Pruning My Neglected Table Grape For Better Flavor

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Жыл бұрын

Growing grapes at home is fun and rewarding but pruning grapes can seem a little intimidating with methods like "spur" or "cane" pruning. In this video I talk about how to think and approach a grape plant that hasn't ever been pruned "correctly." The idea is that any grape can be pruned to produce good grapes and you don't have to overthink it.
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@tinapayne2367 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see more grape care. Just planted 2 last year and built an arbor.

@lyndelgado6138 Жыл бұрын

I have an arbor ( looks like #7 to sit under 4 grape vines. How do i prune these? 5 yrs old in 20 gal pots. 10 zone ca below la.

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

I will make a care guide throughout this season!

@eileenbartnick7202 Жыл бұрын

I would really like to know the best fertilizer and fertilizing routine. Thanks so much! Happy gardening and have a great day!!

@cltinturkey Жыл бұрын

PS - Save those cuttings. Grapevine has 100 uses in the garden. It's tough and somewhat bendable. You could make a few mini trellises for support, pack them in a Hugelkultur-filled raised bed, use to block paths, so many things. . . When I was a kid, a man at the river made spectacular grapevine baskets. His were works of art.

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

I still have the pile of cuttings!

@Adsbvs5990 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I pruned mine today (I live in New Zealand so opposite seasons) and will keep them now 😊

@pollyjazz Жыл бұрын

I would definitely be interested in more pruning videos about other kinds of vines and fruit trees and bushes. Pruning is an art and it is very scary. I know i have to cut back a lot but am not always sure about the best parts to keep and what is actually hindering the growth and productivity of the plant. I loved the way you took us step by step explaining the why of each action. Brilliant. Please do more. 💜 ❤️

@OliviaLovesPugs Жыл бұрын

Great video! You turned what looked like an unmanageable tangled mess into something neat and tidy that feels totally manageable; I can’t wait to see how this grape grows this season!

@j.m.7056 Жыл бұрын

Yes, please continue to show us as you care for your grape vine. This was a very good video! Thanks so much.

@KatesGarden Жыл бұрын

My 4yo really enjoyed the counting 😂 The grape plant looks really good pruned up for the season. Enjoy !

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

Haha I was able to sneak in a little pre-k education!

@BryanMay-bu5tl Жыл бұрын

Immediate like for the "grape reset". A much better "reset" on every imaginable level than the WEF's.

@41degreesN12degreesE Жыл бұрын

What are WEFs?

@brittanyrouse2423 Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I needed and when I needed it!!! Please share the progress this season. Thank you

@debthecorgimom7978 Жыл бұрын

Great video as per usual Jacques! I'd also love to see more grape care videos! I'm planting my first one this year. Thanks for all of the great content!

@chelinfusco6403 Жыл бұрын

Very informative. Yes, we would like to see more about growing grapes. Thanks.

@mperez8924 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see more grape related videos. Just planted some for the first time and this video is very informative. Thanks!

@jennifermason4339 Жыл бұрын

Love the video!! Planning on starting grapes next season, doing my research now. Looking forward to more grape video's.

@MySuperman78 4 ай бұрын

Excellent video! Thanks for the helpful tips! 👍

@WARHORSE465 Жыл бұрын

This is a great video! More often than not, I am behind the power curve when it comes to pruning so I really appreciate the videos that show how to prune an overgrown or seemingly messy plant. Your simple step by step demonstration with the 10-15 nodes is very easy to follow and remember. Now I need to find a video to help me identify my primocanes and floricanes on the blackberry vines I didn't remove in the fall! Keep up the great work. You are appreciated!

@patricianelson7911 4 ай бұрын

You are so easy to listen to. This was the best video on pruning. I have several grape vines that didn't get pruned well when they were first planted and Now I can get out there and tackle them before Spring gets in full swing. Thank you so much!

@barefootinthegarden 26 күн бұрын

This was an incredibly helpful video. I have 2 grape vines that are just as out of control as yours was before you pruned it. Seeing how you did that gave me some great ideas on how to prune mine. Thank you!

@melijern Жыл бұрын

Love homegrown grapes, used to get them fresh and warm from my grandpa's garden. I have a large arbor that had a dead bougainvillea when I bought my home. It has been my plan to use it for grapes.

