Greensage45
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Hi again,
When I moved into this house in 2001, there was a string of wire that had snapped and attached to it were some really old vines. The trunks were enormous and split. I tried to nurture them but only got the tiniest fruit imaginable. Smaller than you can imagine, LOL, no.. a bit smaller than that LOL
Let's just say these vines were likely grown by seeds from a store-bought fruit. I went ahead and dug them out.
In place of them I bought 2 red grape starters, and two Thompson seedless; both of which have taken off really well over the past five years or so.
My fruit has been on my red grapes, but they ripen one grape at a time. Literally it will be a cluster of hard green grapes, and one by one they ripen each day. Never amounting to a full cluster and by the time the second grape is ripe the birds have taken the previous ripe grape, leaving only the one ripe grape at a time. It is really quite pathetic. I figured that I will have to make a sort of cheesecloth like sack for each cluster next year.
I also feel that this area, although it gets a full afternoon's direct sun, is not lengthy in the time of sunlight, and so the plants grow vigorously because they are partially shaded. I will do a heavy pruning and try that, I was also using the vine as a 'flight and fence' cover.
As for the masses of leaves, my bunnies just love grape leaves, so my plants have been a source of nutrition for something around here at least.
Ron
When I moved into this house in 2001, there was a string of wire that had snapped and attached to it were some really old vines. The trunks were enormous and split. I tried to nurture them but only got the tiniest fruit imaginable. Smaller than you can imagine, LOL, no.. a bit smaller than that LOL
Let's just say these vines were likely grown by seeds from a store-bought fruit. I went ahead and dug them out.
In place of them I bought 2 red grape starters, and two Thompson seedless; both of which have taken off really well over the past five years or so.
My fruit has been on my red grapes, but they ripen one grape at a time. Literally it will be a cluster of hard green grapes, and one by one they ripen each day. Never amounting to a full cluster and by the time the second grape is ripe the birds have taken the previous ripe grape, leaving only the one ripe grape at a time. It is really quite pathetic. I figured that I will have to make a sort of cheesecloth like sack for each cluster next year.
I also feel that this area, although it gets a full afternoon's direct sun, is not lengthy in the time of sunlight, and so the plants grow vigorously because they are partially shaded. I will do a heavy pruning and try that, I was also using the vine as a 'flight and fence' cover.
As for the masses of leaves, my bunnies just love grape leaves, so my plants have been a source of nutrition for something around here at least.
Ron
..so really 90% has to go? 
