Wine is a fruit plant in the form of shrubs rich in benefits. The development of wine cultivation in the Middle East has been developed since 4000 BC. In Indonesia, the recommended grape cultivation is Probolinggo Blue Grape and Alphonso Lavalle. For the cultivation of wine need to pay attention to areas suitable for growing and developing. In addition, the cultivation of grapes should also pay attention to superior seeds to be developed and need knowledge in planting techniques. In developing the wine usually in its development will encounter various obstacles both in the form of pests and diseases. The following will be presented about the cultivation of wine that may hopefully provide benefits.
Areas or Places Suitable for Planting Grapes.
For Areas / Places to Match Wine or Grape Crops should consider many factors. Things to consider in determining the location of plants such as climate. The following are the things to consider in determining which areas are suitable for growing grapes:
Basically vine plants live in lowland areas, especially in coastal areas, with a dry season of about 4 to 7 months.
Also must be considered the wind factor. Areas that wind too fast is not good to grow grapes.
Suitable soil conditions for growing grapes are soils containing sand, sandy clay, fertile and friable, many of the humus and nutrients needed by grapes.
Grapes will grow well if when planted diketinggian between 5-1000 M above sea level or in lowland areas. The altitude here will greatly affect the growth of the grapevine concerned. Vitis Vinifera plant type suitable to be planted at an altitude of 1-300 M asl. While the type of Vitis Labrusca Wine Plant suitable grown at an altitude of 1-900 M above sea level. Areas Or Places That Are Suitable For Growing Grapes
Wine Seeds
To get the seeds of grape plants can be done in various ways. There are so-called generative ways and there is also to get the seeds of wine in a vegetative way. The simplest way of generating is the way to obtain seedlings by planting seeds, while the vegetative way is a way to obtain grape seeds by grafting, branching cuttings, eye cuttings, grafting. But while the most effective way to get the grapes by the way of cuttings.
Tips on How to Maintain Vine Plants
On this occasion for how to care for and care for the vines will tell you about the repetition of grapes, weeding, splinting, fertilizing, sprinkling, spraying and arrangement of flowers. Here is how to maintain the grape crops on the farmer's farm.
Thinning and Stitching
In the thinning of grapes is a matter to be taken seriously Karen will be a matter that will greatly affect the quality of the fruit to be produced. If not done thinning the grapes will damage the development of the grapes themselves and also will reduce the quality of the fruit.
The thinning stage is done at the age of one month after flowering and second spacing when the fruit is still nipple, the second stage is done two weeks after the first stage and the fruit of corn kernels. Do not forget to do pembrongsongan (wrapping) fruit. When is the wrapping done? Packaging is done in one dompol of fruit there are two or three ripe fruit with paper cement or newspaper.
Continue when the embroidery is done? Embroidering is only done when there are unhealthy / dead plants that are routinely performed simultaneously when watering because wine needs continuous attention.
Grape Harvesting Period
Vine plants in one year experience the harvest twice. The age of the grape harvest depends on the type of grape, the climate and the height of the grape growing place. In areas of low grape life about 90-100 days after the prune, in the highlands aged grapes about 105-110 days. Good fruit maturity level to harvest is if the color in one bunch has the same, the fruit grains easily loose and the state of the fruit is chewy and soft.
Implementation of the harvest is done in sunny weather and in the morning with careful picking, do not lose powder. The crops put in the cart / dos paperboard are not plugged, so that the fruit located below does not break.
For an estimated yield of 1 ha with a spacing of 4 x 5 crops per year an average of 7,500 kg of wine. Then the harvest is done by sorting the removal of broken fruit and fruit that is still too young in a dompolan. Then the wine is classified according to the size of the dompolan and the great uniformity of the fruit. The method of storing the crop is by inserting it in a cooling chamber or by hanging grapes to be aired in a cool room.
The way of packing when transporting is to use a wooden box filled with sawdust so that damage to the fruit can be pressed during transport. Some also use bamboo basket coated with Newspaper paper but this way is not good because many pieces are broken and broken.