This year there are a lot of clusters. If they are waiting for bees to pollinate them, I've not seen many bees at all this year. I have some shrubs that had flowers and now the flowers are gone by and there should be berries in heavy clusters, but only part of the berries are formed. I have clover all over the lawn and I counted three bees in it yesterday. *sigh*

So I can't pollinate them by hand? They don't need a second variety for cross pollination, right?

Here is another photo of more of these clusters. Hope you can see the clusters. The photos shrink in size when posted here.

Thanks for the help!

Here are the ways the various flowers look:
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/reisch/grapegenetics/breeding/crossing1.html

Maybe your vine is female? (??) Just a guess. I've never grown a grape that wasn't a hermaphrodite, from cuttings, so I haven't seen the separate flowers myself.

One other question, this vine is not in full sun. It is in the shadow of the house in the morning. I haven't timed the exact number of hours of sun it is getting, but if it is producing flowers, can I assume it is getting enough sun?

If this one produces any quality fruit at all, someone got very lucky. Furthermore some varieties of quite a number of species are only partially self pollinating, with a much better fruit set if another pollinator is available. If you continue to get only partial clusters that may be the case. It is probably too early to tell. You may need a few more years of growth to know for sure.

To get quality fruit at all out of a seedling is pretty lucky. This plant may well be worth saving; most seedlings aren't, since most parentages are complex hybirds, that resort unpredictably. But it may also need a pollinator and will almost certainly need proper pruning to produce the best flowering.

It takes years of evaluations before most fruit varieties of any kind normally even get named and most of those don't even get released. It sounds like you are starting to get good fruit now and that normally improves as the vines mature.

I would say that all your first signs are very encouraging.

I just found my own seedling yesterday, I have some purple raspberries in my black raspberry row. It must have been a cross from the red raspberries one row over. They are very tasty but more like black raspberry in size.

Scott

And if these are grapes, how long before they will be ripe enough to eat and are there any tips on how to keep them from being eaten by insects or birds when they start to ripen?

I wonder if just before they ripen, I should cover them with some kind of netting or Remay to keep birds or yellow jackets off them?

edit: Oh, btw, I did go back in my records to see what the name of the variety of seeds they were. I had traded for the seed and the person who sent them labeled them, 'Northern Grapes, red and white', and that's it.