Wilko Grape Varieties.

[veggiechicken]

She may have been by now - it was nearly 3 years ago!!
This is one of those Unresolved Threads! Did BM's grapevine live or decease?

[Bigmallly]

It lived.....................but I still haven't had a grape yet....................I think it's a grapeless variety.............

[veggiechicken]

So you still don't know whether its black or white

[Bigmallly]

I haven't a scooby doo..............

[veggiechicken]

Scooby doo? Is that another of Wilko's weird and wonderful varieties?

[FB.]

It lived.....................but I still haven't had a grape yet....................I think it's a grapeless variety.............

If it didn't fruit, did it grow?

[Bigmallly]

Yes it's growing inside the GH FB, to be honest it may be my own fault as I tend to neglect it in terms of feed.

[FB.]

I let my Black Hamburg do its own thing - just a ten-minute tidy-up each winter to remove dead or badly-placed shoots.
It's growing in fairly poor, fairly dry soil, full of builders rubble, and don't feed or water it - although it might sometimes manage to steal something from a nearby plant which did get fed or watered.

Sometimes too much water and nutrients will stop something cropping; it may grow a lot instead. Infertile, dryish soil in a hot, sunny, dry climate is ideal for figs and grapes as it encourages heavy cropping and suppresses growth.
I can't imagine that hot, dry, sunny and infertile are words that would describe your area - and that might be the problem.

[Marcher]

My Muller Thurgau vine was planted last year. It had tiny bunches of grapes on it, but when did they decide to develop.... September.... I put it down to it being freshly planted that year and the weather being funny. It's also in a container and they're not supposed to do so well in them, but in had enough of leaves.
I'll probably put one Pinot noir in a container too and another in the ground. The Aldi mystery vine I don't know, maybe it's about time Britain got some Vitis sylvestris.

[FB.]

My Muller Thurgau vine was planted last year. It had tiny bunches of grapes on it, but when did they decide to develop.... September....

2012 was a bad year for grapes and figs. My crop was worthless. Grapes which were no bigger than peas and remained green rather than turning purple-black.
Figs scarcely larger than cherries. I noticed that a few people nearby have cut down their old fig trees this winter - probably disappointed with 2012's poor crop and not realising they are plats which like it hot, dry and sunny (2012 being cold, wet and dull).

[Marcher]

2012 was a bad year for grapes and figs. My crop was worthless. Grapes which were no bigger than peas and remained green rather than turning purple-black.
Figs scarcely larger than cherries. I noticed that a few people nearby have cut down their old fig trees this winter - probably disappointed with 2012's poor crop and not realising they are plats which like it hot, dry and sunny (2012 being cold, wet and dull).

Yeah, if we have a crap summer this year then I'm sticking one of those tent greenhouses over the vine and putting it in the sunniest spot available.

[alldigging]

It lived.....................but I still haven't had a grape yet....................I think it's a grapeless variety.............

Sort of the best way to guarantee its seedless :-)

[Marcher]

I'm very disappointed with the Wilko grape vines. I went to plant them and they had no roots. I could have taken cuttings from Pinot noir myself and grown them on their own roots for free rather than waste �5 on two of these. I suppose that's what happens if you buy the last two on the shelf.
I'll tidy them up and dip them in rooting hormone and see if I can get them to grow. If not then I'll bin them, Wilkinson is quite some distance away and I don't go there regularly.