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Originally posted by k911sc
i grow grapes as a hobby and am getting better at it. you actually save your trimmins and put them in water and they will sprout ruts. it's magic!
actually i would just start with a new table grape plant and read up a bit. i started w/o much reading or info and kinda floundered in that i did not let them get tall enough before training them out. now they droop down and touch my lawn and the dirt below them and i have a heck of a time keeping the dry mold off them. i am making a better effort this year to keep them up off the ground. last years crop was a wash-out, although the year before that i got like 50 lbs of purple table grapes from them. they were/are very good.
i have taken a few snips from my pops vines and have a couple yellow table grape plants starting. i am following better instruction on getting these shaped right to avoid the ground contact. the purple ones are actually fronting my house on a wrought iron fence. not to sound too gay (not that there is anything wrong) the grapes kinda got me into planting fruit trees around my yard, i have gone with a blood orange citrus, a nectarine, a lemon, a plum, and then of course there is the hemp i farm to make my homemade rope.....
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I saved a spot above the blackberry/raspberry arbors for grapes, should I decide to grow a few. I'd plant some of the "good" domestic types there. Here's what my arbors look like now. Another cable goes above the two that are there, but the berry canes aren't long enough to reach passed the second cable yet.
Here's a few green berries on the thornless canes, not bad for being put in the ground for the first time this year, but next year should be very productive.
Looking just about due south, you can see the four rows of the berry arbors (or trellis'). The trees in the containers will be planted later this month or so, two figs and four citrus trees. You should also be able to see the amount of slope the orchard has, the area reserved above the berries for grape trellis' can be seen, just haven't built them yet. Your comments on training them hight enough was good info, seems to me that I've seen grape trellis' 5-6 feet high with the lowest wire at least 3 feet above the ground.
