Turn a Few Grape Vines Into An Entire Vineyard In a Couple Weeks With Green Cuttings

Grape vines can be pretty expensive to buy, and when you get into the large volumes that you need for a vineyard, it can get downright expensive. I lower my vineyard costs by starting my own cuttings. For years I made cuttings as a hobby by taking dormant wood in the fall and rooting it in spring. The problem is it takes a pretty long time from cutting to rooted vine (over a year). With this method you can get new vines rooted in the same season, in fact in just a couple of weeks, and you don't need fancy misting equipment. One variety in particular, Norton (Cynthiana), is notorious for being difficult to start from dormant cuttings. Norton is a variety that does really well in our heavy clay soil, and it works really well with organic methods because, even under high disease pressure, it has beautiful clusters every season with no pesticides, chemical or organic. In this video I take cuttings of Norton and show how easy it is.
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[@johnstonj92]

I take hardwood cuttings in the spring as soon as the leaf buds swell. I usually take about three nodes per cuttings and shove em deep in the soil or in a big pot with a bread bag over top. Then by fall they are more then established. I also do green cuttings they root very well in pots with bread bags over top. Or a good humidity tent would work. I use indirect light for green cuttings and i usually put them next to a wall or on the concrete in pots to get the bottom to heat up faster. But with harwood sort of almost awake cuttings in spring they can be in full sun as long as you give them adequate water. I dont use rooting horomone for either and i find with green cuttings there is a higher succes rate but it requires a lil more care as for the spring cuttings they are so mucb easier and i usually have around 80% or more succes. Anyways thanks for the info i love watching vids on propogation.

[@candyahbahtyisrael]

Thank you for this video as there were no other videos I could find with propagating green grapevine cuttings. I need to propagate my seeded Concord, Niagara, Catawba, & Muscadine grapevines for more plants in addition to giving some to my neighbors so that they will have their own. Instead of me performing all the work & running up my light & water bill while they come & harvest them. Shalom!

[@Guy4UnderDog]

I have to keep telling my wife, "plants aren't furniture, don't move them!" I can't believe you pulled out more than one to show the roots. :-)

[@pheresy1367]

That's funny... my wife is constantly digging up plants to move "somewhere else". So many sad plants in shock, trying to hang on.... so it goes.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Just for demonstration purposes. I wouldn't recommend it.

[@hollandhills716]

😂

[@avancalledrupert5130]

I don't believe furniture should move either. I hate it. Figure out the most space efficient layout day you move in and leave it forever I say.

[@ContactsNfilters]

Well now yall tell me. I thought I was saving it from the neighbors weed eater and mower. I even broke my shovel digging it up. 😂

[@mrfulton6038]

Thanks for the propagation ideas. I have tons of vines all along my wall now. Thanks!

[@HardcoreSustainable]

that's great! I'm glad you were successful.

[@chuckkottke]

Thank you for the great information! I have been saving vines from a neighbor who settled here in the teens and twenties, it could be from a time when local nurseries raised varieties just for local environments. Glad to see how to propagate them! Thank you very much, you're helping to save our diverse varieties of grapes. 🍇

[@FknNefFy]

Thank you for sharing your learnings!

[@yueming4547]

Thank you very much for showing us. I can't wait to try my own!

[@davidchisholm457]

I just happened across your video and you have taught me more about getting cuttings from the vine and eventually to the vineyard in a very short time. The video was concise, understandable and extremely informative. I am going to go the hunt for the rooting hormone you mentioned so I can begin with my own cuttings. Thanks again.

[@Cheryl1965]

Exactly what I needed. Thank you so much. It's September here in Reno but I'm going to try it anyway. It's still warm and leaves are green and plants are producing delicious pink and green grapes

[@nickob55]

Thanks, great answer to a question I asked myself this morning, I have some vines and now will have some more hopefully.

[@MargaretOliver]

Thank you for choosing the share such great information on propagating grapes through cuttings. I'll apply what I've learned to the 2 different varieties I'm currently enjoying in my backyard culinary garden.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I'm glad you found the video useful. Good luck with your green cuttings!

