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Estate Lish a stake about 2 in thick all around... Typically your first couple years which it takes about 10 to begin standing on its own. Its all about establishing a Head. A typical height is 30inches of the ground. Let canes grow from this point and tie them up during the main course of the...

Surely we all have to pass on knowledge. This wine bug bites like a sun of a bitch and you never wanna stop gaining information. Post some pictures this coming season I'd like to know your results. Good luck.

And yes we always remove leaves from the fruit zone for better sun and air movement.

We pull this first 5-6 leafs bottom up before trace Bloom. It tricks the plant into thinking that it has sustained an injury and in return drops blossoms in order to be able to ripen fruit. It compensates for the lack of photosynthesis thus reduces fruit compaction and allows better spray coverage.

Ahhh very good advice I'll have to reach out... Fruit looks really good for that year. There really is quite nothing like the daunting tasks of the Vineyard. It certainly as it seems.. a labor of love with a possible pending doom without a moments notice. Did you top graft or were you bench...

Funny that you ask if we grow Tannat. We were into exploring new varietals... This year we had over 78 inches of rain. The only true grapes that we had stand up to it were loose cluster thick skinned varietals. Fortunately our cab franc and semillon did great with an intense IPM program. So if...

If you need a help with anything I can post some pictures and guide you a little bit.

Absolutely. There is a product they make called vitiseal and it is a wound protectant. If you apply a mild fungicide like oxidate to clean the wound and then apply vitiseal immediately after you will never worry about cankers or dead arm. Cane pruning has been our best friend in renewal zones...

We grow it for it's thick skins and loose clusters better for disease management. Do the shoots tend to be kind of short and long periodically? We had the same problem and then switched to a cane pruning method and it corrected almost everything. The variety tends to build cankers in old wood...

I was just curious to know you're weather pattern and if you have a good how long summer. We grow it on a lyre trellis system to help it stay vertical. It really doesn't have a preference,but if you do let it drape it is extremely prone to rot if it doesn't get the sun it needs.

Where are you located

Tempranillo is wonderful ... Great foliage I'll take some pictures later and post them.

Just saying that was the only one I knew of... Thanks for enlightening us.

Tempranillo is the only variety that displays red leaves in fall ... That I know of. If it's just a few vines maybe look into red blotch disease it's typical with unsanitary grafting procedures

Cab franc is very loose clustered with very thick skins. Petit sirah Is the only other super dark varietal that comes to mind. Very tight cluster and was an experimental varietal in the California area.