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Grape vine assistance
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As a newcomer to the delights of grapevines, could someone help me out please? I've read here and elsewhere that vines usually flower before providing grapes. If so, are these the flowers, because they look like 'baby' grapes to me.... http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-...apes-small.jpg Thanks in advance - I'll be back later for a quick couse on vine pruning! Cheers TIm |
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On Mon, 10 May 2004 08:34:40 +0100, Tim Nicholson
wrote: Hi As a newcomer to the delights of grapevines, could someone help me out please? I've read here and elsewhere that vines usually flower before providing grapes. If so, are these the flowers, because they look like 'baby' grapes to me.... http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-...apes-small.jpg Thanks in advance - I'll be back later for a quick couse on vine pruning! "Access Denied (Usage Limit) The owner of this file has exceeded their daily usage limit. " On a Leiden Vietnamese restaurants menu "Squeezed Grapes" [wine] "Yeast" [beer] Strong Booze [spirits] |
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On Mon, 10 May 2004 09:56:14 +0200, martin wrote:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-...apes-small.jpg "Access Denied (Usage Limit) The owner of this file has exceeded their daily usage limit. " Sorry - it was my first attempt at uploading an image to a freebie site. I'll look around and see whether I can put it somewhere else, then post another link. Tim |
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Tim Nicholson wrote:
Hi As a newcomer to the delights of grapevines, could someone help me out please? I've read here and elsewhere that vines usually flower before providing grapes. If so, are these the flowers, because they look like 'baby' grapes to me.... The flowers do look like bunches of baby grapes. When they disappear, the grapes will grow at a point just behind where the flowers are. -- Howard Neil |
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On Mon, 10 May 2004, Tim Nicholson wrote:
As a newcomer to the delights of grapevines, could someone help me out please? I've read here and elsewhere that vines usually flower before providing grapes. If so, are these the flowers, because they look like 'baby' grapes to me.... http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-...apes-small.jpg Not able to see your picture, but I would say that it's a little early for grapes to be forming. Therefore what you can see are probably the flower buds. Flowering usually takes place in June/July but then everything is early this year. My vines are only just putting out the tightly packed flower trusses. I think I've got some photos of vine flowers somewhere so if you email me your email address I'll send them to you. Thanks in advance - I'll be back later for a quick couse on vine pruning! Don't try to do any pruning at the moment! If you cut into ripe wood it'll bleed profusely. And it's probably a bit too early to be pruning back the new growth. However what you can do profitably now is to remove any new growth that either doesn't have any flower truss or isn't needed for further training of the vine. -- +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Internet: | writing from | | Fidonet: David Rance 2:252/110 | Caversham, | | BBS: telnet://mesnil.demon.co.uk | Reading, UK | +-------------------------------------------------------+ |
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On Mon, 10 May 2004 08:34:40 +0100, Tim Nicholson
wrote: Hi As a newcomer to the delights of grapevines, could someone help me out please? I've read here and elsewhere that vines usually flower before providing grapes. If so, are these the flowers, because they look like 'baby' grapes to me.... [old link may be broken] try this one instead http://www.symmetric.demon.co.uk I've never tried this before, so apologies if it doesn't work. I also appreciate that it's probably not good design practice to give people access to a homepage, but right now it was quick, and it appears to work for me! Cheers Tim |
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Tim Nicholson wrote:
On Mon, 10 May 2004 08:34:40 +0100, Tim Nicholson wrote: Hi As a newcomer to the delights of grapevines, could someone help me out please? I've read here and elsewhere that vines usually flower before providing grapes. If so, are these the flowers, because they look like 'baby' grapes to me.... [old link may be broken] try this one instead http://www.symmetric.demon.co.uk I've never tried this before, so apologies if it doesn't work. I also appreciate that it's probably not good design practice to give people access to a homepage, but right now it was quick, and it appears to work for me! They look like the flowers to me. -- Howard Neil |
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In article , Tim Nicholson
writes Hi As a newcomer to the delights of grapevines, could someone help me out please? I've read here and elsewhere that vines usually flower before providing grapes. make that an 'always' ;-) Pollen from male part of flower fertilises female part of flower which then produces seed (in this case wrapped up in a grape). Some plants will produce a fruit even if not fertilised, but you do need the female flower first. Flowers are in small bunches, with each flower potentially producing a grape (which is why the grapes are in bunches). It sounds like your vine is on the way :-) -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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The photo has appeared. They are indeed flower buds. The berries[grapes]
will form later and flowering this early should ripen well. Good Luck Brian. "Tim Nicholson" wrote in message ... On Mon, 10 May 2004 08:34:40 +0100, Tim Nicholson wrote: Hi As a newcomer to the delights of grapevines, could someone help me out please? I've read here and elsewhere that vines usually flower before providing grapes. If so, are these the flowers, because they look like 'baby' grapes to me.... [old link may be broken] try this one instead http://www.symmetric.demon.co.uk I've never tried this before, so apologies if it doesn't work. I also appreciate that it's probably not good design practice to give people access to a homepage, but right now it was quick, and it appears to work for me! Cheers Tim |
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"........... I've never tried this before, so apologies if it doesn't work.
