Grape vines

In July 2009 we purchased our current home. It came with a Grape vine attached to an arbor. It did produce fruit that year...Dark purple Seeded grapes. They were very sweet. This year after a bad wind storm that we thought may have killed the vine we purchased 3 other vines. 2 may not have made it....but thats why we got more than one. So now we have to healthy thriving grape vines. One is the Dark purple seeded grapes and the other is Concord. After a lot of pruning and reteaching the old vine is once again thriving and producing grapes....or at least the beginings of.


Grape vines need to be taught how to grow. In other words they are vines that if not given something to climb on and shown how too they will not produce as much grapes. As you can see from the picture the vine on the left (the older vine) has some interesting twists and turns. Because the growth can be fast on these vines every few days I will go out and take the new growth and send it back thru the holes on the arbor...basically telling the vine that no I want you to grow around the arbor not the trees...cause it likes to do that. Anything to get closer to the sun.






As the season presses on there is new growth everywhere on both vines and the grapes them selves go thru different stages. First the fruit flower will appear. They can be hard to see or find but this is essentially where the grapes themselves will apear.

The actuall flowering stage of the fruit is not always like most flowering/fruit trees or plants. This one well it's just different. But equally important. After this stage we shouldstart to see the Grapes themselves forming.