You should have gotten grapes. I prune mine when they are dormant and the
grapes produce on new wood. However, I know of several grape plants around
the area that are ignored completely and they put on new wood every year
(not always in the right places), and put on grapes. This year was bad in
this area for grapes. I have pruned my friends grapes, and told people I
know how to prune and no ones plants have done very well at all.

There are several reasons why grapes don't produce. In the South, you might
need to add phosphate to the soil, or otherwise have a regulated
fertilization program.

Almost everywhere I have been, you need to spray them with a fungicide at
least once a year. Here we get late frosts, and that damages or at least
stunts the harvest. I know several that have put on grapes, only to die and
fall off later.

Get on the internet and type in "growing grapes". Then bring up what some
university extension office has to say about it. Learn how, where and when
to prune the plants. My brother has a 15 year old grape plant that had been
ignored for that long. I pruned it the first year after moving back, and he
had to give grapes to a local wine maker because he had so many.

My biggest problem is keeping the wife out of them until they have time to
ripen completely.

Dwayne

"David Efflandt" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Anonny Moose wrote:
Last year my grapes were loaded with fruit but this year nothing!