Kansas sun is very hot more than 3/4 of the years we ripen several things months earlier. Southern states are ahead of us sometimes. Our sun is hot at times over 100 degrees by April.
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I’m in south central Kansas. We have concords, but yours are quite a bit ahead of ours. Ours usually ripen in August but seems like everything is ahead of schedule this year. I have Himrod grapes starting to ripen. They are a seedless white table grape. Smaller but very sweet and very productive in the Kansas sun. Before prohibition, Kansas was one of the top grape producers in the country.
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My Concords are ripening well earlier than previous years. Everyone I know personally that grows grapes thought it was abnormally early. My Pristine apples (though it’s the first ones I’ve ever got to ripen) are almost ripe too unlike most my other apples that are only ping pong sized right now.
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Mine have always started ripening mid to late August. There has been no shortage of heat here… for many weeks now often in the mid 90s. 95 today at 1:30 pm.
Still hanging green here.
TNHunter
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Got over 100° for the past three days, with yesterday 104°. 
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But when do you expect summer to start? 
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Probably in a month when we lose this cool weather. 
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I guess you can keep it We were suppose to get that heat, but the forecasts didn’t pan out so the temps stopped around 100.
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They seem to mostly attack grape leaves, very obscure damage to apple leaves. The green june beetles don’t seem to have a preference, they go after grape(leaves only), apple, pear(fruit only), cannas, and pigweed without a specific target. Have collected jugs full of them, they don’t have any self preservation instinct and just sit there and let you grab them. Would think they would have a predator that would wipe them out. Any effective way to control them?
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Some grapes are turning to raisins, but they still are very sour…
Makes me wonder if I got a mislabeled grape.
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You did get a mislabeled grape because seedless concord dont ripen the entire cluster at once like that. Those are beautiful looking grape clusters. Seedless concord ripen a grape here and there , half are green when the others are ripe in the same cluster. I would use those for jelly since they are sour they will be perfect for that. The real concord are not ripening yet. Once in awhile soil can give grapes an off flavor for the first few years. With grapes flavor can be about where they are grown rather than what they are. That is not the case with those the timing and growth does not match up. An easy way to identify concord and its children is the under side of the leaf is whitish or tan. Lambrusca type grapes have that charecteristic always. They are used for juice and jelly but make terrible wine if they look like that. Not everyone shares the same opinion on wines. Here is a reputable source to get concord. If you want to do a bulk order maybe other Kansas people will as well because look at that price drop to $2.50 a vine. I would be willing to go in on some with you.
My guess is that is a child of concord and there are many of them. If you want to root some i can give you some branches to start of seedless concord. The same goes for concord. For $2.50 each + shipping its not worth it to root your own hardly.
Take a look at my old thread then look at the clusters and vines again. Seedless concord are picked one grape at a time. Seeded concord are picked in clusters. Concord seedless like concord should be renamed reliable!
Note the underside of the leaves in the photo.
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I never knew that the underside of Concords were supposed to look like that, but that makes a lot of sense. Ours do not have a white/tan underside, or are the grapes that large looking. Probably should get some actual Concords. My vines are a little big for me to want to cut out, but grafting over looks like a good option. I do have empty spots under the trellis for four more plants, but I was wanting to try more varieties too.