Hi all,
i've planted my black hamburg grape, roots outside the greenhouse in a nice big prepared hole and lead the vine in the greenhouse. I am wondering what to do in the first year now. I want just one main horizontal stem (but vertically up to the eave or trellis height to begin) and in subsequent years the verical shoots to rise from the eave to the apex.
I've trawled the web and am getting conflicting 'what you should do in the first year' advice!!
Some state you should just let to grow any which way during the growing season to establish a healthy root system, then winter prune.
Others state that you should pick the 'best' shoot and train that as the main trunk and cut all others back to 1 leaf so that all the energy goes into growing that main stem.
Both arguments make sense to me which one....??
If the latter, do I just pick the fastest growing one?
thanks,
Marco.
i've planted my black hamburg grape, roots outside the greenhouse in a nice big prepared hole and lead the vine in the greenhouse. I am wondering what to do in the first year now. I want just one main horizontal stem (but vertically up to the eave or trellis height to begin) and in subsequent years the verical shoots to rise from the eave to the apex.
I've trawled the web and am getting conflicting 'what you should do in the first year' advice!!
Some state you should just let to grow any which way during the growing season to establish a healthy root system, then winter prune.
Others state that you should pick the 'best' shoot and train that as the main trunk and cut all others back to 1 leaf so that all the energy goes into growing that main stem.
Both arguments make sense to me which one....??
If the latter, do I just pick the fastest growing one?
thanks,
Marco.