Social Media Compilation: Grapes And Vines

Starting more grapes from hardwood collected from a friend. it's challenging to grow grapes in zone 3 but it can be done with the right conditions and varieties.. for years I had given up on grapes but now have a renewed interest. going to attempt rooting in my grow room in deep pots with the tops bagged, to be transferred to a greenhouse next month. We hit -7C last night so I'm not brave enough to put anything green and leafy in the greenhouse yet, though all the germinated seeds out there were fine.

Grapes breaking dormancy from rooted hardwood cuttings #grapes

Riverbank grape selection rooted cutting. moved from bottom heat into its own pot and bagged to harden off. if you have cuttings with a small amount of roots and to reduce watering / moisture loss when propagating high value plants you can use the bag method. #propagation

Valiant grapes waking up. Hoping to improve my grape selection this year, now that I've seen them overwinter in zn 3 without being covered up in the fall I might actually put them on a trellis #grapes

Planted some grapes along this east wall, stucco with morning sun, heaped up with black soil and old wood chip then topped with straw. the eaves through will get directed into the bed, and the thick stucco should radiate some heat to help. hopefully a good spot for grapes, brianna, frontenac blanc, and some elmer swenson selections.

Grapes in a forest context. tried for years without the cage, and the vines would always get trimmed back by wildlife. finally put up some stucco wire cages and now the vines are reasonably safe to grow

Trying grape cuttings like this, in our root cellar where it's a bit cool and quite damp. dipped into some iba talc, a bit of cambium exposed, 2-3 node cuttings. last year through sheer neglect we had bundles of cuttings root in these conditions, but I wonder if I should move them outside and just keep in the shade. I was going to wait for some root development, and the root cellar isn't being used, figure at least they don't need to get watered in here. have a few shelves like this. advice welcome, still figuring out grapes

Valiant grapes coming along, I finally caged them. I think rabbits have been trimming them, so just a simple roll of stucco wire gives the small vines some protection and a scaffold.

Hops are fun, I setup poles and they find them. if I run strings between them they'll span them and fill in

Riverbank grape from seed.

Trying to identify grapes on the left, center is Beta from a young vine, right is riparia or wild grapes, and left is from a large vine planted in 2010. valiant? all are ripe here today and cold hardy zone 3 with no winter protection.

Hops monster. there's just a single 1" bamboo pole in there somewhere. #hops

Vitus riparia, or riverbank grape germinating after a long six months in cold stratification, in a bag with damp paper towel and in a fridge crisper. #seedgermination

Hops are over head height now four weeks from when they started growing. our bines are five years old and started from seed, here I give them simple poles to climb then they'll span between the poles and male a wall of hops by the end of the summer, sometimes I'll run twine to guide them. #hops

Working on covering this wall with vines and espalier apples. Metal siding is easy for vines I just back out some of the sheet metal screws and wrap some copper wire around it, no need to add any other support

These cascade hops are the first to show some roots in our mist setup after two weeks. Usually after there's an inch or more if roots it's time to pot them up and start to harden them off. I'll wait for a few dozen to be ready before moving them, otherwise if starts to turn into too many small batches. Last year I found cuttings in a tray always have some early and late to root, even. few weeks apart. If would be more simple to start them in 50 cell trays and wait for the entire tray to root before moving them, and skip the step of potting up, but that would take up many times the space. Maybe next year. #propagation #softwoodpropagation #propagate #propagating #propagatingplants #softwoodcuttings #mistpropagation

Time to collect hops, as soon as they get some brown. the flowers are sticky inside and smell like an IPA. a few seeds will be stuck in each one.

Sweet seedless grapes, ripe even with the light color. growing in zone 3. maybe Somerset?

Brianna is a tasty green grape that can handle -40 .. once the vines are established. I've seen several around southern manitoba trellised without any winter protection, though somewhere sheltered like against a building makes a good micro climate. added seeds to our shop, seedlings won't be exactly the same but you'll likely get some green grape with similar cold hardiness.

Trying to id these grapes. valiant left, this one right. both zone 3 hardy. mystery grape has red stems, looser clusters. grapes were a little more soft and overripe than valiant so maybe ripens earlier. been in cold storage, both were ripe a while ago. #grapes #valiantgrapes #plantidentification

Donated some grapes today that we planted along the fences at @assiniboinefoodforest, thanks to the volunteers who came out and helped despite the wet weather! Grapes were planted along with some fall tasks like mulching and adding vole cages around new fruit trees. The acre sized and well fenced orchard is on fertile soil by the river in Brandon Manitoba, surrounded by public walking trails. An awesome ongoing project fuel entirely by donations and passionate volunteers. #foodforest #orchard

Virginia creeper

Hops are kinda crazy when you dig them up. i just have this handful for spring orders, all volunteers. variety is fuggle. #hops

Hops seeds from a few flowers. We planted some hops around our garden from seed about five years ago and they kind of explode from the ground every spring and cover the fences. Offering these in packs of 100 seeds on our shop now with free shipping. #seeds #hops