Thank you Sir, this video was very helpful as I recently brought a house that has a couple of very neglect vines growing over and virtually covering a pergola, they had even spread some 20' along a back 5 wire boundary fence.
due to health issues my 4 vines have grown together and are now just a bush! I will be using your suggestions to cut these entirely back down to the ground (2ft) I've had them for 10 years and this seems to be the best option given any landscaper in my area has no clue. Thanks for your help and can't wait for the 30 ft x 15 ft high bushes finally start looking like true grape vines. I have boookmarked this site for future reference. Thanks
Wow, cutting back to the ground, that is drastic, I was hoping to learn another option for my greatly neglected vines, does this mean I will lose the next two years of production?
It's spring and I'm wondering if I can prune right now? i did it on a few branches and i made it bleed and that scared me. I don't want to hurt my grape plants. they're old and neglected is there something I can do right now or should h wait until fall or early winter to prune them?
When did you trim them back to get the to sprout back out? Did you cut them back to the ground in the fall and wait for them to push new buds in the spring? Or did you cut it in early spring??
How about this? Way back in the olden days I saw my grand mammy prune the grapevine. In those days the money that you spent went to the old nobble cooks stone pantry. Back then there was flowers in those days. You've never seen a butterfly till you've got your right hand on the back end of a turnip! Anywho.....grape vine. Wellll, you should get a couple of rubber ducks and tether um all to a hickory tree, thats when you will feel the season. Just remember, there is no wrong or right about grape wacking but you better not do it in the dawns dusk of the fall in the middle of summer's misty haze. I hope that helps.
I have a Concord grape vine that is approaching 100 years old. It has been neglected for about 7 years it is showing signs of dying what can be done to save it ?
I have the same. If he answers then your hitting the jackpot. If he doesn’t, my advice would be to do as I have... keep watching ALL the videos, several times over. My grandparents are gone but their grapevine and farm goes to us grandkids. The vines are really think, like trees! I couldn’t just hack those off!! So I carefully approached the grape vine, cutting away only dead stuff. I started way at the end of the canes, not the trunk, following them all the way to their source, wether that source be a branch from a branch from a branch, didn’t matter, because some canes that appear dead had new growth on the tips (which, if you’re pruning in the late winter, early spring, means it grew last summer, and that’s the fruiting wood) and I didn’t want to not have fruit this year. So after cutting away only dead canes, then I pulled long canes out to look them over. I trimmed them like the videos say to, making decisions with every cane so I could still get fruit this year. But everything was so crowded that some just had to be cut off. But again, follow their source because sometimes those canes meant I was cutting off eventually more than I realized. It has to come off eventually but only so much per year. I’m SO glad I left long canes bcuz now I can use Whip Layering to renew the trunks! Just keep watching. He covers everything. And Happy grape growing! I love it when he says that Hee hee Update... it has been years now. I went back and did this to the grape vines every year. It was a lot of work because so much had branched off to other and other and others. You see, my grandfather wanted the vines to cover a very large and very long overhead frame system he made, and the vines did that wonderfully, but we never got good grapes. They just assumed they weren’t good, but now I know it’s the pruning. The fruit has to be close to the cordon. Well... the 3rd year of working on these vines, the crop was beautiful! All the doubters in my family who thought I didn’t know what I was doing were sure there with their buckets come harvest! Lol. A lot of times I KNEW the right thing was to cut those vines back to where I KNOW they need to be, but I was scared and didn’t want to ruin them. Some day I’ll try to update should I get brave enough to cut them back like they should be! Just send me a note in the future so I know someone is interested. By the way, my whip lines worked somewhat. It’s unfortunate that the vine structure is soooo long and where the main trunks are is the only place where they truly get enough sun. So my whip lines did grow, but not as well as they could. Other trees have grown so huge around the vines, little elderberries have become giant! Just left to grow, no one cuts or prunes. It’s a huge endeavor but even if I get half of the vines thriving, that’s better than all vines sparsely giving small fruit. Happy grape growing.
+Troy Reynolds Just feed it with a lot of organic matter, such as tree leaves and grass clippings. Do not remove any dead leaves from the ground. Grape vines are able to survive without any human intervention. Stop using toxic chemicals like Roundup cause these poisons will kill the grape leaves. Stop pruning it for a couple of years and it will come back as a naturally strong vine.
Jessica Hothersall How sweet. You are so welcome. That was years ago that I wrote that. I just updated the post with how things went over the years. I hope whatever you do, you enjoy, and it does well. God bless.
Yeah, watched 4 minutes and skipped to see of there was anything but pictures and rambling. Nope. Thank goodness I didnt want my time with the other 13 minutes!
You didn't show how to do anything at all. You just talked for 17 minutes showing examples of different types of neglect. I need hands on showing what to cut. This is for professionals only. Not helpful at all for newbie
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Thank you Tom! This was a really interesting journey. I am tackling 40 acres of vines that have been abandoned for a very very long time.
Me too.
Thank you Sir, this video was very helpful as I recently brought a house that has a couple of very neglect vines growing over and virtually covering a pergola, they had even spread some 20' along a back 5 wire boundary fence.
Very helpful, I have 2 neglected vines in the backyard of the house I just rented.
Any watching. put the video in 2x speed. Great btw.
