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: Please Don't Buy These
Back in college, I belonged to a horticulture club that had an annual field trip, which was financed by sales of house plants we propagated in the school greenhouse. When we loaded them to take to the student union for the big sale, there were always some that were runts or otherwise poor plants. When the sale was over and the leftovers were being loaded, those low-grade plants were always gone. There was always someone who either "took pity" on the runty plants, or took it as a personal challenge to try to nurse them to health.
What does that have to do with grapes?
Just that there are two varieties in my material that I would rather NOT sell as those two grapes have serious issues. One is a total weakling on all but a few very fertile soils, while the other is so prone to splitting and spoilage of the fruit it has to be grown in a nearly ideal, dry climate and treated very carefully for disease to get anything.
I added them to my collection early, before I knew anything about their performance, and the only reason I list them is because so many people heard of them and wanted to try them, I realized that NOT listing them was a losing battle. Putting them on the list just spared me lots of phone calls and e-mails from people who just HAD to try them.
More than once I've heard from previous customers who agreed that the varieties really weren't worth growing, though once in a while a really persistent grower reports a degree of success.
And no, I'm NOT going to name them here because I don't want even more requests for them. I want to sell grapes because I know you'll ENJOY them, not just because a masochistic grower wants a challenge.
Back in college, I belonged to a horticulture club that had an annual field trip, which was financed by sales of house plants we propagated in the school greenhouse. When we loaded them to take to the student union for the big sale, there were always some that were runts or otherwise poor plants. When the sale was over and the leftovers were being loaded, those low-grade plants were always gone. There was always someone who either "took pity" on the runty plants, or took it as a personal challenge to try to nurse them to health.
What does that have to do with grapes?
Just that there are two varieties in my material that I would rather NOT sell as those two grapes have serious issues. One is a total weakling on all but a few very fertile soils, while the other is so prone to splitting and spoilage of the fruit it has to be grown in a nearly ideal, dry climate and treated very carefully for disease to get anything.
I added them to my collection early, before I knew anything about their performance, and the only reason I list them is because so many people heard of them and wanted to try them, I realized that NOT listing them was a losing battle. Putting them on the list just spared me lots of phone calls and e-mails from people who just HAD to try them.
More than once I've heard from previous customers who agreed that the varieties really weren't worth growing, though once in a while a really persistent grower reports a degree of success.
And no, I'm NOT going to name them here because I don't want even more requests for them. I want to sell grapes because I know you'll ENJOY them, not just because a masochistic grower wants a challenge.