@rachellemazar7374 Жыл бұрын

Nice video Jacque, I’m inspired to train my California wild grape. I also enjoy seeing your tree kale. I have one purple tree collard just staring out in my garden and I am hoping to get a start of the green tree collard the volunteered in my son’s yard in Oakland. I would love to see some videos about tree collards or kale from you😊

@abagaelniezgoda1151 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, this video was very helpful! I was just trying to figure out how to prune my overgrown grapes

@cltinturkey Жыл бұрын

I planted what I thought were seedless grapes, one concord and one muscadine. Turns out both are seeded, but c'est la vie! Grew a nice trunk and trained the canes adequately. The third year grapes were outstanding. Nice harvest and superb flavor. I seeded a bunch and made jam, and they were great table grapes too. I can always learn more, so please keep sharing with us. Good luck!

@MsKpuff Жыл бұрын

Id love to grow grapes, this video was awesome to see, Id love to see more vids on grapes!!

@charlenequinilty7252 Жыл бұрын

Yes I’m interested in grape care. Thanks you for your video.

@debbiemarshall3748 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Please include the most common grape diseases in your follow-up (or in a separate video). Thanks

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

Fungal ones are the worst, I will cover everything good and bad!

@aganethaklassen5246 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing it's helpful

@greengardenideas Жыл бұрын

Your videos are always good brother ❤

@mjt2582 Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial, looks great

@Mcslap13 Жыл бұрын

Lots of great info! You really do want to take a lot of the grapes. I work at a small local winery (making the wine and taking care of the vinyard) and your spot on with all your info! It's very similar to what we're currently doing with our wine grapes. We have two trunks coming up and spitting into about two feet or so and we cut back until there's only 5 spurrs per side for a total of 10 per plant. And we cut back to only two buds per spur. We are not very precise and really don't baby our plants (many are 30+ years old however) we have many that we cut down with the intention of killing and replacing, and every year they get hard core sprayed with chemicals and they always come back. So don't worry toooo terribly much, they are resilient little buggers! We don't grow them on a fence like you do. We grow them on a single wire about hip level. And then have the cordons very close together, many touching and then going to canes along the wire, and then we try to get the 5 or so spurrs.

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

I love driving by wineries and seeing all the pruned grapes this time of year, they look so neat, organized, and sort of unnatural in a cool way haha. I am glad my explanation was accurate enough!

@deryckanderson7609 Жыл бұрын

Looking forward to more grape vidoes!

@nonyadamnbusiness9887 Ай бұрын

On timing: The sap starts to flow in grapes well before they leaf out. I intend to work mine on whatever I think is the coldest day of the year. In Florida this year I waited until February and my vines bled sap for two weeks.

@nicoleybarbo8655 Жыл бұрын

Thank you I needed this video!!!! Please more info on growing grapes! I don’t know what I’m doing with my very messy and unkempt grapes planted by the previous owners of my house.

@fuubar21 Жыл бұрын

Really great video! Thank you!

@Amarie1961 Жыл бұрын

Yes to more grape videos.

@agnesthewinemaker Жыл бұрын

Nice Job Jacques !

@marjoriejohnson6535 Жыл бұрын

I used to make charcoal sticks with dried out wind grape vines...what wasn't usable for art went into my gardens. ( did the burning and smoldering on the garden in early spring or late fall) that was in the early 70s ..my soil became super productive after.

@simonebourgeois9377 Жыл бұрын

I'm a new grape grower, hopefully I prune my 3 right cause I had them now 3 years & gotten no grapes. If you have a dimo on basic grape plant care would be awsome. One of them is a vine grape I saved.

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

Huh, that is odd! Does it get enough sunlight? I will be making a care guide throughout this season!

@simonebourgeois9377 Жыл бұрын

@Jacques in the Garden they do, all my crops do. They're just confusing me 😕. I'm wondering if the Achemon Sphinx Moth infestation I had last year had anything to do with it?

@crochetingaroundnewzealand Жыл бұрын

Excellent video and information thank. I live near a ton of old pine trees so the wasps make it impossible to get to my grapes. I thought you had to cut 2 inches away from a main trunk for die back?

@peachykeen7634 Жыл бұрын

Omg the thumbnail “grape reset” hahaaaaaaaaa Jacques knows what’s up 🤣 #growyourgroceries

@catiepower3550 Жыл бұрын

I have two grape vines arriving this month. Anything grape care is important to me this year

@cltinturkey Жыл бұрын

I got quotes to build a structure for two grapevines to spread. $750 and $350, which would make them the most expensive grapes ever eaten. Built the structures myself with t-bars and 9-gauge wire. Not pretty, but functional and about $50 total. It hurts to cut them back so much, but they bounce back beautifully.

@roottrackerzbyyaira Жыл бұрын

I just planted Catawba Red Grapes last month. I need ideas on a trellis, it's already got leaves on it. I used kelp and lime for fertilizer when planting it in the ground. Thanks for this video!

