Grape Reliance Seedless #1

Reliance Seedless Grape produces medium-sized, pinkish-red fruit on large, well-filled clusters. It has a mild, fruity flavor with a high sugar content. The high sugar content makes Reliance grapes wonderful edible fruits for table use, jellies, juices, edible kid’s snacks, salads, and wines. It is disease resistant to anthracnose and mildew. Blooms late to avoid spring frosts and ripens in August.

• Full sun is important to provide the heat required to ripen the fruit.
• Virtually any type of support structure will do, provided it is sturdy. Grape vines grow quickly and get quite heavy.
• Spring planting is recommended to give the young vines the most time to get established before their first winter.
• Each vine needs about 6 feet of space.
• To harvest, clip full clusters off the vine with pruning shears or heavy scissors. Handle clusters carefully; remove any discolored, injured, or undesirable berries; and then cool them as soon as they are picked. Storing grapes in a refrigerator is preferable to a cellar or other cool place where temperatures fluctuate.
• Flowers are self-fertile and pollinated by wind and insects.
• Flowers are initiated on young canes. It is possible to get fruit one year after planting.
• The first two or three years, each early spring, apply compost around the base of the vines.