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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Train three trunks from each vine, if you can.  In your climate that will
give you insurance if you get a cold winter that could kill or injure the
vine.  If a shoot doesn't reach all the way the first year, cut it back to
two buds and start it over so the trunk will be straight - crooked trunks
produce more suckers that must be removed.
-Lon Rombough
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>From: Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
>To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [nafex] Arbor, Grape Training
>Date: Sat, Jun 9, 2001, 7:11 AM
>

>Hello,
>
>I have a grape arbor, or is the right term pergola, that I put up last
>year, and I need advice on how to train the vines.
>
>Each corner post has a 45 degree angled support.  It would resemble the
>letter "Y".  I want to train a vine/side shoot up each angle and the main
>post.  How do you best do this?
>
>Should I have three vines coming up from the ground, one following each
>angle and one on the main, or train side shoots off a single main vine
>coming up from the ground?
>
>I was advised that having a second vine would be good insurance in case
>one dies.
>
>I only planted one plant at each corner, but this season I am faced with
>some new bottom growth, and some longer growth from last year.
>
>So I need to decide which to trim off, and which to train.
>
>Thanks for any advice.
>
>Regards,
>Tom
>
>--
>Thomas Olenio
>Ontario, Hardiness Zone 6a
>
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