@jacobpayne1 Жыл бұрын

Someone on TikTok just said you look like a john deere wick and it made my day.

@Simply.Owanda Жыл бұрын

Damn it! Now I want grapes lol!!! Running out of room Jacques

@timothyblack2940 6 ай бұрын

Hi Jacque! Was wondering when the follow up to this video would be coming?

@thomassullivan1207 3 ай бұрын

This is exactly the video I needed to see for my table grape vineyard. I've got a few unruly, young plants that aren't really suited for classic, aesthetically pleasing cane or spur pruning. This video is a year old, but I can't see another video on how it turned out last fall. Do you have that, or an update on how it went?

@step69step69 5 ай бұрын

great video

@juliepoolie5494 Жыл бұрын

I would love to have grapes and make homemade jam. Farm to table in my back yard!

@MommaT1970 2 ай бұрын

Would love an update and more grape info

@panzorgod666 Жыл бұрын

ur a great person

@MotosAllotmentGarden Жыл бұрын

I need to do that to my grape, It a mess😊

@DanielleGabriella29 5 ай бұрын

Best video

@basanteena Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your process, Jacques. Yes please on more videos on grape care. Also, what variety of table grape is this? Thanks

@lyndelgado6138 Жыл бұрын

I thought he said red flameless

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

Flame Seedless!

@michellecolledge2355 11 ай бұрын

Can you grow grapes in containers? Thank you so much for this video. Love watching your channel.

@sheliaheverin8822 Жыл бұрын

I started concord grapes last year, I'm so glad for this video. Do you prune like this every spring?

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

This was my first proper pruning of this plant, its only been in this particular spot for a year so now I am going to try and actually prune it properly every year, and I will be sure to document it!

@Neenerella333 Жыл бұрын

My grapes are very compact and I think I'll take back the shaggy stuff.

@eileenbartnick7202 Жыл бұрын

Could you tell us a good fertilizing routine, please? Thank you!!

@deborahmerchant7603 Жыл бұрын

Yes, I want more content on grape care. I'm growing mine in big pots: a himrod, a white seedless Thompson and a red seeded native to California variety(forgot name). I suspect I'm not fertilizing them properly. May not be pruning them well and may not be keeping the birds away well enough. Need help

@anapaulacrawford5837 Жыл бұрын

Please do ! I got two of them and I get lost on how to care for them . God bless

@steev927 7 ай бұрын

I was devastated, like 15 years ago, when the grape I planted a year earlier was buried, smashed, and shredded by a contractor. The next year showed me that you can absolutely massacre grape vines to shape them as you like. If you don't they'll tear your house apart.

@kairifan12 Жыл бұрын

More grape videos! More videos in general lol

@lindasoaft9303 Жыл бұрын

I have 2 grape plants that I bought last year still in their pots. One is a Flame and the other a Thompson. I was planning on building an arbor but now that I saw your trellis I’m worried that an arbor might not be suitable. What do you think? How substantial or big of a trellis will I need to support 2 plants? Also, thanks for the great info on trimming vines back!

@jellejacobs Жыл бұрын

I would normally leave something to die back when pruning big branches(atleast when youre working on a bonsai tree) if you dont you could kill it. And maybe put something on a big wound (cant remember the name of the stuff) it helps keeping it alive

@lyndelgado6138 Жыл бұрын

I have 5yr old grapes in 20 gal pots. Built an arbor 2 yrs ago n tied vines 2 it. Never pruned n never got any grapes. Yes more vids on grapes. Is pruning 4 an arbor 4 shade different?

@travishunter8573 Жыл бұрын

So I am growing grapes next to my deck so that they can grow up and over. I'm trying to follow some of this like 2 canes etc but my grapes have to grow like 15ft to cover everything. I think it will work since instead of letting them go sideways I'm just going up and then I planted 5 plants next to each other for the horizontal coverage. We will see how it goes

@lindis2660 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Question, is it ok for the two crossing branches to be touching? I understand why you kept them that way. What is the actual issue when plants have crossing and touching branches?

@ceecee-thetransplantedgardener Жыл бұрын

I just purchased/received 2 vines - am excited to get them in the ground. Question - do you have issues with your dogs getting to the grapes? Looking forward to additional grape care vids. Thank you!

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

Now that it is on and behind the fence they can't easily reach much without properly trying. Last year they didn't seem interested so that was good to see!

@MoonAndTheMexican 2 ай бұрын

I have a very old neglected grapevine that's part of the house I rent. I'm doing my best, but its a lot!