[@MaryMakes]

Really excellent gardening video... I’m an experienced gardener and I really appreciate your clear cut and concise video.

[@MarcelloYouTube]

Brilliant stuff👍 very helpful info, thank you.

[@hiddengrousefarm]

Thanks for showing this. I'd like to try it next season.

[@stefaniejohnson8870]

I wanted to thank you for this video. I too, looked high & low on you tube for a video on this topic and you are right, there isn't much good informative material available.....until now! I subscribe and can't wait to start learning from your videos. I appreciate your wisdom and willingness to share....and so very eager to learn more from you! thanks!!

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I'm glad it was useful to you, and thanks for subscribing and watching!

[@raedgaj3878]

You'll end up with a grape vine forest at this rate, great video thanks.

[@rockerobertson4002]

Well done! Will try this asap.

[@billyndagriffith2897]

This was incredible helpful.

[@markkristynichols845]

So excited to try this! Thanks a bunch!😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@carlosarmijonm]

I have been wondering about this since I have a few vines that are absolutely vigorous, and I hate wasting so much new growth. Thank you!

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

One of the reasons I'm interested is because the previous owner of our place planted two grape vines that produce vigorous vegetative growth every spring, but they make no fruit because he put them in spot where they just don't get enough sun. So the good news is, there's a lot of material there for cuttings. Hopefully by taking green cuttings I'll be able to place them in a better spot and actually get fruit out of those plants.

[@michaelbishop9127]

Thanks bro. Great work. I have been looking everwer for this info. Thank you

[@alicacarol5582]

Thank you cause that was my first thought when I watched another video about pruning..

[@catwrangler3429]

thanks for this very informational video. No BS, just great info very much appreciated

[@freddiearayata7855]

Thank you for your great information 👍

[@christinewillis9171]

Greetings from New Zealand. Thanks for the informative podcast and for sharing your experience in grape cuttings. I've noted it in my diary for our summer and will try this out. One of your followers asked about aloe vera as a rooting hormone. I will try this out too along with the usual rooting powder.

[@johnelliott7020]

Try Clonex rooting solution - the powders often don’t work well.

[@brentsullivant3596]

I have a Norton vine, thanks, this could help me..

[@jasons-jungle]

Nice video - Thanks. Some other things you could use as growth hormornes are Willow Tip Water (the fresh growing tips off willow branches soaked in water to extract their hormornes) or water soluble asprin (salasilic acid found in asprin is one of the plant growth hormornes found in willow tips)

[@davidbayer7715]

Honey is used for its antibacterial properties. It is not a rooting hormone.

[@tatiananaugolnykh]

Great input - THANK YOU !!!!!!

[@Crystallz2]

Very informative! Thanks so much! Like you said, it can be very expensive! This helps lessen the cost....

[@panedole]

Excellent Video clip! Apologies for chiming in, I would appreciate your opinion. Have you researched - Lammywalness Green Grapes Guide (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is a good one of a kind product for learning how to become a successful grape grower minus the headache. Ive heard some awesome things about it and my friend Sam after a lifetime of fighting got great results with it.

[@staci8222]

thanks for sharing!!!

[@ThienNguyen-eg4dh]

thank you for sharing!

[@billcat1840]

Thank you. I have several vines and want to propagate them. Until your videos, I was clueless about pruning and care.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Glad you found it useful!

[@gyulaherczeg9943]

Great video, thanks!

[@yankey4]

NICE BROTHER!! Looks good. Thanks for making the video.

[@alex-ip1er]

Thanks for the video content! Excuse me for the intrusion, I am interested in your initial thoughts. Have you considered - Lammywalness Green Grapes Guide (probably on Google)? It is an awesome one of a kind product for learning how to become a successful grape grower without the normal expense. Ive heard some awesome things about it and my friend Sam at very last got excellent success with it.

[@heavymetalvines4812]

I gotta be honest, you've definitely helped inspire me to try my own. While I am taking a different approach, I have enjoyed your tutorials. Thanks for the help!

[@carljosephson5480]

Green grape vine cuttings - it's June 21, here in zone 7b and I am following the green cuttings protocol. Starting with about tweny cuttings from two different grape vines. Thank you sharing how to start grape vines from cuttings.

