Thanks! Will absolutely do! The buds are just starting to swell, I’ll do an update when we start getting some growth! And I’ll show you how I’m going to do a secondary prune! Thanks for swinging by the farm!
I applaud the effort. Grapes produce on the canes that come off the cordons. There is main trunk, 4 to 6 cordons off of those that get cut back at 5 to 6 feet, and then the fruiting canes. Each year you pruning back to almost the cordon. So anything that grows is off last years growth. There are some great low cost books on the subject. The best fruit comes from the canes that are within 6 feet of the main trunk growing off the cordons. It is hard to destroy a grape vine. Just you can not get a good harvest for a year because of a mistake. Trust me it took a few serious mistakes with grapes to figure out I needed to read a few books
I understand how to prune manicured grapes… but this is something I haven’t had the chance to try. We still got grapes off these and I still would like to this year. These were planted in the early 80s and while some of them I took back more than others, and I do plan to slowly train them, just not worth not have any grapes this year in my opinion.
Thanks for the tips my grape vine for the past three years only get leaves on them and no grapes .but this winter im going to pruen them then i mite get grapes next time
Depending where you are you can still do this! My neighbors have a vineyard and are still pruning. I’ll do another update when we start getting leaves and show you the next secondary prune I will be doing. I’d love to help you get grapes again! If you have some dry days, at least 3-4 days go out and get all the dead stuff out.
Also, remember you only get grapes off of last years new vines. Everything else is just taking energy. And, Ideally you want just a couple of vines to keep it manageable.
Northern California, right below Oregon. We’re at about 750 ft but we’re in a valley and the mountains around us are about 2000-3000. Lots of micro climates.
