Extend your home grape harvest season with this live Yates Seeded Grape plant, shipped in its nursery pot and ready to plant. Developed at Cornell University’s Geneva Experiment Station and introduced in 1937, Yates is a hardy late-ripening red grape variety known for excellent cold storage and dependable production.

The large grape clusters have tough skins that resist rain and bunch rot, with a pleasantly fruity flavor ideal for fresh eating and home use. Ripening about one week after Concord grapes, Yates extends the fresh grape season into late summer and fall. This vigorous and productive grapevine is easy to manage and perfect for backyard vineyards, trellises, arbors, and edible gardens.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Yates seeded grape plant
✔️ Shipped in nursery pot
✔️ Healthy, rooted grape vine
✔️ Late season red grape variety
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Yates Grape
• Botanical Name: Vitis labrusca ‘Yates’
• Plant Type: Deciduous fruiting vine
• Growth Stage: Young grape vine
• Sun Requirements: Full sun preferred (6–8 hours daily)
• Soil: Well-draining fertile soil
• Watering: Moderate; water deeply during dry periods
• Mature Height: 10–20 feet with support
• Growth Rate: Vigorous growing
• USDA Zones: 5–8
• Harvest Season: Late season, about one week after Concord
• Pollination: Self-fertile
• Container Friendly: Yes, with support and pruning

Care Tip

Train vines along cordons with three-bud spurs and prune annually during dormancy to maintain healthy growth and productive fruiting. Full sun helps improve sweetness and fruit quality.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.