Grape Vine #1

[Walter Pall]

It already has a couple of small blossoms. I look forward to hopefully have grapes on this in three months.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Gnarly with no major chop scar.

Vines of wild grapes, to get the thick large diameter trunks you nearly always have to make a large chop scar. Vineyards are always pruning one or two or three year old wood, no big chops. Good to find old unwanted vineyard vines.

 

[Walter Pall]

sure from a vineyard near the Mediterranean coast. One in ten thousand.

 

[Giga]

but hows the wine?

 

[Walter Pall]

Don't know yet, do not even know the sort. Probably bluish grapes. We'll see..

 

[rockm]

Wow. cool trunk on that. Here in Va. we have a wine industry that is growing by leaps and bounds. Some vineyards are replacing vineyard stock. I've been trying to get some older vines. Nothing like this is coming out of the ground though.

 

[just.wing.it]

Wow, that's very nice!
Don't see that everyday.

 

[Walter Pall]

Grape Vine #1 - grape is forming - color yet unknown

 

[Walter Pall]

Grape Vine #1 - This is quite promising. The trunk could not be any better, I think.

 

[just.wing.it]

This is an amazingly cool trunk.
Did you allow the fruit to come in?
What color?
Any pictures in leaf?

 

[Walter Pall]

Sure, scroll upwards

 

[just.wing.it]

Sorry, yes it looked like the early growth....was curious about later in the season.

I really like the tortured looking trunk.

 

[AlainK]

I have one in the back of my garden, against a fence. The "trunk" is about 1.5 feet tall (45 cm) and the base about 6 inches (15 cm) wide, I thought it would creep over it, but it didn't, it only produced two or three long shoots. I since heard from the person that gave it to me that it was from a vineyard in Sancerre, south of the Loire valley.

So I might try to put it in a pot next spring...

 

[Walter Pall]

Grape Vine #1 - this is a good start. Progress will be reported.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Splendid!

It greets the eyes with gritty strength while maintaining a comforting delicacy.

 

[vp999]

Amazing grape bonsai Walter !!! Thanks for sharing.

 

[vp999]

Walter do you use regular bonsai soil for this or you added some organic soil? The reason I asked is because some people recommending too add potting soil to it because they like to stay wet. Mine is not doing too good with a lot of peat and potting soil so that's why I am asking. Thanks you sir!

 

[Walter Pall]

Walter do you use regular bonsai soil for this or you added some organic soil? The reason I asked is because some people recommending too add potting soil to it because they like to stay wet. Mine is not doing too good with a lot of peat and potting soil so that's why I am asking. Thanks you sir!

I do not use soil at all. The word is substrate! Anything that's granualr, firm, porous plus a bit of rough peat or coconut fibres or crushed bark. Porcelain Berry - related to grape vine

Picture of my large

 

[vp999]

That man you sir !

 

[Hoyonokuma]

Love vines as they're on of my hometown features (Rimini, Italy). And these ones of yours are a truly beautiful example of proportion and grace.
The quality of them pictures is also fantastic