Can a grape vine change?

How is it possible for a grape vine that produced a white grape somehow mutate to produce a red grape? My friend had a vine that produced a small white grape and now 7 years later the same vine is producing a slightly larger red concord grape. I know it's the same vine because there is only one trunk and it is stretched out over a large pergola.

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Steve
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Steve,

Could it be that the original white grape was grafted onto a red (Concord) rootstock? if a shoot came up from below the graft, and the upper white stem died back, it would be as you describe.

HTH, mike mtm

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MikeMTM

Are you POSITIVE it is a concord grape? could it just be a red grape?

Is it possible the grape got cross polinated with a red varity? I don't know enough about grapes Genetics, to know which is the dominant, but if red is dominant, and white reccessive, the cross could very likely come up red.

just a thought....

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Dave Allyn

Cross pollination cannot affect this years crop, it only affects the seed and therefore the next generation (coming from that seed) so this particular vine will never see a change in fruit color from cross-pollination. The change is most likely from the graft as Mike MTM points out.

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Miker

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