Bianca grape

Nowadays wine grapes have gained popularity among winegrowers - they get the most attention from professionals. This phenomenon can be easily explained by the fact that wine varieties are unpretentious, they do not need to spend too many resources. The Bianca grape is one such grape variety.

Bianca grape. Briefly about the variety

Bianca grapes: photo of the variety

Distinctive features of Bianca grapes are undemanding care, abundant and stable yields. Moreover, one can note the early dates in which this crop can be harvested, and a strong bush growth.

The history of the Bianca grape has its origins in Hungary, people first mentioned it in 1963. This variety is a hybrid obtained through crosses during breeding events.

The result is the Chasselas Bouvier and Villard Blanc varieties, which are now popular.

What kind of climate does the Bianca grape need?

It is recommended to grow this crop in the southern regions of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus.

In the south of countries, grapes can be grown uncovered to create wine and other drinks. It is noteworthy that grapes can also be successfully grown in medium-sized regions. But then you will need to try hard to adapt heat-loving plants to cold climates.

Features in the manufacture of alcohol

The Bianca grape is distinguished not only by the fact that it is used to create a luring aroma of white wines. Wine from "Bianca" acquires a light yellow hue after it brightens and has a fruity aroma. You can taste a pleasant sourness.

Usually the berries of this culture are used to produce excellent cognac. Cognac can taste like almonds. In addition, there is a special vanilla aftertaste after it.

Sometimes spiced vodka is made from this grape.

Grape Bianca: description and characteristics

Bianca grapes: photo of the variety

The size of the bushes is usually medium. Tall specimens are also found, but growers usually shorten them.

The color of the sheets is deeply dark. The surface is glossy and the back has a medium roughness, as there are no roughness

Already in the second half of July, you can be content with the first berries. If we are talking about the central regions, then the harvest can be harvested a little later. Usually this time of harvesting the first fruits is the second half of August.

Yield

• The Bianca grape is valuable because it has a consistently high and constant degree of fruiting.
• It is a joy for a gardener to harvest fruits from this culture. After all, he is dealing with clean, dense bunches. While spoiled berries are rare.
• Professionals note that the shoots ripen almost one hundred percent. About two to three inflorescences can form on each of the shoots.
• If the culture is well cared for, it will have good developmental activity.
• If you use the cuttings planting method, then the harvest is expected in the third year after planting. 200 kilograms per hectare - this is such a high level of yield can be achieved.

Brushes

• It is noted that the clusters are small in size, but good in appearance. In general, however, the brushes are quite large when used for technical purposes.
• When using medium-level agrotechnical methods, bunches can grow up to two hundred grams. This result can be improved by raising the weight up to 500 grams. But this can only be done with a significant increase in the level of courting a culture. For which you need to make a lot of effort and cost.
• In general, berries can weigh 2-7 grams. Much depends on how the gardener looked after the crop.
• The fruits are light green, with a yellow tint.

• The pulp has good juiciness, of course, it has a specific grape flavor, and there is also an almond flavor. The grapes are closely pressed together. This indicates that there is no pea.
• Grapes are also eaten fresh. 28% sugar by weight - this is the level of sugar in one grape, which indicates that this grape variety is used for the production of sweet or semi-sweet wine drinks.
• 7% at an average level of maturity - the level of acidity of the grapes. However, if you leave the berries on the vines for another period of time, you can reduce this level to 4%.

Frost resistance

• If the planting takes place in the central regions or in a more northern area, then the culture must be covered in the winter. It is surprising that, despite the thermophilicity, the Bianca grapes can still tolerate low temperatures well. She can survive the winter when temperatures drop to -27.
• In the southern regions, grapes do not need shelter for the winter. In the middle part of the countries, it is obligatory to cover for the winter.
• If the culture slightly, slightly freezes in the spring, then the grapes are capable of self-recovery. This adds even more advantages to Bianca grapes over other grape varieties.

Bianca grape variety: features of the variety

Bianca grapes: photo of the variety

This variety is capable of long interruptions on vines. In this case, sugar accumulates, acidity decreases slightly. Thanks to this, it is possible to prepare different wines, much depends on the period in which the crop was harvested.

Bianca grapes have some specific traits that gardeners must pay attention to when growing.

Pros of the variety: it ripens early, stable yield, grows quickly, frost resistance, no peas, can resist mealy wasps. In addition, grapes can begin bearing fruit again after an illness. The cured vines continue to develop, grow and yield a good harvest.

