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  • From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grape pruning problem
  • Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:05:19 -0500


If you can't bear to cut the whole thing off and wait for it to sucker, as
Lon describes, take one of those great long canes out at the ends of the
arms; bend it down and bury part of it in the ground right next to the old
trunk,...


Thanks for the replies - both of you!

You're right, I can't bear to cut the whole thing off, though I'll keep that in mind. And although this would work, too, it's pretty much starting over with a new grapevine (although I'd get the use of the current one in the meantime).

For now, I'm pruning it more than usual and will see what happens. I've got a very few buds near the center of the vine (though after a bit of looping), and I'll see if I can't develop something that will work. I imagine that I've been leaving too many buds (I know I did last year, when I was deliberately experimenting with that), so I'll try to prune all my vines more heavily.

That's not easy for me to do, though - even though I've got more than enough fruit of all kinds (I give most of it away).

Thanks again,

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

http://garthright.blogspot.com/

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We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. - President Franklin D. Roosevelt




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