newbie to Grape vine

rglarrier · February 2019

Hi, Happy new year everyone. I am Barbados, we have about 365 days of sunshine [with the regular rainy/hurricane season in between]. I have a seeded variety of grape that I started in 2017 and it bored [is that the right word for bared past tense] in july and then again in December. On the label from the seller had it as muscadines, another label had it as Muscado, and I was told from the supplier that it was red globe. Can you help me Identify this grape variety?

fidgetbones · February 2019

You might have more luck in identification when they are ripe. Most unripe grapes look the same.

rglarrier · February 2019

Thank you for your fast response. I don't have a full ripen bunch picture [ slipped my mind ]as the family was busy sharing what was left of the bird [and what I later found out was bunch rot] bunches. As this was our first grapes [after telling my mother since 1994 that "grapes can grow in Barbados"] we got this grape vine in July 2017, let it grow as it likes [was not sure if it would bear or not] and in April 2018 we saw our first grape flowers and by July our one and only bunch was ripe. then one the vine I notice another set of flowers coming up. Which led to eight bunches that ripen in early December [before Christmas] . After doing some research on grapes we learn about pruning and since Barbados does not have winter [winter breeze only 23 degree Celsius being the lowest so far] we have to force dormancy. We were informed by the plant supplier that our grape vine was not trained properly [ as I said before we just let it grow as it like against our chain link fence] So in January 12th 2019 we cut it back severely. see pics below

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Here is the pics of before and after pruning [you will see our passion fruit vine as well]
The new growth on the mother plant was done with in about 2 weeks after pruning and about a month of growth with what looks like a starting grape cluster. [see 20190213 photo]

rglarrier · February 2019

Here is a picture of the fully ripen grapes from the July 14th 2018

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harvest. I hope some can help me Identify them.

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