My Edibles: Grape Vines QLD

Grape - Golden Muscat (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: -

love the taste

Planted: 2011

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Water Given in: Summer

Pruned By: 30% in Autumn, Winter, Spring

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

Hand-pick caterpillars

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

I don't like using poisonous sprays.  Can I get fruit without spraying?

Grape - Carolina Black Rose ^10/10

Comments: -

A fantastic shade plant, it looks beautiful. Does not go dormant until early August, and only for a month. About 15 bunches of grapes in it's first year, 30 second year, only six in its third year. I also have a Maroo seedless on an archway, which fruits about three weeks earlier than the Carolina Black Rose. Maroo seedless is sweet, Carolina Black Rose is quite sour.

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2008

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: occasional seaweed spray

Comments

Wow Diana, fabulous picture of your grapes. I also bought one from daleys and had it in the ground...first season. Do you happen to have more pictures of it? I would like to learn how you train it onto the roof? Can you send your pics to au0rey @hotmail.com I am having a bit of headache how i can do it. It is grown against the patio support pole. Has it been disease free since you had it? The young new leaves of mine come out curling and distorted. Do you have any idea why it is like that? Thanks!

Thanks, au0rey, I have answered your questions in the passionfruit thread of the forum.

Hi Diana, this spring my vine finally put on flower clusters and loads of them. I am sure yours do as yours seem to grow very similarly to mine, on the roof beams. Do you trim off any extra shoots so that fewer clusters can have better fruit development or do you just leave them alone? Thanks!

Hi Diana, can you tell me what colour your CBR grapes are when they first appear? If green, when do they turn black? And are your grapes oval or round when young? I have a funny feeling that mine may not be carolina black rose.

Hi au0rey, I prune off excess growth of leaves and shoots during summer as it is very vigorous. The grapes start off green and go black when ripe. Mine are just starting to turn. I have a Maroo seedless (a seedless sibling of the Carolina Black Rose apparently), which is already all ripe. They are both pretty round.

Thanks Diana, hopefully mine will turn round and black and be CBR.

Grape - Carolina Black Rose

Comments: - Fat growing and hardy to the humidity here. Sets long bunches of grapes.

Planted: 2010

Height 10 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Comments

i transplanted a huge mature black grape vine thriving locally in north Brisbane, so I think it is a CBR. Grows extremely well and sets huge amounts of long bunches of grapes without much care other than pruning and training. Can transplant any time of the year, they will just wait until the following spring to rebound.

Grape - Black Muscat

Comments: -

The grapes are very tasty (though they have leathery skins).

The fun of having a grape vine climbing a hot red wall!

Planted: 2006

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Organic Status:Organic

Grape - Golden Muscat

Grape - Pink Iona

Grape - Carolina Black Rose

Grape - Isabella Black

Grape - Golden Muscat (Grafted)

Comments: -

This is a seeded grape.

I had quite good growth in the first year and two small bunches of grapes.  I did not treat it well initially and replanted it twice.  I was suprised that it survived.

I am happy that it survived and really happy with the taste.

I hate that the posums appear to get to it before me thought!

Fruiting Months March and April

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pruned By: 90% in After Fruiting

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

Nil

Grape - Carolina Black Rose

Grape - Isabella Black

Grapefruit - Flame (Seedling)

Comments: - This was given to us as a gift from a friend. It is planted as a duo with Tahitian lime and appears to be doing well. It has been in the ground for only a few weeks so will update in the future with growth & fruit progress!

Planted: 2011

Height 0.7 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Grapefruit - Marshs Seedless

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Yearly, Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Grapefruit - Rio Red (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

prolific but constant invasion of citrus bug is a hassle

Fruiting Months April and May

Planted: 2002

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 15 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 30% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grapefruit - Star Ruby

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape - Flame Seedless

Grapefruit - Star Ruby ^8/10

Comments: -

Lovely smelling flowers. More leafy than his neighbours (lemonade and orange).Being  well mulched and well watered makes a big difference. Growing well

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Confidor

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Grape - Black Muscat

Qty: 2

Grape - Menindee Seedless

Sea Grape (Cutting)

Comments: -

This tree has attractive large round leaves. I didn't realise that it requires cross pollination so I am not sure if I will get fruit off this one.

Planted: 2009

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Summer

Grape - Carolina Black Rose (Cutting) ^7/10

Comments: -

Just bought this one and repotted it. Looks like a twig with a few buds.

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Grapefruit - Star Ruby (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

Still only young and establishing.  No problems to this point - one fruit last year.  Healthy little tree.

Only 3 fruit this year - hopefully more next year.

Height 4 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 Fruit Per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Manure, Blood

Pest Control:

No problems at this stage

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

When do citrus - ie grapefruit and mandarins get their flowers to produce fruit?  Shoud it be in Spring?

Grape - Golden Muscat

Grape - Black Muscat

Grapefruit - Flame (Grafted)

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Grapefruit - Star Ruby (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

Growing in a large pot and doing great.  I let the fruit ripen this year to see what we are up for.  Allowed 4 to stay on, very heavy fruit, I'm surprised the branches supported them. 

Fruiting Months March, April, May, June

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 30% in After Fruiting

When I Fertilise: Yearly and Spring

Dwarf Grapefruit ^5/10

sultana grapes (Grafted)

Comments: -

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grapefruit - Star Ruby (Grafted)

Fruiting Months June, July, August

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Pink iona grapes (Grafted)

Fruiting Months January, February, December

Planted: 2010

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic