This was very helpful and informative for my novice grape growing. I jut bought a cottage that has old neglected grape vines and I appreciate this guidance!
Loved the graph! That I can understand. I’m in Scotland 🏴 🇬🇧 and I’ve got my first three vines doing well at front of my house, loads of foliage no grapes . The Romans managed it in my climate before the midges and a few guys in blue paint frightened them off 😂 I’ve been binge watching videos and this is the first one where it “clicked” thanks to the fantastic visual aid on a chalkboard. Thank you so much! Shlaing ❤
This really was helpful so watch. I know this demo was done because there probably inexperienced people helping out in the pruning process and they needed to be taught how you wanted the pruning done. I very much enjoyed this video!! Subbed... thanks!
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Nice of you good teaching I have only 5 vine of grape which is 20 ft high it is 2 to 3 years old gave a BEST I EVER HAD IN MY LIFE AROMA WAS TOO GOOD VERY SWEET THANKS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE.
makes sense to me. My aunt had 30 ft long grapevines in her yard when she passed. She got a lot of grapes and the neighbors let her vines crawl on their fence for harvest. The neighbors would be really upset if I cut 30 ft off my aunts vines that ran onto their fence LOL
Very informative video, thanks. The two fruiting canes that I saved for next year are yellow and scarred by mildew, pretty much all of this years new growth has mildew on it and so did the grapes. Are the canes still useful to be next years fruiting canes? I sprayed with copper fungicide after I saw the infection but it didn't do much, do you have any suggestions for chemical control of powdery mildew?
I have a question, I'm transplanting grape vines to the base of a 12 foot tall, chain link fence so they can grow freely around a tennis court. The vines do their own thing and have all the space and sunshine in the world to do their thing. To increase yield do I still need to trim 90% of last years growth to increase node frequencies per foot? Thank you.
I am trying to verify where the best place to make the cut past the node. In between nodes is what I've learned but seeing many amateurs cutting just in front of it.
So I 'inherited' some grape vines when I moved into my new place and it's already spring here. With my understanding you're supposed to prune the vines in winter while the plant is dormant - looking at my grape plants they weren't pruned and they've just started putting on new growth and leafing out. Taking that into consideration, should I leave them alone and wait to prune until next winter? Or should I prune them now despite them starting to already wake up?
Holy Crows Man! I got like 4-5 wood coming from the neighbors backyard through the scrub trees and somebody has trained it to coil in a circle around the clothes line in the backyard... it produced about 15+ bunches last year. None of my house mates take care of anything in general. I took interest one day in cleaning up all the old growth in the backyard and noticed 30+ ft of wood was growing up the tree. It's all narled together for the most part. And there is alot of wood circled. Kinda hard to find the lateral.. Which I think it is the right lateral. Where do i not prune. Looks like its been growing for 25yrs or more Lol? Laurelhurst Neighborhood Portland, Oregon
hi, so sorry sir. may I have your greatest guidance please, if I chop off the cordon and use it as a stem, may I ask if it is possible for the cordon to root? meaning instead of cutting off the cane go use as a stem for rooting, I choose to chop off a thick cordon as a cutting stem, and insert into a pot of soil, or insert into a bucket of water, do you think the cordon I chop off from the grape tree trunk, will grow roots, or not. please help, cos I would like to chop off a cordon from the grape tree I grow into the ground already.
Question: at 2:22 you mark all the canes that you are saving in yellow. What is the name or terminology of the canes coming out of the horizontal feed?
The horizontals are the “arms” or canes from last year. They are now 2 years old and no longer fruitful. If we were spur pruning and cordon training, they would be called cordons. Hope this helps.
