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Author:  Jaymie [ Nov 29th, '06, 12:22 ]
Post subject:  Grapes
Does anyone know where we can get some grape plants (seeds/runners? whatever you use) from the Queensland area?
Author:  Live Beyond [ Nov 29th, '06, 12:38 ]
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Aquaponic grapes....Yum big juicy grapes...
Author:  Sunrise Girl [ Nov 29th, '06, 12:41 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grapes
Hi Jaymie,

Daley's in Kyogle (not QLD) do mail order and have grapes:
http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/fruit%20pages/grape.htm
They're a good mail order co, I know a few people who buy from them in Victoria and are happy with them...
Author:  earthbound [ Nov 29th, '06, 12:55 ]
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If you get a chance, try the muscadine grape Jaymie, they are at the bottom of the list that SG posted.. A fantastic grape from the US, they are different to the normal European grape varieties, vitus vinifera. The muscadines are vitus rotundifolia, and are native to warmer areas in America... They have fruit in smaller bunches of less grapes, but the grapes are about golfball size, very sweet and aromatic flavour..

I've been trying to get hold of them for years... I did get a few seeds from someone once and got one to germinate, but I ended up losing it..

Well worth checking out... :)
Author:  janethesselberth [ Nov 29th, '06, 21:41 ]
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Interestingly, I believe grapes like dry soil. The best crops come from dry years. No harm in trying AP grapes, though.
Author:  Jaymie [ Nov 30th, '06, 05:20 ]
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well, we'll give them a try, but if necessary, we have plenty of the dry soil too, in between the rocks :wink:
Author:  Sunrise Girl [ Nov 30th, '06, 08:35 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grapes
Hi again,
Found this:
http://www.growingedge.com/community/ar ... =yes&q=753
It's being done in hydro set ups so it should easily translate to AP, but... you need to get a variety that is resistent to mildew (which would be why you wanted a qld supplier - doh!) and you'd have to do that putting them into a dirt and rock garden up there anyway I would imagine

Andi :sunny:
(wandering off to think about a vineyard growing out of a really long piece of pvc...)
Author:  GotFish? [ Nov 30th, '06, 10:11 ]
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Grapes? Mango slushies getting old? ya need more juices for the mix?
Author:  Jaymie [ Nov 30th, '06, 12:32 ]
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need grapes to keep the kids away from my mangos (mine, mine, mine)
Author:  Jaymie [ Nov 30th, '06, 12:33 ]
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we've got 3 crates of mangos on the back verandah right now, need to put some in the fridge... Chill down the rum... where's the icecream?
Author:  RupertofOZ [ Nov 30th, '06, 12:46 ]
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My fridge is empty Jaymie.

I could help you out...
Author:  Jaymie [ Nov 30th, '06, 12:52 ]
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Alex and a friend made mango schnapps a couple of years ago from some "spare" mangos (25L of first grade fruit pulp...) it vanished, I don't know where it went
Author:  GotFish? [ Nov 30th, '06, 12:53 ]
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lol
Author:  Sunrise Girl [ Nov 30th, '06, 13:14 ]
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the evaporation factor up there must be huge, lol
Author:  Jaymie [ Nov 30th, '06, 13:22 ]
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its really bad when you open a bottle of something refreshing, and it evaporates right before your very eyes! :shock: It happens all the time :shock: and through such a small opening in the bottle too!
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