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NATURE ATTRACTION – These seedless table grapes produce the most flavorful and delicious table grapes imaginable. Seedless Blue Concord and Seedless White Himrod are excellent for eating fresh or in pies, jams, jellies and juice.
KEY TIPS – In order to have clean fruit, the vines must be supported on a trellis, arbor, fence, espalier, or other means. Training and tying the shoots upward on the trellis wires should begin fairly early. Grapes bear fruit on the green shoots that arise from one-year-old canes. Early spring pruning is important for producing fruit in the current season, and renewing young canes for the next year. Don’t be afraid to cut. Don’t be afraid to cut. Don’t be afraid to cut. When you finish, about 90% of last year's growth will be cut.
SHELF LIFE – Plant into the garden as soon as the ground has thawed enough to dig.
PREPARATION - Each bag contains 1 plant. Remove each bare root from the plastic bags. Cut away any yellow or brown leaves as well as broken roots.
DETERMINING THE BOTTOM OR TOP OF CLUMPS – These bare roots have roots radiating from the crown and cane above the crown. The roots should be put into the soil facing downward. You may prune the roots to help them fit into their holes.
GARDEN LOCATION – They like full sun or partial. Dig holes twice the width of the root ball and deep enough to accommodate the roots. In order to have clean fruit, the vines must be supported on a trellis, arbor, fence, espalier, or other means.
POTTED PLANTS – Use at least a 12 inch pot per plant. Provide a means of support that will accommodate considerable growth. Pot up one size per year if desired.
SOIL PREPARATION - Grapes will grow in many different soils – even soil of sand, gravel, shale, slate or clay. Vine growth is generally improved by adding organic matter such as peat, straw, leaf mold, or other to soil
PLANTING DEPTH AND SPACING – Spacing is totally subjective depending on whether using ornamental trellises, arbors, fences or other means of support. Dig holes twice the width of the root ball and deep enough to accommodate the roots. You may prune the roots so that they fit into their holes and spread evenly outward. Place them in and pack soil firmly around crown.
PLANT HEIGHT AND WIDTH – These will grow 15-20 feet wide or long depending on whether you train them vertically or horizontally.
SPROUTING TIME - Sprouts in spring. In the ground it takes a little longer if the temperatures are still cool.
WATER – Keep new plants moist until they get established and growing. During the first season, water at least once a week. After the first year, the roots will travel deep and will find adequate moisture for survival requiring less water.
FERTILIZER – This helps promote new growth and fruit production from year to year. For best results, use a well balanced plant food once in early spring before growth starts and once more when blooms appear. Roberta’s Flower Magic Plant Food (M7503) works exceptionally well.
LIGHTING – Full sun or partial sun is needed.
FOLIAGE – For pickling cucumbers young grape leaves are added to increase the crunchiness of homemade pickles. European cuisine uses it widely for its flavor.
BLOOMING – These plants will bloom in mid to late spring. Blossoms turn into clusters of grapes.
FRUITING – Grapes bear fruit on the green shoots that arise from one-year-old canes. Although some fruit may occur later than normal the first year, good yields are assured in the 2nd season and beyond. Seedless Himrod starts ripening first in early August followed by Seedless Concord in the fall.
TEMPERATURE ZONE 5 to 10- These are hardy down to a minus 15 degrees below 0 when planted in the ground. In pots they are hardy to about 0 F.
SUMMER GROOMING – Once fruit begins to form it is worth while to thin leaves, stems and growth that block the fruit from the sunlight. This helps the fruit form larger, more fully and ripen faster.
SPRING PRUNING– Early spring pruning is important for producing fruit in the current season, and renewing young canes for the next year. Don’t be afraid to cut. When you finish, about 90% of last year's growth will be cut. Simply leave alone two - four laterally growing branches that are tied to the trellis. Entirely cut away all others. ARBORS - Grape arbors can add both fruit and shade to the garden. With their vigorous growth, grape plants will cover an arbor in a few seasons. For consistent fruit production, however, some judicious pruning is required. Basic guidelines are similar in that you establish a main permanent trunk going up over the arbor, with short laterals or spurs from which you select the new fruiting canes each year. If too many old, non-fruiting canes have accumulated, thin about half of them out completely.
SUPPORT – In order to have clean fruit, the vines must be supported on a trellis, arbor, fence, espalier, or other means. Training and tying the shoots upward on the trellis wires should also begin fairly early.