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What I want to know is if I plant to varieties of grapes next to each other will they cross pollinate?

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Herbgardener said:
What I want to know is if I plant to varieties of grapes next to each other will they cross pollinate?

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No, they won't cross pollinate.
 

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I'm curious why you say they won't cross pollinate?
 

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Just did a two second google on grapes. It seems they do in fact cross pollinate. ??
 

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Yeah, Google can be a friend or it can be pretty confusing. Don't you love the net.

Apparently some grapes are self-sterile and some are not. If you are not planting the seeds it probably does not matter if they cross-pollinate. I'm pretty sure with cross-pollination, the fruit itself is not affected but if you plant the seeds, they will have mixed genetics.

All the grape varieties available in my Starks Brothers catalogue are self-pollinating.

I have different varieties planted side by side and the fruit they bear is unique to that plant, cross-pollination does not affect the actual fruit. It would affect what the fruit if vines grown from that seed would look like.
 

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If you are not planting the seeds it probably does not matter if they cross-pollinate. I'm pretty sure with cross-pollination, the fruit itself is not affected but if you plant the seeds, they will have mixed genetics.
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Oh yeah- just like pumpkins and squash. I should have figured that out!! Really hoping to put in a few grape vines this year...
 

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Ridgerunner said:
I have different varieties planted side by side and the fruit they bear is unique to that plant, cross-pollination does not affect the actual fruit. It would affect what the fruit if vines grown from that seed would look like.
Could you describe your arbors? I got carried away with a seed catalog and ordered 3 different seedless varieties. I'm tearing out some black raspberries that are diseased and thought I would replace them with the grapes. What was I thinking! Now I have arbors to build this spring.
 

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Many different ways to do this and many a lot prettier than mine. Don't know if you can see this all that well, but I put three posts in the ground maybe 8 to 10 feet apart, put a 4' long cross piece 2x4 on top with a bolt, then drove a couple of nails so the cross piece would not rotate, then put some 2"x4" vinyl coated welded wire about 1' wide on each side.

Last year is the first time I got grapes on them, not enough to can or do anything with other than eat fresh. That was fine by me.

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I did something similar for my parents several years ago, but just stretched cable between the cross pieces. That worked fine.
 

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