[@juneroos5453]

Hello Thank ,You so much for showing how to grow a grape vine .

[@dianner6637]

That's exciting! What a great experiment and tutorial. Thanks, Dan. As always, your experiments and hard work inspire me.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Thanks Dianne. I really appreciate your positive comments. They inspire me to continue.

[@tanamankebun]

I'll try this method for my vines

[@blueside1999]

Dimple, pleasant, to the point, and exactly what I have been needing to know.

[@kimuseni]

very kool grapes cuttings tutorial

[@DJ-uk5mm]

Great thanks to you and the algorithm :-) just what I was looking for

[@Tri5Club]

Thanks for this video

[@purbious1030]

Great video,awesome knowledge

[@xTnT87]

So helpful!

[@andielliott2306]

I am three weeks into rooting my SWC grape vines following this method. So far so good! I started mine in first of September...hope I am not too late. Will know soon!

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Have you seen any roots forming yet?

[@sharynhughes1061]

Hello! 😀 So interesting! Summer just around the corner here. So end of Summer I hope to get some cuttings. Awesome!.

[@sylviaflores2306]

Wow excellent.

[@agood1]

Good to see that my grapevine cuttings have a chance. I pretty much did what you showed here. I only have 5 large new growth ones. I really hope to see roots in a few weeks. New subscriber

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Good luck! I hope it goes well.

[@stephenhernandez4403]

Great video thank you so much👍🏼👍🏼

[@FrancesCarolWorkman]

Nice 😀

[@mikesimone1]

Thank you!

[@invokeemerge5987]

awesome!

[@suburbanhomesteaderwy-az]

Great video. I'll be trying this way in June/July

[@zelvica11]

Nice very helpful👍

[@loreleidresman]

Wow! I am so excited I came across your video! I am going to experiment with this on my established vines I have. I just ordered seeds to grow from seed, but this method may also expedite growing more for the property! Thank you so much! -Lorelei

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Interesting. What kind of seeds did you order and where from? I've never heard of people growing grapes from seed. I mean, it's possible but you never know what you'll get and it will take a lot longer to get a vine and many years to find out if it's something useful. Starting from cuttings from a known variety is far better.

[@loreleidresman]

@@HardcoreSustainable hey there! Ebay hahah!! 2 sprouted (merlot) but the others didn't. I imagine someone probably chewing in a grocery store grape with seeds, spiting it out, and selling them on ebay😒 you never know! I have taken cuttings off my current vines...just wanted to try from seed. Everything I grow has been from seed, then I do my own cuttings from those, (whatever they may be). Anyways, I love your Instagram! Mine is @lilladys, and my business account is @goodnessgrown and you can see all the good stuff happening! Keep it coming!

[@HardcoreSustainable]

@@loreleidresman Interesting. Yeah, you can't grow Merlot from seed so I think you've been had. Probably did just get them from some random seeded grapes. I'll check out your instagram. I haven't posted anything on mine lately. Been busy but it's so easy to post.

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

Years later and this vid is still helping people... thanks! I suspect that maybe the reason so much info about taking fruit plant cuttings is only about using dormant hardwood, is simply because orchards/vinyards happen to do a lot of pruning when the trees or plants are dormant. So at some point way back in the day people simply decided to save those trimmings and see if they'd root eventually. But now it seems a lot of people insist that's the ONLY way to do it... which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. In spring/early summer plants are usually bursting with growth hormones etc so... yeah. Using green cuttings just seems easier and faster.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

It can be easier and faster with some fruit types and some varieties. Usually green cuttings are more consistent than dormant cuttings with all grape varieties. The ideal time to prune grapes is in spring, just before the buds open. This is true of a lot of fruit trees as well. But the best time to take dormant cuttings is in the fall. You can prune anytime fruit trees are dormant, but pruning can trigger growth hormones in the plant, and that's better to happen just before the plant is about to grow than when it's trying to go dormant or in the middle of dormancy. There's also less chance of disease entering the plant if you prune closer to a time when the plant can grow and heal itself, which is in spring.

