@@ashleelund2901 Same here I've watched other videos from other growers as well but Jag is the one that made it really understandable for me. I'm looking forward to the coming years with my grapes.
I have been managing 20 acres of vineyards for years and still watch pruning videos. I have seen many but this may be my favorite. Very clearly presented. Thank you for your fine work and may your harvest be bountiful.
The entire time I was watching this video I kept thinking about how thorough and clear the information was. By far the best and most understandable video I have seen on grape pruning. When it was over I started looking at the comments and sure enough everyone else had the same thought. Excellent video man! Thanks for explaining WHY you prune what you do. It's easy to say cut here and here but to explain why is the most beneficial. Knowing what the plant is doing gives the grower the best chance to care for it properly.
That was the best grape pruning video I’ve seen here. Very simple and to the point, love the close up illustrations. Now I need to go finish pruning because I didn’t prune off near enough! Thank you so much!!
The less you know about a subject, the easier you are fed the wrong techniques. Follow the science. No pruning can change the sweetness of a grape that is grown for a Chardonnay, as sweetness would ruin the dryness of the wine. A Muscatel grape is sweet, and pruning limits the number of bunches but also increases the size of the grape, not its sweetness. Pruning affects fruit size but also large vineyards cut their vines with an improvised hedge trimmer, which removes excess growth and young fruits.
@@trumpetflowerIIdryness" of a wine has nothing to do with the sweetness of a the grape but has to do with how much sugar the yeast were allowed to consume and turn into alcohol. or how much sugar was added, if any, AFTER the yeast consumed all the sugar in the grapes. You can't make wine WITHOUT sweet grapes.
@trumpetflowerII and pruning absolutely can give you sweeter grapes.. with a larger fruit, there will be more flesh and less skin and seeds, the flesh is sweet skin is bitter. More flesh and less skin= sweeter grape......
Thank you for keeping it SIMPLE for new gardeners to understand. I am excited to prune my grapevine, now that someone was kind enough to share a great tutorial!!!! Thank you sooo much!
This is absolutely THE best grape pruning tutorial I hace EVER seen!!! I gave up on my grapes because I was so confused by the pruning and training but I just bought an arbor and really want to save them!then!! I never knew you pull a new cane down!!!!
This is the one video that makes sense among all the many I watched.Straight to the point and understandable even to a newbie like myself.Just subscribed,cheers.
Great video,thank you so much. I was studying my bible in John 15:1-7 which talks about God is the husbandman, Jesus is the vine and we are branches. If a branch does not bear fruit the Father cuts it away, and the one that bears fruit he prunes it so it can bear more. So I was searching for an example on this, and your video brought so much revelation to this word. The part were you said "grapes will not grow out of canes from two years ago" was so enlightening. Thank you so much, i know this was not the intent of this video, but it has been a blessing to me. God bless you.
It is so refreshing to find a garden guru whose primary concern is clear and simple communication and not about himself. This was the best presented bit of garden advice I have ever seen. Thanks, this was really helpful.
Excellent video, exactly what I needed. I've searched before and found it daunting trying to find something easy to understand. This was so clear and concise. Just explaining the terminology at the beginning was a massive help. I know everything I need to know now from this one video. Thank you!
I watch many grapes pruning videos and I got so confused. I must say this video made it so simple and easy to understand and I appreciated it so much that now I know what I needed to do and how to handle my grapes. Thank you so much Jag for your thoroughness. I keep coming back to your channel all the time for garden tips. Thank you.
its almost right , but fiew mistake...first never cut horizontale, otherwise your branches will get sik and the full plant can get roten... second is saying keeping two buds but instead he is cuting at 3 or 4 ... 2 buds is 2 buds, so its should be shorter... third. it should have less canes in the main cordon, at least only one every 10, 15 cm a hand space in between each is a nice rule.. for a good space to keep air flow and have your grapes and canes healthy.. do this and you ll be a master
Thanks Jag for putting this video together. I'm near you, and was thinking about pruning my grapes today but we are getting rain unfortunately. Glad I seen your video come up. I'll prune later on this week. Well, I wish you and your family a prosperous new year. I'm looking forward to coming back down to your farm again soon. See you soon.
It's about time! Finally, someone has shown the correct pruning percess for managing grape vine's. This was a very well oriented & informative video on pruning grape vine's; I'm hopeful this young man will be back to show How to manage the vine's once they have produced vertical shoot's. Thank you so much!
I commented below about 3 months ago. I just wanted to thank you again for the great advice. Not only are my vines looking good, they are producing grapes right now! I am very excited to taste them once they're done growing and very excited for future harvests! THANK YOU JAG!!!!!🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇
We have been watching many of videos on what to do with our 15 year old over grown grape vines. This is one video that has been very helpful. This year, holding our breathe and concerned about cutting too much, we decided to prune our grape vines back. We have not really done this since they have been established. We usually just trim back the long vines and leave a lot on the arbor. because we were not sure about cutting them. There have been many concord grapes, but they are small and don't always fully ripen and do not taste as sweet as they should. We make wine form the. I hope we pruned them back correctly. The old wood was very long. We cut them back to the big nodule. And pruned to leave the two buds. I guess we will see what happens. Thank you for the time you have taken to help teach us about pruning!
I am in coastal NC. A friend has a scuppernog grape vine ( one) in her yard. I am going to prune for her. It has not been pruned for 5 years. I am not sure if it produced grapes this year or not. Should I wait til December to prune even though the vine is terribly overgrown?
Nice vineyard! Im about to plant my Thompson table grapes. Im wondering if I single cordon the vine so I only have one main horizontal cordon to spur prune how long is a good production length for that one main cordon to be? Maybe 8 or 10 feet?
