Creating A grape Vine Trunk
G'day to you all...
In my last blog Training grape Vines we covered the area of looking after a lateral while it's growing towards the cordon wire. In this blog and this video I explain and demonstrate how to snip the lateral to create a trunk. And I have done that to 3 of my red grape vines. You will notice that this video was created only 3 weeks after the Training Grape Vines and you can clearly see how much they have grown in such a short time. This is clearly result of keeping it clean no young shouts and no tendrils.
In a last blog I also spoke about how important is to leave the young shouts in a critical area which is just below the wire. In this video you can clearly see the result of that how much have those young shouts grown while waiting for the trunk to be pencil thick. Well one had 3 laterals the other had one and Red Emperor in the middle was going to bottom cordon wire had none. But you can see the advantage by not removing those young shouts in that area. It's all about planing up ahead, every little bit helps you get there quicker.
So we have sniped the laterals on all 3 of them and now they are recognized as trunks. Because we did that all the energy is going to go into the new laterals that will become cordons. In looking after the new laterals everything is the same as when we looked after the trunk part. We will remove all the young shouts and tendrils while its developing on the cordon wire. Because the trunk is in it's first year it is recommended that those cordons shouldn't carry more than 8 buds. So once they are pencil thick at 9th bud We will snip it right through the middle of the 9th bud. And the secure the cordon to cordon wire.
Talking about getting there quicker after I did this task I was still in early Spring and my hopes of achieving creating a trunk and cordons by the end of a season was looking good. I should mention that all my short videos are about the same grape vines. Which is very much appreciated by viewers to actually see and witness the progress of these grape vines.
Once again till my next update on on progress of the vines Thank you for reading my blog and I hope it helped you understand what is required on the jerny to achieve a full canopy. If you did like it than please share it and as I said I'm always ready to help if it's needed.
Cheers...Roy...
G'day to you all...
In my last blog Training grape Vines we covered the area of looking after a lateral while it's growing towards the cordon wire. In this blog and this video I explain and demonstrate how to snip the lateral to create a trunk. And I have done that to 3 of my red grape vines. You will notice that this video was created only 3 weeks after the Training Grape Vines and you can clearly see how much they have grown in such a short time. This is clearly result of keeping it clean no young shouts and no tendrils.
In a last blog I also spoke about how important is to leave the young shouts in a critical area which is just below the wire. In this video you can clearly see the result of that how much have those young shouts grown while waiting for the trunk to be pencil thick. Well one had 3 laterals the other had one and Red Emperor in the middle was going to bottom cordon wire had none. But you can see the advantage by not removing those young shouts in that area. It's all about planing up ahead, every little bit helps you get there quicker.
So we have sniped the laterals on all 3 of them and now they are recognized as trunks. Because we did that all the energy is going to go into the new laterals that will become cordons. In looking after the new laterals everything is the same as when we looked after the trunk part. We will remove all the young shouts and tendrils while its developing on the cordon wire. Because the trunk is in it's first year it is recommended that those cordons shouldn't carry more than 8 buds. So once they are pencil thick at 9th bud We will snip it right through the middle of the 9th bud. And the secure the cordon to cordon wire.
Talking about getting there quicker after I did this task I was still in early Spring and my hopes of achieving creating a trunk and cordons by the end of a season was looking good. I should mention that all my short videos are about the same grape vines. Which is very much appreciated by viewers to actually see and witness the progress of these grape vines.
Once again till my next update on on progress of the vines Thank you for reading my blog and I hope it helped you understand what is required on the jerny to achieve a full canopy. If you did like it than please share it and as I said I'm always ready to help if it's needed.
Cheers...Roy...