1.5 is perfect
reptilesgamers00 everyone doesn't have a dam vineyard buthead!
reptilesgamers00 I don't
@@whiteymanngogh4489 then this wasn't for you ;)
love this video. now I am not scared to to cut my vines back.
due to health issues my 4 vines have grown together and are now just a bush! I will be using your suggestions to cut these entirely back down to the ground (2ft) I've had them for 10 years and this seems to be the best option given any landscaper in my area has no clue. Thanks for your help and can't wait for the 30 ft x 15 ft high bushes finally start looking like true grape vines. I have boookmarked this site for future reference. Thanks
This large bushy look is exactly what I have in back yard going to upstairs porch. There are many cordons. dont know what to do
A question, if I may, is a layered vine still protected from Grape phylloxera?, as the new vine will not be growing from a resistant root stock.
Wow, cutting back to the ground, that is drastic, I was hoping to learn another option for my greatly neglected vines, does this mean I will lose the next two years of production?
Well its making a com back now, and the 2 cuttings that came from it are doing well.
Troy Reynolds i Κολ να μιλήσουμε επιτέλους το νι άμα δεπροσωπάκι σου σε παρακαλώ κανόνισε οπότε μπορείς όμως να να προσέχεις παιδί σας είναι αργία και
It's spring and I'm wondering if I can prune right now? i did it on a few branches and i made it bleed and that scared me. I don't want to hurt my grape plants. they're old and neglected is there something I can do right now or should h wait until fall or early winter to prune them?
When did you trim them back to get the to sprout back out? Did you cut them back to the ground in the fall and wait for them to push new buds in the spring? Or did you cut it in early spring??
How about this? Way back in the olden days I saw my grand mammy prune the grapevine. In those days the money that you spent went to the old nobble cooks stone pantry. Back then there was flowers in those days. You've never seen a butterfly till you've got your right hand on the back end of a turnip! Anywho.....grape vine. Wellll, you should get a couple of rubber ducks and tether um all to a hickory tree, thats when you will feel the season. Just remember, there is no wrong or right about grape wacking but you better not do it in the dawns dusk of the fall in the middle of summer's misty haze. I hope that helps.
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Good information..
I have a Concord grape vine that is approaching 100 years old. It has been neglected for about 7 years it is showing signs of dying what can be done to save it ?
I have the same. If he answers then your hitting the jackpot. If he doesn’t, my advice would be to do as I have... keep watching ALL the videos, several times over. My grandparents are gone but their grapevine and farm goes to us grandkids. The vines are really think, like trees! I couldn’t just hack those off!! So I carefully approached the grape vine, cutting away only dead stuff. I started way at the end of the canes, not the trunk, following them all the way to their source, wether that source be a branch from a branch from a branch, didn’t matter, because some canes that appear dead had new growth on the tips (which, if you’re pruning in the late winter, early spring, means it grew last summer, and that’s the fruiting wood) and I didn’t want to not have fruit this year. So after cutting away only dead canes, then I pulled long canes out to look them over. I trimmed them like the videos say to, making decisions with every cane so I could still get fruit this year. But everything was so crowded that some just had to be cut off. But again, follow their source because sometimes those canes meant I was cutting off eventually more than I realized. It has to come off eventually but only so much per year. I’m SO glad I left long canes bcuz now I can use Whip Layering to renew the trunks! Just keep watching. He covers everything. And Happy grape growing! I love it when he says that Hee hee
Update... it has been years now. I went back and did this to the grape vines every year. It was a lot of work because so much had branched off to other and other and others. You see, my grandfather wanted the vines to cover a very large and very long overhead frame system he made, and the vines did that wonderfully, but we never got good grapes. They just assumed they weren’t good, but now I know it’s the pruning. The fruit has to be close to the cordon. Well... the 3rd year of working on these vines, the crop was beautiful! All the doubters in my family who thought I didn’t know what I was doing were sure there with their buckets come harvest! Lol. A lot of times I KNEW the right thing was to cut those vines back to where I KNOW they need to be, but I was scared and didn’t want to ruin them. Some day I’ll try to update should I get brave enough to cut them back like they should be! Just send me a note in the future so I know someone is interested.
By the way, my whip lines worked somewhat. It’s unfortunate that the vine structure is soooo long and where the main trunks are is the only place where they truly get enough sun. So my whip lines did grow, but not as well as they could. Other trees have grown so huge around the vines, little elderberries have become giant! Just left to grow, no one cuts or prunes. It’s a huge endeavor but even if I get half of the vines thriving, that’s better than all vines sparsely giving small fruit. Happy grape growing.
+Troy Reynolds Just feed it with a lot of organic matter, such as tree leaves and grass clippings. Do not remove any dead leaves from the ground. Grape vines are able to survive without any human intervention. Stop using toxic chemicals like Roundup cause these poisons will kill the grape leaves. Stop pruning it for a couple of years and it will come back as a naturally strong vine.
inoculate them with compost tea and samples from some of the swamps and forests in your area grow some companion plants for it
@@BlessedBaubles Thank you, lovely and clear, and reassuring too.
Jessica Hothersall
How sweet. You are so welcome. That was years ago that I wrote that. I just updated the post with how things went over the years. I hope whatever you do, you enjoy, and it does well. God bless.
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fucking hellll goo on.......
Good intentions but a boring video. Cut it to 2 minutes.
OMG...get to the point!!!
Yeah, watched 4 minutes and skipped to see of there was anything but pictures and rambling. Nope. Thank goodness I didnt want my time with the other 13 minutes!
very long winded
You didn't show how to do anything at all. You just talked for 17 minutes showing examples of different types of neglect.
I need hands on showing what to cut.
This is for professionals only.
Not helpful at all for newbie
Talking with nothing.
Don't watch it.