Thanks Suzie for the link! Very interesting! Are you sure my grapes would not do well for you in CA? I believe they are good to zone 9 atleast. I ordered them from a place out that way I believe. I should have plenty left if you want to try some. I had an idea. Since my fridge is in a cut out type cabinet, I cannot really get the cuttings up there. However, I do have a heat mat that I use to germinate tomato seeds. It is a very low heat. Do you think they would be good on the heat mat? I remember when I was rooting figs for the first time (figs, my first love!), someone had suggested using a heat mat. How do you feel about this? Well, they are all wrapped in their garbage bags. Hopefully a few will make it! I did use rooting hormone on some of them. I had so many, I figured I could experiment. Well, all 3 vines are in the ground. I planted them yesterday. Hopefully they will take. I also dug up a rose bush that was at the house that my mom planted when I was a baby. I do not know how that will do. I did re-plant it here at my house, but the leaves were already limp. I wonder if roses can survive that. I also took a few cuttings from the branches, only about 4. I read to stick it in rooting hormone then into dirt with a soda bottle on top of it. They said to keep a few leaves on them, but the leaves are already pretty limp. I do not know much about roses, so I do not know if they will survive or not. That would be a shame. Although this bush is over 30 years old, it was cut way back, almost to the ground a year or so ago, so it was not as big as you would think it should be. It did have this huge, deep, long main root that I had to cut at one point since it was down so deep. Well, I will update on the grapes, and also the rose bush. thanks again for all the info! Christy

I'd cut that mess all the way back to the trunk. Build a new trellis and grow a new vine this summer. That will put you in ideal shape for a big crop in 2014. Then in the spring of 2015 you'll have the ideal situation to learn how to prune properly. It's not that hard unless you have plants like your current plant and you want to get things right without missing a crop. By missing one crop you will be ideally setup for annual pruning. I love to prune grapes more than anything else because done right the plant looks the same every year after pruning. Everything else bets bigger every year and eventually needs renewal pruning, just what your vine needs now. Done every year it's easy. Done once in a while not so much.

Sara, that is probably not a disease unless it came fast and you missed it. Big box stores are notorious for putting any label on any plant, so it could be an ornamental grape, a muscadine grape (which needs a cross-pollinator), or who knows what. If your plant still has some leaves on it I would compare the leaf shape with a Fredonia leaf online - grape leaves are a good ID tool. Overall the odds are high that it is not a Fredonia. Scott

Most all grapes are very tough plants. There was an old grape of some kind growing here when we moved in some 35 years ago in a place I did not want it growing, so I cut it down and tried to pull as much of the root out as possible (it is not an easy task) and that grape is still trying to grow in that same place today even though I keep cutting it back. I also have "wild" grapes that the birds apparently are seeding for me that I need to keep cutting back growing full shade as well as full sun. Watch next spring to see if this will not grow back.