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Double A Vineyards - Homeowners Pesticides - 50% captan 8 oz $18.95

Presque Isle Winery has reasonable prices for mail order malolactic chromatography supplies.

Where do you live in Indiana? Vinifera grapes can be grown reliably in southern Indiana, especially near the Ohio River (Huber Vineyards, for example). I grow a few cab Franc in Indianapolis, but some years I get cold damage. If you are only looking to grow a couple of vines you could grow them...

I’d consider Marquette and also Verona, another recently released wine grape from Minnesota (Verona).

Frontenac shouldn’t have been grafted so it should be okay. Merlot and Pinot noir - if they were grafted, then the new growth is from the root stock.

Double A sells individual Norton vines for $9 plus shipping. You might get a bit of fruit in their second year of growth. Otherwise you could try a winery that makes Norton (Stone Hill in Missouri or Chrysalis in Virginia come to mind) to send you seeds now or next fall.

Sorting through seedlings is time consuming. That’s the reason it’s not easy to breed new grape varieties.

A problem is that Cynthiana/Norton is itself a hybrid. You could select offspring that give white wine grapes but the set of offspring will differ in other ways from each other. Each plant In this generation would essentially be a different clone. If you could get cuttings from someone who had...