[@carljosephson5480]

Thank you for sharing this information on grape vine green cuttings. Today (Jine 4) I made twelve cuttings from three different grape vines. I do need to get some of the rooting hormone and some coco coir. Hopefully the soft seeding soil i have will work temporarily. Cant wait to have some new vines to span and cover the bamboo arbor I am building. Thanks again. I'm a new second day subscriber.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

You can use any kind of starting soil medium, as long as they can get plenty of air.

[@maryharvey724]

I’m going to do this!

[@dammitbobby283]

Make sure to keep the bucket off the ground because the roots will grow through the holes and into the ground.

[@carolday3381]

cool thankyou! I have tried 2 batches so far and it didnt seem to work yet, so researching and seeing this i see a few things i need to do to get better. I think i used too big and old established wood (from trimming this spring) and i did not put them in indirect light. Or cover them. So i will try batch 3 and hopefully i get some to start for me. 🙂

[@jameskniskern2261]

Thank you for aptly titling your video. Easy to find, and I'll be attempting that this spring. I have many vines that need propagating. Cheers.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Thanks for the comment. I'm glad you found it useful.

[@ZH-Rocks]

I have done exactly as you did with my 10 cuttings.lets hope for the best.❤😂

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Good luck!

[@timyates807]

I just caught your video i see its 5 yrs old . I guess Its aging well lol and will always be useful. Its a good video i liked that you sourced the hormone from ebay , ive never tried it ,its a good idea tho . Ya i liked the video, its a great simple system you use .thanks for taking the time to share.

[@frankdavidson9675]

i have scuppernong gold muscadines and they are immune to most of grape problems they will grow just about ant soil my soil is very sandy and they are loaded this year you need gold and black to polinate they go up 1 1/4 in dia nice iwill try my cutting like you did so i can add to my vinyard

[@andielliott2306]

And I took SWC this summer and stuck them in a bed of sand and put them under mist. They are doing great!

[@JacobSimpson]

One thing I've discovered from experience with cuttings: just go for it. If it's stemmy, goes from soft to hardwood, etc. Just do a bunch of cuttings, stick them in some dirt and see what happens. 😂 Then if it doesn't work go look and see if there is anything on it I just did some cuttings of wild muscadine vines and a grape vine a few weeks ago. They're looking good. Didn't even lose their leaves. I'm gonna check in the morning and see if they have any roots.

[@christinawoodard3754]

Gonna do this

[@thavylor]

Thank you.

[@roemarkin8562]

Great information, thanks. Im finding Spring pruning is the time to get my nursery row started. Good way to expand to additional rows and replace any winter kill

[@gadingborneo5704]

Excellent video! Very informative. Great job of explaining what your doing and how to do it.i plant at home table grape jupiter

[@SirGolfalot-]

Good info. I am experimenting with growing trees as well as vines, wild bushes, and other fruit from seeds. I also want to try propagating plants from cuttings. I will use this information for a variety of plants. Thanks

[@nancyjimenez9247]

Hola Amigo,💃I am growing 2 in pots here in Edmonton 🇨🇦I just transplanted them and wrapped them up in insulated material as our winter it's brutal 🙊😂🥶It has plenty of drainage and 🤞 I will learn how to prune them and get them long enough to cover the deck bins🌞🌞💪🙌Thanks for the video I got inspired to propagate them💋

[@ashapande9721]

I love cococoir!!

[@moonmaidrainbow]

Thanks for this vid, Brother! Rare info...

[@sansaviera]

Great video, thank you for sharing. Do you have an update video on these cuttings? I would love to see how you planted them and how they are doing now.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I don't have an update video yet. I did plant them out in a nursery bed in the garden and then moved them to the vineyard to fill in gaps.

[@thewinemaker3356]

Thanks for the video, looking forward to plant alot of vines this year... #TheWinemaker

[@kenyonbissett3512]

My mother, grandmother and great grandmother belonged to gardening clubs. They constantly either gave away or traded seeds, cuttings and starter plants. Some people hand down furniture, silver, etc., My family takes pride in flowers handed down from 1800ish. Lily of the valley, day lilies and irises are a few. When you get married and buy a house you are given cuttings, bulbs and/or plants.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

That's a great tradition. There is a seed savers exchange group called the flower exchange that shares flower bulbs, seeds, cuttings. There is also so much to be found in farm and city yards if you just ask the owner.

