The leaves do not look like Concord to me. They look like a French
Hybrid.

Joe
Hoss wrote:
> I have what I believe is a row of Concord growing in my yard, but not
> 100% certain. They are bright purple and now if I crush one, it has 4
> stones buried within green fruit. It is still very tart and I do NOT
> get a red stain on the fingers (yet?) when I crush the skins in the
> hand. I don't have a picture of these, but can compare if someone can
> help!
>
> By the way, I am in the Erie, PA area, but south of I-90 where there
> are far fewer grapes than North of I-90, where the welch's concords
> grow en masse.
>
> Now, riding down the road a couple days ago, I saw some grapes growing
> high up on an old wild apple tree, and I am trying to figure out what
> they may be. The grapes are beautiful in size and color, the ones in
> this picture are approximately the same size diameter as a dime or
> penny. When squeezed, the fruit is white (clear) and also has four
> stones. The taste is very sweet, maybe like a concord grape, but
> doesn't taste like welch's or like grape jelly. When I squeeze these
> skins which are darker, I'd label as black, they do indeed leave a red
> stain on the fingers. I would also say they have a bit of tannin, but
> not heavy with it, at least with my small taste.
>
> Here are the links to the pics (about 330K each). I have one of a
> medium cluster, and one of a leaf with cluster in the background.
>
>
> http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/8...dsweet1vq0.jpg
>
>
> http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8...dsweet2ry0.jpg
>
>
> Here I have a picture of what I just generically call "wild grapes".
> These are much smaller, about the size of a pencil eraser, dark
> purple, very little pulp, very bitter, and stain the hands purple
> immediately, they're also full of seeds. I made some wine of these
> last year, needed to make like a fruit wine with lots of water and
> sugar. Surprisingly it isn't bad, but I'll know more in a year, any
> help with these would be appreciated as well. These are clearly
> different from the ones above.
>
> http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4264/wildsourfd2.jpg
>
> many thanks in advance
>
> Greg, Erie, PA