These were the biggest , full-sized Concords yet! They say strike while the iron is hot! These grapes grow over a large arched arbor. Yesterday they were full and beautiful, but I stopped from picking thinking I’d give them one more chilly night. The racoons love me!!! They tore into the arbor while I was dreaming of what I would do with them! Well, went to pick them this afternoon. I brought in at least two quarts, which is fine and there are stragglers left. Will make a grape pie tomorrow, but two quarts is not enough for jam!!! Also you will see green grapes too, as they were not all ripe. If I waited another day I would have zero! They are big though. I am hoping they will ripen a bit on the counter over night!
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Something cleaned out my concords this year too. I suspect a raccoon, I probably should have set a live trap, oh well maybe next year
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Kills me; really from flower to fruit, I wait and so little in return. Did not have to spray them at all this year!
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funny my father had 2 arbors of concords that grew well despite being in a zone colder and with property bordering a swamp full of bears, coons and hares, he never lost any. would let them hang until the frosts hit them and they started to shrivel a little. made the best jam/ juice I’ve ever tasted next to my black currant jam. 
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You make me cry! That is exactly how it should be. Newport in RI is a city. We have more deer, coyotes, squirrels, voles, moles, raccoons, birds, mice and rabbits than anyone could want. Why me?
Sounds like you don’t have quite enough coyotes.
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My mom has been eating my concord by the bucketful she is on the third gallon now. Picked my last today. My wife and I ate a few. Going to try to make leather and a tray of raisins come Sunday night. See how that works. Last year the yellow jackets got 3/4 of the crop they were so thick in there. This year been sharing with a hummingbird. Today was on one side and heard him lifted my head and not 8 inches away he was hovering there. Left a few on vine for him.
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I don’t Think they eat much .
difference between me and you is we can and do shoot these problem animals regularly but its not possible in a city unless youre stealthy with a pellet gun. i have a fox trying to dig its way to my chickens. only thing saving him is he comes at night. i may need to put a night vision scope on my .22 and camo up to get em’!
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Lol
For a while now I would go out and get some and couldn’t figure out why I would just have skin on a bundle like everything was sucked out so I kept a lookout for the pest. For a couple of weeks didn’t see anything then I saw him. He’s been here for about a month. What he eats is negligible besides I like them 
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I put these in the steam juicer yesterday and got 3 quarts of juice. The kids like it so we might just end up drinking most of it. I’ll try to make at least one jar of jelly, though.
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Looking for help identifying concord grape issue.
Hard blemishes on unripe concords…does not eventually cover full grape. Appearing on many bunches… I don’t think black rot
Thanks
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Sorry I have never seen it. Looks like a fungus:
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Looks like anthracnose. Can’t do much about it now, badly affected berries can shrivel up but many will develop as normal. Dormant lime sulfur or early sprays of mancozeb/captan will take care of it.
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