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A few photos from last summer and this winter pruning. Looking forward to the 3rd growing season!

Looks like grape cane girdler

@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.

This particular vine one of the most vigorous too. Good to know it’s not a lost cause. I’ll see if spraying helps control the leaf galls.

I pruned last weekend and I did the catch wires yesterday. My hands are pretty sore but it’s looking great!

Thank you all for the advice!

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?

Nervous about my first pruning lol here’s some of the different levels of growth

@sour_grapes Haha thanks! sometimes they upload sideways sometimes they don’t and I don’t know why

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...

Here’s a photo of the grapes I took earlier, with a caption I’m not even sure holds true at this point 😅

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...

So here I drew a little image of a couple options I have been tossing around in my brain as to what’s next for this first year of the vines. Figure 1: running a temporary fixed wire at the top of the trellis to continue upward growth using twine. Figure 2: pinching/topping the vine around the...

@Obbnw thank you! I can’t wait to see these fill in! When I see how fast the hops grow it makes everything else look in slow motion. Hahaha

Off to a nice start here. Each vine has reached the first 30” fruiting wire. Some are further along so I installed the second fruiting wire at 38”. I used 12g wire with wire strainers. I’m working out the kinks on installing the catch wires. I’ll be using some chain, 14g wire, jakes wire...

Our daughter Lydia was born 4/16 at 2:30am!!! Over the moon this past week/freaking out being a new dad. I know it will be trying to find the time this season to focus on the vines and hops but my wife is supportive and it’s my therapy out here and I hope my little girl will love being out here...

It might snow Friday😩... Yeah I chose to go with the grow tubes to protect it from any wildlife being close to woody area. In Toms videos on YouTube a tube experiment showed that grow tubes make for aesthetically pleasing straight trunk growth reaching the fruiting wire and beyond. Those not in...