Cultivars

Cultivars
    There are thousands of cultivars of grapes.
    Most popular ones are:
    Coloured seeded grapes:-
    • B. Blue- a cross between
    • V. vinifera X V. labrusca- table, juice, wine

    Characters of Vitis and Muscadinia

    Characters

    Vitis

    Muscadinia

    Shoots

    Bark is longitudinally striate, fibrose

    Tight bark, non-shedding, with prominent lenticels

    Pith

    Interrupted in nodes by a diaphram

    Without diaphram

    Tendril

    Forked

    Simple

    Flower clusters

    Elongated

    Short, small

    Berries

    Adheringtothe cluster at maturity

    Detach one by one they mature

    Seeds

    Pyriform with long or short beak

    Oblong without beak
    • Gulabi, Abyad- table, juice- early type.
    • Banaqui Abyad- table, wine- early,
    • Kishmish charni Black champa- processing & for hybridization purpose only.
    • Coloured Seedless: Beauty seedless (blue black)mid-season,
    • Krishmish Charni (brick red) Mid-season (sharad seedless).
    • Flame seedless (Purple) late.
    White seeded
    • Anab-e-shahi-late
    • Dilkush-clone of AES
    • Cheemasahebi (Selection from Pandari sahebi) late.
    • White seedless: Perlette (Scolokertekhirolaynoje X Sultania marble)
    • Pusa Seedless: Superior than perlette- Mid.
    • Thompson Seedless mid- Tas-e-Ganesh, Manik Chaman, Sonaka are clones.
    • Arkavati- BlackChampaXThompson Seedless-late.
    • Delight-Sister seedling of perlette- early.
    • Homorod- ContarioX Sultania.
    Propogation
    • Propagation by hard wood stem cuttings, Treating cuttings with IBA improves rooting.
    • Single bud cuttings also can be rooted by keeping the base of the cutting at a constant temperature of 18-200C for 2-3 weeks.
    • While, using root stocks, grape can be propagated by chip budding or grafting.
    Phylloxera resistant rootstocks
    • Riparia Gloire- Selection from V. riparia.
    • St. George - Cultivar of V. rupestris
    • 4x2 (Ganzian)- (V.vinifera (Aromon) X V. rupestris ( Gonzin).
    • 1202- (V.rupestries and V. mataro).
    • 99- (V. berlanderi X V. rupestris).
    Nemotode resistant rootstocks
    • Dogride- cultivars of V. champin.
    • Salt creek, 1613- 1616- (V. solonis X V. paria).
    • Telecki 5A- (V. berlandarix X V. riparia 5A 1616).
    • Solonis 1616- suitable for saline & wet soils.

Last modified: Wednesday, 25 April 2012, 2:33 PM