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  • From: "road's end farm" <organic101@linkny.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grapes?
  • Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 20:53:33 -0400

On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 10:23 AM, Thomas Olenio wrote:

4) Once harvested, when should grapes vines be pruned for the next season
(fall, early winter, late winter, spring)?

They can be pruned any time from late fall (after most of the leaves have dropped) to budbreak. Commercial growers with a lot of acreage start early and prune all winter. As you only have a few vines, I'd prune them in late winter to early spring; before the buds swell significantly, but after you have some idea how much damage a possible bad winter has done. That way you can compensate for a bad winter by leaving extra wood, or for particular damaged canes by leaving other ones instead.


5) I got about 11-12 lbs of grapes from 3 vines, 3 years old. Will this
increase with time?

I don't know your specific varieties; but I would expect so, at least until they're about five years old.

--Rivka Davis





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