Winter Vine Pruning

Tom Gore, Simi Winery's Vineyard Manager, demonstrates proper care and pruning of vines.

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Travel & Events

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• Simi
• winemaking
• vineyard
• pruning

[TOOL1231]

these are nice videos.

[DHoldaway]

glad you enjoyed the videos... the folks at Simi are great...

[fatdaddyherb]

Curious wondering if there is a specific angle to prune these shoots; with apples I've learned to prune at angles of 45-60 degrees. Thanks.

[cherrygrower]

Good info lousy filming. Might as well have been a podcast for all you could see.

[WoundedEgo]

@willhelm87miles Since posting, I've learned that the preferred grapes for eating "out of the hand" are large grapes, while for making wine, a small grape is preferred. Not that I'm that fussy.

[willhelm87miles]

@WoundedEgo you can make wine with those grapes too. check out Chateau Elan winery

[tmc200527]

Thanks for the video but I'm still not to confident about the cuts. I have a reliance and a frontenac and this is the second spring. They have two cordons about 5ft high and 5ft in each direction. There are shoots about every 4in along the cordon on the reliance and the shoots are over 20 in long. There are a couple of flower clusters on each shoot. Do I have to remove all the flowers or can I keep some to get grapes this year?

[WoundedEgo]

Since these are Cabernet, I assume you are pruning for wine? What would be different if you were pruning for a grape to eat?

I have Muscadines and Scoopernang; what would I do differently?

Thanks!

[getdownyal]

I'm scared to cut so much. I have the big old grape vine in my back yard and I've only pruned the deadwood. Seems happy enough. The grapes of big and full and lots of clusters, but I think they are concord (for grape jelly). Does that make a difference? And what about pears?

[humanoflife]

it seems like u cut off the whole tree pruning seems complicated but i know its good

[timarulad]

Don't you worry that you may lose some shoots during the growing season? Because if you only leave as many buds as there were shoots, you may not have so many next year.

I guess you already know how many buds you're going for, maybe you should point that out so as to save others from cutting off too many buds.

[ozglenn]

Its two buds per spur not three and for weak spurs leave one bud