Hey y’all I live next to a Pinot Noir vineyard and I’ve been noticing grape seedlings coming up on my property. Curious if anyone can tell me if grape seedlings tend to be similar to the cutting they came from or very different?
Not interested in making wine but I love eating grapes.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
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Pinot Noir is a cultivar not a varietal. The seedlings are S1s or from a different grape if they grow different grapes then pinot noir their.
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I don’t know how grape breeding works, but maybe the seed plant will make grapes close to the same as the mother. Hope you find a killer pheno lol.
How are the grapes from the vineyard? Have you tried them?
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I haven’t tasted them unfortunately. The vineyard is owned by someone far away and a different company manages it every couple years. Would have to trespass and steal which isn’t my style. Basically no relationship with them except getting drifted by whatever poisons they spray above me.
Super premium Pinot land though from what I’ve read. The empty 40acres next door sold for $800,000 totally bare and undeveloped.
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The grape vine can root if the vine hits soil.
Some varieties for mine aren’t really good to eat. Ours were for wine.
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Yeah I always thought wine and table grapes are different, like hemp and marijuana.
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I grew next to the wine industry for a year in Napa/Sonoma.
Theres a soil pathogen that wiped out much of the wine industry.
So now they have to graft all cuttings onto a rootstock that is resistant to the pathogen.
So any seed volunteers may die off after a few years. Just a heads up.
You could ask the vinyard next to you to see if they had to do rooted graft stock or if they are growing a resistant strain from seed.
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