@XC2long4u Ай бұрын

Follow up video after harvest this summer?

@barefootgardens22 Жыл бұрын

Question: How old should the grapes be before you prune? I have one that's 3 yrs this year. Last year it didn't get anything cos I neglected it due to moving, but I planted it last year and it grew. Just no fruit

@petpawteek8776 Жыл бұрын

It’s soooo painful. I pruned mine for the first time this season and I did not enjoy removing all that growth! 😢 just hoping my painstaking efforts pay off this summer 😋

@verawallace9055 Жыл бұрын

I bought two grape last year, one survive the other one I didn't water it enough I think,,I also don't have a trellis I really don't know what am doing, more on Grape will surely be appreciated

@aleckgirard 2 ай бұрын

Just got 3 grape varieties sadly cant prune them this year to give them a nicer start as well, they just started up a week before i went and got them they also dont start their leaves here until mid may so atleast ill have plenty of time next year

@buttonenfuego Жыл бұрын

Did you sinch up those lines?

@joshfogelson8531 Жыл бұрын

whats your total node/spur count at the end? 4 canes with 10 nodes per cane, for a total of 40? A lot of the info online is for wine grapes vs table grapes, not sure if total node amount differs between the two, variety, growing conditions, etc, etc

@lynnemalone284 4 ай бұрын

Ok so the two canes that you left on each plant, each with 10-15 nodes will be second year canes next year. Then what do you cut. That is where my confusion comes in. Can't find a video that speaks to future cuts after what you have shown. Thanks!!

@masterofnone276 Жыл бұрын

Would be amazing if you could add the sources you used to learn about growing grapes? Okay, Imma be demanding and ask for sources on everything to up my learning

@judymckerrow6720 Жыл бұрын

Updates please? 🌷💚🙃

@myurbangarden7695 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing this. It seems like there has been advice about pruning grapes from Biblical times, but in all honesty I think most growers are still a bit confused about it. 🤔🍇

@annamcauley3253 Жыл бұрын

Planted 3 Catawbas in the fall that I got half price! I made an wire trellis for them, and now they are just barely starting to bud, and I have no idea how to handle them! More grape videos please!

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

Grape pruning does seem to be VERY personal to some people and cultures. The cool thing about grapes is that they seem to want to grow no matter what so everything we do is just to make life easier for us

@juliarroberts1621 16 күн бұрын

Any follow up on your grapevine?

@psalm10123 Жыл бұрын

Do you do anything to amend the soil to start the new season? well and I’m growing grapes in really large pots so I’m not sure if I should amend the soil I know I need to fertilize, but how do I refresh the soil?

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

In a container you probably have some settling happening every year. Come spring I like to come by and top them with compost and maybe a little mulch and that is about it.

@AshleyBarber012 Жыл бұрын

How do you keep your dogs from eating the grapes? I’m afraid to get a grape vine because I’m scared my dogs will eat them and get sick and possibly die.

@TerribleTim68 Жыл бұрын

How many grapes do the birds take compared to what they leave you?

@loriswain8140 Жыл бұрын

What if my vine has already broke dormancy? Can I still prune it? It’s full of leaves and quite unruly! Didn’t know I needed to be that aggressive with the prune. I would also like to see more home garden grape vine care. Thank you.

@jmkupihea7630 Жыл бұрын

I have a decades old grapevine that is mostly used for fodder for the rabbit and chickens, I think it gets more powerful every time I cut it

@luckyelfie Жыл бұрын

I’ve always been taught to take my grapes down to 5 buds. Curious what the difference is? Will need to try it with one of my grapes and compare.

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

It seems to depend on the type of grape and style of pruning, It seems that with this variety people like to leave a few extra on

@bublhed Жыл бұрын

I bought a grape vine from an unreliable source. This is one of the first things I planted when I got a backyard. I’m not sure of the type they are but the leaves got these awful bumps underneath - which I discovered in research that are caused by a pest. These pests go underground during winter and come back. The vines had grown for a few years so it’s very difficult to completely remove the stump. (Maybe your pups can give me a hand…😂). I chop them down as far as I can but they still try to come back. I think I read that it’s the type of grape I planted that is not resistant to this pest.

@jacquesinthegarden Жыл бұрын

Oof! That sounds awful sorry you have to deal with that, hopefully you can find a nice variety that works with those pests.

@bublhed Жыл бұрын

@@jacquesinthegarden I gave up on them for a while. They need a lot of space and that sunny garden space is precious. Sad part is I like to make stuffed grape leaves.