Friday, February 3, 2012

Will my grape vine be pollinated by a different strain of grape? Don't know what kind of grape mine is?

Same question for Kiwi fruit

Will my grape vine be pollinated by a different strain of grape? Don't know what kind of grape mine is?
Answer to the first question is yes ,it can be easily pollinated by an unknown donor and cause , perhaps undesirable changes in the next generation.



For the second ,it is impossible for me to tell you.



as for Kiwi fruit read the following-



Kiwifruit plants are normally dioecious, meaning that individual plants are male or female.



Only female plants bear fruit, and only when pollenized by a male plant.



One male pollenizer is required for each three to eight female vines.



An exception is the cultivar 'Issai', a hybrid (Actinidia arguta x rufa) from Japan, which produces perfect flowers and can self-pollinate; unfortunately it lacks vigour, is less hardy than most A. arguta forms and is not a large producer.



Kiwifruit is notoriously difficult to pollinate because the flowers are not very attractive to bees.



Some producers blow collected pollen over the female flowers.



But generally the most successful approach is saturation pollination, where the bee populations are made so large (by placing hives in the orchards) that bees are forced to use this flower because of intense competition for all flowers within flight distance.
Reply:More detail, and describe what it looks like? There are at least 100 varieties of grapes.
Reply:Hi John Paul.



Your grape will almost certainly be pollinated by a different variety of grape vine, but it wont affect the fruit in any way. You wont need two in your garden to get fruit.



You will need two Kiwis though. They are dioecious (male and female on separate plants) and need one of each sex to get fruit. So if you've got the one, you'll need another of the opposite sex.



Cross pollination wont effect fruit, in would only effect plants grown from seed from those fruits. It'll still taste great, but its offspring may differ from the parent.



Hope that clarifies things a bit for you. Enjoy your grapes!
Reply:find better things to do, y'old geezer.


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