Wow 🎉 This is amazing 👏. I'm a beginner to Grapevine from CA, and this video is a complete tutorial with detailed information! Thanks for this video. Much appreciated. Very clear with drawings, naming parts of plants, and of course emphasizing important points to keep in mind!! Kudos 👏
Grapewines are kept small, because you forgo maturing of the grapewine for the yield of the coming year. A new way of pruning is as follows: You two (or more ) thick leader branches grow without cutting it, while other branches you select for fruitbearing and cut them as shown in the video. The big leader branches produce lots of leaves, which feed the rootsystem. The branches that are cut like in the video, produce fruits, while the leader branches produce food for the rootsystem. In this way the vine will yearly grow bigger and bigger and continue bearing more and more fruits. The way as shown on the video produces about the same year the same amount of fruits. The traditional way of pruning is the reason that in the grapegrowing areas of the world, the grapevines stay small in comparison with my way of pruning. The root system of grapevines there stay small, because the grapevine cannot develop by lack of nutrients produced by the leaves. I have grapevines that are ten times bigger than those in your video. I also have big sweet grapes, but only on half of my branches. My grapevines can grow larger every year and every year produces more and more grapes, while your grapevines stay small, producing every year about three kilo's of grapes. In short: keep leaderbranches that will produce grapes for coming years and prune other branches for fruit this year.
The smaller vines from great vineyards are in balance between canopy and crop. The optimum is 8 leaves per bunch. Less than this and the canes does not ripen the bunch fully. More than 8 leaves and the over abundance of carbohydrates produced by the cane produce more foliage and increase shading. Shading is a negative in many ways. Increased disease pressure, reduced sun on other leaves and on the bunch it's self, a negative spiral. Wine producing vineyards actually desire small berries over larger ones as most of the flavour resides just beneath the skin layer in the juice. The smaller berries mean a much higher skin to juice ratio. This video is about producing grapes for eating, not wine.
@@spudpud-T67 Most commercial grapes are not raised like in a garden. Growing grapes is labour intensive and not horticulturally wise. Profit is the main objective, not producing good crops. All grapes on fruitbearing canes are on knee hight, below the leaves. So the leaves shade the fruits and you have to remove leaves to allow the sun shine on the grapes. I turn it around. I let the fruitbearing canes be vertically up in the sky and the new leafbearing canes horizontally under it. My growing technique results in sweet grapes that catch the sun and leaves that can grow freely, even in my half shade garden against the sour grapes in traditional horizontal rows of vines. I have 30 varieties of grapes. Disease keeps to one or two vines, especially the French varieties (because of the winepolice in France). Am I so wise or are vinegrowers so stupid (=traditionalists that are allergic to change and innovation)?
@@francismarcelvos5831 Every business requires a profit. In New Zealand we are too small to compete with the cheap wine / bulk markets of France and Europe. Our focus is to produce quality and only produce for the top 10% for export to the global wine market. Technology and science for quality production are paramount. It does sound like you have magical vines that grow horizontal shoots, amazing..... Are you sure you are not growing pumpkins?
@@spudpud-T67 I am a Dutch professional gardener. In Israel I had an enormous wild vine that produced an amazing wine. It covered a olive tree. At the swimming pool, old sauvignon vines grew to enormous sizes. I used these grapes to make wine too. I learned from this that if you allow a grape vine to grow unimpeded, it produces enormous amounts of sweet quality grapes and quality wine. I got my lessons from nature. Just allow some of your grapevines wild. My father in law lives in New Zealand. He succeeded in New Zealand as a printer, because he did an excellent job and delivered in time, what New Zealand printshops didn't do. It shows that New Zealanders follow local customs and they are not enticed to develop new technologies. I was raised in Israel and the Netherlands, which do develop new technologies. Inform yourself and dare to differ and dare to explore. Vines are overdomesticated and always in stress because they are pruned hard every year. Wild vines, when supported, can grow to 18 meters high and wide. Pruned vines all the time have to regrow, just like bonsai trees. Vinegrowers worldwide make vines into bonsai trees.
@@francismarcelvos5831 I'm business orientated and not a hobby grower so I have to use science and modern technology. May I suggest you study carbon partitioning in the grape vine. It may be eye opening for you.
Thank you so much! I have seen quite a few pruning demonstrations over the years but this is the first video that has made it completely understandable to me. I now feel confident to go ahead when my plant goes dormant. Yay!!
Fantastic video - succinctly explained, informative, including the WHY behind your choices, as well as a summary review at the end. Looking forward to using this information in the next dormant season, thanks Jag!
Please tell me what type of pruning is perfect for which variety of grapes. Because i have 7 varieties of grapes in my garden i don't know what method should i use spur pruning vs cane pruning. My grapes varities is: 1) Vitro Black 2) King Rubi 3) Flame Seedless 4) Narc Black 5) Early White 6) Sultaniya C 7) Shugraan 8) Perlet
Jag Singh, thank you so much. Some people make videos to impress others. Yours is made exclusively to help others. I am from India and grapes and are grown in my state and neighbouring states. But there are not much videos to boost the confidence of amateur growers. I am definitely starting grapes growing from this year and lots of credit goes to you. Your video is an excellent example of how to make a difficult thing make simple. Thank you and best wishes.
This video is extremely helpful. Thank you! We have about 75 ft of grape vines that desperately need pruning so I guess I better check the weather and get busy. 10:25
Great video very easy to follow from start to finish , I can now see why my grapevine In uk looks a mess and fruit so small ,, going out now mid February to have a good Prune .. Thanks .
The way you prune a vine will not change the size of grapes, they will never change size or shape by pruning. The size of the fruit is dictated by the race of the vine. This is more rubbish or as we say ''pub talk''.......................................I grow 8 varieties of grapes on my farms in Aragon Spain.
Hi Jag, Thank you for this great video. I'm moving to a home that has VERY overgrown grapevines. I'm confused regarding the two different pruning techniques. Should I remove ALL old growth and use/keep 2-4 new canes from last season's growth? I'm confused as to when you do the spur pruning technique. Hard to explain via text...
I've been searching for good, easy, explainable ways to take care of and prune my grapevine. One is very old, and we just pruned it down, not knowing a darn thing. Since then, we have had the most gorgeous dark purple grapes. The other is suppose to be a seedless grape from Walmart. It grows but nothing really. That's because I didn't know what the heck I was doing. So for a couple years now we've done the same thing. They look like little concord grapes. It's probably a 30-year vine or older. My hubby's deceased moms. The vine grows all through a Mulberry tree and a rose of Sharon. I just need to get it pruned down right and now that I've seen ur video, I'm saving it so I can watch it when needed.
