Sweet and large grape variety Laura, photo and description

Is the Laura grape variety resistant to diseases, I would like to see a photo and description of its harvest? I have several seedlings growing, but still young, there was no ovary. The bushes are already quite large, they have wintered well so far, although we have not had strong frosts for a long time. I can't wait to see what I've got, in the sense, to taste the berries. They are sweet, not sour?

Already at the beginning of autumn, he will delight with sweet fleshy grapes, while it is suitable for growing almost throughout the territory of our homeland. This is a well-known Laura grape variety, a photo and description of which every gardener who grows table species should know. Laura can be safely called one of the best representatives. She has excellent taste characteristics, as well as an unpretentious and stable character.

In the State Register of Varieties, grapes are listed as Flora. Therefore, two names can be found on sale, but they are one and the same variety.

Laura grape variety - photo and description

The bush itself is distinguished by its rapid growth and early maturity. The first ovaries appear already in the second year after planting, but at the same time the adult grapes do not grow much and are of medium size. Its leaves are beautiful, dark green, with five lobes.

Up to 80% of young shoots in grapes are fruitful, so it needs to adjust fruiting and competent pruning... Otherwise, both the bunches and the berries become smaller, and the bush itself is greatly depleted, "feeding" such an amount of vine, which is not necessary for it in principle. Laura's flowers are predominantly female, so it is better to have a pollinator nearby to maintain yield indicators.

Conversely, the less the ovary is on the plant, the heavier the clusters and the larger the berries will be. However, leaving too few vines for fruiting is also impossible. The crop ripens faster, and the bush can begin to grow young shoots, which will take away nutrients and weaken its frost resistance.

The variety is known as frost-resistant, withstands frosts down to minus 26 ° C without problems and without shelter. Practically does not suffer from rot (white and gray), and mildew.

Taste characteristics

Laura grape is an early table variety, ripens in 120 days and will delight you with high yields. The average weight of loose conical bunches is 1 kg, with good care and rationing, they can weigh more than 2 kg.

The berries themselves are large, one in one, oval in shape. The skin is thin, but dense, with a slight waxy coating. The pulp is very tasty, fleshy, juicy, with a nutmeg aroma. The sugar content is not less than 20%, the acidic note is almost not felt, but provided that there was enough heat and light during maturation.

Pros and cons of the variety

Among the benefits of Laura grapes are noted:

• high productivity;
• large-fruited;
• early maturity;
• good frost resistance;
• the possibility of long-distance transportation thanks to the dense skin and berries that hold firmly and do not crumble;
• resistance to frequent diseases of culture.

However, the variety has some disadvantages. First of all, this is the need to ration the yield and control over pollination of female flowers. In addition, the taste of berries can deteriorate for the worse in cold summer. And because of the thin skin, wasps often spoil grapes. In addition, Laura is not immune to powdery mildew, and therefore needs preventive treatment against this disease.

Video review of the Laura grape variety