Grafting grapes.

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Hairyloon

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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 17 8:57 pm Post subject: Grafting grapes.
A friend has a well established grape vine, but the grapes it produces are tiny: some of them are almost twice as big as the pip! He's thinking about getting some seedless variety and I was wondering about grafting the one onto the other... Anyone got any knowings on the subject?

sean
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 17 9:05 pm Post subject:
Only theoretical. They're supposed to take pretty easily though. As always the devil is in the detail: Does he know what rootstock it's on?

dpack

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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 17 11:02 pm Post subject:
has he A pruned it properly? B fed it a lot ? both can improve fruit quality, chances are it it needs some tlc

Hairyloon

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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 17 11:05 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

has he

A pruned it properly?

B fed it a lot ?

both can improve fruit quality, chances are it it needs some tlc

Yes, it does want that as well, but I figured it was a big enough plant that there was room for some experimenting...

dpack

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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 17 11:07 pm Post subject:
iirc adding a new leader to the rootstock is possible so give it a go on a big un.

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