Rare
Photographs are of our actual stock, taken at the nursery. Plants are living things — expect small differences in shape and leaf count from the plant shown.
Fruit Plants
Sultana Grape Vine
Vitis vinifera ‘Sultanina’
Sultana is the seedless golden grape that becomes a sultana raisin when dried. On a pergola in the Pakistani plains it is genuinely productive — a well-pruned mature vine will crop heavily every summer and provide dense shade at the same time.
Grapes crop on the current season’s growth from last year’s wood, which means winter pruning is not optional. Cut back hard each January to a permanent framework, and you get fruit. Leave it unpruned and you get a large tangled vine and very little else.
- Seedless golden fruit, heavy cropping in the plains
- Gives fruit and dense pergola shade from the same plant
- Winter pruning is essential — unpruned vines crop poorly
Rs 1,200for the 3 ft rooted vine
Inclusive of pot and mix. Delivery Rs 350, free over Rs 5,000.
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At a glance
- Mature size
- 5–10 m on a pergola
- Growth rate
- Very fast; deciduous in winter
- Difficulty
- Moderate to keep
- Around pets
- Non-toxic — safe if chewed
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How to look after your Sultana Grape Vine
Written for Pakistani conditions — long hot summers, dry winter air, and hard tap water. Follow this rather than advice written for a temperate climate.
- Light
- Full sun. Six to eight hours minimum for a worthwhile crop.
- Water
- Deeply and regularly, especially while fruit is setting and swelling. Mulch heavily to hold soil moisture.
- Humidity
- Ambient.
- Soil
- Deep, fertile, well-draining soil. Avoid heavy waterlogged clay — raise the bed if that is what you have.
- Feeding
- Balanced feed in early spring, high-potassium once fruit sets, and well-rotted manure each winter.
- Temperature
- Species dependent; most listed here suit the Pakistani plains. Young grafted stock needs shade in its first summer.
If something goes wrong
Flowers form but fruit does not set
Why it happens: Poor pollination or heat stress at flowering.
What to do: Plant a second variety nearby where cross-pollination is needed, and shade the tree during extreme heat.
Fruit dropping while small
Why it happens: Water stress or a natural thinning.
What to do: Keep watering even and mulch the root zone. A degree of natural drop is normal and healthy.
Suckers below the graft union
Why it happens: Rootstock growth.
What to do: Remove them flush at the trunk as soon as they appear, or they will outgrow the grafted variety.
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