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We made raisins last year with them. We have two seedless varieties that turned out well. The rest we eat fresh and bag and put in the freezer for smoothies.

Hi Bruce,

Yes, last summer when we moved in the grapes were already starting to ripen. Harvested many pounds of beautiful and delicious grapes.
Your vine sounds very odd.

We moved to a new property last summer and it had so many established fruit trees on it. It really is amazing to see everything flower and develop into fruit in the spring. This first year is such a big learning process for me and next year I'll much less confused about what's happening with everything :)

You know, I think I made a mistake. I didn't realize that grapes, like all other fruits, flowered. These are just the flower pedals dropping. I thought they were the actual grapes drying out. This is my first time seeing grapes develop at this stage. Guess I thought that they just magically appear without needing flowers or pollinators.

Appreciate it.

I recently moved into a new place with a very different grape vines. Some are young vines, two others are very old and established.

On the younger vines, almost all of the baby grapes have fallen off. Now, I'm noticing them starting on the larger vines.

Anyone know what may be the catalyst? Too much water? Too hot?

Thanks

Update,

It's now fruiting for a second time on the new growth.

Last summer we moved into a new place with a mature fig tree, must be at least 15 years old. We got a big harvest from it last summer but this year it has probably less than a a quarter of last year's amount. It did have a bunch of small figs that ended up falling off. We had a couple of +90F days here in Sacramento less than two weeks ago so I'm wondering if that could be the reason. I gave it a very small amount of fertilizer in the beginning of spring. I don't think I'm over watering it.

I though this was a very easy tree to maintain. Water once a week? Should I be giving it regular fertilizer throughout the spring? Is it too late to give it a good dose of P-K fertilizer?

Thanks for sharing Jenny. Time to go install a gutter.

Thank you Amy! Here's an ongoing study with results yet to be published. http://stormwatercenter.colostate.edu/research-portfolio/roof-runoff/