Last summer I transplanted a baby grape?
Question:vine to an arbor area and it has grown 6 feet this spring. The question is that the original plant has dull leaves (grey on the underside) and green/yellow tendrils. The new one has shiny leaves and red tendrils. Is this an impostor or is it the real deal? I was told the parent was Thompsons' White but wound up being of the black seeded variety; could it have mutated?
Answers:
It is very unlikely that your plant has "mutated". It is possible that a shoot of new growth has sprouted from the root stock if this grape vine has been grafted. It is common practice to graft a shoot of the desired grape varitey to a hearty root stock of a different varitey. It could also be that the fresh new growth simply looks a little different when it is young. Give it a few weeks and see if it starts to resemble the plant you remember from last year. Good luck with your grapes.
When we had grapes they tended to do the same thing. We had black seeded variety. To get your vine to grow faster. Flood it with water. We did that and it really grew fast.
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