Dear grape growing friends,
It’s been a while since I posted on my blog, and I do apologize for the time I was “absent” – no I didn’t abandon you guys!
1st of all, there were some major changes in my personal life (which I’m sure you are not interested in) and 2nd I have been working real hard on finishing the membership videos of My Grape Vine.
The good news is that I have just upgraded both the main site www.my-grape-vine.com as well as the membership site for people who have joined The Complete Grape Growing System.
Those of you, who are members already, can head over to the membership pages and enjoy the more than 2 hours of training videos I have uploaded to your pages!
Anyway, I promise to be more ”active” on my blog from now on, because I will have more time to spend online.
Let’s start at looking at John’s vineyard;
A perfect example of what can be done in the first growing season
His email: “…… Your information allowed me to become very successful in my first growing season. Thanks! John B…….”
From the pictures you can see that these are still young grape vines, but already John managed to get the vine on the trellis wires AND started to develop the frame work of the vines. (See how he managed to split the vines on the trellis wires in 3 different locations). I’m not sure where he will develop the cordons (arms) of the vines (I haven’t asked him yet 
), but one thing I’m sure of; he will have a strong enough frame work next year to produce his first crop – not many grape growers can say that!
Anyway John, as I said in the email: ” You did an excellent job and I’m so proud of you!“
To members of the Complete Grape Growing System: To get these results in year one, you need to train your grape vine to the top wire first and then develop the lateral shoots – remember to keep the vines clear of all lateral shoots below the 6 inch zone – this is crucial. Just another tip: when some of the laterals grow too long, you can trim the end of the lateral – this will allow more energy to be available to other lateral shoots.
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Okay friends, this is all for now. I will update the blog by the end of the week again.
Good luck and happy grape growing
Danie
We will keep the one that is growing straight up and remove the other shoot by hand (where the red line is). You can see the bunch on the shoot that we will keep (red arrow)