Can you explain red spots on leaves. It's happening immediately on leaves on new planting. Is it the soil, disease, water amounts, lack or imbalance in fertilizer? (Natural compost or 13-13-13 or no fertilizer used). Red spots from using all methods. Is it normal for specific grape varieties and nothing to worry about? I think it's a black grape variety. Haven't had any success yet.
Very informative, thanks. One thing I just can't figure out watching all these grape growing YT videos is how many vines can I plant in a given row. My trellis plan is 75' long with posts every 18 feet so four 18 foot sections. How many vines should I plan to plant in an 18 foot run? For example a Concord grape.
I hope I didn't mess up my grape vine. I don't believe I did. BTW, I'm using the cane pruning system. This is my vine's 2nd year, so I cut everything down to the trunk, since I'm not getting fruit this year anyways, and all the canes would have been unusable for next year because they'd be 2 yrs, or older. *Did I mess it up?* Then I'm hoping for a good selection of 1 year canes coming from the trunk for next spring. UPDATE: I watched your video after I typed my comment because I was unable to watch the video beforehand. I see now, that you used the spur pruning system. I thought that was used only for wine grapes. I actually like the spur pruning system, so am I able to use it for table grapes?
Thank you SO VERY MUCH! Three years ago a bird dropped a seed in one of my giant pots while using a hummingbird feeder. The seed was from the wine orchard nearby. I've had no idea how to take care of it until now. I really appreciate this video. I just found it. Is there a special fertilizer formula that is best for this vine?
I have just planted my grape this year. I should say grape.2 coz my last one arrived dead 💀 and this one! Well he was subjected to -6 so I’m sure that he is a goner? Poor thing…
Thanks Jag. I've got 3 grape vines in my garden that were about 6 or 7 years ago and I have been struggling with pruning them. I feel confident that I'll get a better start now.
@@DaisyCreekFarms I have been printing them just haven't been doing it properly and I've got fruit but it's been small. I'll already print them back too much this year but I will be better next year - know what to do now.
At 2:36 in video.. IT'S NOT CLEAR how you know which is last year's (that won't produce) vs which is this year's (that will produce). Seemingly, the last years is the one that was already wrapped along wire so it looked like you chopped off the newer one that assumably would be the one to produce. This is where so many like myself get confused with the pruning process. In my mind, if I train 2 main legs up and along the wire then next winter those would be considered the old ones that won't produce but so many videos look like they continue to keep those. I also see so many videos that knock off during the spring, any new sprouts trying to grow off that main vertical vine. If you constantly do that, how does a new one ever grow up to be added to the wire if the old previous year's wire wrapped vine needs to go? Loved your video, definitely one of the best I've seen but still need a tiny bit of clarity on those 2 points you speak of... Thank you so much!! Mine are at the tiny grapes stage today and lush, greenery is going crazy- so at a critical juncture now with clearing out over-crowded leaf areas and antifungal applications in play as our warm, steamy rainy season is about to approach.
this was REALLY good. the only thing its missing is a zoom of how you did the cross sections of your t-posts. I think I finally have the rest figured out.
So im a new guy to growing grapes. Green grapes in Florida. My one grape vine just started going crazy in july of this year. Don't know how to prune it outer than your video. Just remember im in Florida. Thanks for any help you can give me.
GREAT video- clear , concise and most importantly SHORT. Way too many videos out there that are too long and put you to sleep. Also nice job of repeating the most important parts
I'm new to growing vines and I needed some advice on pruning, as my 2 vines are going crazy with shoots springing out everywhere! After watching your video, which was so concise and informative, j feel like I can love ahead and produce dome hood fruit! Thank you ❤
Thats a great overview of grape pruning! I have a question regarding the spur pruning. Imagine your shown example after 1 year. All the spurs will have their own shoots - I assume you keep 1 spur per old spur and keep it going like that. But eventually, after say 10 years, the "spurs on spurs on spurs" will surely become a maze to navigate?
Best video on pruning!! Quick question, I have a 3 year old Vanessa Red grape that was planted about 4 months ago. Do you recommend to pluck the grapes off? Should I not do any pruning the first year and just keep an eye on which cane on each side I want to train? It's going to be attached to a trellis.
Glad i started with such a clear video that doesn’t have a lot of story and preamble with it. Thank you. At 5;42 you called a cordon a stem but isn’t it a cane you didn’t prune off? What are stems? Would br helpful to write out the difference between a cane and a cordon : cordon is a cane that has been selected to produce fruit and not been pruned away..cordons are the remaining canes you choose?. Then at 6:36 you start referring to spurs your are pruning as canes!? Also the different years growth of spurs wasn’t clear..they all looked the same not darker nor lighter than one another. Cane and spur are more clearly conveyed in your video but cordon less so. Also what happens if one doesn’t prune in winter …can a summer pruning still be Ok and will buds show up even if they haven’t in june (been a cool spring and summer so far this year)?
This way of growing grapes is outdated. Now the grapes grow in the shade of the leaves. During the year you top the leaves and the grapes still grow under the leaves. Because the grapevine is fed by the leaves, which you cut, the grapevine can only support a small amount of grapes. Because you cut most of the old branches that could grow leaves, the only leaves that are left are on the grape producing branches. If you use the old branches and lead them to grow UNDER the grapes and you take away most leaves from the grape producing branches, the grapes are in full sun, ripen fine and the area under the grapes have the leaves growing. The old branches also will produce grapes, but these you can cut. In essence, the grapevine wants to produce a lot of leaves and a lot of grapes. The amount of ripe grapes depends on YOUR policy. Everybody keeps to outdated pruning that keeps the grapevine small, the yield of grapes small and the rootsystem small. I get 30 kilo's ripe grapes from just one grapevine. You are glad if you get 5 kilo's of grapes per grapevine. Listen to the grapevine, don't listen to old fashioned wine makers. They repeat the mistakes of their fathers and grandfathers.
5:07 shows the VERY IMPORTANT piece he repeated twice. That part about canes not growing from ones that are from 2 seasons ago- this at 5:07 shows how to select "next" years cane
I want to plant a concord grape to make my own organic grape juice. Should I be pruning them as for earing grapes, or as for wine grapes? I want maximize the antioxidant components. Thank-you.
