Hello fruitnutz and thanks for your reply. I have read through the forum here and have seen many of your posts. You sound like a well experienced individual. It's awesome that this forum has knowledgeable users such as yourself that stick around and shed some insight to the many newbies and distressed gardeners that come around here. Glad to hear this is something I can fix. It'll probably be another two more weeks before I get to replant as I'm finishing up the arbor and will be installing underground irrigation for a drip system. So for the time being, they'll remain in them buckets... Any particular ammonium sulfate you would recommend? How about an organic approach to upping the nitrogen? I read that bone meal has about the same percentage of nitrogen (20% N) as the sulphate of ammonia has... although I'm not sure if this can be mixed with water and feed as you suggested with the ammonium sulfate. What do you think here? Also, should I snip those yellow leaves off at this point or would that stress out the plant even more? And should grapes normally be watered like once a week? Another question I like to ask if your familiar with this one by sight. I have another grape tree variety that I picked up about three weeks ago, the black monukka. When I first picked this up there were a few leaves scattered around that had these red spots or blotches on them. The fellow at the nursery said this was due to irregular watering so I figured wasn't a real bid deal and should get better with a consistent watering plan. We'll the first week or so I think I was also over watering this plant as I was doing with all of my other newly purchased fruit trees. Thought maybe you could tell me what does this look like is happening to this plant. Some of the upper leaves look OK with new leaves sprouting out looking nice and green to start. There are some leaves though that also don't look too happy. They seem like there not laying flat and more like there curled in as seen in the third photo. Not sure if this is normal for this type of variety but it certainly doesn't look right since some of the other leaves on this grapevine is looking flat and normal. Does it look like this may have been induced as a result of irregular watering pattern or some sort of nutrient deficiency? Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks again for your time. Richard S.

I think it may be Petraeovitex bambusetorum, nong nooch vine. Here is a link that might be useful: Petraeovitex bambusetorum, nong nooch vine

Vickie, I love how the little white petunias are weaving through the plant- I may try to do that on purpose next year. What a great pic! Thanks for confirming the id for me. :)) Jean, it is very pretty and the color is very saturated, but a tad more pink than the bright coral my monitor is showing :) Thanks, Cindy :) It is nice to ocassionally know what I'm growing. LOL I grow so many plants in containers, so I'm really trying to partner things with pretty leaves or textures, so when one isn't blooming, the area still looks nice. :)

I also can't see your photo, but the only vine I can think of that truly has black and yellow flowers is the Australian vine, Kennedia nigricans, and is unlikely to be seen in USDA zone 8 conditions, but does just great here in coastal California.