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May 25, 2018 9:43 AM CST
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Name: Taqiyyah
Maryland (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Vegetable Grower Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Salvias Roses
Region: Maryland Region: Mid-Atlantic Container Gardener Winter Sowing
I see dozens of clusters on my two grape vines, but not enough bees as they begin blooming. I know they're supposed to be hermaphrodites, but is there anything I should do to get maximum pollination? I'm thinking about how people shake tomato blossoms... think that's worth a try?
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May 25, 2018 11:11 AM CST
Name: Daisy I
Reno, Nv (Zone 6b)
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Grapes are wind pollinated, not bee pollinated so maybe shaking the vine would help. Have you had a problem in the past with grape pollnation? Maybe your grapes haven't bloomed yet and you just need to be patient.
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May 25, 2018 11:17 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Taqiyyah
Maryland (Zone 7a)
Bee Lover Vegetable Grower Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Salvias Roses
Region: Maryland Region: Mid-Atlantic Container Gardener Winter Sowing
Oh, okay, good to know. They're just starting to bloom now, and in past years most of the clusters fall off afterward. I thought it could be some disease, since one of them gets a fungus every year, but the other seems immune to it, and I still lost most of the clusters. This year I worried they might not be getting properly pollinated. But we have plenty of breezes, so I'll see what happens.

Any recommendations to prevent the rusty fungus?
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May 25, 2018 4:11 PM CST
Name: Daisy I
Reno, Nv (Zone 6b)
Not all who wander are lost
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When I grew grapes, I always dormant sprayed with a mix of copper sulfate and horticultural oil. If you do it at least twice a year (fall/spring or early spring/late spring), it cuts down on mildew, fungus and overwintering bugs.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost

President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada
Webmaster: osnnv.org
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