In article are given by recommendations about cultivation of grapes of a grade Moldova, a practical advice on increase in productivity of this grade is given.
To the wine-grower on a note
To the wine-grower on a note
From edition:
When the material prepared for the publication in edition the mournful message came. On the eighty first year of life Mikhail Akimovich Vlasov died.
The Crimean earth accepted in the bosom of the tireless worker decorating with its vineyards and gardens.
Newspaper editorial office Agromir. Problems and decisions presents warm condolences to the family of the dead.
There was it not so long ago. Went to Odessa, and being in da’s this city not to visit the well-known Supply – blasphemy.
I look in the market the grandfather grapes sells. Large clusters, large black berries with a gray raid.
To be surprised there was at me a reason. After all this grade from the first generation complex steady won in the beginning authority at wine-growers the stability to frosts and diseases, and then started to lose because of late terms of maturing. There were years when and at the beginning of October not ripened clusters of Moldova hung.
Here at the end of August the grandfather spreads the clusters of grapes of this grade poured by the sun to black luster.
- Moldova? – took an interest.
- She – confirms dedulya.
Well I to it also clung: as yes that. And the old man dissembles, from direct answers leaves.
… Treated him with wine, then still treated. It has language and was untied.
- All right – speaks – time you are such inveterate wine-grower moreover and from the Crimea, well, I will open a secret – it in loading.
Also that old man to me opened truth simple.
As it in Odessa tell: greed of a frayer ruined.
Just about. Moldova – a grade inclined to an overload by a crop. And often it is a pity to us a superfluous cluster of losses. Here till October not ripened small clusters also hang. A crop seemingly plentiful and that I pound – that from it. Neither, as they say, nor to people.
Soon I had to check an antiquated method of cultivation of grapes of this grade in practice. There arrived to me my old acquaintance and started to complain:
- That the autumn, approaches, and its berry doesn’t ripen …
Went to it on the estate, looked – gasped! All bush small green clusters uveshen. Kgs on 300 from a bush the crop pulled. Took from a hand secateurs and let’s cut. And they so green and unripe that the cock approached – pecked time and departed, to wefts of a distance of H don’t eat. Berry sour – a mouth reduces.
Having seen as I am zealous near a bush, jumped out of the house of the spouse of my friend and began to wail:
- You why brought it, it absolutely without grapes leaves us!
Offered them a compromise a half of a bush I release from superfluous clusters, and another I will leave for control. Agreed.
After a while arrived: where thinned out, berries started to ripen, and the second half as is green before.
At itself on the estate regulation of loading of bushes of Moldova by a crop undertook, having rejected any doubts. Too there was a case. And too at the end of August. There arrived to me the professor of the Crimean agrotechnological university Alexander Pavlovich Dikan. Began to show it the vineyard. The professor paid attention at once.
- After all it is Moldova. But why so berry early ripened?
It was necessary to explain. And he agreed with my arguments.
To tell specifically how many clusters leave on a bush I can not. It depends on fertility of the soil and from age of a bush as far as it is treated kindly and warmed by the sun, from a formirovka, fertilizer. I will tell only that at that my friend, from 300 kgs left only 100 and that was a bit too much. Generally on the grapes which is grown up on industrial technology optimum of 20-30 kgs from a bush. On at on a personal plot of my follower Martha Weiss there is a twenty years’ bush not Moldova, however, which gives to 350 kgs of berries, the high-grade in time ripening. But this bush stretched sleeves almost on all yard, grows on soil well fertilized by humus. Well and as two clusters on one young rod – it already an excess are proved by the practice.
So if want, that Moldova at you gave a high-grade crop in time and qualitative, be not greedy, give its loading a crop the feasible. And we will help to return to a grade authority.
M VLASOV, Heroic Saksky area.