There is an unsightly building on your summer cottage, and you do not know how to "disguise"? Take care of unpretentious Liana from the grapes family - Vice grapes. This plant loved to many gardeners due to unpretentiousness and rapid growth rates. Already in the first year after landing, the liana will reach a length of 3-4 meters, and the shoots of adult plants will be able to reach 20 meters in length. In this article we will look at the features of the landing of Viley grapes, the secrets of the care and methods of reproduction of this decorative liana.
"Devichy" Village grapes - a brief description
Why are Vichi grapes call "Devicious" grapes? The fact is that translated from the Greek language the name of the grape means "virgin".
- Wild Village Grapes are Japan, China, southwestern part of the seaside region. The plant is best grows in countries with temperate climates.
- Village Village variety is a tree liana, which is grown exclusively in decorative purposes. Fruits in grapes, though there are, but they are inedible. Vertical landscaping of buildings, arbors, fences with Villai grapes always look incredibly spectacular. "Carpet" from the leaves is so dense that through it problematic to make even insect pests.
- Vintage shoots are characterized by rapid growth. Young branches have red-brown color, and adults are greenish.
- On the long shoots of Vice grapes there are special "suction cups", with which the plant is easily attached to almost any surface. The adhesive secret, secreted by "suction cups", adds even more reliability of the fastener.
- Decorativeness Vinti vintage gives his leaves. They resemble neatly laid "tile." Green and dense leaves in the fall become the crimson-red, brown. If you plant this liano on your site, it will attract enthusiastic views at any time of the year.
- Village grapes with small flowers of light green or light yellow color. The flowering period at the plant is quite long - from the middle of the summer and until October.
- In the fall, miniature berries collected in borders ripen on decorative liane. In the diameter, the berry reaches only 6-8 mm, has a black and gray painting. Inside each berry there are 1-2 seeds.
- The root vigility system is not too deep into the ground, which allows you to grow a liano on the balcony, in the container.
- The main feature of Viley grapes is that it is able to crush any surface if it is not metallic. With the help of the mustache, the "suction", the sticky of the plant is reliably attached and quickly expands.
Vicci grapes - Photo
Vice grapes - landing
Choose a place to land Vice grapes
- Decorative Liana Vinchi Vichi will feel great in any corner of your site. Most often, gardeners choose the place they want to "cover up", decorate, disguise disadvantages, etc.
- Vinchi grapes grow equally well both on the lit area and on the plot in the half. However, it is on a well-lit place that you can notice that Liana looks more magnificent and bright. It is advisable to choose the southern sides of the site when choosing a place to land.
- If you plan Vice grapes in a shady place, then the leaves of Liana will begin to change their color in the fall later than Liana in a sunny place.
- Vice grapes, like most other varieties of decorative lian, prefers places that are protected from wind. But if you can't plant Villai grapes in a wind protected from the wind, about 3 years after Liana landing will grow so much that the drafts will stop being afraid.
- When choosing a place to land Vice grapes worth considering the location of other plants. Liana's shoots under favorable growth conditions can reach 25 meters in length, if not limit them in growth.
We choose the soil for the landing of vintage
Vice grapes are one of the few decorative garden plants, which can grow equally well on the basis with practically any characteristics. The maximum decorativeness of Liana will show on the soil with the following parameters:
- the soil for Villai grapes should have good breathability, to be loose, without weeds;
- the soil for Villai grapes should be desirable should be either neutral or weakly acid;
- vice grapes, like most other plants in the garden, will better grow on fertile soil.
Vintage Landing Technology
- Vintage seedlings are best to buy in specialized gardeners in specialty stores to avoid buying poor-quality planting material. Outwardly, the liana should be healthy, not to be over.
- Vice grapes are an exclusively decorative plant, the landing of which can be produced almost at any time in the period from spring to autumn. There are no certain recommendations for the choice of time, as it is not worth collecting a harvest task. If you managed to buy Vice grapes in the spring, then squeeze it without problems at this time. If the seedlings went to you in summer or in the fall, then Liana will fit in a new place as well.
