The Super Extra grape variety is loved by gardeners for its early ripening, high yield and remarkable taste.
With one vine you can collect up to 20 kilograms of fruit. They are long preserved on the bushes after ripening.
What kind is it?
The Super Extra grape variety belongs to table grape varieties, as well as the well-known Karmakod, Korinka Russian or young Lily of the Valley. It can well ripen on the shady side of the house. This variety can be recommended both for its own consumption and for wholesale.
Thanks to the super early maturation, the market is in great demand. It has a high transportability, along with such varieties as Favor and New Gift Zaporozhye. Perfectly withstands transportation.
Berries are rich in vitamins and nutrients. Amateur gardeners are very pleased with this hybrid form due to early ripening, high yield and excellent taste.
Few replace it with other varieties. Experienced winegrowers joke: "Such a variety appears once in a hundred years." And this is despite a large number of hybrids, among which there are many excellent ones - Aladdin, King of Blood, or Blagovest.
Vine and normalization
The reverse sides of Super Extra grape leaves have pubescence - a short, whitish pile that resembles filtered paper.
Flower functionality: bisexual. Not subject to shedding buds. Pollination is bad. Prone to pea.
When flowering in hot weather it is necessary to spray the bushes through a spray with water at room temperature.
This procedure will help to moisten the inflorescences and purge the vine for benign pollination. With heavy rains, pollination can be completely eliminated altogether.
During flowering to prevent damage and exhaustion of the vine, it is necessary to pull out part of the clusters.
The variety produces stepchildren, which may appear small clusters before the mandatory autumn pruning. In their stepsons, grapes are inferior in size to the main crop.
Such clusters are average in density, without pea, with excellent pollination. Kidney with excellent active growth. Vine with excellent maturation. Requires proper normalization of the load on the bushes.
For rationing of fruiting, you need pinching and a small piece of green shoots. Shoot replacement is not recommended to heavily load. With increasing crop load on the bush, the ripening of the vine deteriorates significantly.
Shape grapes Super Extra needed in spring. In this period of time it is necessary to produce sanitary pruning plants. Vines tie up to the gazebo or other supports.
For a great harvest, on the vine leave 5 or 7 eyes. For the formation of large clusters, leave 3 or 5 eyes.
On the vines of this variety produces a large number of ovaries.
Description of Super Extra grapes
Brush weight small - from 500 to 700 grams. In the same weight category are Manicure Finger and Kishmish Nakhodka. Brush density is loose. They consist of grapes of different sizes - from small fruits to very large ones.
Berry weight reaches 7-9 grams. The shape of the fruit is round-oval, elongated, 25x35 millimeters.
The skin of grapes is dense, palpable when eating. Much rougher than the grape Arkady.
Berry elegant, sunny, from the inside glows. Fruit color yellow. Sugar content 10 g / 100 cm3. When fully matured, 18% Brix was observed. Acidity 5 g / dm3.
Refers to the largest superearly varieties
It is not recommended to do drip irrigation. At the same time the taste of the berries becomes watery and herbal.
Pulp own-rooted bush very juicy with a pleasant sweet taste. It has a delicate nutmeg aroma.
When grafting Super Extra on the shoots of other varieties, the taste of berries on different clusters will be different - dissimilar and diverse. For vaccination, the varieties Moldova, Krasin and Brilliant are well suited.
Observed:
- yellow berries with firm pulp and citron flavor;
- immature green-cream fruits with a sticky consistency and simple taste;
- creamy white berries with thick pulp and nutmeg aroma.
Muscat is not very noticeable. It is compared with the varieties Sophia and Libya, which are far superior to Super Extra in a pronounced nutmeg flavor. Muscat can disappear with a heavy overload of the bush with a crop.
A photo
With grapes "Super Extra" more can be found in the photo below:
Breeding and growing
Super Extra grapes are a hybrid form of amateur breeding by E.G. Pavlovsky. Evgeny Pavlovsky is the author of more than fifty kinds of grape forms. Among them are Ayut Pavlovsky, King and the Gift of Nesvetaya. The Super Extra variety was created on a personal plot in the city of Novocherkassk by crossing FV-6-6 x (K-41 + pollen mixture).
Original grade name: "Super Extra", a synonym for "Citrine". The form is not capricious.
Sort can grow well in the north. It grows well in the southern and central parts of Russia, Siberia, Ukraine, Belarus. Unpretentious in growing. It takes root well on root roots.
Also as a hybrid Marcelo, begins to bear fruit in the second year after planting. The variety is recommended to plant at the arches or walls. Grows well in greenhouses.
When growing grapes, the land is carefully weeded away from weeds and carefully loosened so as not to damage the roots of the plant.
Shrubs varieties, with a good fit, greatly expand. The variety requires proper nutrition, fertilizing.
Feed bushes This variety is best organic minerals: nitrogen, potassium or phosphate.
The feed is usually carried out during the growing season, two weeks after flowering, but before the full ripening of the clusters.
Responds well to fertilizer.
Water grapes are needed as the land dries. But at least once every seven days.
Watering the bushes is carried out on 12-15 liters of water under one plant.
After watering, the ground around the bush is covered with mulch, which consists of blackened sawdust or moss, three centimeters in layers.
Productivity and frost resistance
Super Extra grapes, like Karmakod, has a stable yield. It is above ultra-early variety. Refers to premature, unusual for grape varieties, ripening period - up to 90 days.
By July 15, the clusters reach full maturity. By the first days of August it completely overrides.
Not recommended overload the bushes. In this case, the time of fruit ripening increases dramatically. On one shoot it is necessary to leave only one grape tassel. In case of non-observance of normalization and grapes, more than 1 kilogram, the crop is ripening in 100 days.
Harvest from one vine can reach up to 30 kilograms without complying with normalization. With respect - 15-20 kilograms. Fruits, without cracking and without losing transportability, are remarkably preserved on the bushes.
Equally frost resistant are the Beauty of the North, the Arched and Pink Flamingo.
Refers to covering crops. In the winter and during the cold weather, the vine must be covered.
Pests and diseases
Super Extra Grade perfectly resistant to diseases Oidiumu and mildew. Aphids, tick and other pests are not affected. Not very susceptible to phylloxera.
When heavy precipitation is subjected to cracking. At the same time the tip of the fruit bursts and a black stripe remains. It is not subject to rotting.
Prone to eating flies and wasps. Therefore, the clusters are covered with a fine mesh. Or 10 days after flowering, it is treated with small fractions of gibberellin (HA) and forchlorlorfenuron (PCP) in the ovary formation phase.
Before the beginning of the growth force, the bushes must be sprayed with a solution of Bordeaux mixture.
For information on how to prevent such diseases as bacteriosis, chlorosis or anthracnose, see the individual materials of our site.
Super Extra grape variety - favorite cultivator of all growers. According to its quality corresponds to the name.
The variety has a high yield, early ripening, preservation of fruits without cracking for a long time on the bushes.
It is resistant to mildew and oidium diseases, is not subject to rotting, has a stable yield even in the shade of the walls and arches. Its nutmeg taste disappears under heavy loads on the bushes. With one vine you can collect up to 20 kilograms of fruit.
