Latest news 2013
Author: Knut Sætrevik
Then it was autumn in the vineyard, and the quiet settled in.
The plants gradually go into winter rest.
They wake again around 15 April.
During the winter I will post a little about pests on the vines.
A fine winter to everyone who uses this site!
Regards, Knut.
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The last of the press for this year!
Rosé wine for a fine summer evening with shrimp and crab.
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25 October.
Thumbs up for a season that, in terms of quality, turned out better than expected.
But small quantities…
We should probably have halved the yield per plant every year.
That would have triggered a better result in relation to acidity, pH and sugar.
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2 October
This autumn we had a visit from a hind with a calf in the grape garden.
They ate some of the newest leaves on the shoot tips, but otherwise did no harm.
Left behind a little natural manure.
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25 September
Lovely autumn colours on Rondo x Sheremushka. (KS)
It is one of the first to finish the growing season.
That may suggest that this will be an early variety.
But whoever lives will see.
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25 September
These were a little smaller, but I will taste them too…
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25 September
Look, Mum: Julie, 1 year old, on her first trip in Grandad’s grape garden.
Yum yum!
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25 September
Here is a rascal that thinks sweet grapes are good.
The brown slug can destroy a cluster in one night.
It sucks up the grape flesh, and the stones are left hanging.
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25 September
A test variety that will be tested over about 5 years.
A sweet-sour wine variety with small grapes.
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25 September
Not many grapes per cluster on Kuzminski this year.
Heavy rain during flowering saw to that.
It did, however, get good grape quality with 80 Oe sugar,
and a fine balance with the acidity and the pH.
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25 September
Varduva does well even with damp flowering.
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25 September
Negro (Negritionok).
A good wine variety with low acidity.
This large cluster is from a shoot that was led into the greenhouse.
A pity it is so marginal when planted out in the open.
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25 September
Lilac managed reasonably well.
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25 September
At the end of September there are lovely clusters on Frotenac.
It has such high acidity outdoors here with us that it is served to the blackbird.
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Turn of the month, July/August
Zilga against the bare rock has managed reasonably this year.
The vine has stood for 15 years and can, in good years, give between 15 and 18 kg of grapes.
They can be used for a halfway decent rosé wine.
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Turn of the month, July/August
This one is supposed to have rapid development, according to the description.
It needs that this year, since flowering got off to a late start.
It was one of the first to flower.
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28 July
This year I led a fruiting shoot of Negritionok (which we now call Negro)
into the greenhouse, in order to make crosses between this one and a number of other early varieties.
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16 July
A successful approach graft (suging) in the greenhouse.
This is the easiest way to get a take,
but it requires that you first have a plant with roots.
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Turn of the month, June–July
Rondo is almost ready to open its flower,
so we will have to cross our fingers for good weather.
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18 June
The magnolia tree has flowers.
It will flower for several weeks to come.
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16 June
The brown slugs (Iberian slug) are fond of leaves and new stems on the grapevine.
For mature plants this is not a big problem,
but for plants that shoot down at ground level after a hard winter, measures must be taken.
Otherwise the slug eats the shoots as they come out.
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16 June
Quite fine clusters on Amurski 3 this year.
Last summer the rain broke the flowers to pieces.
Hope it goes better this year.
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28 May
Amurski no. 3 has perhaps come the furthest now, 28 May
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28 May
With most of them, growth is well under way, here by the variety Lilac.
The temperature is good enough; hope it continues like this.
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10 May
Tumbelina (Duyomovodca 3), the buds have begun to swell,
but this is about 2 weeks later than normal.
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10 April
Now, 10 April, the outdoor vines have got tears,
but these are tears of joy when the sap rises.
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25 March.
In the greenhouse with a frost guard, growth is well under way.
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5 March.
It also turns out that white moss / bog moss is well suited for setting cuttings in.
It stays moist for a long time, and is airy so that oxygen gets to the roots.
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1 March.
Pure perlite is well suited to propagation by cuttings.
Here with peat mixed with perlite at the bottom.
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End of February
Pruning is finished now, at the end of February.
This is a vine that was planted in the year 2000.
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Winter is over!
One of the finest winters in many years,
with continuous fine weather without precipitation for about 33 days.
There was bare frost, which led to frozen ground.
This contributes to the plants waking later
in the spring than is normal here in the south-west of the country.
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