Comments on: Training a young grape vine: remove lateral shoots http://www.my-grape-vine.com/blog/training-a-young-grape-vine-remove-lateral-shoots/ Who else wants to learn how to grow grapes? This grape growing blog is your free resource to growing grapes. Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:36:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Leslea http://www.my-grape-vine.com/blog/training-a-young-grape-vine-remove-lateral-shoots/#comment-20 Leslea Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:38:00 +0000 http://www.my-grape-vine.com/blog/?p=36#comment-20 Hi Danie<br/>I have finally got a bumper crop of clusters as I call them from my three years of labor. It's vines are wrapped around my porch cornerpost wich is a large stucco 12"x12" diametr post and it's completely covered. I have probably 75-100 clusters of various sizes. I'm excited..... But...They seem to be staying about the size of a small pea. They have been that size for over two months now and don't seem to be growing. The birds are getting to many of them and i keep cuting any new runners off. <br/><br/>My question is, do i just keep waiting or do I have too much growth taking away nutrients from all the clusters as a whole?<br/><br/>Please help, I feel I'm so close to a victory but really not sure what to do. I feel like I should cut out the smaller ones and let the larger clusters have all the food but don't want to do anything that I don't need to do.<br/><br/>Thanks<br/>Jeff and Leslea<br/>leslear@yahoo.com Hi Danie
I have finally got a bumper crop of clusters as I call them from my three years of labor. It’s vines are wrapped around my porch cornerpost wich is a large stucco 12″x12″ diametr post and it’s completely covered. I have probably 75-100 clusters of various sizes. I’m excited….. But…They seem to be staying about the size of a small pea. They have been that size for over two months now and don’t seem to be growing. The birds are getting to many of them and i keep cuting any new runners off.

My question is, do i just keep waiting or do I have too much growth taking away nutrients from all the clusters as a whole?

Please help, I feel I’m so close to a victory but really not sure what to do. I feel like I should cut out the smaller ones and let the larger clusters have all the food but don’t want to do anything that I don’t need to do.

Thanks
Jeff and Leslea
leslear@yahoo.com

]]> By: Danie Wium "The Grape Guy" http://www.my-grape-vine.com/blog/training-a-young-grape-vine-remove-lateral-shoots/#comment-19 Danie Wium "The Grape Guy" Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:24:00 +0000 http://www.my-grape-vine.com/blog/?p=36#comment-19 Hallo Ralph.<br/><br/>Certainly you can remove laterals from chardonnay. Just make sure you are not removing laterals in the area where you want to make the cordons (arms) of your grape vine. Removing laterals from the stem of the grape vine, will for sure make it grow faster and reach the trellis wire earlier.<br/><br/>Danie<br/>http://www.my-grape-vine.com Hallo Ralph.

Certainly you can remove laterals from chardonnay. Just make sure you are not removing laterals in the area where you want to make the cordons (arms) of your grape vine. Removing laterals from the stem of the grape vine, will for sure make it grow faster and reach the trellis wire earlier.

Danie
http://www.my-grape-vine.com

]]> By: Ralph http://www.my-grape-vine.com/blog/training-a-young-grape-vine-remove-lateral-shoots/#comment-18 Ralph Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:19:00 +0000 http://www.my-grape-vine.com/blog/?p=36#comment-18 Just wondering if removing of laterals from new Chardonnay grapes can be done now in the summer ? Just wondering if removing of laterals from new Chardonnay grapes can be done now in the summer ?

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