I live in an old homestead which has an OLD concord grape. Have no idea how to apply this video to my situation. Seems like 2 original grapes, trunk is huge. How do I go about this?
Excellent video thank you for the information my grape vines keep growing new branches can I prune it shorter while it’s getting fruits thank you again Jasoda from California
Thanks for that excellent video I know exactly what I am doing for next year, now hope for a better summer than this one it was very wet here this year...............
It would nice to see a video about growing vines in the Midwest or Central U.S. Not all grapes that grow in California, grow elsewhere. Some varieties are nearly possible to grow in Minnesota or even Northern Indiana and Ohio.
@@DaisyCreekFarms Do not agree. Some need shoot positioning, others need thinning, cannot prune Cabernet same way as a concord or Niagara. And there are several ways to prune concords, such as Kniffin, cordon, etc. You are making an effort to oversimplification.
@@downtownbrown50 He is in the Central Valley of CA - the food barn of the state and the nation. Things grow crazy there. That means even a rule (or practice) is broken, those things still do well. On top of that winter over there is mild. Two winters ago, cherry tomatoes were still growing thru the whole winter! For many many years roses have not been dormant and turned out to be evergreen.😮 Indeed your area is more challenging than his part of CA and needs to be diligent and use a different approach to grow crops. Just my two cents.
@@downtownbrown50 Philippe from Wollersheim Winery in WI discussed both spur pruning and concord cane pruning. Apparently there is a difference. He goes pretty fast in video and not to much close up. At the end of this years video he discusses concord cane pruning. If training on an arbor it is a bit different because the cordons are left longer, but how long? Wine grapes are pruned and trained for machinery harvesting. There is a close connection to both varieties for large grapes and that has to do with how many spurs to leave on each cane off of the cordon and the spurs spaced at least 6” apart and always choosing the strongest spur to avoid breaking. James Prigioni has video pruning table grapes on fence and arbor. This was a clear video, but there is some differences between type and style of growing that could use some clarity.
Cheers man so if I basically want like they do abroad and have a pergola with them hanging down I’m better doing the second way of spur pruning? New to this don’t like the sound of cutting it up 😂
awesome info! easy to follow.I might grow two (going into year two vines) in containers due to a potential move. Im wondering what method would you choose? Cane or spur? And how much of each cordon can be pruned off if we have to move them?Thankyou
Thanks for making it simple. I was starting to think grape pruning was rocket science based on the videos I watched. It was as if their intention was to confuse me. Thanks again! Definitely going to bookmark this.
I have a grape which is planted on the end of a fence, this means I can only have one main branch. You have suggested 2-4, but I can’t do that without having 1 below the other. I plan to just run the grape along the fence and then prune the canes like you showed in the spur pruning method. What do you think?
Wow, so good. I only have 3 backyard vines but they never seem to keep the grapes on them, I have never pruned correctly. Looking forward to this winter so I can start next years grapes on the right foot.
I soak my pruning shears in alcohol before using them, its perfect for sanitizing use 90% rubbing alcohol and its going to pretty much kill everything as a professional winemaker I am not against getting out into the vineyard and pruning and picking grapes i have pruned in the order of thousands of vines by hand and picked at least 20 tons of grapes by hand
Awesome video! One question, when spur pruning after you get fruit how do you prune the following winter? How do you keep getting new spurs? Don't you run out of room eventually?
I have muscadine vines growing on a cattle panel arbor and they are a hot mess! I know they need pruning but haven’t known where to start. This helps and I expect to be pruning them next winter. Thank you!
Okay, I don't have any of this to deal with, yet. I just got some very new vines, that have not even been branched right and left, yet. So... what should I do? Snip the top off, at...what is that? 5 feet high? So that it goes left and right? And: Do that when it's green, or wait for it to lose its leaves?
This is the first time I understood what to do. All other videos are so confusing, but you kept it simple. I have one grape vine and I want to make sure I get the best yield. We had a lot of rain last year and my crop was the best it's ever been, but the year before, I didn't get anything, because I didn't know what to cut and I think I cut too much.
This was by far the best and most informative grape pruning video I’ve ever seen! Great job, love your channel!
I agree! 😂
Wow, thank you!
Yes! I've watched many, but this one finally got me to UNDERSTAND!
@@ashleelund2901 Same here I've watched other videos from other growers as well but Jag is the one that made it really understandable for me. I'm looking forward to the coming years with my grapes.
Yes I came here to say this! You have a way with words 🫶🏼
This video might be old but it's new and informative to me thanks a lot.
I have been managing 20 acres of vineyards for years and still watch pruning videos. I have seen many but this may be my favorite. Very clearly presented. Thank you for your fine work and may your harvest be bountiful.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the kind words!
Thank you. I am fixing to prune my grape vines for the first time. Since I have never pruned before it still may take awhile to get grapes
The entire time I was watching this video I kept thinking about how thorough and clear the information was. By far the best and most understandable video I have seen on grape pruning. When it was over I started looking at the comments and sure enough everyone else had the same thought.
Excellent video man! Thanks for explaining WHY you prune what you do. It's easy to say cut here and here but to explain why is the most beneficial. Knowing what the plant is doing gives the grower the best chance to care for it properly.
Easy n simple... Thankyou
Amazing...👍👍👍
I've literally been searching for years to find a helpful grape pruning video. This is the best one!!!
Agreed, I really need to trim up my grape vines on the trellis. 3rd tree for them
That was the best grape pruning video I’ve seen here. Very simple and to the point, love the close up illustrations. Now I need to go finish pruning because I didn’t prune off near enough! Thank you so much!!
Great video! 👍 It's so difficult for the home grower to find clear info on grape pruning. You added those clear and concise points in your video.
Glad it was helpful!
You have finally made it easy to understand how to trim grapes. My husband is watching your video right now!😂
The less you know about a subject, the easier you are fed the wrong techniques. Follow the science. No pruning can change the sweetness of a grape that is grown for a Chardonnay, as sweetness would ruin the dryness of the wine. A Muscatel grape is sweet, and pruning limits the number of bunches but also increases the size of the grape, not its sweetness. Pruning affects fruit size but also large vineyards cut their vines with an improvised hedge trimmer, which removes excess growth and young fruits.