Flaws: harvested berries may not tolerate transportation well.

Some of the flaws of the variety can be removed altogether if you take good care of the grapes. For example, this is poor transportability, a threat from wasps and birds, susceptibility to diseases from alternaria fungi, a certain level of humidity is required.

Due to the fact that the berries have a very thin skin and a high level of juiciness in the pulp, they have low transportability. Therefore, it is impossible to transport grapes over long distances.

Wasps are the main pests!

The Bianca grape is indeed often affected by the attack of wasps. But this problem can be solved. You can make gauze brush covers. Thanks to this, the Bianca grapes will not be accessible to insects.

Mesh bags and lures placed nearby can also help.

In addition, you can fight wasps with spices planted under the vines. The smell of spices is capable of repelling insects. Thanks to this, the grapes are protected.

Sometimes the threat comes from the birds. Rescue will be helped by mesh bags made of thin wire, worn on bunches. In this case, the gardener will not harm the birds themselves, since they will not get stuck in the soft wire, but the crop will be saved.

Important aspects of growing and care

Bianca grapes: photo of the variety

It is important for the Bianca grapes to have an open, sunny place where it will be protected from the influence of the wind.It is worth providing the best conditions for good adaptation of the variety, good development and fruiting.

It is necessary to land in the autumn or spring. It is recommended to choose exactly the spring. But the holes for planting during this period must be prepared in the fall. If there is no such possibility at all, then it is quite possible to do all the actions in one period.

You need to leave the hole for 2 weeks after it has been dug out and all the necessary work has been done. This contributes to the fact that the concentration of mineral dressings will be reduced.

How to prepare a landing site

It is necessary to make holes 50x50 centimeters in size, leave a distance of 2 meters between the bushes.

How is the planting of a grape seedling

It is necessary to add a drainage mixture to the bottom of the pits, which prevents waterlogging in the case when the groundwater is located near the surface.

The second layer you need to add fertilizing from minerals. Phosphorus and potassium should be included there along with organic matter, which can be contained in humus, compost, chicken droppings, mullein.

The third layer should be fertile soil. It is necessary to form a mound in the center - an elevation in which the seedling will be placed. You also need to spread the roots over the surface of the hill.

Mulch consisting of straw, sawdust and compressed humus can be poured onto the surface. It is necessary to form an average layer in thickness.

With the help of mulch, moisture will be preserved in dry times, weeds will not grow. Also, thanks to this layer, the soil will be loose in the places where the roots are located.

This will save the gardener's time, because you do not have to spend it on weeding and loosening the soil.

It is worth tying up a growing vine. Use pegs for this. This will keep the grapes off the ground.

Trimming

During the first growing season, you need to grow two branches - they will be the foundation for a full-fledged bush formed in the future. A rather short pruning is carried out - 2-3 eyes. This will put a moderate strain on the grapes.

It is recommended to prune twice - in the spring and in the fall. In autumn, 30-40 shoots are left. And in the spring, you need to carefully cut off excess vines that are damaged or infected with something. It is important to leave only healthy branches so that nothing interferes with the culture.

In addition, it is important to remove thin and weak branches - they do not need to be left to winter.

Despite the frost resistance of the grapes, young seedlings need to be covered in winter. It is important to do this during the first three years of the grape's life.

Preventive work and care that Bianca grapes require

Bianca grapes: photo of the variety

• It is recommended to wrap the roots in a southern area to avoid freezing.
• It is worth sheltering the culture in all regions during its first wintering.
• Prevention is an equally important aspect of crop care. Fungicidal preparations can be used to combat fungal diseases. It is worth using baits and traps so that natural enemies do not harm the grapes.
• It is necessary to water abundantly only during the growing season, in other periods it should be done as needed.

How to properly feed and fertilize Bianca grapes

Fertilizers need to be applied three times per season. In the spring, superphosphate is used for feeding, in the summer - urea, and in the fall - ammonium sulfate.

The first feeding takes place in the autumn, you need to add phosphates and potash fertilizers. The second time you need to use nitrogenous means before the beginning of the growing season. The third time you need to fertilize in the fall to strengthen the grapes before the winter period.

It is recommended to use ammonium sulphate and superphosphate. In addition, wood ash is used for preventive work against infections, supplying nutrients to the roots of Bianca grapes.