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["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Ginda,

how are you pruning your grape vine?  How you prune may indicate your lack  
of fruit problem.

Grapes fruit from one year old wood.  You remove about 90% of the vines,  
leaving selected one year old vines for fruit production.

So the question gets back to how you prune.

Tom

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:21:56 -0400, <list@ginda.us> wrote:

> My grape vine has set fruit for the first time in ~5 years.  It seems
> to have about 10 clusters of seed-sized fruits.  The vine is not
> large, as I keep it pruned to cover an archway.
>
> Should I remove some of the clusters?  How close together can they
> be, or do you prune grapes differently?
>
> (I'm surprised to notice the baby clusters mostly extend upward from
> the vine.  Who knew?)
>
> Thanks,
> Ginda
> eastern MA, zone 6
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