@@trumpetflowerIIdryness" of a wine has nothing to do with the sweetness of a the grape but has to do with how much sugar the yeast were allowed to consume and turn into alcohol. or how much sugar was added, if any, AFTER the yeast consumed all the sugar in the grapes. You can't make wine WITHOUT sweet grapes.
@trumpetflowerII and pruning absolutely can give you sweeter grapes.. with a larger fruit, there will be more flesh and less skin and seeds, the flesh is sweet skin is bitter. More flesh and less skin= sweeter grape......
Wow. I've watched so many videos on pruning grape vines, but this one stands head and shoulders above the rest. Awesome job! Thank you so much!
Thank you for the nice words!
Thank you for keeping it SIMPLE for new gardeners to understand. I am excited to prune my grapevine, now that someone was kind enough to share a great tutorial!!!! Thank you sooo much!
Excellent video ❤
This is absolutely THE best grape pruning tutorial I hace EVER seen!!! I gave up on my grapes because I was so confused by the pruning and training but I just bought an arbor and really want to save them!then!! I never knew you pull a new cane down!!!!
This is the one video that makes sense among all the many I watched.Straight to the point and understandable even to a newbie like myself.Just subscribed,cheers.
Great video,thank you so much. I was studying my bible in John 15:1-7 which talks about God is the husbandman, Jesus is the vine and we are branches. If a branch does not bear fruit the Father cuts it away, and the one that bears fruit he prunes it so it can bear more.
So I was searching for an example on this, and your video brought so much revelation to this word. The part were you said "grapes will not grow out of canes from two years ago" was so enlightening.
Thank you so much, i know this was not the intent of this video, but it has been a blessing to me. God bless you.
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It is so refreshing to find a garden guru whose primary concern is clear and simple communication and not about himself. This was the best presented bit of garden advice I have ever seen. Thanks, this was really helpful.
exactly... no long winded stories that have nothing to do with the title of the video...
Excellent tutorial. This is just what I wanted. Many of the other videos don't make the pruning process as clear. Thank you.
Excellent video, exactly what I needed. I've searched before and found it daunting trying to find something easy to understand. This was so clear and concise. Just explaining the terminology at the beginning was a massive help. I know everything I need to know now from this one video. Thank you!
I watch many grapes pruning videos and I got so confused. I must say this video made it so simple and easy to understand and I appreciated it so much that now I know what I needed to do and how to handle my grapes. Thank you so much Jag for your thoroughness. I keep coming back to your channel all the time for garden tips. Thank you.
This video was so simple and easy to understand!... Perfect for newbies like me... Thank you sir!... 🥂🥂🍷🍷
I can tell you love what you do! You explained this perfectly. I learn visually so this really helped thank you very much!
its almost right , but fiew mistake...first never cut horizontale, otherwise your branches will get sik and the full plant can get roten... second is saying keeping two buds but instead he is cuting at 3 or 4 ... 2 buds is 2 buds, so its should be shorter... third. it should have less canes in the main cordon, at least only one every 10, 15 cm a hand space in between each is a nice rule.. for a good space to keep air flow and have your grapes and canes healthy..
do this and you ll be a master
Thanks Jag for putting this video together. I'm near you, and was thinking about pruning my grapes today but we are getting rain unfortunately. Glad I seen your video come up. I'll prune later on this week. Well, I wish you and your family a prosperous new year. I'm looking forward to coming back down to your farm again soon. See you soon.
Awesome! hope to see you in spring when we open!
The easiest to understand grape pruning video I've ever found.
It's about time!
Finally, someone has shown the correct pruning percess for managing grape vine's.
This was a very well oriented & informative video on pruning grape vine's; I'm hopeful this young man will be back to show How to manage the vine's once they have produced vertical shoot's.
Thank you so much!
At last I understand the difference between cane and spur pruning and when to use them. Very clear instructions. Thanks!
I commented below about 3 months ago. I just wanted to thank you again for the great advice. Not only are my vines looking good, they are producing grapes right now! I am very excited to taste them once they're done growing and very excited for future harvests! THANK YOU JAG!!!!!🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇
So glad to get the feedback on the results! :)
We have been watching many of videos on what to do with our 15 year old over grown grape vines. This is one video that has been very helpful. This year, holding our breathe and concerned about cutting too much, we decided to prune our grape vines back. We have not really done this since they have been established. We usually just trim back the long vines and leave a lot on the arbor. because we were not sure about cutting them. There have been many concord grapes, but they are small and don't always fully ripen and do not taste as sweet as they should. We make wine form the. I hope we pruned them back correctly. The old wood was very long. We cut them back to the big nodule. And pruned to leave the two buds. I guess we will see what happens. Thank you for the time you have taken to help teach us about pruning!
now a year later - was it a success, mike?
I am in coastal NC. A friend has a scuppernog grape vine ( one) in her yard. I am going to prune for her. It has not been pruned for 5 years. I am not sure if it produced grapes this year or not. Should I wait til December to prune even though the vine is terribly overgrown?
Prune in Jan or Feb
I was just watching a ton of grape pruning videos and this was the BEST!
Wow, thank you! Glad you liked the video!
Glad you liked the video!
Nice vineyard! Im about to plant my Thompson table grapes. Im wondering if I single cordon the vine so I only have one main horizontal cordon to spur prune how long is a good production length for that one main cordon to be? Maybe 8 or 10 feet?
what if your grape vine dont go dormant? i mean winter is not cold enough so plant goes on even in winter?
Thanks! What causes grapes to just sit there and never ripen?
Im new to growing grapes and this video was presented with simplicity and very informative. THANK YOU!
Thank you. You're absolutely fabulous 🤩
Wow 🎉 This is amazing 👏. I'm a beginner to Grapevine from CA, and this video is a complete tutorial with detailed information! Thanks for this video. Much appreciated. Very clear with drawings, naming parts of plants, and of course emphasizing important points to keep in mind!! Kudos 👏
Great information. I think I've finally got it. Thanks. From Ireland.
