Growing grapes for wine is like many agricultural endeavors — you decide what will grow best in your environment. Then you wait to see how it turns out. But while most farmers get results with crops ...

Pete Anderson will cover a description of the processes involved in grafting grape vines, from collecting the graft material to post graft care. He will give a live demonstration of two different ...

Question: How do you get seedless grapes? I bought a grafted vine that with a label that said it would have seedless grapes, but the grapes have seeds. Can something be done to make them seedless?

Grafting, a standard way of propagating grapes worldwide, combines a hardy rootstock with a desirable variety of grapes in the scion. Researchers will unravel how the genotype of the rootstock impacts ...

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Question: I bought a grafted grape vine that the sign at the store said was seedless, but the grapes have large, hard seeds in them. Is there anything that can be done to make them seedless? Answer: ...

Q: Last winter, I grafted seven groups of scions: pear, apricot and persimmons, onto my quince tree in North Oakland. Two pear varieties, a French butter pear and a Bartlett, succeeded. The remaining ...