardiness and high yield. Full aging occurs in the first half of September.
Such varieties as Alpha, Witch Fingers and Cardinal also come from America.
The level of sugar accumulation with an acidity level of 5.5-9.9 g / l can reach 21%. Perfectly interbreed with other varieties, especially with European ones - the resulting offspring has the best traits of parental varieties.
Fruiting vines pruned to eight to nine eyes.
The grapes are propagated by cuttings, which are taken in the fall from a good, high-yielding variety. For this suitable mature annual shoots with a diameter of up to 1, 5 cm. Prepared cuttings are collected in bundles, packaged in polyethylene. Store them in a cold room (basement), where the temperature does not rise above 5 degrees.
Breeding history and breeding region
Received in the United States, at the New York State Experimental Agricultural Station at Cornell University, in 1938, by crossing the varieties Herbert and Watkins. On the territory of the former Union, it feels best in the southern regions - Ukraine, the Crimea, and Moldova.
Buffalo Grapes: variety description
The "calling card" of this variety is the vine - a bright, rich brown color.
The berries are small (up to 50 g) oval, black, with a bright, full-bodied taste and strawberry aftertaste.
Flowers bisexual. Moldova, Black Raven and Chameleon also have bisexual flowers.
The cluster is friable, differs in a cone-shaped form and the small sizes.
Shoots vigorous.
The leaves are large, light green in color, almost solid, wedge-shaped.
Specifications:
The bush is a vigorous, very fruitful (with arched formations, you can sometimes collect up to 100 kg of berries from a bush), it is woven around the terraces and columns on the houses.
Differs in high frost resistance (can maintain "minuses" in 28-30 Celsius), is not afraid of mealy dew and gray decay. Good for use in the "natural" form, but can be used for making wine, jam, juice, etc. It refers to the so-called unopen varieties, that is, it is not necessary to “wrap up” the bush for the winter.
Among the cold-resistant varieties stand out Super Extra, Beauty of the North and Pink Flamingo.
A photo
Photo grapes "Buffalo":
Diseases and pests
Despite the fact that Buffalo is too tough for mealy dews, oidium, mildew and many other fungi, it is still necessary to care for it. Especially if you want the precious vine to live and bear fruit for many years.
For better results, it is worth knowing the enemy by sight. You can read about anthracnosis, chlorosis, bacteriosis, bacterial cancer, rubella in separate articles of our site.
The Buffalo may not be afraid of fungi, but it has other enemies - wasps, ticks, bees, birds, moths, beetles. Parasites gnaw young shoots, grape buds, eyes, eat, spoil the berries, ruin the leaves ... Do not despair - you can find the rules on them.
Ticks. They are afraid of spraying with sulfur-containing drugs, also DNOC, phosphamine, neorone.
Leafworms do not tolerate insecticides. In addition, the bark of pupae should be cleaned in time (“cleaning must be burned”), and plant residues should be removed. You need to make sure that the bush is well ventilated.
Wasps. They will stop the special smoke bombs, jam traps. It will also help a simple tool - "balaclava" from the old nylon stocking, worn on top of the bush. So you can be sure that the striped predator will not get to the grapes. Also, be sure to find and burn the nest of wasps.
Birds. The best “barrier” will be a grid with small cells. The bird, bumping into such, flies away.
To resort to the “grandfather's method”, that is, to use the fishing net is not recommended - few people are pleased to release desperately screaming and farewell (and even those who have forgiven) the life of birds ...
The grapes will delight your eye and bring a bountiful harvest every year, if you properly care for it and protect it from its main enemies - birds, wasps and various types of moths, who love to profit from berries or sprouts.
