My Edible Fruit Trees: Grape Vines WA

Grapes

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape - Flame Seedless

Grapefruit-Ruby

Comments: - very thick skinned fruit. Supposed to be pink but apparently this happens in warmer climates. Skin is yellow-flesh 'pinkish' Has dozens of big plump fruit on it each year-shame we all hate grapefruit-planted it for my sister who moved a 5 hour drive away the year it started fruiting !!!

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Grape - Pinot (Bress) (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: -

Planted in grape zone locations 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20-34, 35-60. Soil is a mix of loam, clay, compost, ash etc.

Cuttings taken from grapes that produce my absolute favorite wine (Bress). They were trying to produce delectable fruit within months of being cut from the parent plant!

Height 0.3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 48

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control: small birds to eat bugs. Big fences to deter macropods

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Grape - Flame Seedless

Comments: - Growing along house verandah-have to fight the horse for the grapes !

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape-Italia

Comments: - Growing along house verandah-have to fight the horse for the grapes !

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape - Menindee Seedless (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

Prolific bearing, good coverage over arch in 2 years.Easy to prune back in winter.Lovely sweet grapes. Birds and possums a problem.

Fruiting Months February and March

Planted: 2014

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 4

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 50% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Composted manures.

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

none though caterpillars can be a problem , so far not too bad.Pick off when I see them.

Organic Status:Organic

Grapefruit - Star Ruby ^3/10

Comments: -

I want to grow a potted orchard on my front verandah

Grape - Maroo Seedless (Cutting) ^5/10

Comments: -

seedless.  My first batch of fruit from this vine last year tasted very incipid.  I must say the Crimson Seedless and Sultana both win hands down.

Fruiting Months March

Planted: 2009

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Grape - Crimson Seedless (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: -

This seedless variety is very vigorous and the fruits are large and sweet and crunchy with good flavour.  My favourite grapes so far. Grapes are hard work with all the pruning and spraying required.  And then you have to protect the fruit from birds and rats.  Still, the quality fruit is worth it.  My vines are cane pruned.

Fruiting Months March, April, May

First Fruited: 36 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Question:

The flowering seems to be unpredictable.  Some years it flowers heaps and other years very little.  Some first year canes will produce flower shoots while other first year canes won't.  I still cannot figure it out.  Anyone's got any bright ideas?

Grape - Golden Muscat

Planted: 2012

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Grape - Sultana H5 (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

No fruit as yet- this vine was planted in winter of 2007

Update 2012 fruiting well but fruit are (as you would expect) smaller than shop bought due to lack of thinning sprays. Silvereyes (birds) love the grapes the little buggers.

Planted: 2007

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 80% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Bordeaux spray in late winter just prior to bud burst

Grape Ribier

Comments: -

 No fruit as yet- this vine was planted in winter of 2007

Masses of fruit summer 09/10- the birds loved them- next year this sucker is getting netted.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Bordeaux spray in late winter just prior to bud burst

grape-perlette (Grafted)

Comments: -

No fruit as yet- this vine was planted in winter of 2007

Got a few small bunches summer of 09/10- need to better protect it from birds next year

Planted: 2007

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 80% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Grape- Cardinal (Grafted)

Comments: -

No fruit as yet- this vine was planted in winter of 2007

Heaps of fruit summer of 09/10 but the birds got most of them- need to net it this year

Planted: 2007

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 80% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Grape - Maroo Seedless

Comments: -

This plant is designed to screen the fence (between my orange and lemon) and hopefully provide me with some tasty table grapes. It is supported by some special purpose wires spaced about 40cm apart (against the fence). When it was first planted (early 2010) it was just a stick, but it is already covering the fence quicker than I had hoped. It is quite a bushy plant and I imagine I'll need to give it a decent prune to ensure good shape for years to come. There are even baby grapes on it already (October 2010)!

In Jan 2011 the grape started wilting so I've removed the baby bunches and pruned the branches that are not where I want. It has since re-shoot and I imagine I'll need to prune again in autumn

2011-2012 has been a bad year for grapes - a late rain split the entire crop and there seems to be a 'disease' attacking the plant (leaves go yellow and fall off). But the plant is growing very fast. A second flowering resulted in a few more bunches that were split by rains just after Christmas!

