GRAPE - CAROLINA BLACK ROSE

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

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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.

You are lucky to have this variety, Daleys won't ship grapes to QLD anymore. Let me know if you want to sell a cutting!

Grape - Carolina Black Rose ^2/10

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Currently in second year. Had some fruit last year 5-6 bunches of  5-30 grapes per bunch. Had to compete with ants for the ripe fruit. Fruit does not ripe at the same time on bunch therefore have to pick and eat individually. Very annoying all round. However the few that we got to taste were delicious and sweet. Did not know much about trellising or pruning. Could be reason why unproductive. Have been reading up about pruning, but not sure if the variety prefers spur pruning or cane pruning. Anyway, its too late for this year as I have giving the whole vine a very close haircut all round. Fingers crossed for fruit but will try more scientific pruning next year.

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2007

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 1 Years after I planted Cutting

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Fertiliser or Organics Used: chook poo

Pest Control:

Have sprayed fungicide (mancozeb) and eco-oil (mid winter) on bare branch as preventative.

Will try some ant sand around base of plant/trellis to prevent the ants from eating fruit before we do.

Grape - Carolina Black Rose ^10/10

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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

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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 ^8/10

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Want hardy home grape for vergola area - shade in summer and let sun in in winter.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape - Carolina Black Rose

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excellent in area

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

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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