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Grape vine assistance
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Tim Nicholson wrote:
As a newcomer to the delights of grapevines, could someone help me out please? I've read here and elsewhere that vines usually flower before providing grapes. If so, are these the flowers, because they look like 'baby' grapes to me.... http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-...apes-small.jpg Not able to see your picture, but I would say that it's a little early for grapes to be forming. Therefore what you can see are probably the flower buds. Flowering usually takes place in June/July but then everything is early this year. My vines are only just putting out the tightly packed flower trusses. I think I've got some photos of vine flowers somewhere so if you email me your email address I'll send them to you. Thanks in advance - I'll be back later for a quick couse on vine pruning! Don't try to do any pruning at the moment! If you cut into ripe wood it'll bleed profusely. And it's probably a bit too early to be pruning back the new growth. However what you can do profitably now is to remove any new growth that either doesn't have any flower truss or isn't needed for further training of the vine. -- +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Internet: | writing from | | Fidonet: David Rance 2:252/110 | Caversham, | | BBS: telnet://mesnil.demon.co.uk | Reading, UK | +-------------------------------------------------------+ |
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