Vitis, Grape 'Emeryville Pink'

We obtained three 1-gallon plants at a fundraising sale for the horticultural dept. of Merritt College about 7 years ago. They sat fallow...Read More in their pots for two years during an unexpected destruction of our yard from an apartment complex construction. They were planted along a fence in the contractor soil, well drained but bereft of any goodness. They have been kept heavily mulched each year and get plenty of water from the massive biowale for the apartment complex. They grew quickly and provide great bird cover and hide the fence. I prune in Winter with a view to forming cordons the height of the fence harvesting fruit and keeping the vines contained. Some minimal flowers and fruit, but I think they need potassium and phosphorus because the soil was a crime against nature.

We bought this grape a decade ago from a favorite East Bay nursery. We were told it probably wouldn't grow in Fresno, but with morning su...Read Moren and afternoon shade it's grown into our favorite grape. The fruits are smaller than others describe, but are delicious. The Emeryville Pink also seems to resist some of the local fungal stuff we sometimes see on other more common table varieties in our garden. The new leaves in spring are tinged with pink and are beautiful in spring bouquets, too! New plants can be successfully started from seeds.

What a flavorful grape!
Grown in my backyard, (on wood fence) in South West Berkeley, on the Oakland, and Emeryville border. Proli...Read Morefic growth of leaves the first year. One bunch of grapes the 2nd year. Huge harvest the 3rd year, (last year), and OMG! Laden with so many bunches, perhaps 80lbs minimum. Superior, high quality, intense flavor, and very sweet with seeds barley noticeable. Grape much larger than previous years. The birds have gone and told ALL their relations, so we put a net around the vines, but the birds just laughed and found there way through. We will begin our first ever batch of wine tomorrow!!! (Bought plant at "Annies" in Richmond, CA)

Bought this some years ago from Annies Annuals and planted in my San Leandro garden in a nice sunny hillside. Nothing much happened for ...Read Morethe first couple of years and then it took off and started producing wonderful classic bunches of purple to green grapes. Nice tart/sweet flavor, small seeds and very vigorous vines.