Detailed Explanation of the Key Points of Beauty Finger Grape Cultivation Techniques

The Beauty Finger grape has bright colors, long and plump berries, and is very attractive, with a sweet taste. It is an excellent grape variety. How should this grape be cultivated in our country? Let us learn about Beauty Finger grape cultivation techniques together.

Beauty Finger Grape Cultivation Techniques

1. Choosing the planting site: Beauty Finger grapes have strong adaptability and like light and warmth. When choosing a planting site, we mainly use neutral sandy soil, requiring fertile soil and good drainage. Flat land or sloping land is fine, and the frost-free period must be more than 140 days.

2. Turning and leveling the soil: Beauty Finger grapes are generally cultivated with small trellises. We dig planting trenches in the selected site. Place topsoil and subsoil separately. When backfilling, first fill in 1/4 straw, then fill in a mixture of topsoil and organic fertilizer, water it to settle it,

3. Planting: Use 1-year-old seedlings for planting, carried out after the soil thaws in the north, generally from late March to early April; green seedlings in nutrient bags can also be used for planting, with the planting time from late April to mid-May. After planting, cover with plastic film to preserve moisture, so as to help increase the survival rate of planting.

4. Pruning: After the seedlings recover from transplanting, promptly remove weak buds, and choose one vigorous main stem to keep. When the seedlings grow to 40 cm tall, wooden sticks can be used to build a support, tie the vine to the wooden stick, and let it grow upright. When the main stem grows to about 1 m, pinch off the growing tip, and remove all branches below 0.8 m. This is to promote top growth. In winter, good mother branches must be kept.

5. Cluster and berry thinning: Before the grapevines bloom, thin out excess fruit clusters, and strictly remove second-crop clusters. Also pinch off the tips of the clusters to ensure compact cluster shape, with cluster length not exceeding 20 cm. Straighten the fruit clusters among the branches. Two weeks after fruit set, carry out berry thinning, leaving an average of 50-70 berries per cluster, so that the whole cluster is tight but not crowded, and loose but not scattered.

6. Fertilizer and water management: Apply sufficient base fertilizer. At the same time, after planting is completed, when the seedlings grow to 20 cm, apply nitrogen fertilizer once, then apply urea once every half month for 4 consecutive times. In mid-August, apply monopotassium phosphate 3 times. Before cold protection in winter, in combination with deep turning and hole expansion, apply high-quality organic fertilizer per mu and water for cold protection. To promote good fruit quality, apply potassium fertilizer mostly when the fruit begins to color. Water after each fertilization.

7. Disease control: Beauty Finger has relatively strong disease resistance, so do not spray chemicals in the first year. In the second year, focus on spraying protective agents, with chemical control as a supplement. However, in rainy years and regions, disease and pest control should be strengthened. Under high temperature and high humidity conditions, fruit clusters and berries are susceptible to white rot and black pox. Therefore, promptly spray agents such as Kebo, Bordeaux mixture, carbendazim, thiram, and metalaxyl, using them alternately.

8. Burying soil for cold protection: In late October, when the average nighttime temperature drops to -3°C, be sure to bury soil for cold protection, with a soil thickness of 30-40 cm as appropriate. If weeds, straw, and other materials are spread between the tree rows, it will achieve twice the result with half the effort.

The cultivation techniques of Beauty Finger grapes are briefly introduced here. In short, only by paying more attention to the growth conditions of the plants can good fruit be produced.