thread: will our vine produce fruit?

  1. #1
    Registered User

    Jun 2008
    946

    will our vine produce fruit?

    we moved to a house with a grapevine. Someone told me not all vines grow fruit, so we have been waiting to see if ours will.
    It has flowered and now we are thinking that might be as good as it gets.
    When do grapes grow and and how will we know if they are coming. We thought the flowers were going to be grapes at first but then there were too many and as they changed it was obvious they were not going to turn into fresh fruit for us

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Dec 2005
    In Bankworld with Barbara
    14,222

    Where is it growing? It is likely it is just an ornamental grape grown for the foliage - they are great over summer when you need the extra shade and then bare in winter and they don't grow fruit. The fruit will 'set' around November, but only if the flowers were fertilised. You may have an older variety grape vine that needs cross-pollination from another grape vine growing nearby. If you don't have one, then the flowers can't be pollinated and set fruit

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Jun 2008
    946

    Thanks, sounds like it might just a be pretty one for keeping shade in summer. We do not have another vine nearby

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Jun 2005
    USA
    3,991

    If it's an ornamental you can still use the leaves to make dolmas