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Post by daylilydude on Feb 4, 2012 7:00:53 GMT -5
Is there a general purpose fertilizer that works well for grapes, as I have no idea which ones they are!
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Post by woo on Feb 4, 2012 8:08:20 GMT -5
high phosphorus(?N-P-K) with compost-- 5-15-10
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Post by daylilydude on Jun 23, 2013 19:11:11 GMT -5
kept it weeded and just used composted manure this year and its helped a lot ..
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Post by stratcat on Jun 27, 2013 21:00:30 GMT -5
Those look good, dld! It's working.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2013 21:42:04 GMT -5
DLD, you're here in Mississippi with me. When you grow grapes, do they taste like grapes? Or do they end up tasting like muscadines no matter what the label says? If they taste like grapes, what variety are you growing?
I ask because I've all but given up growing proper table grapes. Every variety I've grown has ended up with big seeds (when they're supposed to be seedless), thick skin, thick gummy flesh and that distinct muscadine flavor. In addition, the only one that has lived more than two years is the "Concord Seedless". It's actually loaded this year, but last year's fruit tasted like all the rest.
MB
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 28, 2013 14:00:51 GMT -5
Heh, I think the people selling grape vines just like to mess with us Southerners. Years ago I bought what was supposed to be a trio of seedless table grapes - one red, one purple, and one green. One of the vines just did not do well and eventually died without producing. The other two turned out to be greenish-yellow, seeded, fairly thick-skinned, and with a faint muscadine taste.
Having said that, they are tough as nails, productive, and they make a lovely golden grape jelly. (Which reminds me, I need to get more cheesecloth - the grapes they should be ready in a week or two.) The jelly just tastes like a white grape jelly, with no muscadine flavor. So most of the crop goes for that.
My FIL has some grape vines planted, and one of them is a green seedless grape - yes, the grapes are actually seedless and no, they don't taste like muscadines! This January I planted a cutting we rooted from his vine. I thought for a while it was going to die on me - it sat there for months after the first growth flush. But it has perked up and started growing again lately. So hopefully in a couple of years it will produce table grapes.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 28, 2013 14:05:04 GMT -5
Oh, and in keeping with this thread: most years they have gotten 10-10-10 once or twice a year. This year they got an organic fruit tree fertilizer.
The new vine is of course getting babied with regular water, weeding, and mulch, but the established vines are only intermittently weeded and never watered. I believe they have roots down to the shallow water table about 6' down...they never seem to need watering, no matter how long we go without rain.
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