[@DwightFordHenry]

I discovered old , deer-munched muscadines on the edge of my property. Thanks to you I am considering propagation using this method

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I'd give it a shot. I'm not sure if muscadines are as easy or easier to root.

[@DwightFordHenry]

Hardcore Sustainable well I will include my experience for you . Additionally I suppose I should try to be sure I have both male and female since I do not recall seeing any grows in mine when the neighbors were in full “heavy with fruit mode “

[@jeremyellismusic]

Jamie Lannister with some great tips on cloning grapes.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

😁 I've never heard that comparison

[@Fooma777]

I was thinking younger, American Bronn

[@cb1ification]

Great content! You have a new subscriber :) Dreaming of my own organic vineyard & sustainable life. Love from Europe x

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Good to have you as a subscriber!

[@meleakua]

brilliant! i love the five gallon bucket 'greenhouses'- great idea! i wonder if the church down the street wants a vineyard in their yard 😁

[@meleakua]

love the shirt & the tunes, too~

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Thanks! Yeah I like the shirt too.

[@christianmburanumwe4285]

Merci bcp.

[@solfeinberg437]

Thanks for the video. I really appreciate your showing the cuttings and beginning of rooting two weeks later. A lot vids just show sticking them in the pot, and I'm always skeptical or curious, Did it work? I have an experiment underway.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

It does work, but you have to be careful about a lot of things, like keeping the cuttings from being too wet or too dry, making sure you have a good clean soil mix, and that you coddle them until they have good root systems and top growth before planting them out in a nursery row. Good luck with yours!

[@gakaface]

I've got squeaky cutters like that too! But seriously, This isn't difficult at all. Vines root really, really easily and the best way is to lay a stretch of vine on the ground, cover several nodes with earth and cut free and pick up your new vine three months later. It's called ground layering.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Yes that is a great way to propagate grapes, but it's not as fast as green cuttings, though probably more reliable with difficult to root varieties. I propagate my Norton that way.

[@walkingmonument]

It's even easier than all that. Lay a stretch of vine on soil already in a bucket. After it roots, cut it from it's parent source. Now you have a new vine independent of the parent and it's already in a bucket and ready to move

[@williamj.stilianessis1851]

Nicely done. Clear instructions, easily understood, with results both good and bad. I'll be giving this experiment a go next season for Northern varieties. We are in upper Vermont, the Northeast Kingdom. Have you tried to winter cuttings once started in a green house to set roots further rather than the nursery Route? I wonder if less interruption of the growing process, ie: multiple transplants, might benefit the vines better.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Yes, definitely less transplanting would help, and making sure that they have really good roots established when you transplant. I've done dormant cuttings before and they work good too, but they take longer to root from the time you take them since they have to be overwintered.

[@sharynhughes1061]

Hi it;s agood idea to take cutting from the mother plant, at least you know what the grape is. I'm going to buy a Grape plant soon, then i will take cuttings, in the second season, yep buying from nursery's are expensive, thankyou.

[@mofomoco]

I found using fabric pots works well for rooting grape cuttings.

[@thefutureisnow8159]

Great video- I’m trying green cuttings as I shoot my vineyard/ I’m trying to root them in straight perlite- thoughts?

[@scotts.2706]

Great info! My local winery has the Frontenac a hybrid here in the Buckeye State. By far my favorite red of all the other reds they produce. Thanks for the great info!

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I have some Frontenac in my vineyard. It's a good one, but it doesn't do so well in wetter years using organic methods. Is the red you mention dry, or sweet?

[@scotts.2706]

It is a dry, not a fan of the sweets.

[@scotts.2706]

The name of the winery is Old Mason winery

[@suburbanhomesteaderwy-az]

I shared this video on my @suburbanhomesteaderwy page on Facebook. It is so interesting.

[@dudekiwi]

Any chance of seeing what the vines look like now please ?

