@ChuckD i ended up doing 2 fruiting wires at 30”/38” and eventually have 2 trunks to have 4 fruiting canes in double guyot. Then two sets of catch wires about 14”/15” spacing.
I had one of my 16 vines (Marquette) grow quite vigorously in its first year of growth last year and show significant phylloxera. Since it’s early in the vines life should I just pull it? Is it still in the soil and replanting in the same spot with a propagated cutting not a good idea?
Ok guys I’m back with an update on Lyd’s vineyard. After my last post I continued to keep up a spray regimen. I let everything grow, either tying up to a stake to reach high or with vigorous growth tying to down the fruiting wires in both directions.
idk how to make the photo straight! This was...
Good news I just transferred to another 6.5 gal carbon to get off the crushed grapes on day 17 (6 days on crushed grape addition) I had to add a nylon paint bag to the siphon but it was a successful transfer with minimal loss. I went from 1.120 to 1.000 so far. Honestly surprised I read I might...
I went to a local vineyard and picked late ripened bunches of St. Croix and Marechal Foch after the harvest was done. I filled a one gallon storage bag approx. 2-3 lbs maybe. I brought them home, destemmed, crushed and added (patiently) through the hole of a 6.5 gal carboy of cab sauv kit wine...
I notice some water pooled under the plant. How often are you watering? Just started some vines myself this year. I rarely watered my young plants and if I do I do it deep and infrequent and only at night or early morning so the water doesn’t heat up from the hot soil and cook the young plants...
That new growth this year will be the one year old wood layed on your trellis wire that will produce shoots that bear fruit the following year. So those old wood spurs are putting out fruitful shoots. This year choose whether you want to do cane pruning or lay cordons down to begin spur pruning...