Planted: 2010

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

None required at this time

Comments

Mine grows very well and fruited last year. The flavour was not that great compared with crimson seedless and saltana, both of which also produce very well in my garden in Perth.

grape - thomuscat

Comments: -

The thomuscat is supposed to be a white, seedless grape which is a cross between a sultana and white muscat, but with a strong muscat flavour (yummy ... I hope). It is supposed to mature early to mid-season. I planted it to screen the fence between my lime and orange. It appears to be more interested in growing up rather than out (which is fine). It was just a little stick when I planted it in early 2010. It is planted so that it is near a limestone retaining wall - which seems to keep it happy despite my attempts to acidify the soil in the bed (as there is a lime tree about 1.5 metres from the grape).

the 2011-2012 crop was split by a late rain. The plant otherwise seems very happy and growing like a weed

Planted: 2012

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Not required at this time

Grapefruit - Flame ^9/10

Comments: -

The plant was quick to bear lots of fruit for such a small tree. Easy to look after.

Fruiting Months April, May, June

Planted: 2009

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 14 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Large green grasshoppers are the only critters I've found eating my tree. Just remove them by hand.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Grapefruit - Thompson Pink (Grafted)

Comments: -

This is a sport of the common Marsh grapefruit variety, differentiated from its parent by its pinkish coloured flesh and seedlessness. Apparently the pink colour only develops under ideal growing conditions and I am not sure that it will receive enough heat in our garden. The taste is similar to Marsh.

This tree is part of our citrus hedge - a row of citrus trees planted along a north-west facing boundary fence at 1m spacing. The plan is for the trees to grow into an effective hedge that will be kept pruned to about 2m high. We prepared the planting area for the citrus hedge by incorporating "fruit & veg" soil mix into our existing sandy soil. Mushroom compost was worked into the bottom of the planting hole which was then backfilled with more "fruit and veg" mix. The area was lightly mulched with mushroom compost, leaving the area about 8cm around the trunk clear.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Grape - Flame Seedless

Grape - Black Muscat Hamburg

Grapefruit - Rio Red

Grapefruit - Star Ruby (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

Label doesn't say what type of red grapefruit it is. It's struggling a bit - had to severely prune to get the framework right.

For feeding n spraying see lemon - meyer.

Aug 2010: it's doing well now and flowering. May let it keep one or two fruit at most.

Fruiting Months July

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: see lemon - meyer

Pest Control:

See lemon - meyer

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Grape Crimson Seedless

Comments: -

Seedless red grape- no fruit yet

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape Maroo

Comments: -

CSIRO bred variety- seedless black grape- no fruit yet

Planted: 2009

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape - Flame Seedless (Cutting)

Comments: - Planted in raised garden bed with one peach and one nectarine (dwarf) on 30th November. Growing very nicely, will reach its trellis in soon.

Planted: 2009

Height 60 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control: Nothing as yet

Comments

Hi. Have you had any fruit yet? If so, how would you rate its taste?

Grape - ruby seedless (Cutting)

Comments: - Planted on the 18th November this year, in a pot next to my pergola. Hoping that it will grow up the side and at least cover some of the top, as I have no cover because they keep getting torn off by the wind. 

Planted: 2009

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

Hi Mish, I love your pergola. Grapes are excellent for growing over a pergola, as they have dense, large leaves in summer and they don't tend to drop the leaves during the growing season, also they live a long time. It feels about 5 degrees cooler when I walk under my grape from another part of the garden. Diana.

If you want it to get up on the pergola, consider how you might encourage it to get there. e.g. how many stalks / branches do you need? I'd prune any you don't. e.g. maybe keep 3 or 4 only , 1 or 2 to go up, 1 left, 1 right. When they are in place you can tip prune to get branching. A framework you designed should make later pruning for fruit easier. Alternatively if you want it to spread through the wire, you could spread out the branches on it and tip prune often.

Grape - Ribier (Cutting)

Comments: - Planted on the 18th November next to my pergola in a pot, opposite my Ruby.

Planted: 2009

Height 55 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Tomato - Green Grape

Grape - Menindee Seedless

Height 1.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Pollination: Self Pollination