[@lindapolle1665]

May I suggest, that when you trim your cuttings, cut the end, that you want to root, UNDER WATER. This is an old florist's trick to keep rose stems from forming an "air lock" in the stem end.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Wow, thanks for the suggestion! That totally makes sense. I'd never heard of that. So if you do it out of water, the vascular tissues will draw air in and create problems? I wonder how far up the air can be drawn. So maybe if you had already taken cuttings, you'd cut a section off the bottom of each under water and then keep them submerged until you put them in the rooting medium?

[@lindapolle1665]

@@HardcoreSustainable Yup, you got it. It is all osmosis, that is fluid pressure. After WWII my Dad took us to Germany. There we were offered a real straw to drink our soda. This was great, until the natural capillary function of this plant stem came into play, causing the pop to rise by itself and bubble over the top of the straw. 😂

[@tjmakes_]

Thankyou for this video! Question: does it make it any easier if you slightly scrape the bottoms of the cuttings before dipping them? It seems to me like that would allow the hormone to penetrate a bit better? Edit: Also! How long do you leave the cuttings in the bucket before transplanting then to their final spot? Do you wait until there’s a specific amount of growth, or until a specific time of year after starting them?

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I've never seen that suggested for grape cuttings but it might help. The only problem might be in promoting rot because it would create more dead tissue to breed bacteria and that might interfere with the grape cutting forming callous tissue. Might be worth a shot though to test it.

[@edwardortman2593]

Thanks for the info on the rooting hormone compound.. I bought one of the cheap ones at Walmart and checked it and it had 0.1% IBA in it.. I did some math though and if anyone else like me buys one of these cheapo mixes that only has .1% IBA in it you can get the same strength mixture by increasing the amount per quart of water added. My particular container is 56 grams at .1% IBA so I need 2.5 tsp of powder to get to the strength of his 1/4 tsp in a quart jar. So my canister will make approximately 10 quarts of rooting hormone where his will make about 44 quarts from what I assume is a 25 mg package. So if you buy the cheap stuff just put in about ten times the amount of powder 2.5 tsp as compared 1/4 and you should do fine on the strength of the rooting hormone...

[@michaelirvine5506]

Thank you so much. I am up north (Canada) and I have some Frontenac vines that I would like to propagate. Our winters are severe. What would you suggest doing with the rooted cuttings the first year, ie as soon as they have rooted? You said you put them in a nursery row and then dig them up and plant them in the vineyard,the spring, but what would happen if I just plant them and let them grow in situ? I'm just not clear how to keep them through that first winter. Thanks again.

[@HardcoreSustainable]

You could plant the cuttings directly, but I think putting them in a nursery row with really good soil is the best way to get them vigorous and develop a good root system. You also might no know which cuttings will survive the first year, and if you plant them out you will have weak cuttings and strong mixed together. If you plant a nursery row, you can select the biggest healthiest cuttings for the vineyard and they will like thrive.

[@JbowlizzleKC]

Any tips for getting bare root plants to get out of dormancy. In Kansas City I made the mistake of planting and not keeping them out of direct sun. I’ve put them in the shade but they’ve been in the ground since April 30.

[@anthonymordawski-uf6ie]

Welll at last a video that has some great advice. I am an English man livining in Azerbijan and grapes are grown in just about every garden. I managed too get several cutings too root 2 years ago and this year they produced thier first grapes. I have taken some green cutings and will try your method. Can i use another medium as coconut core is not available here

[@HardcoreSustainable]

Yes you can use anything organic that drains water easily but holds moisture. I've used peat moss or even rotten punky wood broken up into a fine medium.

[@MichaelJohnson-ux7pe]

Nice video, I'll have to give this a try next season here in Alabama. How would something like this work on muscadines?

[@HardcoreSustainable]

I've never tried it with muscadines or grown them. Not sure how they take to rooting like this. Maybe better, maybe worse.

[@jwag2708]

I have a single Concord grape vine that I’d like to try this with here in Colorado. Thank you for the video. I think I’m going to try without the mothballs acid and hope for the best!

[@iamziano]

Any updates?

[@isaacezekielthecolorblindg7343]

Any luck 8 have one Concord that's blooningcso well I wanna do this

[@unforkyours3lf730]

I found a bunch of concord Grapes growing in the forest