Grapewines are kept small, because you forgo maturing of the grapewine for the yield of the coming year. A new way of pruning is as follows: You two (or more ) thick leader branches grow without cutting it, while other branches you select for fruitbearing and cut them as shown in the video. The big leader branches produce lots of leaves, which feed the rootsystem. The branches that are cut like in the video, produce fruits, while the leader branches produce food for the rootsystem. In this way the vine will yearly grow bigger and bigger and continue bearing more and more fruits. The way as shown on the video produces about the same year the same amount of fruits. The traditional way of pruning is the reason that in the grapegrowing areas of the world, the grapevines stay small in comparison with my way of pruning. The root system of grapevines there stay small, because the grapevine cannot develop by lack of nutrients produced by the leaves. I have grapevines that are ten times bigger than those in your video. I also have big sweet grapes, but only on half of my branches. My grapevines can grow larger every year and every year produces more and more grapes, while your grapevines stay small, producing every year about three kilo's of grapes. In short: keep leaderbranches that will produce grapes for coming years and prune other branches for fruit this year.
The smaller vines from great vineyards are in balance between canopy and crop. The optimum is 8 leaves per bunch. Less than this and the canes does not ripen the bunch fully. More than 8 leaves and the over abundance of carbohydrates produced by the cane produce more foliage and increase shading. Shading is a negative in many ways. Increased disease pressure, reduced sun on other leaves and on the bunch it's self, a negative spiral. Wine producing vineyards actually desire small berries over larger ones as most of the flavour resides just beneath the skin layer in the juice. The smaller berries mean a much higher skin to juice ratio. This video is about producing grapes for eating, not wine.
@@spudpud-T67 Most commercial grapes are not raised like in a garden. Growing grapes is labour intensive and not horticulturally wise. Profit is the main objective, not producing good crops. All grapes on fruitbearing canes are on knee hight, below the leaves. So the leaves shade the fruits and you have to remove leaves to allow the sun shine on the grapes. I turn it around. I let the fruitbearing canes be vertically up in the sky and the new leafbearing canes horizontally under it. My growing technique results in sweet grapes that catch the sun and leaves that can grow freely, even in my half shade garden against the sour grapes in traditional horizontal rows of vines. I have 30 varieties of grapes. Disease keeps to one or two vines, especially the French varieties (because of the winepolice in France). Am I so wise or are vinegrowers so stupid (=traditionalists that are allergic to change and innovation)?
@@francismarcelvos5831 Every business requires a profit. In New Zealand we are too small to compete with the cheap wine / bulk markets of France and Europe. Our focus is to produce quality and only produce for the top 10% for export to the global wine market. Technology and science for quality production are paramount.
It does sound like you have magical vines that grow horizontal shoots, amazing..... Are you sure you are not growing pumpkins?
@@spudpud-T67 I am a Dutch professional gardener. In Israel I had an enormous wild vine that produced an amazing wine. It covered a olive tree. At the swimming pool, old sauvignon vines grew to enormous sizes. I used these grapes to make wine too. I learned from this that if you allow a grape vine to grow unimpeded, it produces enormous amounts of sweet quality grapes and quality wine. I got my lessons from nature. Just allow some of your grapevines wild. My father in law lives in New Zealand. He succeeded in New Zealand as a printer, because he did an excellent job and delivered in time, what New Zealand printshops didn't do. It shows that New Zealanders follow local customs and they are not enticed to develop new technologies. I was raised in Israel and the Netherlands, which do develop new technologies. Inform yourself and dare to differ and dare to explore. Vines are overdomesticated and always in stress because they are pruned hard every year. Wild vines, when supported, can grow to 18 meters high and wide. Pruned vines all the time have to regrow, just like bonsai trees. Vinegrowers worldwide make vines into bonsai trees.
@@francismarcelvos5831 I'm business orientated and not a hobby grower so I have to use science and modern technology. May I suggest you study carbon partitioning in the grape vine. It may be eye opening for you.
Thank you so much! I have seen quite a few pruning demonstrations over the years but this is the first video that has made it completely understandable to me. I now feel confident to go ahead when my plant goes dormant. Yay!!
Fantastic video - succinctly explained, informative, including the WHY behind your choices, as well as a summary review at the end. Looking forward to using this information in the next dormant season, thanks Jag!
BEST tutorial ever! Thank you so much!
Please tell me what type of pruning is perfect for which variety of grapes.
Because i have 7 varieties of grapes in my garden i don't know what method should i use spur pruning vs cane pruning.
My grapes varities is:
1) Vitro Black
2) King Rubi
3) Flame Seedless
4) Narc Black
5) Early White
6) Sultaniya C
7) Shugraan
8) Perlet
Jag Singh, thank you so much.
Some people make videos to impress others.
Yours is made exclusively to help others.
I am from India and grapes and are grown in my state and neighbouring states.
But there are not much videos to boost the confidence of amateur growers.
I am definitely starting grapes growing from this year and lots of credit goes to you.
Your video is an excellent example of how to make a difficult thing make simple.
Thank you and best wishes.
This video is extremely helpful. Thank you! We have about 75 ft of grape vines that desperately need pruning so I guess I better check the weather and get busy. 10:25
Haha yes! you will be busy pruning that one.
Great video very easy to follow from start to finish , I can now see why my grapevine
In uk looks a mess and fruit so small ,, going out now mid February to have a good
Prune .. Thanks .
Glad it was helpful!
thank you. perfect information, and explains all I wanted to know... highly appreciated.
Well, I’m taking you (via this video) out to my garden next week. Wish me luck!
The way you prune a vine will not change the size of grapes, they will never change size or shape by pruning. The size of the fruit is dictated by the race of the vine. This is more rubbish or as we say ''pub talk''.......................................I grow 8 varieties of grapes on my farms in Aragon Spain.
As always, you give clear and concise instructions for home use. ❤
Hi Jag,
Thank you for this great video.
I'm moving to a home that has VERY overgrown grapevines.
I'm confused regarding the two different pruning techniques.
Should I remove ALL old growth and use/keep 2-4 new canes from last season's growth?
I'm confused as to when you do the spur pruning technique. Hard to explain via text...
You Great Good... !!! I wish you every day of your development. Best Relaxing +thumb up3!
why are my grapes brown and hard.
