iNaturalist said in the grape vine family which feels wild to me, if it is then having wild grapes growing around was not what I was expecting.
iNaturalist said in the grape vine family which feels wild to me, if it is then having wild grapes growing around was not what I was expecting.
It’s not that, it’s that for industrial scale you need them to be “established”…
You can do that by planting and waiting years (maybe decades) for the “good grapes” to become established, or you can just graft the new species onto existing root structures every spring. Allowing you to change year to year what you grow.
Stuff like OPs pic could have a root structure the size of a tiny stick. And they come up naturally all the time. It’ll still produce some grapes, just not at the scale of a for profit vineyard who’s root structures have had 20+ years to grow.