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Remove Undesirable Growth

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A day working in the Vineyard...and what's up with the new Side By Side?

What happens here

Beyond pruning the fruiting spurs, systematically remove any growth that is not contributing to optimal fruit production. This includes suckers growing from the main trunk and any branches that are growing on the underside of the cordon, as they are less productive and can become entangled. Also, thin out any overly crowded areas on the cordon, aiming for about the width of your hand between remaining fruiting spurs to ensure adequate space and light for future growth and fruit development. The video emphasizes that pruning back even a 'disaster' of growth will allow for better production.

Goal: Eliminate suckers and overcrowded growth to maintain good air circulation, reduce disease risk, and ensure proper resource allocation for fruit production.

Tools and materials

  • Pruning Shears

What they say

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and get rid of that one okay now you can see these guys growing out if they're on the bottom side then they are not desirable but you can see these are not all the way on the bottom so they will produce fruit we're going to leave them for this year we're gonna leave two buds again one bud here one bud here we've got it here again we're gonna leave two buds one bud here one bud here we're gonna go back out do it again one buddy here one bud here now you can see here's a vine kind of wrapped around all the way up here we're gonna get rid of that I'm gonna pull that guy out and trap right there it is so that Lin bye-bye bye-bye to that limb and that one is coming out right here so we're going to cut back to two buds there so we're going to go all the way down this is just a like a foot and a half section that we're working with right here but we're going to go all the way down the entire grapevine right here and we're going to cut them back just like that so it's all nice and neat and compact okay what's gonna happen here is those buds will produce limbs again lateral limbs those lateral limbs will be the fruiting limbs and they'll also produce leaves so that they can soak up some of the sunshine take photosynthesis and make fruit so they take sugar from the ground and from the air and they make fruit so that's what we're doing you can see I've got my work cut out for me but that's how it works when we get done here we'll go to a vine that I haven't touched and we'll go to a vine that I have touched and we'll kind of give you guys an idea of what it looks like when we're completely done we haven't touched this one yet we're going to go ahead and work down fine this one vine is probably a hundred and ten feet something like that there are three plants right here three trunks coming up to six cord ons and all these little stubs that are coming up right here these Spurs that are going to be our fruiting Spurs now let's look at problem areas like this huge mess right here so it seems overwhelming when you first get in here let's get that guy out of the way it seems overwhelming when you first get in here but it's not once you start trimming once you start working it's very therapeutic and it's just a great time so we'll just get back in here again leave two buds on these and we'll cut them off so see this guy he's coming out this is gonna be a growth spurt one two buds we're cutting him back this one's in the way now there's a little bit of a rule and I've…

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