I am from jakarta indonesia
I've been searching for good, easy, explainable ways to take care of and prune my grapevine. One is very old, and we just pruned it down, not knowing a darn thing. Since then, we have had the most gorgeous dark purple grapes. The other is suppose to be a seedless grape from Walmart. It grows but nothing really. That's because I didn't know what the heck I was doing. So for a couple years now we've done the same thing. They look like little concord grapes. It's probably a 30-year vine or older. My hubby's deceased moms. The vine grows all through a Mulberry tree and a rose of Sharon. I just need to get it pruned down right and now that I've seen ur video, I'm saving it so I can watch it when needed.
Can you explain red spots on leaves. It's happening immediately on leaves on new planting. Is it the soil, disease, water amounts, lack or imbalance in fertilizer? (Natural compost or 13-13-13 or no fertilizer used). Red spots from using all methods. Is it normal for specific grape varieties and nothing to worry about? I think it's a black grape variety. Haven't had any success yet.
Just what I needed! I had 10 cordons with probably 15-20 canes each!! And WHY were the grapes small and not tasting so good??.....Thanks a bunch.
Very informative, thanks. One thing I just can't figure out watching all these grape growing YT videos is how many vines can I plant in a given row. My trellis plan is 75' long with posts every 18 feet so four 18 foot sections. How many vines should I plan to plant in an 18 foot run? For example a Concord grape.
I hope I didn't mess up my grape vine. I don't believe I did. BTW, I'm using the cane pruning system. This is my vine's 2nd year, so I cut everything down to the trunk, since I'm not getting fruit this year anyways, and all the canes would have been unusable for next year because they'd be 2 yrs, or older. *Did I mess it up?* Then I'm hoping for a good selection of 1 year canes coming from the trunk for next spring.
UPDATE: I watched your video after I typed my comment because I was unable to watch the video beforehand. I see now, that you used the spur pruning system. I thought that was used only for wine grapes. I actually like the spur pruning system, so am I able to use it for table grapes?
Thank you SO VERY MUCH! Three years ago a bird dropped a seed in one of my giant pots while using a hummingbird feeder. The seed was from the wine orchard nearby. I've had no idea how to take care of it until now. I really appreciate this video. I just found it. Is there a special fertilizer formula that is best for this vine?
❤❤❤❤👍 👍👍👍. I now have grapes like never before. Thank you Jag. This pruning video I understand.
I have just planted my grape this year. I should say grape.2 coz my last one arrived dead 💀 and this one! Well he was subjected to -6 so I’m sure that he is a goner? Poor thing…
Thanks Jag. I've got 3 grape vines in my garden that were about 6 or 7 years ago and I have been struggling with pruning them. I feel confident that I'll get a better start now.
Awesome! Yea cut them back!
@@DaisyCreekFarms I have been printing them just haven't been doing it properly and I've got fruit but it's been small. I'll already print them back too much this year but I will be better next year - know what to do now.
At 2:36 in video.. IT'S NOT CLEAR how you know which is last year's (that won't produce) vs which is this year's (that will produce). Seemingly, the last years is the one that was already wrapped along wire so it looked like you chopped off the newer one that assumably would be the one to produce. This is where so many like myself get confused with the pruning process. In my mind, if I train 2 main legs up and along the wire then next winter those would be considered the old ones that won't produce but so many videos look like they continue to keep those. I also see so many videos that knock off during the spring, any new sprouts trying to grow off that main vertical vine. If you constantly do that, how does a new one ever grow up to be added to the wire if the old previous year's wire wrapped vine needs to go? Loved your video, definitely one of the best I've seen but still need a tiny bit of clarity on those 2 points you speak of... Thank you so much!!
Mine are at the tiny grapes stage today and lush, greenery is going crazy- so at a critical juncture now with clearing out over-crowded leaf areas and antifungal applications in play as our warm, steamy rainy season is about to approach.
this was REALLY good. the only thing its missing is a zoom of how you did the cross sections of your t-posts. I think I finally have the rest figured out.
So im a new guy to growing grapes. Green grapes in Florida. My one grape vine just started going crazy in july of this year. Don't know how to prune it outer than your video. Just remember im in Florida. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Excellent information. Planning on growing grapes next year and this helps a lot. Thank you. Happy harvest
Awesome pruning video. Been searching and it just hasn't clicked very informative thanks bro. 👍
GREAT video- clear , concise and most importantly SHORT. Way too many videos out there that are too long and put you to sleep. Also nice job of repeating the most important parts
I'm new to growing vines and I needed some advice on pruning, as my 2 vines are going crazy with shoots springing out everywhere! After watching your video, which was so concise and informative, j feel like I can love ahead and produce dome hood fruit! Thank you ❤
Thats a great overview of grape pruning!
I have a question regarding the spur pruning. Imagine your shown example after 1 year. All the spurs will have their own shoots - I assume you keep 1 spur per old spur and keep it going like that. But eventually, after say 10 years, the "spurs on spurs on spurs" will surely become a maze to navigate?
Best video on pruning!! Quick question, I have a 3 year old Vanessa Red grape that was planted about 4 months ago. Do you recommend to pluck the grapes off? Should I not do any pruning the first year and just keep an eye on which cane on each side I want to train? It's going to be attached to a trellis.
Glad i started with such a clear video that doesn’t have a lot of story and preamble with it. Thank you.
At 5;42 you called a cordon a stem but isn’t it a cane you didn’t prune off? What are stems? Would br helpful to write out the difference between a cane and a cordon : cordon is a cane that has been selected to produce fruit and not been pruned away..cordons are the remaining canes you choose?.
Then at 6:36 you start referring to spurs your are pruning as canes!?
Also the different years growth of spurs wasn’t clear..they all looked the same not darker nor lighter than one another.
Cane and spur are more clearly conveyed in your video but cordon less so. Also what happens if one doesn’t prune in winter …can a summer pruning still be Ok and will buds show up even if they haven’t in june (been a cool spring and summer so far this year)?