I also appreciate that it's probably not good design practice to give people access to a homepage, but right now it was quick, and it appears to work for me! ........." Well there's not a lot of point having a web site if you don't allow access to your home page. And yes they are the young flower buds, Now all you have to do is to make sure you don't let the roots dry out if we get a dry summer, and make sure you keep god ventilation, these two things will go a long way to prevent the start of Mildew -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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from Tim Nicholson contains these words: try this one instead http://www.symmetric.demon.co.uk Flower buds. The flowers will be small and have very small whitish petals. They don't last long, so you need to allow access to pollinators. In any case, vines need a fairly dry atmosphere or they'll soon get botrytis (nasty grey mould), so while there is daylight and warmth there should be good ventilation. I've never tried this before, so apologies if it doesn't work. I also appreciate that it's probably not good design practice to give people access to a homepage, but right now it was quick, and it appears to work for me! A? That's what a homepage is for! Don't prune until after all the fruit has set and then shorten the laterals with bunches of grapes, leaving at least two leaves beyond the bunch. Make sure there is no serious bleeding on *THE FIRST CUT*, and proceed carefully after that. Cut out any laterals that have no fruit - if you don't want to train them for future years. At the end of the year, when all the leaves have fallen and any sap in the laterals has returned to the stem, cut off all laterals, leaving the best-looking bud near the main stem. _ _ o// ________o//_______//________ _____________ ___________ ____ o\\ O\\ ¯ ¯ The buds will grow into next year's laterals. Water profusely. (Your vine should be planted outside the greenhouse, BTW, and be guided in, using something soft or which will push aside as the stem grows in diameter.) Having watered profusely, water it again. *NEVER* give a vine nitrogen fertiliser or it will produce lots of leaf and no fruit. Bonemeal and hoof-and-horn are good slow-release fertilisers. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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That's all quite handy stuff. My grape has just flowered for the first
time. I planted it late last summer so only saw lots of leaves and by heck it grew fast (1 inch a week). It's growing fast again and now there are lots of little flowers on it, and I'm crossing my fingers for what might happen next. Kev, |
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On Wed, 12 May 2004 18:53:18 +0100, Kevin Groves
wrote: and by heck it grew fast (1 inch a week) Wait until it really gets its roots down - you will be able to see the growth from one day to the next easily, you won't have to wait a week! Regards, VivienB |
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In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote: Water profusely. (Your vine should be planted outside the greenhouse, BTW, and be guided in, using something soft or which will push aside as the stem grows in diameter.) Having watered profusely, water it again. Interesting that the opposite often applies when growing grapes for wine-making, in Europe at least. IIRC, irrigation is not allowed if the vines are to be used for a "quality" wine (eg. Appellation Controlle or VDQS as opposed to Vin de Pays or Vin de Table, in France) with a few rare exceptions (experimental vineyards being one). I wonder if it's something to do with limited yields? James |
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 20:53:03 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote: Water profusely. (Your vine should be planted outside the greenhouse, BTW, and be guided in, using something soft or which will push aside as the stem grows in diameter.) Having watered profusely, water it again. That's interesting - I'd heard this somewhere before, but no-one was able to tell me 'why' I should plant the vine outside. As we were building a new greenhouse, I figured the ground inside (once you got below the 3 inches of gravel and the anti-weed, water-permeable membrane) was likely to be the same as that outside, and as anything above ground was going to be inside the greenhouse anyway, it probably didn't make much difference. So my vine is planted IN the greenhouse (simply to make it easier to apply water to the root system near the stem/trunk). Is this a major error? I'll be installing an auto watering system in the next couple of weeks, can anyone tell me how much water a decent size vine needs. I intend set the system to water twice as day as I do now, but I'm not sure about the amount. At the moment I give the vine a good sized watering can - about 1.5 gals? - at each watering. Is that enough? The plant seems healthy, and no signs of any problems so far. Thanks in advance Tim |
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