"rmw" wrote in message
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Hi All,
I remember reading some where that vines should only be pruned in the
dormant season, when the sap is not rising, other wise the vine will bleed
and possibly die. hope tis is of some help to you.

Richard M. Watkin.

I'm sure this is true. I had to cut down a big strip of shrubs near the
house this spring - a tangled mess of various kinds of saplings, azaleas,
Japanese honeysuckle and muscadines. Watery sap just *poured* out of the
muscadine vines. Being huge, they appear to have survived their unseasonal
pruning.

Kathleen