- As for the selection of the time of day for landing, it is better to prefer either a previously cloudy morning or evening. It is necessary in order to prevent the "burnout" of the young grapes.
- Before boarding, it is necessary to prepare a plot. Carefully redo the earth, get rid of weeds and from their roots.
- Drop the landing point with approximate dimensions of 50 * 50 * 50. But the dimensions can be both large and smaller depending on the size of the root seedlock. The preparation of the landing pit is better to do in advance to give the soil to stand out.
- If you chose the vintage container landing, then select a capacity with a minimum depth of 40-50 cm.
- At the bottom of the landing pit, it is necessary to put the drainage layer of pebbles or any other similar material.
- You can skip a step to fertilize the soil to fill the landing pit, but if you still make the soil is more nutritious before boarding, you can forget about making any fertilizers for the next 3-4 years. As a fertilizer, you can choose compost, which is mixed with sand and garden earth in a 2: 1 ratio.
- Hold the seedling in the yam with one hand, and begin to fill the pit with a nutritious soil with a second hand.
- After landing, the seedling of Vikali grapes must necessarily rush to water.
- If you planted Vice grapes to create vertical landscaping, do not forget to insert a peg near the plant, so that it was for what to cling.
Decorative Vintage - Care
Watering Villai Village
- Vichi grapes are a decorative plant, followed by even a newcomer in horticultural business. Liana does not require frequent and abundant irrigation. The plant will completely grab moisture from natural precipitation.
- Behind the growing season may need only 3-4 irrigation.
- If the summer was getting too dry, then you need to follow the state of the Earth in the rolling collar. So that the plant has not experienced "thirst" the amount of irrigation increases.
- One plant requires an average of 1 bucket of water.
- Water Vice grapes, like most other plants in the garden, better either early in the morning, or after sunset in the evening.
- Water for watering vintage should not be cold. It is better to take care of the water temperature in advance - simply type water into a larger capacity where it will set up. Also, for watering, Liana can also be used rainwater, which is softer compared to the plumbing.
Virograd Village
If during the preparation of the landing pit for landing Vice grapes you made any fertilizer in the ground, then the plant is quite enough of these nutritional elements for 3-4 years. Upon expiration of this period, you can make a little to feed the "maiden" grapes, but this is completely optional.
- At the beginning of the growing season can be made nitroposk.
- In the middle of summer, when Village grapes grows and develops especially intensively, any modern complex fertilizers with minerals can be made.
Vintage Vinchi
The removal of weeds is a mandatory element of the care of Vice grapes. This is necessary not only to maintain the decorative appearance of Liana, but also to ensure her "health." After all, weed grass can be a source of diseases and pests.
Vintage loosening
2-3 days after watering the liana, the soil in the rolling collar is better to explode. It should be done carefully, since the root system of the "maiden" grape is located in the ground not deep. Such a care element will provide a good oxygen inflow to roots. After watering and loosening the Earth it is better to climb so as not to give moisture to evaporate too quickly. As a mulch, you can choose either peat or humus, or compost.
Vintage trimming
Vice grapes - fast-growing liana, which requires regular trimming. If you neglect this rule of care, then a beautiful decorative plant will turn into sloppy thickets. Many gardeners prefer to restrain the growth of vigoros vintage, since with natural growth they can reach lengths of 25 meters.
- Sanitary trim. Delete damaged, dry shoots are required by all decorative plants in the garden, including vintage vice. Typically, such a trimming is carried out in spring.
- Forming trimming. It is possible to start by the formation of a bush approximately 3 years after planting the plant. Young green shoots can be trimmed at any time of the growing season. Warm branches should be trimmed in autumn.
The key to proper trimming is not only vintage, but also other plants, is a sharp secateur and the correctness of the cut, which should always be located above a healthy kidney.
