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[Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>]

Chris, thanks for all the links.  Now, revealing my vast ignorance about
grapes:  What's the difference between cane and spur training?  The vine
is growing up one side of a "rose arch" which I hope to use as a
trellis.  It is high enough to remove the top of the plant from easy
reach of deer and rabbits, and I was hoping to train the vine across the
top in a sort of mini arbor.

Ginda

Christopher Mauchline wrote:
> 
> > trunk, and encourage the top to spread out.  There are buds all along
> > the stem - one for each or last year's leaves.  Should I remove these as
> > they swell, or should I leave some leaf growth lower?  Is there anything
> > else I ought to do?
> Probably the lower buds should be removed.  On some varieties of
> grapes you might want to leave a few lower buds as an "insurance
> policy" for winter kill, but Canadice is fairly hardy.  Do you have
> your trellis up?  Do you plan to use cane or spur training for your
> Canadice?
> 
> Chris Mauchline
> SE PA, zone 6
> 
> --- In nafex@y..., Ginda Fisher <ginda@c...> wrote:
> > My plants came with pruning instructions, but that was a year or two
> > ago, and of course I can't find them now.  Any advice would be
> > appreciated:
> >
> > I also have a 2 year old canadice grape vine.  It is about 6' high,
> and
> > is just one stem, which grew from near the ground last year.  (When
> I
> > viciously removed all the other buds.)  I would like to keep it to
> one
> > trunk, and encourage the top to spread out.  There are buds all
> along
> > the stem - one for each or last year's leaves.  Should I remove
> these as
> > they swell, or should I leave some leaf growth lower?  Is there
> anything
> > else I ought to do?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ginda Fisher
> > Eastern Mass, zone 6
>

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