Question about grape vine

[koolaide187]

I'm still fairly new to growing grapes but I saw this on a few of my clusters. Is this birds, bugs, or just natural? http://imgur.com/a/wkgmx

 

[GreginND]

What is the problem we should be looking at?

 

[koolaide187]

Is that normally looking? It looks like little stems next to the baby grapes like they have been eaten off. Maybe that's normal and what it's suppose to look like?

 

[GreginND]

I don't see anything that looks like it is eaten off. It looks like a normal grape flower forming grapes.

 

[Masbustelo]

Is it perhaps, that it has bloomed, the petals are falling off, and now the grapes are being formed?

 

[grapeman]

Male part of flower that sheds pollen

 

[grapeman]

Here is a picture of a perfect grape flower (contains both male and female flower parts. What I believe is shown in the original picture is the flower anthum or male flower part where the pollen parts have fallen off because the flower has pollinated.

 

[grapeman]

See the anthers marked in the same original picture blown up. I believe the original poster was seeing the stem part of the anthers(filament).

 

[Johny99]

I agree, looks normal to me. Could be a couple of shot berries, but that is normal too. Like most things in this, patience.

 

[koolaide187]

See the anthers marked in the same original picture blown up. I believe the original poster was seeing the stem part of the anthers(filament).

Yes I suppose that's what i'm seeing. Since i'm new to me it looks like grapes were eaten off and the stem was left. Since it's normal.... cheers! Thanks for the answers!

 

[balatonwine]

Yep, as others said, grape vine are flowering plants, and this is just the inflorescence blooming. Here are even more photos from my vineyard of various stages of blooming for future reference:

https://the-verecund-vigneron.com/2017/06/03/this-week-in-the-vineyard-8/

 

[berrycrush]

When I started a few years ago, I also mistakenly thought the blower buds were tiny grapes.