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from David Rance contains these words:

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:

I'll be installing an auto watering system in the next couple of
weeks, can anyone tell me how much water a decent size vine needs. I
intend set the system to water twice as day as I do now, but I'm not
sure about the amount. At the moment I give the vine a good sized
watering can - about 1.5 gals? - at each watering. Is that enough? The
plant seems healthy, and no signs of any problems so far.

I would say that wasn't enough - depending on the size of the vine.

Not true. As I said before, an established vine does not need watering.
A vine needs watering only in the first year or two of its life because
the roots will not be established. Once established a vine can look
after itself because the roots go far and wide.

I quote from an earlier post from the questioner:

# That's all quite handy stuff. My grape has just flowered for the first
# time. I planted it late last summer so only saw lots of leaves and by
# heck it grew fast (1 inch a week). It's growing fast again and now there
# are lots of little flowers on it, and I'm crossing my fingers for what
# might happen next.



I have several hundred vines. I never water the established vines. The
crop yield is more dependent on whether we have late frosts or not!

Hardly matters if you have a million vines. four gallons of water a day
are not enough for a young vine.

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