Lon Rombough sells cuttings which you can root yourself. He is the only source I know of.

Scott

thanks scott- do you have the grape- if yes, what do you think of it. and how come no one else sells it. I read its one of the best muscats.

Lychee, I think nobody sells it because it is seeded. Also it is not disease-resistant. Plus few people in the US like strongly flavored grapes, everyone expects grapes to taste like Thompson or Flame.

I have it and indeed it is a very tasty grape.

Scott

Thanks scott.
maybe home grown thompsons r decent but store bought thompsons r fit only for cattle feed

Anyone know how it compares to Muscat of Alexandria, also seeded? I'm trying the seedless Summer Muscat, planted this spring.

scott- do you know why most of the muscat grape vines cant be shipped to NY?

Fruitnut, I prefer Muscat of Alexandria myself, Muscat of Hamburg is a bit too strong and sour in the skin. They are both excellent however. They are the only two vinifera grapes I am still growing, I got sick of all the sprays needed and removed the rest.

Scott

Scott: thanks, you are the man.

lycheeluva: Sorry for butting in on your post. Usually the shipping restrictions are for phytosanitary reasons, if that's the right term. They are afraid of some disease or insect. But that may not be true here.

Muscat Hamburg is a pure vinifera, and hence, will succumb to phyloxerra and fungus diseses in NY State. You'd do well to look for a hybrid Muscat like NY 65.483.2 or Jupiter instead.

Thats a good point about the phyloxerra, I remembered that after I sent my previous. You need to graft it to some other vine if you want it to last. My Muscat Alexandria in fact grew fine for 5+ years on its own roots but I eventually grafted it to something else and pulled up the ungrafted one. If you want to try grafting the easiest way is to buy some random sale price bare-root grape and graft it to that and leave in a moist bag at about 85F for a week to callous and then plant out. These "bench" grafts to grapes are not that hard, whats hard is field grape grafts since they don't callous fast enough and they bleed too much.

Scott

Scott, we have chip grafted grapes here in Connecticut, in June with around a 90% success rate.

We have wild grapes growing all over our property. So, we grafted onto them. We made around 10 chip grafts of Swenson's Red, three years back. All the chip grafts took. We only have one of the then left. I killed them with further experiments.

But, the one I did not kill has put on about thirty feet of growth. I planted the same year one Jupiter and one Nuptune. They have only grown about three feet in the last three years. The Swenson's Red grafted on to wild grape root stick, has out on about thrity feet of growth.

Hope that helps

Bob, zone 5 Connecticut

Bob, did you do green grafts? they are more reliable. The problem with purchasing a rootstock and dormant cutting is both are dormant and its hard to get the optimal temp to callous them in the field. Grapes prefer about 85F for callousing. By doing it inside it is easy.

I'd like to hear how you did your chip buds, both size of shoots, and green or not for both scion and stock (green means a this-years green shoot which has leaves on it). The ones I have done green-green have gone well but not the other combos.

Scott

Just wanted to revive this thread as I am interested in these muscat grapes. I live in Oregon.