How Do You Prune A Grape Vine During Growing Season?
Pruning is essential to ensure successful grape harvests every year. The first three years are very crucial, as this is the time the grapevines will be trained on the trellis. Continued pruning allows growers to produce the right amount of fruit every year and avoid the overproduction that could hurt next year’s harvest. Keeping the right balance of vegetation and fruit on the vine is the key to pruning grapevines. Allow two to four shoots to emerge from a young grape plant, and select the two best shoots that will form the trunk of the grapevine. Tie the two chosen grapevine shoots vertically to the center of the trellis and horizontally along the top wire of the trellis with twine, pruning off any fruit and all lateral shoots from new vines throughout the first year of growing. Leave only the two original lateral shoots intact. Prune off all the fruit and new lateral shoots that form on the vertical stretch of the grapevine during the second growing season. These vertical shoots shou
