Grapes Lancelot: description and characterization of the variety

Grapes are a favorite treat for children and adults. Its fruits contain a large number of nutrients and nutrients. Today, there are a huge number of varieties and hybrids, one of which is the grapes of Lancelot. His article is devoted to his description, characterization of the variety.

How did the grapes appear in Russia?

The grapes were already known in the 3-4 millennium BC. As it is a southern culture, it was cultivated in regions characterized by mild climates with high temperatures and a long warm period. In Russia, grapes began to grow since the 17th century, when for the first time an open-air vine was planted in Izmaylovo near Moscow.

Already in the 18th century the Kremlin gardens were planted with grapes. Here the plant was a cover crop. At that time, scientific work to eliminate the problems associated with the cultivation of grapes, was not conducted. Therefore, the bushes often froze, they had to be replaced.

The beginning of a new breakthrough in viticulture was laid by Michurin. Today, our contemporaries-breeders brought out many varieties and hybrids of culture, including Lancelot grapes, for cultivation in various regions of Russia. In warm regions, it is grown under the open sky.

The history of the creation of grapes of the Lancelot variety

The appearance of this hybrid is due to the breeders of Novocherkassk. They crossed the variety Zaporozhye gift with hybrid varieties. According to the creators, Lancelot will comfortably grow in Ukraine and the Caucasus, in the Crimea and the Republic of Moldova, in the central regions of our country right up to the Urals and Siberia.

Grapes Lancelot: Description of the variety

This hybrid definitely attracts attention: the bush is tall. The berries are large. Grapes Lancelot - dining form of culture with early-middle maturity. The first fruits appear about four months later. The shoots are the vine. It is flexible and powerful. The leaves of the grapes of this variety are medium in size and rich in green color.

Planted in the ground, the seed sprouts into a small shoot with leaves in the axillary of which there is a kidney. From it the next year grows strong, developed vine with kidneys. Each of them also gives shoots, but only they are very weak, and in autumn they completely freeze. From them, in the end, remains a shortened shoot with a single kidney. From it grows a powerful elongated shoot, and the cycle repeats itself. On elongated vines appear flowers and fruits, but on shortened - no.

Description of the flower

Flowers are small in size and bisexual. Grapes Lancelot, whose photo is presented in the article, has inflorescences in the form of a panicle. The bunch is broad-conical. Her peduncle is attached to the runaway crest, which ends with pads with berries.

Grapes of this variety are a culture with large and very dense bunches. Their weight reaches 900-1200 grams, and the weight of individual brushes is three kilograms.

Description of berries

Lancelot - grapes (the description of the fruit does not convey, unfortunately, the taste characteristics), which has oval berries. Their length is thirty-one millimeters, and width-twenty-two. The berries are collected in dense clusters. Their outer surface is covered with a wax coating. It protects berries from the effects of unfavorable environmental conditions. This cultivar has berries with a juicy fleshy pulp.

The taste qualities of Lancelot grapes are excellent. They harmoniously combine notes of honey and citrus fruit. Completely ripe berries have a yellowish tinge. The weight of fruits reaches twelve to fourteen grams. Berries are not afraid of rain. They are not prone to cracking and peeling. On the bushes are stored for a long time, their taste does not change.

Beneficial features

The use of grapes is the maintenance of a large number of vitamins, minerals, soluble acids and other valuable substances. All properties that bring health benefits can not be listed, so let's name some of them:

• The fruit contains resveratrol, which is effective in combating lung diseases and asthma.
• The skin of fruits and seeds contains substances that contribute to the elimination of diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
• The content of organic acids helps to prevent constipation.

• Grape juice contains natural antioxidants, which charge the body with energy.
• Linoleic acid and other substances contribute to the removal of fluid from the body, facilitating the functioning of the kidneys.
• Fruits have a strong anti-cancer property.
• Antioxidants in the grapes can prevent the weakening of vision.
• Thanks to the content of microelements, the strength of bone tissue increases and immunity rises.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Grapes Lancelot love to grow wine growers, because it has many advantages:

• Resistant to diseases such as oidium and mildia. Grapes do not affect the leaf roller.
• It has high frost resistance. Fruit buds withstand frost to twenty-four degrees below zero.
• It is distinguished by a stable, high yield of fruits.
• It has high taste qualities and useful properties.
• Large brushes are easily removed from the bush.
• The berries stay on the plant for a long time and do not deteriorate. Their taste does not change.
• Fruits are stored for a long time in a cool room.
• Berries are highly transportable.

The disadvantages are low resistance to late spring frosts and tan berries. To prevent this, you should not get rid of the leaves, which obscure the bunches.

Why do we need to prune the vines?

Due to pruning, the alternation of different shoots along the length is imperceptible. Grapes variety Lancelot will give care for abundant flowering and high fruit bearing. This is facilitated by a good maturation of flowering shoots, that is, vines, for the entire length. Pruning is done by six to eight eyes, because the first two do not bear fruit. For better fruiting, thirty to thirty-five eyes are left on the bush.

Pruning of young plants

Three-year-old shrubs are pruned only in the spring, since they do not bear fruit yet. Grapes are pruned according to a special scheme.

• If the bush-one-year-old has two appendages, it is cut off above the second kidney by one to two centimeters, and if one sprout is four eyes. So the bush is planted in four shoots.
• A two-year-old bush is cut into two eyes, and long-grown shoots (vines) are covered for winter.

• Cropping the bush of three years of age, immediately lay branches on which fruits will grow. For this, only two vines are left, the rest are removed. The lowest shoot is cut into two eyes, and the upper one is cut to such a length that seven to fifteen kidneys remain on it. Adult grapes Lancelot, reviews about which are positive, is cut off by six to eight kidneys, since the first two do not bear fruit. Thirty-thirty-five eyes are left on the bush.

Why should you care for grapes?

As soon as the plant reaches the second year of life, it is necessary to regulate the growth of the vine, form a bush, water and feed the grapes. If you carry out all care in a timely manner, a healthy vine will develop, with which in the future it will be possible to harvest a good harvest. Care includes the following:

• Oblomovanie shoots. The first procedure should be carried out in the spring, when the inflorescence and tendrils appear. Weak shoots and shoots are to be removed. After the berries are fastened, the procedure must be repeated.

• Pinching shoots. Due to this technique, their growth is restrained, and nutrient flows are redirected to inflorescences. Pinching should be done a few days before flowering. Shoots length of twenty to twenty-five centimeters are shortened by two leaves.
• Pasynkovanie . During the vegetation period, stepchildren are removed from annual shoots. This is necessary to thin the bushes and preserve food in the bearing shoots. The stepsons are not completely removed, but only slightly pinched at the level of the second sheet.
• Embossing. When using this technique, the vine is better prepared for winter. This event falls on August-a month, when shoots will stop growing. This method of care for grapes is to prune the apical part of the shoots. It is circumcised approximately forty centimeters with six to eight sheets.
• Pruning of grapes. If this is not done, the vine will grow. The berries will be small. Pruning grapes is at the end of autumn, before the onset of frost, and spring, before bud blossoming. Autumn pruning shoots (vines), and in the spring - sanitary pruning. It consists in the removal of damaged and rotten parts of fruit-bearing shoots.