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Wait until those things grow up a bit and then you will be amazed or even overcome with their vigor. I just got back in from a bit of a training session with some Frontenac vines in their third leaf. The books say take a few bunches in the third year....................... These things are trained VSP, are overrunning the 7 foot space allocated per vine. I'm not talking running along the wire now but forming a dense thick jungle completely filling the 7 feet a full 4 feet high. Each shoot is from 4-10 feet long with 2 or 3 bunches of grapes per shoot. I was just getting them up in the air so I can see the bunches and decide which shoots to thin out and thus reduce the potential crop to under 15-20 pounds per vine on them.
And then there are the four year old vines which are REAALLY vigorous! They kept stretching over to where I was working and trying to wrestle me into their grasp. No telling what they had in mind. I shudder to even think about that!
And then there are the four year old vines which are REAALLY vigorous! They kept stretching over to where I was working and trying to wrestle me into their grasp. No telling what they had in mind. I shudder to even think about that!