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thanks john. i'll not fertillise again. scooter, you made it once ? pleasetell.

scooter, i put grapes in the bag then mash with potato masher? with figs, your idea works. too much rain at ripening gives you watery, bland, figs. i'll be pressing lots of grapes. i just ordered 12 pint jars to make jelly.

thanks, slap. it'd good to hear semi natural may work.

scooter, what size paint straining bags are easiest to use? amazon has 1 gal n 5 gal.

scooter, i'm surprised that fig wine needs added sugar. figs are sweeter than grapes, to my taste. i'll have to study this. bal, i should be able to report how grapes taste in a hostile environment. the vine is vigorous tho. it has adapted to the high ph. plus, as usual, we are experiencing...

is making fruit wine significantly different from grape wine? i do have 7 fig trees with great fruit.

thanks, scooter, i love reading articles like that. looks like i need much more research tho. the first article says limestone can produce good wine, but in other places i read grapes prefer ph of 6.8 or so. both can't be right, unless you accept the idea that it's good for vines to struggle...

thanks, bal. i'll get a new memory card for my ca n get some pics. i may not be in an infected area, but i'm not finding good maps on philloxera. does the health n vigor of my plant tell me i have no pests? it was a cutting. i'll look at grafted plants, but the ph here is over 8. soil is...

scooter, i'm sure the stuff works if you recommend it, but urea? that's pee! eeewwww yuck!

m, yeast neutrient is sugar. either refined or found in flour or fruit. as far as i know yeast only eats sugars. why buy ''nutrient''? i sure miss blueberries. i always had them up north. here, the soil is so alkaline they can only be pot grown. so, i settle for figs n grapes.

thanks tons, scooter. so, i read the directions wrong n skins can be included? it's cool my feelings are sometimes right. i want the skins because they are clean. i'm 3 mils frm the road, so no exhaust dirt. plus these are organic. no pesticies, fungicides etc. that wasn't on purpose. it's just...

thanks guys. i'll get one of those yeasts, mail order. no winemaking shops in small prairie towns. i hope this works cause it's gonna get pricey for 2 bottles. i gotta get that meter n corks n the corking machine. can i do without corks for a young wine? by the way, the recipes seem to say...

the vine provides beauty n shade. now that it is producing grapes, i've been reading up on pruning. these articles seem to be written in english, but are incomprehensible. i know what individual words mean, but put together when talking about pruning my eyes blur n my mind runs in neutral. i...

i have just been advised that these are red seeded grapes, variety still unknown. clusters large n heavy. mine are just growing but i think i'll get a full bushel. i don't know grapes but i find this amazing in first year production. the vine has never been pruned, as i planted it o provide...

thanks wild. i see my vine is not a victoria red. it survived 2 days of -1F. so, i just have an unknown. i still have space for 3 more. grapes are quite attractive, so they'd dress up my garden.

john, they may have seeds, but this will b my first taste. apparently, this variety does nothing til year 4. i'll get those, scooter. i can't believe i won't get 18 lbs of grapes. i've been advised the grapes are unusually large. i've just been advised that this vine may b victoria red, bu i...

thanks. i'm not willing to spend $150 on 2 bottles of iffy wine, but i can buy a hydrometer n some yeast. this first batch won't be fun. i have no press, so just crushing grapes will b work. i just wanna try this because it looks like i'll be overwhelmed with grapes, even after i thinned the...

hiya, guys. i see most people look down on natural wines. i understand this, as many folks are putting lots of time n money into their wines. but i have a problem. i have a nice grape vine, but the mother was mislabled. it was supposed to be cabernet sauvignon, but it's not. i have no way to...

thanks, greg. so, i cut back canes that fruit this year, to make next year's canes, that make next year's grapes. i can tag these canes now, to cut back to 2 nodes. hopefully, i can cut the main vine to keep it at 15'? i have a good grape for my location. it withstood temps down to -1. plus...

thanks tons, green. finally something i can understand ! so, this years growth produces next year's grapes? i didn't understand that. in fact, i understood very little of what i read about pruning. you set up looks great n very comfy.