user 36973
owner, winemaker
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Hey All,
I've got a few vines from grown from cuttings that are not the correct varietal for the row. I wouldn't otherwise be bothered by this except that these vines are not fruitful and are excessively vigorous to the point where they encroach on neighboring desired vines. I've had it with pulling 15ft long shoots out of the canopy where they've been shading my grapes. They would be nice on an arbor but not in the vineyard.
Anyway, I've tried pulling the root-base out of the ground with a chain on a tractor. I've tried digging as deep as possible to remove and damage the roots. I've sprayed them with glyphosate but the plant is too big to be killed by it.
Anyone have other solutions? Constraints are that the vines are located in a production commercial vineyard with harvest around the corner and that I would like to kill it in such a way that I can re-plant the space with a desired vine in the future.
Thanks.
-John
I've got a few vines from grown from cuttings that are not the correct varietal for the row. I wouldn't otherwise be bothered by this except that these vines are not fruitful and are excessively vigorous to the point where they encroach on neighboring desired vines. I've had it with pulling 15ft long shoots out of the canopy where they've been shading my grapes. They would be nice on an arbor but not in the vineyard.
Anyway, I've tried pulling the root-base out of the ground with a chain on a tractor. I've tried digging as deep as possible to remove and damage the roots. I've sprayed them with glyphosate but the plant is too big to be killed by it.
Anyone have other solutions? Constraints are that the vines are located in a production commercial vineyard with harvest around the corner and that I would like to kill it in such a way that I can re-plant the space with a desired vine in the future.
Thanks.
-John