Growing grapes in a pot - How easy is it?
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Comments (5)i would like to trade for these-they dont have to be in dirt when shipped wrap root well with wet papper towels seal in plastic baggy reasonable shipping would also like these as well if u can find anything on my list some things are not listed ASIATIC LILIES: commander in chief dolly madison ORIENPET LILIES: american spirit gavin petit spiny sea urchin startle storm of the century clematis: nelly moser...See MoreCowart muscadine grape in pot, info needed
Comments (5)Muscadines are pretty tough and you have a number of options. Personally, I'd either put it in a big pot for a season or in the ground if it were a place where I could water and weed it some in the summer. I'd have the planting site already prepared (hole dug if in the ground) and would gently separate the main roots by hand and spread them out in the planting hole or container and then quickly fill in and water. It's bareroot planting of a leafed out plant but it's only for a couple minutes (and do it in the shade). Personally, I'd leave all the growth this season to grow a good root system. Pick the strongest as a leader late next winter (early pruning is thought to have some considerable cold-injury risk with muscadines). Barerooting leafed out plants is normally a bad practice, but with containerized plants sometimes can be done safely. I just barerooted (or nearly so) 8-10 foot tall fully leafed out pears from 25-gallon pots, where loose granular soil made this fairly easy. Just one of 10 wilted noticeably but recovered quickly with ~8 gallons of water into the backfilled hole....See MoreGrowing grapes and stonefruit in pots in my greenhouse
Comments (3)Plant-one-on-me, I'll comment about winter survival of potted material in Michigan. Because of our climate, an exposed pot will have soil about 2 to 3 zones colder than an in-ground plant will experience. In essence, the only things which will survive in an exposed, above ground pot are things hardy to about Zone 3, which grapes, alas, are not. So, you have a couple of options -- overwintering someplace sheltered like a marginally heated garage, burying the pot into the soil for the winter and mulching, or putting the pot into a sheltered corner and insulating deeply around it with something like bales of straw and leaves, or trenching the entire pot in a deep trench covered with heavy mulch and soil. I've wintered a number of semi-tropicals including figs, windmill, needle, and Sabal palms, pomegranites, etc., by the trench method. The plants always wintered beautifully for me EXCEPT for vole damage, which could be severe no matter how much poison bait I buried with the plants, so I just gave up on that and now winter them in my attached garage which gets just enough heat from the house to stay above freezing. There are alternatives though, for your soild situation -- a slightly raised bed with some dry wells or drainage trenches around it would help. Most American grapes like Concord are, in my personal experience, pretty immune to some minor flooding -- mine are in heavy clay in a low part of my yard which floods for a day or two at snowmelt and during high rainfall, and they've never objected, in fact, the thrive, and they've been in this spot since Nixon was President. Sorry to hijack your thread, Fruitnut, I too would like to hear a lot more about your greenhouse culture -- how big is it, do you heat it, what type of containers do you use, and mostly, WHY are you doing greenhouse culture as oppossed to outdoor culture? I've been reading your posts for many months, starting back in the winter/spring when you talked about some of the trees blooming, and I too would love to pick your brains about this. Dennis SE Michigan...See MoreHow are YOUR grapes doing? I'm invaded with grapes!
Comments (10)ooops! Forgot to mention that grapes grow wild here. They can be a nuisance when they come up on fence lines or power lines etc. I watch them every year and try to get them when their ripe but it's futile. One day they aren't quite ready and the next the birds have already been at them. I swear that they just roost in the vines at night and then when they wake up in the morning they sniff the fruit for ripeness and then dig in! Little stinkers lol! At Thanksgiving time when my kids come for the holiday we go out and collect the vines. Then we spend an evening making them into wreaths and things and decorate them for Christmas. They love giving them to co-workers and friends as holiday gifts. MeMo...See Morefruitnut Z7 4500ft SW TX
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