I have a massive grape plant that was planted long before we purchased the home. It has a few HUGE vines that run 30 feet in several direction. The trunk is literally like a tree trunk. Probably 18-20" diameter. One of the vines runs 30 feet into the neigbbors yard and then up their fence. It grows SO many grapes its insane. It took over a TREE last year😂 literally took over an entire tree, grapes 15 feet high. I pruned it back a little bit but i never see a video detailing the best way for such a old well established plant. The main vines out of the stump are each several inches in diameter and hard wood. I trimmed so many canes off it all and there still are so many good viable healthy canes.. most are as thick as the entire plant i see on these videos😂 so... anyone?? This isnt a little plant. Its probably a 50+ year old grape tree
Han pasado 7 años de este video. En este tiempo, saben si es funcional este metodo de poda? A que especie de uvas se puede aplicar?, hay otra mejor tecnica de poda?
just did it and there's almost nothing left of the vines. Cut off many, if not all of the old vines and hopefully the route from the root to the tendril is short enough to grow good grapes. I usually know when the crows are perched on the grape trellis taking a look.
Thank you for this exercise I have a wine tree that every year is flourishing but no grapes is it possible that it might be a male tree as hear say says or I’m not doing something right on it
Grapes all have male and female parts so they self pollinate. Pruning and nutrient management and irrigation are key, also what you do to it this year sets up the fruiting of the plant two years in advance.
I got the grape vine last year at Walmart. It did not grow grapes but a lot of vines. I learned that it grows the second year. I did not know that I needed to prune it in the winter. Is it too late to prune it now? I like in zone 7A
Winter dormancy is when you prune, before the buds start to swell, and make each cut at an angle so as the lower part of the cut is opposite of the nearest bud you intend to keep so when the sap flows its doesn't drip on the new bud and close it off; or leave an extra bud as a sacrificial and if it grows cut it off to maximize the plants uptake of nutrients and water to the rest of the plant.
I guys, planted a vine 9 years ago and it's been poisoned or mowed down a few times. Now it's grown out on the bricks like a peacock's tail feathers and producing grapes. Should I gather it and tie it to a trellis? What's my move? Thanks.
Its a replacement one incase one might get damaged etc. possibly when harvesting , best to always keep a spare cane or 2 , a personal decision really there are other reasons for having spare canes best go look at pruning videos you will see .
Nice fear video, sound quality excellent I really learnt a lot, but the second camera was very distracting and was just annoying with the bad focusing Many thanks for sharing
Yes that good but they is a lot out there will not pay. I try things like that be for. With my flowers and veg all u get from them is well it will rot if u dont use it
What's explained in the video is a cane-pruned system. A spur-pruned system will be different. A VSP as mentioned in the video is a bilateral-cordon trained, spur-pruned systems, which is not the system talked about in this video. Rather, it was Guyot system that needs to be cane-pruned. The so-called "arms" from this video are actually cordons if you use a VSP system, and you want to keep those as long as you keep your vines as a VSP trained system since they will be the permanent wooden tissues of those vines. With a cane-pruned system (Guyot), you need to keep the second year canes (one or two of them as mentioned in this video), and keep those so the new shoots for next year's production from the dormant buds can be pushing out from them. The information in this video is inaccurate and can be misleading.
First of all, it is worth recalling that vines and vines are among the most demanding in the field of permanent plantings. In order to obtain a high yield while maintaining the health of the plants, it is necessary to put in a lot of effort and in time. Beginners are often able to ruin a grape crop if they act randomly and with insufficient knowledge. One of the main concerns is even before pruning. Need to learn: The optimal cutting time, the instructions for pruning, the valuable and rare tips of the masters for specific practices, etc. First of all, a novice should know the time when it is possible to carry out pruning.
This guy isn't an experienced pro. You want to leave 2 extra canes in case anything goes wrong. Those extra canes are perfect cuttings for making new rows too. You also want to to let one to two base canes go until the last frost in case something bad happens to the head of your base.
This was not helpful at all. I can cut as easily as anyone, why am I cutting & if same thing every year how do you get fruit. I wish you used an actual vine would have been much better, not to be picky but you used words I'll have to look up.
So your changing from Horizontal Bilateral Cordon to Cane Pruning ? Ah so your reference to cordons from last years growth is not correct. It should have been last years canes.
