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11:03 pm
March 13, 2009 |
Tom
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| | I have to figure out where I want to pant them. And more importantly I have to figure out WHEN to plant them. I'm thinking I can probably get away with planting them now, but I'm thinking idealy I shouldn't plant them until may 1st. In the mean time I'll keep the plants in my porch to kind of harden off. |
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9:13 pm
March 17, 2009 |
Tom
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| | I ended up planting them all. One of the two ruhbarb plants looks like it didn't make it. I looked at the zones for the grape plants and one of them is rated from zone 7 to 9. I'm in zone 5b so I think it is doomed to die. I'll try to takes some pictures of all the plants in their homes and post them here in the next few days. |
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8:26 pm
May 3, 2009 |
Tom
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| | The two blueberry plants look okay. One has many leaves, the other has one or two leaves. They are surrounded by poison ivy so it should keep people away or pay the price. I am fortunate in that I'm not alergic to poison ivy so I don't have a problem with it. Both grape plants don't have any leaves yet. I'll leave them in the ground and decide if I'm going to pull them at the end of next spring. That should give me an idea if they are dead or not. The two ruhbarb plants are doing well. Both have bright red stalks and are about 7" tall. One has 2 leaves the other has 1 leaf. |
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12:58 pm
November 7, 2009 |
adam
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| | Post edited 6:02 pm – November 7, 2009 by adam
It is a bit tricky when it comes to grape vines so lets get started right away: 1. where the plant is, is very important (if it is in claybound or clayey soil it can seriously affect the plant). 2. if it is grafted or took a new cutting (I prefer grafted because it could make it immune to calyey soil depending on what root ball it is grafted onto). 3. where the plant is facing (a south or west facing wall is perfect). 4. what trellis is it on (there is wood or wire, I prefer wood). 5. what pruning technique to use (there are two main pruning techniques cane pruning and spur pruning, I prefer spur pruning on a two-way-stem grape vine). 
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2:26 pm
November 7, 2009 |
Tom
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| | Looks like I'm totally off to a bad start. 1) the plant is probably in clay soil. most of the soil in this area is clay. 2) I don't know this plants parantage but I suspect cutting since they are seedless varieties. I bought it in a planter with roots already. 3) the plant is facing southeast. 4) It has no trellis so far. The plant is about 3 feet tall. I will look at wood when I build a trellis. How tall should it be? 5) I haven't pruned yet. I'll look at spur pruning per your recomendation. |
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5:34 pm
March 27, 2010 |
adam
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| | about 2 to 2 1/2 meters from the ground would be fine i hope you will be successful when it comes to getting grapes on your grape vine best luck  
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12:33 am
April 14, 2010 |
Tom
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| | Looks like the grape vines made it through winter. Even the zone 7-9 one seems to be growing. All have buds on them. I still haven't set up a trellis.  The blueberry plants are hiding. Either they are dead or I can't distinguish them from the twigs sticking out of the ground near them. The ruhbarb is growing okay. there is an ant hole near one that I'll probably have to do something about. |
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