My Edible Fruit Trees: Grape Vines WA

Grape - Crimson Seedless (Cutting) ^8/10

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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 - Crimson Seedless

Planted: 2007

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

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

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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 - 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

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 - thomuscat

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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

Grape - Wortley Hall (black muscat) (Cutting) ^10/10

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Personally - black muscats are my favourite grape - I love squeezing the jelly-like inside out..yummm.

This vine is great - no trouble, does well on the coast and in the wind, heat etc.

It produces 3kg-plus bunches and lots of them.

Much less hassel than the italian white muscat next to it.

Fruiting Months January and February

Planted: 2007

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 90% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Usual mix

When I Fertilise: Winter

Pest Control:

Routine winter copper spray and follow up for powdery mildew. Netted for birds.

Organic Status:Organic

Grape Crimson Seedless

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Seedless red grape- no fruit yet

Pollination: Self Pollination

grape large black seedless (Cutting)

Planted: 2008

Height 0.5 metres

Qty: 4

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape Maroo

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CSIRO bred variety- seedless black grape- no fruit yet

Planted: 2009

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape Ribier

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 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- Cardinal (Grafted)

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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-Italia

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

Pollination: Self Pollination

grape-perlette (Grafted)

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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-perlette

Grapefruit - Thompson Pink (Grafted)

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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

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

grapes (Cutting) ^10/10

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White seedless table grape. Produces masses (70 bunches on a four year old vine) of sweet excellent flavoured fruit. Great eaten fresh or dried. Prune onto a trellis. Cane pruning works well.

Fruiting Months January, February, March

Planted: 2005

Height 1.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 50 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

Pick off vine moth caterpillars when seen on young leaves.

Organic Status:Organic

grapes

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Grapes

Pollination: Self Pollination

grapes

kiwi fruit - non hair ones the size of a grape

Pollination: No

Tomato - Green Grape

Grape - Black Muscat Hamburg

Grape - Flame Seedless

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 - Flame Seedless

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

Pollination: Self Pollination

Grape - Flame Seedless

Grape - Golden Muscat

Planted: 2012

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Grape - Golden Muscat (Cutting) ^5/10

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I like the variety - but this one is hard work on the coast. It suffers from powdery mildew quite badly. I haven't had any fruit to eat yet as I haven't been on top of the spraying requirement...maybe this year.

Fruiting Months January and February

Planted: 2007

Height 2 metres

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 90% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Usual mix

When I Fertilise: Winter

Pest Control:

Routine winter copper spray and then lots more.....Netted for birds.

Organic Status:Organic