Do I need to prune more?
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 11:20 am
History on this:
Year 1 [2019]: Planted, didn't know what I was doing.
Year 2 [2020]: I did nothing, and considered it dead, lol.
Year 3 [2021]: I did nothing, it got little tiny grapes so small they looked like pea gravel (but lots of them). I was excited, but still didn't know what to do.
Year 4 [2022]: I still did no pruning as I didn't know that was a thing. I put little fruit protection bags on the grape clusters because I thought that maybe birds got to them before they got big in 2021. They got a bit larger, but maybe marble size tops.
Year 5 [2023]: I read a bit about pruning and realized that because I did no pruning I probably caused the problems above with the small grapes. I pruned this year and the video below shows what I currently have.
My question now is..... did I prune enough? I cut some vines out, cut back the shoots to the 2nd node. However, are there still too many vines to produce large grapes?
Video of the vine from one side to the other side. I'll come back and post a full view.
https://imgur.com/a/26hNfwd
Please help! I'm planning on growing more now that I'm a bit excited about it and somewhat know the process, but I really want mature grapes this year from this vine if possible.
Year 1 [2019]: Planted, didn't know what I was doing.
Year 2 [2020]: I did nothing, and considered it dead, lol.
Year 3 [2021]: I did nothing, it got little tiny grapes so small they looked like pea gravel (but lots of them). I was excited, but still didn't know what to do.
Year 4 [2022]: I still did no pruning as I didn't know that was a thing. I put little fruit protection bags on the grape clusters because I thought that maybe birds got to them before they got big in 2021. They got a bit larger, but maybe marble size tops.
Year 5 [2023]: I read a bit about pruning and realized that because I did no pruning I probably caused the problems above with the small grapes. I pruned this year and the video below shows what I currently have.
My question now is..... did I prune enough? I cut some vines out, cut back the shoots to the 2nd node. However, are there still too many vines to produce large grapes?
Video of the vine from one side to the other side. I'll come back and post a full view.
https://imgur.com/a/26hNfwd
Please help! I'm planning on growing more now that I'm a bit excited about it and somewhat know the process, but I really want mature grapes this year from this vine if possible.
