posted 5 years ago
Didn't know best where to put this so I'm dropping it here. Like many, I've been over-zealous in planting wild grape that I harvested from a local riverbank. I did not realize that they were dioeceous and I could well have planted only male or only female plants. What I do know is that some nice looking 3 year old vines haven't produced a single grape, whereas the original stock on the riverbank produced well and abundantly year after year.
Since there has been much advance in the genetic typing of plants for traits like male/female, etc., I was hoping there might be a way to genetically test young plants to make sure I have a good mix of each. Looks like this is a relatively recent line of study in Vitis..... (below, from an open-access article):
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