This way of growing grapes is outdated. Now the grapes grow in the shade of the leaves. During the year you top the leaves and the grapes still grow under the leaves. Because the grapevine is fed by the leaves, which you cut, the grapevine can only support a small amount of grapes. Because you cut most of the old branches that could grow leaves, the only leaves that are left are on the grape producing branches. If you use the old branches and lead them to grow UNDER the grapes and you take away most leaves from the grape producing branches, the grapes are in full sun, ripen fine and the area under the grapes have the leaves growing. The old branches also will produce grapes, but these you can cut. In essence, the grapevine wants to produce a lot of leaves and a lot of grapes. The amount of ripe grapes depends on YOUR policy. Everybody keeps to outdated pruning that keeps the grapevine small, the yield of grapes small and the rootsystem small. I get 30 kilo's ripe grapes from just one grapevine. You are glad if you get 5 kilo's of grapes per grapevine. Listen to the grapevine, don't listen to old fashioned wine makers. They repeat the mistakes of their fathers and grandfathers.
Watching from philippines. Thank you for sharing pruning grapes. Now q? How many canes in 1 cordon or arm. Thanks
5:07 shows the VERY IMPORTANT piece he repeated twice. That part about canes not growing from ones that are from 2 seasons ago- this at 5:07 shows how to select "next" years cane
Great instruction. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise!
This was a great informative video sir !!! I just subbed you !! Thank you for sharing your knowledge !!
I want to plant a concord grape to make my own organic grape juice. Should I be pruning them as for earing grapes, or as for wine grapes? I want maximize the antioxidant components. Thank-you.
I live in an old homestead which has an OLD concord grape. Have no idea how to apply this video to my situation. Seems like 2 original grapes, trunk is huge. How do I go about this?
Thank you for easily explaining what we need to know to manage our vines. It was well structured, simple to understand, and very helpful. ❤
I hope to grow grapes this year. Could you do a video on growing grapes (types, fertilization, wateting schedule, pest control/prevention, etc).
Excellent video thank you for the information my grape vines keep growing new branches can I prune it shorter while it’s getting fruits thank you again Jasoda from California
Thanks for that excellent video I know exactly what I am doing for next year, now hope for a better summer than this one it was very wet here this year...............
It would nice to see a video about growing vines in the Midwest or Central U.S. Not all grapes that grow in California, grow elsewhere. Some varieties are nearly possible to grow in Minnesota or even Northern Indiana and Ohio.
Hi yes, it depends on the variety and the zone however pruning techniques for grapes is the same.
@@DaisyCreekFarms Do not agree. Some need shoot positioning, others need thinning, cannot prune Cabernet same way as a concord or Niagara. And there are several ways to prune concords, such as Kniffin, cordon, etc. You are making an effort to oversimplification.
@@downtownbrown50
He is in the Central Valley of CA - the food barn of the state and the nation. Things grow crazy there. That means even a rule (or practice) is broken, those things still do well. On top of that winter over there is mild. Two winters ago, cherry tomatoes were still growing thru the whole winter! For many many years roses have not been dormant and turned out to be evergreen.😮
Indeed your area is more challenging than his part of CA and needs to be diligent and use a different approach to grow crops. Just my two cents.
@@downtownbrown50 Philippe from Wollersheim Winery in WI discussed both spur pruning and concord cane pruning. Apparently there is a difference. He goes pretty fast in video and not to much close up. At the end of this years video he discusses concord cane pruning. If training on an arbor it is a bit different because the cordons are left longer, but how long? Wine grapes are pruned and trained for machinery harvesting. There is a close connection to both varieties for large grapes and that has to do with how many spurs to leave on each cane off of the cordon and the spurs spaced at least 6” apart and always choosing the strongest spur to avoid breaking.
James Prigioni has video pruning table grapes on fence and arbor.
This was a clear video, but there is some differences between type and style of growing that could use some clarity.
Cheers man so if I basically want like they do abroad and have a pergola with them hanging down I’m better doing the second way of spur pruning? New to this don’t like the sound of cutting it up 😂
awesome info! easy to follow.I might grow two (going into year two vines) in containers due to a potential move. Im wondering what method would you choose? Cane or spur? And how much of each cordon can be pruned off if we have to move them?Thankyou
Thanks for making it simple. I was starting to think grape pruning was rocket science based on the videos I watched. It was as if their intention was to confuse me. Thanks again!
Definitely going to bookmark this.
I have a grape which is planted on the end of a fence, this means I can only have one main branch. You have suggested 2-4, but I can’t do that without having 1 below the other. I plan to just run the grape along the fence and then prune the canes like you showed in the spur pruning method. What do you think?
I live in Florida and I'm trying to grow Bunch grapes table grapes and they are growing very slowly I need to know how to fertilize
Wow, so good. I only have 3 backyard vines but they never seem to keep the grapes on them, I have never pruned correctly. Looking forward to this winter so I can start next years grapes on the right foot.
This was by far the best and most informative grape pruning video I’ve ever seen! Great job, love your channel!
I soak my pruning shears in alcohol before using them, its perfect for sanitizing use 90% rubbing alcohol and its going to pretty much kill everything as a professional winemaker I am not against getting out into the vineyard and pruning and picking grapes i have pruned in the order of thousands of vines by hand and picked at least 20 tons of grapes by hand
I was curious about muskidine grapes. Are they pruned the same way ? I live in north central Florida and have never grown grapes before.
Great video… going to grow grapes in a small space for my son amongst over vegetables and such. This was extremely informative thanks so much
Awesome video! One question, when spur pruning after you get fruit how do you prune the following winter? How do you keep getting new spurs? Don't you run out of room eventually?
Thank you for the video!
I have a question, how many years can you expect the grape vine to live and be productive for?
I have muscadine vines growing on a cattle panel arbor and they are a hot mess! I know they need pruning but haven’t known where to start. This helps and I expect to be pruning them next winter. Thank you!
This was so helpful. Excellent teacher keeping it very simple . Thanks so much , I enjoy all your videos, such good quality teaching. ❤️👍🏻🇨🇦
Best Explanation.. Easy and perfect information .. Thank You !
Okay, I don't have any of this to deal with, yet. I just got some very new vines, that have not even been branched right and left, yet. So... what should I do? Snip the top off, at...what is that? 5 feet high? So that it goes left and right? And: Do that when it's green, or wait for it to lose its leaves?
This is the first time I understood what to do. All other videos are so confusing, but you kept it simple. I have one grape vine and I want to make sure I get the best yield. We had a lot of rain last year and my crop was the best it's ever been, but the year before, I didn't get anything, because I didn't know what to cut and I think I cut too much.