Grapes 'R' Us

[reliquary]

First pickings from my commercial Concord grape vine.  It's a couple of weeks ahead of its wild cousin, for some reason.

[reliquary]

For those with limited imagination, here's the pic that should have gone with the first post.   
 
 

[lakota]

Nice harvest! I have a grape vine that produces gobs of huge grapes but they are all chock full of seeds.

[longwinters]

We don't see grapes here til August/Sept.  I've got a concord vine and a Reliant.  The grapes are about the size of grape seeds now.
 
Enjoy.
 
Long

[lakota]

Same with my grapes. Right now they are the same size or maybe just slightly larger than the seeds but it looks like there will be a load of grapes there when they do ripen.

[reliquary]

lakota:  maybe post a pic of the grape leaves and a cluster of seeds, later on?...if you don't know what they are, maybe someone can identify it.  IMHO, you can't beat Concord for a reliable producer.

[longwinters]

This fall my  reliant vine will be dug up and given away in lew of my desire for having a row of black raspberries.  I don't know if it will survive being transplanted or not, but I only have so much room and I like raspberries better than grapes.  The concord vine, which is 3 years old this year, will stay as long as I can control it's growth and still get grapes off of it.
 
Long

[reliquary]

 
 
Long-
There's a wild Concord vine at the old homestead  that I transplanted there from "the woods" when I was a teen, in the late '50s.  The folks who live there, now,  keep it pruned by running over it with a Bushhog every now and then, and it still produces after they do that.  I took rootings from it when I retired and returned to the area in '86 and those vines are still producing at the houseplace I sold in '03.  I took rootings from them and brought them to the new place and that's some of the vines I tend now.
 The point:  your Concord may be around a while.  I keep mine pruned back to about 8-10 feet of producing vine; after they get 2-3" in diameter, they can support two runners, and cut the excess clusters off after they set fruit, to manage it.  Like I said before, it ain't rocket science and doesn't take a lot of time.