Are my grape vines toast?

[forgeblast]

We had a frost that was more of a freeze on Tuesday. My grape vines where starting to throw out leaves and now they are all shrivled up. I have the hardy woden and ontario varities from millers nurseries. Will they bounce back or are they gonners?

thanks
Forgeblast

 

[scott_vt]

Good Mornin forgeblast,
I put in three grape vines a few years ago, Im now down to one vine ! I have gotten some grapes off of them, but two of mine died over the course of the winter. I would think that the variety that you have will come back, although not much may happen until next year. To be safe you might plant a few more now that the warm weather is here to stay !

 

[charlz]

I am in the exact same situation with my one surviving grape plant... the freeze was a little over a week ago and does not appear to be doing anything. I already have cuttings getting rooted to replace the others that died previously but I was really hoping this one would make it.

 

[ToadHill]

I've had it happen a number of times and the vines always came back. In some cases on younger plants they sent up a shoot from the roots and started a new vine, so don't give up on them just yet.

 

[forgeblast]

thanks all, I will do a wait and see. They are supposed to be hardy, i hope that they make it.

 

[MossRoad]

We had a frost that was more of a freeze on Tuesday. My grape vines where starting to throw out leaves and now they are all shrivled up. I have the hardy woden and ontario varities from millers nurseries. Will they bounce back or are they gonners?

thanks
Forgeblast

Most likely you will not get any fruit on them this year. With some luck, you will see some new leaves in a few weeks. If they are hardy, they should bounce back. This has happened to me all but one year in the last 6-or 7. Only had grapes one season due to frost. This year I got lucky and we only had one frost after bud out. I was able to cover the vines with some cloth sheets.

 

[coachgrd]

While I can't speak for your grapes, there was a report on our local news last week that the grape growers here along Lake Erie suffered some pretty serious frost damage last week. The county extension agent mentioned the extent of the damage won't truly be known for about 1 month.

I know it burned a fern we have in a hanging basket pretty good!

 

[forgeblast]

Most of the japanese knot weed (the bamboo looking invasive species) was decimated. the leaves are hanging and drooping. I am going to give them another spray of roundup just to help them along. It was such a late and hard frost/freeze that it caught a lot off guard. I mean our last frost day is may 31'st for our last frost day most go by memorial day and this frost came less then a week before. I think it will be ok to put my tomatoes out this weekend.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

We had a frost that was more of a freeze on Tuesday. My grape vines where starting to throw out leaves and now they are all shrivled up. I have the hardy woden and ontario varities from millers nurseries. Will they bounce back or are they gonners?

thanks
Forgeblast

Last year in early May my grape vines had leaves on them..and then we had a frost. All the leaves died out, but new ones came back...but i didn't get any grapes.

The ones that you have are real hardy....and should be alright.

You can start new vines by taking some cuttings, and put them in a 2-liter bottle with water...and then they will start roots.

 

[charlz]

I just noticed yesterday that my grape is pushing new growth from under the ground. Looks like it was a close one but it should pull through.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

While I can't speak for your grapes, there was a report on our local news last week that the grape growers here along Lake Erie suffered some pretty serious frost damage last week. The county extension agent mentioned the extent of the damage won't truly be known for about 1 month.

I know it burned a fern we have in a hanging basket pretty good!

the worst part about the frost that hit us is that it was so hard it killed the secondary buds which are what we need for next years crop. Our vines should recover but we will lose around 50% of our crop at least on the section of vineyard I had hit by frost. The front of the vineyard didn't get touched, only the back. My vineyard 2 miles away did fine. The Niagaras got touched a bit but the Concords were fine.

 

[MossRoad]

the worst part about the frost that hit us is that it was so hard it killed the secondary buds which are what we need for next years crop. Our vines should recover but we will lose around 50% of our crop at least on the section of vineyard I had hit by frost. The front of the vineyard didn't get touched, only the back. My vineyard 2 miles away did fine. The Niagaras got touched a bit but the Concords were fine.

At least you know what killed the buds. I just found out that for the past several years I have been trimming my grapes incorrectly and cutting off all of the growth that will produce next year's crop!

I finally did some research... there are some great sites that show you the correct way to trim them. This year the frost spared mine and since I pruned it correctly, it looks like I may get some fruit.

 

[GaryS]

I planted a bunch of grapes this spring too and got hit by the frost. What saved me this year was that I decided to use these blue tubes. They helped keep the frost damage to a minimum and the grapes are growing like mad. And at $1.10 each, they're cheap and reusable.

 

[forgeblast]

I just noticed some new growth pushing through on both vines. I have 100 tubex tubes sitting in my barn for next springs crp planting, are the blue ones specific for grapes?
thanks

 

[GaryS]

are the blue ones specific for grapes?

Frankly, I have no idea. I hadn't heard of them until a friend told me about them. He swears by them and I was glad to have them on with our late, heavy frost.

The site has lots of claims but I've never heard anything about blue light being better for plants. Maybe it's true. Grow lights tend to be more blue in color so maybe there's something to it. I really like that the plants are protected from rabbits & deer.