Vintage wintering
Vice grapes is a decorative liana, characterized by good resistance to adverse environmental conditions. The plant can stand the frost to -30 degrees, but the lack of snow in the winter can provoke the lacial freezing. If you want Villai's grapes perfectly tolerated winter, consider the following recommendations:
- the young Village grapes are still better to strengthen the winter with a snack, dry grass or agrovolok;
- if Vichi grapes grows in a container, it is also worth prepared by the winter. If the container has a volume of more than 15 liters, then it can be simply wrapped in with underfloor material. If the pot is small, then no insulation saves the root system from the freezing. Such a plant is best to go to the ground;
- if you grow vice vineyards on the balcony, then it is better to cut it in the fall, and put a pot indoors.
As Vichi grapes will grow up, your efforts to prepare a plant for winter will gradually reach a minimum.
Vintage diseases and pests
Vinti grapes are almost not terrible illness and pests. If you do not comply with the elementary rules of care, violate the landing technology, sometimes the following pests can be attacked on Liana:
- aphid. You can get rid of this insect pest on Vice grapes can be very quickly with any modern insecticide (for example, oxych);
- midge. Help solve the problem of the invasion of this insect can spray the lianas with a solid of wood ash in the calculation of 200 grams per 10 liters of water. After 2 weeks, re-spraying is recommended.
Of the diseases that vice grapes can be listed as follows:
- gray rot;
- puffy dew.
With timely detection of symptoms of these fungal diseases to help the plant can be easily and quickly with the help of modern fungicides presented on the shelves of gardeners in a large variety.
Vice grapes - reproduction
Vintage breeding seeds
Vintage seeds have a good germination. Before landing, they must be subjected to stratification. You can land seeds and autumn directly into the open ground. With such a landing, "artificial" stratification is not necessary. For planting seeds, the soil is prepared in the same way as when planting seedlings. Vintage seeds are started at around 21-25 days.
Vintage breeding vintage with cuttings
This method of breeding Viley grapes uses among the gardeners the greatest popularity. Consider some of the recommendations that will help multiply Lianu this method;
- vice grape cuttings can be harvested during a spring or summer forming trimming;
- rooting the cuttings of grapes in both ground and in water;
- for better rooting, the lower part of the cuttings is better to predend in the solution of the root formation stimulator;
- until the cuttings of the grapes in the open ground must pass the year. During this time, the plants should be in a warm room, where regular care will be ensured by irrigation, feeding and light loosening;
- if the reproduction of vicci vicci with cuttings occurs in the region with a sufficiently mild climate, then the plants are completely able to root immediately in the open soil.
Vintage breeding vice root siblings
Around the adult vintage vintage you can detect root offspring that can be used to reproduce the lianas. Carefully dig up a bush and transfer to the "rearing" protected from the wind and the bright sun. As soon as you understand that the plant rolled up, rooted, it can be safely transplanted for a permanent place of growth. The main rule of success of this method of reproduction is that the root cervical of the Liana should remain at the same level with the surface of the soil on which it was before digging.
Vintage breeding
Vintage breeding is also a rather popular method among gardeners, which allows us to get several new plants at the same time. To do this, you need to choose one of the shoots of grapes, then put it in a pre-prepared groove, fix it with the help of a bracket and sprinkle with a soil, leaving only the top of the stem. Regularly water this escape and follow a sufficient amount of soil. After some time, young plants will appear, which, after rooting, can be separated from the maternal bush and transplant to a permanent place of growth.
Vice grapes in landing and leaving is a simple and unpretentious plant with which even a novice gardener must "make friends". This liana, in addition to its decorativeness, carries in itself more practical benefits. If you choose a wooden building as a support for grapes, then a dense "carpet" of juicy green leaves will reliably protect it from rain. Vice grapes are also a universal plant, which perfectly combines with other decorative plants in the garden - with Clematis, with curly roses, with ivy, etc. Vertical landscaping from the "mix" of such decorative cultures will become a real work of art on your site. In addition, Vichy's grapes do not lose its attractiveness even with the advent of autumn, which is also the undoubted advantage of this culture.