If you only grow seedless grapes... then how do you maintain your crop for years to come?

Question

if there are no seeds what happens if the crop dies, are you have a bad season. how do you start off growing them again?

Answer 1

Grape breeders create new seedless plants by placing the pollen of a seedless grape onto the flowers of a grape variety that has seeds. They then cut open and inspect the fruit of every single plant that grows from this match. The breeders are looking for seeds -- some plants will have seeds in their fruit and others won't.

When they find a plant that has no seeds, or maybe just has very tiny traces of seeds that you wouldn't be able to taste, the grape breeders use it to make more seedless plants. One way is to cut off small pieces of the seedless plant's vine and place it in special growing conditions in a greenhouse. Eventually, the pieces of vine will grow roots and become new, individual plants. This technique is called propagation.

Or, the breeders can graft, or attach, a piece of the seedless grape variety onto a healthy vine base, called a rootstock. Think of it like this: When someone cuts their hand, a doctor sews the cut together, and the two pieces heal as one. The grafted vines grow together the same way. And, the grape variety attached to the rootstock keeps producing delicious seedless grapes.

Answer 2

They either have to have "seeds" in stock, like a "safe keeping house" Or some may have "grafts/cuttings" that they keep separate from the rest.

You can GENETICALLY ENGINEER NEW STUFF sometimes..... usually it is wise to have NUMEROUS different "crop varieties" that way as you say if something comes along and wipes out your one type you can fall back on the other type.

I believe in a world which GROWS BOTH : seedless and seedy grapes.

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Answer 3

So..
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I hope it helps

Answer 4

Take cuttings and clone them with rooting hormones and nurse them indoors. You could always put them into hibernation with utter darkness to keep them over winter as well. I don't know if this will work with grapes, but that's how I used to do weed back in the day. LOL