Understand Pruning Goals and Terminology

hey there folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer welcome back to the farm today we're going to be having a little bit of fun in the grape vineyard here so this is my neighbor's grape vineyard we've worked out a deal where I get the grapes if I trim the grapes so it's a pretty cool deal we've got set up here so today we're going to take all this mess which we cut back last year there'll be a link to that video at the end of this video but we're gonna take all this growth that came out last year and we're going to cut it back and these are muscadine grapes we're gonna show you exactly how I trim the grapes back to get optimal fruit production this year in the vineyard alright [Music] alright folks if this is your first time to the Stoney Ridge farm channel welcome to the YouTube channel please pound that like button consider subscribing to the channel we do everything rural lifestyle here on the Stoney Ridge and we do some made-in-america stuff some factory tours some real fun stuff with tractors just all kinds of rural lifestyle stuff so what we're going to be doing here today is taking back this huge amount of growth that occurred last year and what we did is we took these lateral vines the main vines and we cut them all the way back and when we basically left what you call a cordon which is about a thumb sized sprig that shoots out and basically all of the sprouts come from there so what we're going to do today is we're going to take it back to where we have basically a cordon or I call it a sprig that's just what I call it around here so we're gonna take it back to the cordon we're gonna leave either one or two or three sprouts on there with two buds each and that's how we're going to take these back this is an overwhelming task when you look at it like from afar but as you get in here and you start working you're just ripping through this and getting rid of all this extra vine that you have right here if you leave this next year it's going to be three times as much and you're not going to have a very good crop this coming year so the fruit comes from these vines on the new growth and what we want to do is prune back to where we get a manageable amount of new growth instead of letting it go crazy and having just an absolute mess and a poor crop and little bitty berries about that big we want great big fat muscadine grapes so let's get busy let's get started all right before we